The Republican journal., 1884-10-09

The municipal debt of Augusta is S319,l0O
\ schooner was at Portland the other day
with cargo of live eels bound from river
CLYDE to New York.
oylvanu~ {. Blanchard, 6. c. Blanchard &
Bro.l, shipbuder, Yarmouth. has been peti-
toned into insolvency by creditors.
A Swede, name unknown, was crushed TO
death in the slate curry at Monson, last week. d
large rock falling 100 feet and striking him.
Treasurer Oegood reports the total receipts
of the State Fair as SlT.97S.07. This is between
$1,000 and - 900 less than previous estimates.
Hannah NJ, widow of the late Deacon John
Frost and mother Of Hon. George A. Frost, of
Springyale, died Oct. lst aged q years. She
was the Oldest person in town
In the Bane-Sentne suit at INDIANAPOLIS a
bill of discovery and II additional iulerroga-
tories have been filed by the defence
The Portland Packing Company has finished
canning corn, having put up 100000 cans at
Winthrop, paying therefor to the farmers, who
raise the corn, about $1,000.
Trustee Wyman offers the entire property of
the Shaw Bros. for sale. 1t includes 100000
acres of timber land in New England and tan
neries and other property in Quebec, New
Brunswick, Maine and New York.
project is on foot for the Portland district to
purchase the Old Orchard campground of the
New England Holiness Association and hold
it under the control of district association ac-
cordfng to lions Herald.
Seventeen thousand bushels of potatoes were
taken at the starch factory at Sherman the first
three days of last week. Seventy-tive tons of
starch have already been made, fifteen tons
grated and ten thousand bushels of potatoes
are now on hand.
Fessenden Post, No. 43, G. A. r.. of Buck
field, has recently received life size picture of
the late Gen. Fessenden from Mrs. F. Fessen-
den, of Portland, and from Gen. Fessenden, Of
Portland, brother Of the late Gen. Fessenden
an elegant bible.
Serg. Kelley who is on trial at Portland for
mansaughter, does not deny that he shot and
killed Smith, but claims that the shooting was
purely accidental. He always has said that the
revolver was accidentally discharged while he
was throwing club at Smith, whom he con-
sdered an intruder in the Fort. The trial end
ed Tuesday; jury disagreed.
S. j. Anderson, receiver of the Portland &
Ogdensburg railroad has filed the first quarterly
report for the quarter ending June Both. The
receipts are $l9S,361 and the expenditures
Sl95, 163. The total expenditures on track and
bridges amounts to $144,639. The entire track
has been relaid with steel rails
The orchard of j. Pope & Son, of Manches-
ter, will yield most bountifully this season. The
trees are fairly burdened with fruit and it is
estimated that the yield of Baldwins alone will
be 1000 bushels. Mr.. Charles Pope, the senior
member of the firm, is president of the Maine
Pathological Society.
The Portland Press says: Oscar Blaney.
Mrs. Barrows, the Kittery murderers, and
Baxter and Lewis, the Old Orchard pickpock-
cts, arrived here Wednesday from Alfred, en-
route to Thomaston, in charge of Warden Bean.
During the journey Baney appeared very light
hearted and gay but Mrs. Barrows was grave
and silent. The pickpockets received sentence
for three years.