Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-03-26

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Monday evening Mr.. John Hill, at work on
the English steamer living ut Elevator wharf
Portland. fell from the second deck into the
grain hold. distance of IL feet. He struck
on his back on the iron tunnel that runs
through the hold His spine was badly injur-
ed. and deep cash vas cut in his head. The
injured man Was taken to the Maine General
Hospital in Mr.. Rich's ambulance. DR..
Ordvay, Who was called to see Mr.. Hill At
the steamer, thought his injuries would prove
fatal.
As Capt Augustus Spofford and family of
Roothbay, seated themselves At the tea table
in their house one day recently, q crash was
heard in the sitting-room, which caused i'm
mediate investigation. 1t was found that a
rife ball had pierced the front door, also the
sitting room door, breaking the inside knob
of that door. aud. glancing, struck the stove
with force sufficient to fatten the bullet The
family had not been absent from the sitting
room three minutes, and had this occurred
before they left the result might have been
serious indeed.
Joseph Robinson, the agent and principal
owner of the large woolen mill at Oxford,
says in relation to the published reports that
he was about to shut down his factory, that if
the reporters don't have the headache until
he does shut down, they will not be troubled
in that way this year. Mr. Robinson has run
a factory, employing from $50 to 400 hands.
for over forty years.
PESoBscor.
A large delegation of prominent citizen
have sigui6ed their acceptance of the invi-
tation to participate in the reception and ban
quet to be held by the Second Maine Regi-
ment at the Bangor House, Bangor. on FRI
day evening, and the occasion will doubtless
be a very happy one. Andrews orchestra
will furnish music during the reception.
company Of five Penobscot Indians who
have become very proficient in roller skating
left Bangor, bv rail, Tuesday morning on q
. tour of New England to give exhibitions in
the skating rinks in the leading cities under
the management Of two of our enterprising
young men. The Indians are named Sabat-
tbs Shay, Jos S. Shay, Ocioia Newell. Peter
Nelson and Thos. Mitchell, all of Oldtown.
They will be arrsyed in elaborate costumes
and will doubtless create quite u novel SEN
sation in their races. The troupe appeared
in Salem Tuesday night and are also booked
for East Boston and Chelsea. Mr.. Geo. O.
Hall officiates as business manager.
fellow apparently not over bright came
to Bangor from South Hancock, accompan-
led bv girl whom he claimed to have mar
ried about a fortnight since, and the couple
put up at one of the hotels in Bangor 1t has
since been ascertainned that the team with
which he left Sonth Hancock did not belong
to him and that on his way to that city he
snapped horses in Ellsworth with a man
named Osgood, getting S21 to boot The
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gated it and Monday the team was taken back
gor, but the fellow, whose name is Robert
X. Merchan, could not be found Monday.
and probably has skipped.
WASHINGTON.
The accident at Calais about month ago,
when team containing 10 or IL girls was
overturned on Union bridge and thrown over
on to the ice below, has resulted fatally to
one at least, Mary A. Mallory, who died last
week. Her speedy recovery was at first ex-
pected, but the results of that terrible fall, q
distance of 10 feet to the ice of the river be,
low, have proved to be not only serious but
fatal. Miss King, another of the party of
young ladies who were on the sled which
went over the bridge, dragging the horse af-
ter it, is still suffering at her home from the
injuries she received.
YORK.
The Biddeford Times says that Messrs. J.
o. Ross and A. Pare are to start a French
weekly paper in that city next month.
The following have been chosen as dele
gates to the Republican State Convention at
Bangor, from York on Wednesday, April 30th
John C. Stewart, S. W. Junkins, B. F.
Rogers, Joseph Bragdon and George w.
Currier.
AT LARGE.
We learn that the Odd Fellows Graded
Mutual Relief A Association of Maine, is in a
very prosperous condition, some seventeen
applications fer membership being received
last week. The association was organized
about one year ago, and it now consists
among its members representatives of
twenty-three lodges located in seven
counties of the State No death has occurred
since organization. The plan upon which it
is founded is so equitable that it finds favor
with all who examine it, and is destined to
become very popular. A. L. F. Pike OF
Norway is secretary, to whom all desiring
bylaws should apply.