Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-29
CUMBERLAND.

Paris.
Alden j. Blethen, Esq. who removed from
Portland to assume the position of business
manager of the Kansas City (Mo.) Journal,
has just disposed of his interest in that paper
for $4,000.
Officers Harris and Lawton of Portland.
made search in the freight yard of the East
ern r. R. Co.. for liquor, Sunday morning.
They found and seized ls3 barrels of ale.
Judging by the marks on the barrels. it was
intended for the following named parties ::
James E. Cady, 10 barrels; John Feeney, 5
barrels; Timothy Twigg, 81 barrels. The
same officers. two weeks ago seized 10 bar
rels of ale in the same yard belonging to
James +. Cady.
The Franklin County Educational Asso-
citation " i'll hold its next meeting at Normal
Hall, Friday and Saturday. May Esd and
oath The programme is beiug prepared by
an able committee, headed by Prof. G. C..
Purinton, and the meeting is expected to be
one of the largest ever held in the county.
Phillips needs a night police, says the
Franklin Journal. Nearly every gate in the
village was taken to some place in the village
where it did not belong last Saturday night.
VIM. Wheelers summer house was tipped
over and the railroad crossing blockaded.
The young men of West Phillips have or
says the Phonograph. They are getting their
and will have their uniform in
due time.
On Friday night, dogs entered the yard of
Moses and Rufus Stone, of Jay and killed
and manglsd nearly forty sheep, reports the
Farmington Chronicle. The most of them
were dead or dying when found. The dogs
were followed to their owners, on Moose
Hill. These were fine sheep, valued at $l4. co
a head.
o. G. Hall, Esq, of Rockland, will deliver
an address at East Wilton on Decoration day
by invitation of the Grand Army Post.
Mr.. James Perry, of Camden, town treas
ursr, informs the Herald that the four per
cent town bonds have all been engaged for
three weeks. Many more than the $3l, 900
are wanted by parties residing here. Nearly
all have been engaged to parties at Camde n
village. and the bonds will be ready to deliv-
er to the parties that have engaged them on
the first day of May next.
KESNEBEc.
The Town Hall in Farmingdale has been
converted into skating rink.
drum corps is to be organized at South
Gardiner, and petition has been circulating
to assist the organization in purchasing their
necessary outfit.
The Gardiner Reporter says: Some of our
people have the courage to suggest a public
park on the land on the east side of the cause
way. from the head of Berry's wharf to the
Farmingdale line. 1t would be great addi-
tion to the appearance of our city, but We
fear the project little visionary for this cold
climate.
The old and familiar ''Clarion, which once
piled between Augusta and Gardiner, now
lies stranded in the vicinity of Pages Ice
Houses Hallowell. She was moored "in the
ice all last winter, in vicinity Of Fuller's
Founderies. As the ice broke up, the poor
old boat made one grand effort to reach Gar.
diner, with the above unhappy result. The
Clarion is now used as a lighter, and is tn,
property of one of the Hallowell capital.
lists.
1t is encouraging to learn that some of oul
capitalists says the Gardiner Reporter, are
talking of forming a stock company for the
purpose of purhasing the woolen mill proper
ty on dam No 2. and setting it in motion vel
filled with the most improved machinery foi
the business that can be procured. The
terms on which the property can be obtained
and the low rate of a lsng leased water power
makes this one of the most desirable locali
ties for . first-class woolen mill in th
State.
PESoBscoT.
disease thought to be hog cholera ha
attacked the hogs owned by Col. S. b. Gate.
at the hotel at Nattwamkeag. -Four died
Thursday morning.
Mr.. c r. Bragg, of Bangor was elected
Supreme Inner Guard of the Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias, at the election of Su
preme Lodge officers in New Orleans or
Wednesday.
Mr., Antonio Bernareini recently received
letter from Carmine Santore, the Italian
murderer, in which the latter expressed hii
gratitude for the favors shown him while on
trial in Bangor. He states in the epistle thai
he has written to his poor afflicted wife, &C
quainting her of all his misfortunes.
PIscATAouIs.
Four young men from Greenville have
been spending the winter trapping on the
Mansungun, Mooseleuk, and Machias streams
tributaries to Aroostook River. As the result
of their winters work, they bring home with
them the skins of one hundred and thirty.
seven beaver and other furs, which are worth
about 1920.
YORK.
Hugh Kicker of Biddeford took an over
dose of morphine and soon dropped on the
floor completely overpowered by the Infiu
ence of the drug. Fortunately some of his