Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-24

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Mr.. Alexander Troop of Gardiner while
At work, Saturday at the Hollingsworth &
Whitney Cos paper mill caught his right
hand upon q saw, cutting of two of his fin
gers, aud terribly decorating the rest of his
hand. Mr.. Troop is one Of GARDENERS lead
ing carpenters, and this injury is a severe
blow 20 him.
fire alarm was given Tuesday forenoon
at Gardner, at about ii O'Clock. caused bv
fire in the .'thrasher" at the new Hollings-
worth Whitney mill. 1t was extinguished
without the aid of the department, although
the different companies promptly responded.
The damage Was slight
The supporters of St John 6 Daniel IN
Gardiner, have issued g notice for meeting
at johnson Hall. Friday evening The meet
ing will be addressed BY Hon. W. T. Eustis,
ex prohibition candidate for governor in this
State. and n. f. Woodbury. of Auburn, and
others. The prohibitionists have hung out
h.g over Water street, with the names and
pictures of their candidates on il.
The Gardiner Journal says: Some four
weeks ago, as Miss Mary Drew was crossing
the road opposite their house, as she went TO
step upon the sidewalk her foot went into
hole, and she fell forward, striking her head
on the fence on the other side, with such
force that she did not recognize her friends
for NOR than a week. She is just getting so
as TO sit up
The Wsterville Seminal says: The
large quantity of rocks that have been
hauled through the village of late were going
to the new dam in College Rips. They are
to be used in building an apron to the log
way, So that the large quantity of logs pass
ing over the dam in driving season may pass
over and away from the dam and not be
ybf in IL md ~
logs and also the dam.
A part of the fine team of oxen shown at
the State Fair, by A. J Libby, Oakland. was
taken to Boston market last week, where
they caused even more of a sensation than at
the Fair, and were pronounced as fine cattle
4 were ever seen at that market. Eight oxen
sold for cents a pound live weight, and 6
steers for I cents. The two three-year old
steers tipped the scales at an even ton each.
the two years-old weighed 1900 pounds each.
The Waterville Seminal says: Tuesday
afternoon an alarm of fire was given from
Front street. and fire was discovered coming
from the stable of Mrs. Sarah Keating's
stand. The stable was Joined to the house by
an ell. The stable was far past saving before
the engines could do duty. Two reservoirs
close by were empty and it was necessary to
send to the factory. The water came just in
was burned to the ground. 1t is not positive
ly known how the fire originated.
Fire has destroyed the buildings of Francis
Low, Clinton. Some of the stock was burned.
making loss in all of SO 900. 1t was il sured
for $500.
Mr.. d. +. Foster of Augusta has White
Chester breeding SOW one year and eight
months old, which has given birth to 80 pigs.
Her first litter of nine, second litter of IA
third litter of Is.
This has been the hardest year for bees
and honey since the drv seasons of TIP in
this locality, writes correspondent of the
Home. Farm from Clinton. There was a
small yield from clover in June and some
from apple tree bloom 1t rained every day
for ten days right at the height of clover
bloom. Eastwood yielded but little honey,
and golden-rod was failure. Buckwheat
yielded some, and was the only redeeming
feature of the honey season
LINCOLN.
The Sem.Annual meeting of Lincoln and
Sagadahoc Congregational Convention is to
be held in Union, Oct. 2S-9 The preach
ers are Rev, w. A. Rand of Waldoboro, and
Rev. G. II. Scott of Rockland
Capt. John Sidney of Capitol Island was
in Bath Tuesday and reported as follows
| Two weeks age he staked off twelve lots, 100
feet front and 60 back, on his property at
| Horns Cove ut Southport. and has disposed
of four of them to Boston parties, who will
erect cottages next spring. For his hotel
aud property on Capitol Island, Boston
party has offered him 80 900, but he says he
will not sell for a cent less than $40 900 He
is now president of Capitol Island, and is
king no longer Bath Tunes
SOMERSET.
Hon. A. Linn. of Hartland. proposes
making a big exhibit of the shawls manufac.
tured by him, at the Great International
Exposition at New Orleans,
J. A. Dealey's clothing store at Skowhe-
gan, was burglarized Monday night to the
extent of about SIPS
Circulars are out, announcing that the
SkOwhegan Jersey Creamery was opened
Thursday. Oct. 23d, and commenced the
manufacture of butter on that date.
The jurors before whom the late murder
was tried had the hardest seige. says the Som
erset Reporter, of any that have yet served
in this county. For ~ days, from the begin
ming of the case to the time they rendered
their verdict, they were under the strict sur
Vigilance of a sheriff and were not allowed
to communicate with anyone whstever. Dur
ing this time they we're guests of the Hesel-
ton.
The Somerset Reporter says: The bum"
weavers employed at the wooden mill are
making things lively in some portions of our
town. The last we hear laid to their door is
the stealing of about Sl3 worth of clothing
from the boarders at Bailev's boarding house
on the south side, Monday night.
YORK.
The Biddeford Times has received letter
from Franklin w. Blaney of Kittery Depot,
foster father of Oscar +. Blaney, stating
that the report to the effect that petition is
in circulation for the pardon of Blsney and
Mrs. Barrows, il incorrect The petition,
he says. does not in any way include Mrs.
Barrows.
A new method Of transporting liquor into
Maine, has been discovered in Saco. A
small cask containing liquor is securely fast.
ened inside a kerosene barrel, so as to
prevent vibration, and the barrel Is headed
up and the intervening space inside filed
with kerosene. The barrel is then labelled
and shipped as kerosene to the various liquid
light vendors down east.
AT LARGE.
The Phillips Phonogrsph-always an en-
thusiastic reporter of farm enterprise-ite-
mics a curious freak of nature in Weld. The
son of certain farmer is reported as the
mother of three large litters of pigs, and the
paper asks, who can beat ths?" II would
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