Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-03
state News.
CUMBERLAND.

1t is reported that the Portland Press is to
have q lady editress, who will have charge
of the temperance and home departments of
the paper.
The house of Mr. Joseph Foye of Portland,
was entered by an unknown persian. Monday
morning, Dec. 3lst, by way of the front door
which had been left unlocked. 500 in
money was taken. also a lady's small hunt
ing case silver watch. There is no clue to
the thief.
The people of the town of Freeport are GO
ing to try and have q shoe factory that will
employ about 200 hands. The amount of
capital needed is $4,000 and is divided into
shares at $40 a share. $4,000 is already
subscribed. party from Massachusetts wall
take the factory and give four per cent year
on the money invested for ten years.
OXFORD.
Last week a gray wolf was killed between
the village of Fryeburg and the camp ground.
He was between two and three feet high, and
betw cen FIVE and six feet long from tip to tip.
He was caught by the foot in fox trap.
The old Long homestead in Buck6eld, now
the property of Hon. Geo. d. Bisbee, was
the scene, on Christmas day, of a happy re-
union of the family of the late Isaac N.
Stanley of Dixfeld, Mrs. Bisbee's father.
PBNoBsCoT.
Dexter correspondent writes: The Dex-
ter iremen held levee and ball at the Town
Hall, Monday night, and danced the old year
out and the new year in to the tune Of eye
olden tyne" The proceeds are to be devoted
to the purchase of new bell, or rather of a
special fire bell, that will inform the people
that fire ia on the docket, not a call to
divine worship. The firemen have been talk
ing about q bell for some time; the town, in
fact, having voted SIS for that purpose last
spring, but it was found not to be sufficient
1t is hoped that they will fetch it this time
Apropos of the Town Hall the city fathers
have had new seasoned birch floor laid this
winter, and now Dexter has hall that, take
it all in all, lays over anything this side Of
anything better. 1t has a pretty stage, well
supplied with scenery. and now the floor is
said by travellers to be better than anything
seen in the cities. 1t is to be used as skat-
ing rink as well-The firm Of N. Dustin &
Co., that was burned out last winter, have at
length decided to stay in Dexter permanently,
and next spring will build large brick block,
beginning at the west side of the site of the
old store and building towards the Dexter
House block. This will be great improve
ment to the appearance of Main street.
SAGADAHoC.
A Bowdoinham correspondent writes :
Twenty -one charter members were received
into the order of Knights of Pythias in this
place on Thursday the % of December. Thir-
teen of this number were made Knights. The
inauguration exercises continued from half
past three in the afternoon until five o'clock
the next morning. Two hundred visitors
were present from Watervlle, Portland and
Bath The secret organizations in town now
number five.
At the last regular meeting, Skowhegan
Grange elected officers for 1884 as follows
Master, Horace Eaton overseer, Lewis Beal;
lecturer, Horace Beal; steward, Warren
Worthy; assistant steward, Y. A. Withee;
chaplain, Rev. o. ]. Hancock; treasurer.
David Horn; secretary, Mrs. Eva B. Smiley;
gate keeper, T. B. Stilson; Ceres, Mrs. Mary
A. Hancock: Pomona, Mrs. Helen Robinson;
Flora, Mrs. Ella H. Crowell; A. L. s., Mrs.
Vesta A. Withes. This Grange has nearly
$500 in the treasury and is in fiourishing
condition.
The first hearing was given by the railroad
commissioners to the subscribers to the capt.
tai stock of the Arson and New Portland
railroad at North Arson on Friday. the 2Sth
inst. 1t was shown to the commissioners
tnat the prONlSlOHS VI SEES L duu II VI tiic
general railroad law had been fully complied
with, and the board signified their approval
The survey of the route has been made and
as soon as proper notice can be given the
next hearing will be beld and the location,
which is an excellent one and easy of con-
struction, will probably be approved.
Mrs. Ephraim Sally of Madison, an elder
" lady, on retiring one night recently, took
with her lighted candle which in some way
set fire to her clothing, burning her so Sc
verely that she died at ii o'clock the next
day.
During the night of December Goth the
store of Messrs. Storer & Hatch, in Morrill,.
was entered and goods to the value of about
1925 stolen therefrom, says correspondent
of the Bangor Wing. The thieves opened
the door by means of a false key. On the
following day two young men named Charles
Brown and William Cookson were ARRESTED
on a charge of breaking and entering. ETC..
and two others named Robert G. Foye and
Edward X. Foye on q charge of receiving
the stolen goods. The parties all belong in
Freedom. The bulk of the stolen goods
wero found in the Foys' barn concealed in
the hay-mow. On Dec. 18th the parties were
brought before the poliece court, bound over
to the s. j. court, ana commltteu IN ue-
fault of sureiies. Brown and Cookson plead
ed guilty. They were likewise bound over
on q charge of larceny of an overcoat ffsm
the store of Mark Andrews in Belfast.
Cookson and Brown were in Storer &Hatch's
store during the last part of the afternoon OF
of the Goth. thence rode to Belfast, stole q
scarf from the store Of c. W. Haney, the
coat from Mr.. Andrews and the KEY to the
store eff F. NJ. Lancaster, procured a quart
of liquor and returned to the store of Storel
Hatch. from which they took suficien,
goods to load their pung. From thence
they proceeded to the house were arrested
and after conc-aling the goods INDUCED in I
drunken carouss. When arrested two Of
the parties were armed with revolvers.
Ar LARGE.
Two elegant new parlor cars, the Perob
scot and Kennebec,- left Boston Thursday Il
carry the Raymond excursionists to Chicago
They will be placed on the Maine Contra
and Eastern to run from Boston to Bangor
on their return. They are finished through
out in mahogony, ornamented with rich An,
delicate inlaid work, With comparativel,
little carving, gliding, or frescoing. EacI
car contains, in addition to twelve section