Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-27
State News.
CUMBERLAND.

With some difficulty the bark was taken in
tow and anchored that night at the wharf of
W. E. & G. Hadlock at Little Cranberry Is
lana. The Glad Tidings WAS found to have
full cargo of general merchandise. and the
cause OF abandonment is uncertain. Hon H.
d. Hadloek has libelled the bark and cargo
in behalf Of the captain and crew of the
schooner S. L Foster.
KESSEBEc
Mr.. c. H. Nelson of Waterville. sold two
of EDWARDS four year old colts on Wednes-
day for 500. He had previously taken S75
premium on them.
A drunken row on the Plain at Waterville
Sunday. which was almost mot, brought
several of the combatanis before Judge Stew
arts court, where they were fined. heavily for
damage inflicted upon the persons of their
neighbors.
George Stratton Paine, Esq son of the
late Mr. Edward A. Paine. of WiEslow, has
come back to the homestead accompanied by
his family to reside with his widowed mother
and her daughter. Mr.. Paine graduated at
Colby in 1871 taught awhile in Massachu
sets and California. and has practiced law in
Ottawa, Illinois. since 1876.
| Waterville Savings Bank, which was wise
| ly saved few years ago, when il was in
danger of being eXtingushed. is increasing
! rlSddilN III idNOT WIN tue people anu III
strength and soundness. b. the statement
published in the Mail recently. we learn that
its deposits are now SOL, 1877 40, against
! 1919, 660.65 year ago
/ The contract for building the new bridge
over the kennebec at Wstervll-, has been
awarded to the Philadelphia Bridge Works
at S26, 2S6. This includes the entire super
structure of iron. the floor timbers and the
planking; and the contractors are to have the
old bridge and take it down. The sum of
SO, 900 was voted by Waterville, but the
whole cost of the bridge will probably be
not far from $4,000; but it will be OF the
very best quality in every particular anj will
meet the growing wants of the surrounding
country for many years. OF this sum Wins
low will pay its proportion, according to
the respective valuation of the two towns
The new bridge is to be completed by the LIST
of March, 1885, and the old bridge is not OF
be disturbed before the first of January.
KNOX.
Elk Gov. st. John of Kansas, prohibitory
candidate for President. declines to act as
trustee of the will of Ann Z Jameson, a
Rockland lady who died several months ago
and who bequeathed most of her property in
trust for the benefit of the Southern negroes
who have emigrated to Kansas. Mrs. Eliza
beth Gomstock of Michigan is the other
trustee appointed, and she has accepted and
qualified G. +. Littlefed, Esq, of Rock
land as executor of the will. The bequest
for the benefit of the negro emigrants
amounts to about 81 900.
PENoRsCoT.
Mr.. Samuel Rogers of Hampden, Conn.
recently had $50 in desk in his house. The
money was kept in box Not long ago
while out in his garden he discovered his
money box on the ground. and an nvestiga-
ton showed that his desk had been unlocked.
the box removed and the desk locked again.
PIsGATAQUIs
On a recent evening a set of buildings in
Foxcrott which were being built for French
man named Moen, took fire and the ell and
stable were burned to the ground and the
house badly damaged. The owner is a hard
working man with large family, whose little
all was invested in the house, according to
the Eastern State, and a subscription has
been started in his behalf.
SOMERSET.
A four months old child of Howard Priest
of Somerset Mills, was found dead in bed
Thursday morning, supposed to have been
, suffocated by the mother lying on it, says the
Fairfield Journal
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just filled orders for the frames of four large
skating Kinks, which have required about
100000 feet of lumber, worth 10000, excu,
sve of labor.
Russell Post G. A r. of Skowhegan, are
to have series Uflectures and entertainments
, this winter, which ought to be well patronized
by the citizens.
WASHINGTON.
gentleman in PASSPORT attempted
recently to remove some rocks from a well
he was digging, by the use of dynamate, but
not successfully. The explosion that followed
was terrific. The shrieks of frightened wo-
men in the house, mingled with the crash of
broken glass, and after things had Quoted
down he emerged from behind the house to
find upwards of forty squares of glass broken
in neighbors' houses, the ell started away
from his own house, and the rocks not
blown away either.
Geo. Magoon of Crawford in Washington
county, has killed ten bears this season. His
only weapon of defence is small axe. He
never carries a gun, and has not thus far met
with any accident,
YORK
The annual meeting Of the York County
Fish and Game Protective Society is called
to be held at the Saco Municipal Court room,
on Thursday evening. Oct 30
The York County Pomona grange met with
the North Berwick grange Wednesday. a
large number of the order coming from Bid
deford, Saco and Buxton.
The Biddeford Journal says that on We'd
nesday ,22nd inst, all at one herring began to
come in shore at Wells, even into the break
ers, In immense numbers, probably being
frightened by dog fish or blue fish The
number kept increasing, and when the tide
went out it left place Of about an acre COM
pletely covered with the fish. In some spots,
where there was depression in the sand
the fish were piled in to the depth of about
five feet. The farmers in the vicinity soon
learned of the fact, and they focked to the
shore and secured carloads of the fish to be
used upon their farms as fertilizers One
farmer obtained sixty carloads.
Ar LARGE.
A counterfeit silver dollar is said to be on