Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-24
State News.
ARoosrooK.

| barn with a portion of its contents
belonging TO Mr.. Webb of Letter B, was
burned last Wednesday evening. Mr.. w
went into the barn to feed his cattle, setting
his lantern on the floor. The lamp exploded
and fred the building. Loss 81, 900: insur-
ance. $3.50.
| CUMBERLAND.
! SATURDAY night, Mr.. William Brown and
Mr.. IrvingJ. Brown of Portland. were riding
| from Portland to Cumberland Centre, at a
late hour. When between Colby's Corner
and Cumberland, two men sprang from the
side of the road and attempted to grasp the
horses bride. They failed to do so and Mr..
Brown whipped up his horse escaped One
of the men then flung large stone at Brown
which broke the brace which holds up the
carriage top, narrowly missed Mr. Browns
head and fell into the bottom of the wagon.
kENNEBEc.
Miss Lula c. Osborne, daughter of Mr.,
Samuel Osborne, the colored jsnitor of Col
by University, was reared in the family of c.
Z. Hamlin. She is now professor of Latin
and Greek in the State University of Louis
vile, Kentucky, conducted under the
auspices of the General Association of Coll
ored Baptists, and she also holds the office of
librarian in the same institution.
PESoBscoT.
Grand Army Post is soon to be organic
ed at Hampden.
new Grand Army Post was organized at
i Oldtown, Friday evening, by Department
Inspector John F. Foster, of Bangor 1t
has twenty members at present, but this list
will be greatly increased. Maj. NJ. NJ.
Folsom is Post Commander Among the
nm ,harp rIau 7
| Thad. Little of Boston, a comrade very
popular with the veterans in the section
! The grounds of the Eastern Maine State
Fair will be much enlarged next year, and
better facilities will be given to those who
wish to tent. The fair grounds here are so
near the business part of the city and the
hotels and boarding house accommodations
are so very good. that il is not likely that so
large numbers will come here to camp, as to
go to places which have poor facilities for
accommodating visitors.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bath Times says: The question
which is aeitating the young men now is
! this: If schooner with sail and steam both
will go ten miles an hour under sail and the
engine will only propel her eight miles an
| hour will it help her or retard her progress
to pu: on the steam when she is under sail
The boys are anxious to hear from some
good authority on the subject.
There is to be a genuine steam schooner
built in Bath this winter for a gentleman in
! Weymouth. Mass. The model has been
made and Pattee & Rideout are at work on
the drawings. The schooner will engage in
the coasting trade. She will not be auxl-
liary steam, but will have full steam power.
Hon. j. B. Hobbs, of Chicago. Ill, pro-
hbition candidate for governor of that State
is visiting Gs wife's mother, Mrs. Quinnam,
on Harpswell street, Bath. He was former
| ly president of the Chicago Board of Trade,
and held at one time 100000 bushels of
corn, the most ever carried by any one man.
YORK
! On Sunday night the house of Eugene
Record of kennebunk, was destroyed by fire
together with the furniture. The fire caught
upstairs, on the side of the house away from
the chimney. There had been no fire in that
part of the house for several days. Loss
81 800; in ured in the Home of New York,
for Al 900 m tho hnusa but nothinu unnn