Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-12-12

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President Cheney of Bates College states
that the present fund of the college amounts
to S150.000, the income of which. with tui-
ton. lacks q, 900 of meeting the current ex-
penees of the college. DIR Cheney is engag-
ed At times raising a sufficient sum to meet
this deficiency.
ARoosrooK
The Caribou Grange, No. l3s, held its an
nual election of officers the Goth inst.
The lumhermen have been feeling q little
blue on account of lack of snow. One man
said few days ago that he had sixty men on
his hands and but little that they or his teams
could do to advantage.
CUMBERLAND.
Francis Murphy has inaugurated another
temperance revival in Pttsburg which prom
ises to excel that of three years ago. over
$500 signatures TO the pledge have been OBJ
tanned since last Sunday. and at q meeting
held Monday at Music Hall. 1000 persons
were present and at Leaf 1900 were unable
to gain admission. The meeting was the
largest ever presided over by Mr.. Murphy.
kESNEBEc.
Waterville preserves many traditions of
Ben Butler when he was at the college. One
of them is a story about raid ON the signs
of the village storekeepers, in which Ben
was supposed to be implicated. The faculty
made search for the stolen signs and ap
preached Ben's room There was a rule-so
the story goes-ihat no students room should
be entered while he was at his devotions.
As the inquisitor neared Ben's room, he heard
Ben's voice loudly uplifted in a PRAYER in
which he introduced quotation from Isaiah
vii Ill, ASK thee a sign of the Lord"
Mr.. S. l. Abbott, the live agent of the
Lockwood Mills, Waterville. said, Tuesday,
Il don't see any real basis for the talk of an
improvement in the cotton goods business.
Cotton is very little higher and cotton goods
are shade lower than a week ago. That is
not improvement for the mills. We propose
to run all winter and are selling all the goods
we turn out, but we are making no money"
KNOX.
week ago a lime kilR was started up at
Eagle Rock, on the James River, 200 miles
above Richmond, Va, by Maine capitalists.
The venture is an experiment entered into by
Messrs. A. F. Crockett & Co and Berry
Bros. of Rockland, in company with Messrs.
Warner, Moore, VIM. II. and Jas. w. ALI
son of Richmond. Lime kilns have existed
in that section heretofore, but nothing per-
manent has ever been established, and the
point aimed at is to reach interior markets in
the South that cannot proftably be reached
by lime shipped from Rockland
PESoBscor.
Amos Fos.in and Henry Pond two Oldtown
boys, whre arrested Tuesday for breaking
into the store of Henry Pratt of that place.
They were taken before Judge Norton who
| fined them the amount of money stolen and
the costs ofthe prosecution.
The proprietors of the Maine Mining and
Industrial Journal, which is published in
Bangor, have leased the northerly store fin
the four-story granite block on Exchange
street. and will fit it up for printing Office.
New type and new press will be purchased
and the paper will appear in new and en-
lsrged form.
PIscArAoufs
Packard & Stacy of Blanchard, are waiting
for snow to haul birch. They will not manu-
facture as much birch as they expected, AS the
| company do not want 40 much spool stock as
they at first thought for the reason that they
have no orders for spools. They employ
about twenty men and six horses.
SAGADAHoC.
VIM. Fairclough while at work in the shoe
factory at Richmond, recently, lost two
| fingers, which were taken of by getting them
caught in a cutting machine.
The Ladies' Sedgwick Relief Corps made
S255 on their fair, last week The gross re-
ceipts we're $474
The steamer Wiwurna of the Eastern
Steamship Company's Line is being repaired
aud put in readiness for winter quarters at
Southport.
SOMERSET.
| question of some consequence has arisen
before the county commissioners of Somerset
county, in the following manner: At the trial
of the Embden murder case, last September
term of the court the Attorney General was
not present and an assistant to the county
| attorney was assigned by the court, who now
claims pay of the county for his services !;
and the county attorney also claims pay
above his salary on the same account. The
question is Have the commissioners any
authority to allow such claims
A special meeting of the Somerset Agricul
ural Society takes place the oath inst.
WALDO.
A few days since, Fred Pendleton of
Isesboro, in putting revolver into his belt
accidentally discharged the weapon, the
bullet entering the inside of his thigh and
lodging on the opposite side just below the
knee. Six men took boat, pulled across to
Northport and drove to Belfast for assistance
The surgeon extracted the bullet and the
young man is doing WELL
WASHINGTON.
The Machias Union SAYS Ripleys Neck il
fast growing into favor as public resort. Ten
lots have been sold during the past week and
other parties are talking of buying. num-
Der of cottages will be built next season, some
of them of stone and cement.
YORK.
Mr. Manning Hodgdon, a Dartmouth grad
uate, who is to be principal of the Limerick
Academy, is a native of Greenland.
Rev. c. NJ. Anderson, formerly of Man
chester, n. H, has begun his lsbors with the
Free Baptist church in Kittery, to which he
received call, three weeks ago.
Ar LARGE.
The natives of Maine in Colorado have
just organized Pine Tree Association They
have their headquarters at room No. 80,
Grand Opera House Block. Denver, Colora-
do Maine papers are to be kept on file. and
a register of Name people in Colorado will
be kept open. Visitors from Maine are in
vited to call and register.
"Rough on Germs.
Ask for Wells Rough on Corns." l5c'