Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-17
State News.
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IL II. Dirkey Son, n.snafsctu' al
betting at Lew iston. are nos working az q
belt l5e4 feet long and three feet wni.
double ,hickness. to he used at far~el.s Mil
at Lisbon This is the larsestb II they hsv,
ever made. They intend to have portion
of If ready for exhibition at The State Far
Cranberries. barb ries, damson plunis
Delaware grapes were the New arrivals in the
markets, Friday morning. Piums are lents
Damsons are Is cents per quart Washing
ton plums IA cents. Cranberries are lin.
| ''Capes.' The kennebec cranberries hssn {
got al ing They lack ihe brilliant red of the
Cape Cod berry and bring loser prices. One
cranberry bog AT the mouth of the kennebec,
grew 1000 barrels of cranberries last ason-
The cranberries brought l6 cents per quart
Friday morning. Barbaries retailed 81 Go
cents. The first Delaware grapes retail a, IS
cents per pound. The quality was the finest.
Grapes taste more strongly of money every
/ day Concords bring IL cents at retail. The
/ crop is not fulfilling the predictions.
| Typhoid fever is making sad work in Liver
more. Mr. John Coolidge, young man in
town, died on Monday morning last He
leaves a wife and two children. His death is
deeply felt throughout the town. Mr.. John
Bradbury another highly esteemed young
man, lies in critical condition. Three OF
Mr.. Stevens family at Richmond's Mill are
down with the fever MIR. Dorman, young
man at work for Erwin Undertake. while
cleaning pistol accidently discharged it, the
| ball entering the finger and passing up toward
the wrist. The course of the ball was probed
could not be traced.
| A very sudden death occurred, Thursday
morning, in Auburn. Mrs. Solomon Terrill
/ moya1 tppm fha hraa ~ fahia
planning of feeling ill. In twenty minutes
she dead. The immediate cause was
heart disease
Mr.. d. ii. Swan, the popular caterer for
Naranacook, has bought the interest of MIR.
G. II. Matthews in the Corner Market, a,
Warerville, and the new firm will consist OF
Mr.. S. and Mr.. c. f. Matthews. brother of
the retiring partner. Mr.. q. IL. Matthews
will leave for Florida about Oct. LIST, where
ne contemplates spending the winter.
KNOX.
The Opinion SAYS that Wednesday, Sidney
\. Morse found man in the woods at Rock
land, who said he was David Malone. and he
was from Providence. He was insane and
had been wandering in the woods eight days
without food or drink. Malone was yer,
weak and terribly thirsty, and could not have
lived much longer hal he not been found.
He is still insane, and talks of having con
v.rsations with his deal mother and the
Lord to whom he constantly prays. Some
$40 in money was found on his person, and
also paper Indicating that he is a resident of
Portland, and has friends in Bangor.
OXFORD.
The first building erected at Hartford cold
spring for bottling table water. ginger ale
etc. under the management of Capt. Linbey
Of Hartford has beer added to the new build
ing erected for that purpose, which makes
seventy feet front, from which one of the
best views of mountain scenery, including
Mt. Washington, that Maine Affords
Hartford, one if the most independent
towns in Maine, has voted to sell the poor
farm which the town bought over 80 years
ago. Only one old lady and brother and
sister who have passed the middle age of life
are to be provided for. All of them earn
their living.
PISCArAQUIs.
The Eastern State says a large amount OF
business is done at Boyd Lake, Orneville, in
the manufacture of excelsior, boxes. heading,
sc. Amount of poplar wood used during
the year 1888, 800 cords; amount sawed in
to heading, 500 cords; amount sawed into
sppui <Jb CoTus dUOuHt sdWeu iHto
boxes, 1000; number of boxes made, 100
900; number of sets heading, 100000;
amount of excelsior, 800 tons. Average
number of men employed in the mill, So.
WALDO.
John II. Gordon, of the Brooks pant fac
tory has made and shipped to Boston since
January LIST. 1882. sc. 743 garments pants and
vests, and now employs in the factory %
hands with roam for a few more.
Fires are raging badly in the forests of
Waldo county, hardly a town being free from
them. A fire on the property of Nelson sill
ley. of Waldo, is doing much damage and is
threatening some valuable timber land. A
destructive fire is on the land of Daniel Wad-
lin. Northport, and everything possible is be-
ing done to stay its progress.
A young girl named Lucinda Nose, living
at the house of Hiram Pierce in Belfast, was
found upon the stress early Monday morn
ing, insane
Forest fires have been raging in Searsmon,
on the property of Edward Packard, Charles
Farrar, W. s. Cox, and Llellyn Lincoln.
Sunday the inhabitants turned out and
fought the flames all day. The fires are now
under control.
Crops in Morrill, were quite generally killed
dead by the late frosts, damaging corn and
beans very much-Potatoes are being dug
and promise fair crop.-The drouth is very
severe upon pastures; wells and springs are
dried up. AMI cattle are being fed from the
barns.
YORK.
Mrs. Frank Hazetine of Biddeford,
bitten on the hand by black spider, at her
residence on Main street, recently, and badly
poisoned The hand swel!ed enormously,
producing excruciating pain.
The 2. 900 manuscript sermons which s. s.
Mitchell the druggist, of Biddeford, recently
purchased at an auction of unclaimed freight
in Boston, were the property of Methodist
clergyman, who had written along the mar
gin of his pages such curious suggestions to
himself as the following s"Deliver this pass
age in solemn tones;" "Scornful smile after
the word never; :" Pause long enough to
count twenty five after this passage" Con
template ceiling in attitude of alteration at
this point Sarcastic wave of hand !" Rapid
gesture"
/ The Biddeford Times says Edward Bradeen
of Limington, a grandson of the centenarian.
| Mrs. Jemima Bradeen, who died in Lining
ton, Saturday evening at seven
O'Clock, died at seven o'clock on the
morning of the same day, in the Sol
diers' Home at Togus, Me. On the fourth
| day of April last Gen. Tilton visited the
/ Home anil rbila Eripu a Saiuto in his honor