Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-19
state News.
CUMBERLAND.

SJAbkkLASDs
The Boston journal says: Every few
weeks the present mayor of Portland makes
a spectacle of himself. The other night he
directed the city marshal to put the city
solicitor out of the aldermen's room. The
marshal hesitated, and the solicitor dared the
mayor, whereupon he declared the meeting of
the Board of Aldermen adjourned. and left
the room. The Board, however, continued
in session.
The Bangor Commercial complains that
District Attorney Lunt has prisoners from
that vicinity brought to Portland for trial be-
fore U. s. Commissioner, when there are
three commissioners resident in Bangor, and
that it puts the prisoners to unnecessary and
great expense to get their witnesses to Port
land District Attorney Lunt says he acts in
accordance with the laws, which is q sufficient
answer.
At the small flag station on the Portland
and Rochester railroad, known IS Shaw's
Ridge, there has occurred a most remarkable
fatality in the family of Mr.. Shaw, in whose
honor the station is named. A fertnigt ago
daughter of his died of black diphtheria.
Another daughter was then taken sick with
the disease, and she, too, died. Another
daug hter was attacked, and a married
daughter left her home in an adjoining town
and went to her fathers as q nurse. Soon
the third daughter died and she was soon
followed by two others, including the married
sister. OF this family of eight, there now
remains but the father, mother and son, and
the latest intelligence is to the effect that the
latter was coming down with the malady.
One of the young ladies was q recent gradu-
ate of the Gorham Normal school. OF the
deceased the youngest was l6 years of age.
The few neighbors fear the pestilence and
the unfortunate family has been isolated from
the world.
Teree little girls, the Oldest eleven years
of age and the youngest seven, arrived in
Portland from San Francisco via Grand
Trunk. Tuesday. They were bound. to Lowell,
other protectors than the conductors along
the route.
kENNEBEC.
The farmers of Rome, are busy hauling
" ood.-Nelson Estes cut his foot very badly
while chopping wood.-Mr. Ira Tracy, while
at work in the spool factory jammed his little
fnger.-Rev. Hiram Ceivy of Mt. Vernon,
held religious services at the town house last
Sabbath.
YORK.
The Biddeford Journal says the question
has recently come before the Law court As to
whether or not there is any property in dog
and it was decided that there is no property
in a dog, in this State, and consequently it is
no crime to steal dog.-The civil cases on
the trial list in York county are all tried or
settled. The criminal business will come on
Monday. The Blaney murder trial will
commence one week from next Tuesday.
George Sewall of York, son of Mr.. David
Sewall, was playing paper caps" for the
purpose of making ''bia noise" One day
last week he placed six in the pistol, then
took a little pine ramrod to drive them down.
The force of the blow exploded the caps and
the ramrod was driven into the right temple,
near the eye. almost two inches. A quarter
anch further to the left he would lost an eye,
ind possibly his life.
WALDO.
The pant factory at Brooks, has just closed
up the last years work, making 10000 pairs
of pants and 5000 vests during 1888, paying
out for the year over $1,000 for work and
81 900 for freight. The factory is now rum
ming with crew of twenty-five, the best
lady operators on machines earning from $50
to $40 per month
A Unity correspondent says: Written
has opened a dancing school with twenty five
couples, and Mr.. Luce is teaching a writing
school with every seat in the High School
room occupied and has opened another at
Albion.-At the last regular meeting of the
Invictus Lodge l. o. o. F., public installa-
ton was held, after which the members with
invited guests repaired to the hall opposite
where an oyster supper was served.-The
Juvenile Temple organized here recently is
prospecting finely, numbering between forty
and fifty members.-AD effort has been made
lately to organize Good Templars Lodge at
the village. 1t is an organization that has been
needed here for some time the wholesale traffic
in liquor that has been going on here for the
past year or two having aroused the better
part Of the community to temperance effort.
Mr.. ii. b. Rice, our postmaster, is quite ill.
He has not left his room for FIVE weeks.-It
is quite sickly in town at present; throat
and lung troubles very prevalent Colds
have become epidemic in the schools and
many of the scholars are sick. Sunday
week Mr.. Luce, the teacher of the High
school, was taken suddenly ill and both
schools were suspended for one week.
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