Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-16
State News.
ANDRoscoGGIy.

AJDk0SCO6GlS.
TUESDAY,, the S. J. Court at Auburn, met
for its April term Judge Haskell of Portland.
formerly of Lewiston, the newly appointed
judge, will preside. The continued civil
docket numbers 2s5 cases. The continued
criminal docket numbers lo4 cases. Warren
B. Hutchinson and Frank .. Purington are
applicants for admission to practice law. This
Is Judge Haskelfs first term as presiding
justice.
CUMBERLAND.
Since January lst- there has been q
decrease in the Grand Trunk receipts of
s4se.15 against the corresponding time in
1888.
At the contest for the Ligowski medal Fast
Day, on the grounds of the Willard Shooting
Club, the Willard Club of Portland. Addros-
coggin of Lewiston. Bethel OF Bethel, River
side of Topsham, and Rod Gun Club,
Kennebunk will enter. The Portland team
will be composed of Nessrs. b. ]. Willard,
j. T. Randall, ". F. Todd, E. C. Harrington,
K. G. Hall; substitutes, G. H. McKenney,
Geo. 81. Pierce. Frank T. Merrill.
There was exported from Portland to
Europe, during March, 443, ,963 bushels of
Indian corn, valued at $685. :. 3S5, 200
pounds oatmeal. worth S47 1904 l3,o46 bar
rels wheat flour, worth $50, 1874. The total
value of exports for March was sl09, ,59S,
against Sl5l, ,46l for March, 1888. The total
value Of exports for the first three months of
of this year we're 81 ,ol5 ,374, against S945 ,OSl
for the corresponding time in 1883, and the
total values for the nine months ending
March 81, 1884, were $3,52l GIG, against
-, 332, 600 for the same time ending March
81, 1888.
HANCOCK.
John Brown. city marshal of Ellsworth, has
resigned, his engagements out of town being
such that he could not we'll attend to the
duties of the Office, and the salary not being
sufficient inducement for him to give up his
present lucrative business. His place has
been temporarily filled by the appointment
of c. S. Slower.
KENNEBEc.
At an adjourned town meeting held Satur-
day at Waterville, the town voted to build an
iron bridge in place of the wooden one con-
Meeting Waterville and Winslow. 1t was al.
so voted to raise S25. 900 by loan to paw the
towns share in the bridge, bonds to be issued,
$1,000 payable in 1891, and $4,000 each year
after. S2300 were also raised to be expended
in enlarging and repairing the Town Hall.
Fire was discovered in the basement of the
saw mill belonging to Oliver Moulton. Pitts
ton, on Togus stream, on Tuesday forenoon,
and nothing but prompt action on the part of
the employees saved the mill from destruc-
ton, as the fire was well under way for the
second story. An overheated journal was
what caused the blaze.
There is no truth in the statement says the
Portland Argus, that ''the democratic State
committee will hold a meeting at Augusta on
Wednesday, April l6 for the purpose of des-
the several congressional districts for the
purpose of selecting district delegates to the
democratic national convention" In accord
ance with the vote passed at the recent meet
ing of the democratic State committee at Wa
terville, the matter of calling the four district
conventions was left in the hands of the State
committee men of those counties that consti-
tute the several congressional districts of the
State.
OXFORD.
Mrs Barrows in confined at Alfred iail
with another woman in & large cell at the end
of the corridor on the eastern side of tine Jail
and refuses to see any one unless the palm of
the hand Of her companion is covered with a
so cent piece. That being complied with she
makes herself as pleasant and agreeable as
such creature can. Some days she has Sc
cured quite little sum of pin money. Blaney
is hale, hearty and happy; has gained consid-
erable in flesh and speaks in the highest terms
of his keepers and his treatment
SAGADAHoC.
The employees of the Goss Marine Iron
Works, Saturday noon, through Mr.. A. Davis.
master mechanic, presented Mr.. Wilson
Sprague with a splendid draughting table
The occasion of the present was his marriage
to Portland young lady.
A row between Frank Obed. French Cana
dian, Is years old, and John Heffron, shoe
maker. aged so resulted in a small riot on
Hines alley, Lewiston, Monday evening, in
which several parties were hurt. Heffron's
head was split by a brick. Obed received
dangerous internal injuries. being trampled
under the feet of the crowd 1t was neces-
sary to carry both home and place them un
der doctors care. Edward McCarty was
badly cut round the head and face by bricks