Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-15
State News.
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VIM F. Garcelon, 4 well known Insurance.
agent Of Lewiston. died at Riverside, Califor-
MIA, Sunday. He was prominent in the Odd
Fellows and Knights Of Pythias orders.
CUMBERLAND.
The Montgomery Guards of Portland, are
TO receive visit in May from the Sarsield
Guards of New Haven
The fight between Tricky Delsny of Bid
deford and Mike Barry of Portland is to take
place on or about the sSth of March. Both
men met Wednesday and came 10 an agree
ment and signed date and place. Delany is
handled BY Ted Timmoney Of Providence,
and is hard at work training sat the skating
rink. Saco. Ii is expected TO be hard fight
If both men come to the scratch in condition.
Captain David Hodgdon. of Belfast, in
schooner Daylight. writes from Charleston,
). C.. that bile discharging the vessel his
second mate fell into the hold. He was
taken TO the hospital and died seven hours
after~srds II Is reported the mates name
was O'Neii and that he belonged in Portland
The bark Carrie + Long. Capt Park, ar
rived in Portland Thursday morning. She
sailed for Portlt from Turks Island on the
18th of February having crew of ten men
all told On the % when of Capt. Hstteras
a northwest gale prevailing, in lat.
40s 80 long 10 the first mate, G. A Hop
kins of Stos. kton was AT the wheel assisted by q
sailor The captain was ascending the cabin
stairs and a sailor was coming aft along by the
wheelhouse when suddenly heavy sea Was
shipped striking The captain with such force as
TO send him headlong into the cabin, and the
mate was dashed violently against the wheel
house injnring him internally. The two sail
The captain saws that during the gale a great
many floating spars and much rigging were
passed. Many of the men had their hands
and feet terribly frost bitten The bark put
into Vineyard Haven last Monday night
where pilot and extra man was
taken TO assist in bringing the vessel around
10 Portland. The names Of the two sailors
lost were Gustave Goodman, a native of
Hamburg, and Peter Pratt. native of Fin
land.
OXFORD.
The March term of the S. J. Court set at
Paris Hill Tuesday, Hon. W. W. Virgin, JUS.
tice presiding. Owing to the severe storms
of late large numbers of the witnesses and
Jurymen were unable to get there on time,
and no business was done Tuesday. A large
number of witnesses from various parts of
the country have been subp9naed to appear
before the Grand Jury and tell what they
know about buying the ardent, and more
would have been had they not in alarm made
precipitate flight. As the Grand Jury has
not risen nothing is known of their deibera-
tons.
PENoBsCoT
There is scarcity of butter in the Bangor
market. owing to the country roads being
blocked.
Mrs Esther Hanson, died at her sons res
idence in Lincoln, on the 10th inst She was
l02 years old on the 18th day of September
last, and was consequently 1924 years old
The National Banks of Bangor in accord
ance with an expression Of the people of said
city by their vote Monday, March 10th, agree
To change their business hours to local time
on and after Friday. March lith, 1884.
SOMERSET.
For some time past the cattle commission
ers have been receiving letters from parties
in Ripley, i'll Somerset county saying that
symptoms of the disease known as pleuro-
pneumonia had been noticed among cattle in
that town. DIR George ii. Bailey of Portland,
visited Ripley Wednesday. and made a care
full examination but found no traces of this
disease.
Mr. l.. II. Owen, who for the past two
years has had charge of the Fairfield High
School, severed his connection it'll il at the
close of the term, last week.
Saturday night Henry Witham, baggage
master OF Fairfield station, came near meet
ing with fatal accident When the passed.
ger train was coming into the station, he at
tempted to cross the track, not seeing the
snow pillow in front of the engine. As he
was about to spring across the track he STUN
ble1 and fell against the snow pillow. which
gently tossed him into snow bank without
injury. Had he not stumbled he would have
landed directly in front of the pillow, and
would undoubtedly have been killed.
WASHINGTON.
There is a town in New England, with
some 500 OF more inhabitants, where there
has not been fire for sixty years. Its hotel
has sold no liquor for sixteen years. No
persons between the ages of one and twenty
years has died there within sixteen years. No
railroad reaches the town, and it will be
long time probably, before it is thus con-
nected with the rest of New England. This
Eden of bliss is Dennysville. Me.
AT LARGE.
1t 10 understood that the Maine militia is to
be furnished with ne~ fatigue caps for the
coming year.