Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-22
State News.
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Scfc1 I0uQs IN DaIt0-Nc-NrTu MAINE, and
will be pleased 10 read the following extracts
from letter recently received By frequent
er of these beautiful lakes. from that popular
guile, Kennedy Smith Of Eu>tis. Mr. Smith
writes: Hunting parties this fall have had
unusually good luck Four c4ribous and one
deer were shot near Tim Pond, last week and
there are lots of them left. All do not have
such coed luck however.
Shoe shipments from Auburn the past week
/ amounted 10 SOB cases leather received "a 0l3
pounds. Foss. Packard & Co, have been
shut down for repairs. and Gay. wooimsn &
Co, have begun to run eight hours a day.
The shipments for this week Of last year
were l0ll cases.
ARoosrook.
The starch factory in Mapleton made over
1000 casks of starch this season.
Eureka Grange. Mapleton, will dedicate
their new hall Dec. 4ih, in the evening. with
an entertainment and supper. says the repub-
lican.
The hemloek bark owned bv Shaw Bros,
in Houlton has been bought by parties who
are shipping it all TO the Boston market
There are now five prisoners in the Aroos-
took county Jail. all If whom are bound over
for their appearance at the next term of the
S. j. Court.
CUMBERLAND
Mrs. Z. Mcclellan of Sacearappa has ar
ranged with Mr.. g. ID. Weeks, marble work.
er of Gorham, TO cree, a monument to the
memory of Prince, a slave, who was purchss
ed in Portland by VIM. Mcclellan,
one of the early settlers of Gorham, and was
paid for in shocks. Prince drove the team
TO haul the shocks from Gorham 10 Portland.
He ran away and enlisted on Capt Manners
privateer. was discharged in Boston. after
wards was pentioned for life. and settled in
Gorlam where he died in 1885 over 100 years
of age.
building belonging to the United States
Marine Hospital, at Deering. was entered by
burglars on the night of the 18th, and about
ten tons of onions stolen.
KNOX.
J. p. Ingraham of Thomaston. has Just put
into his market a steam boiler ald engine Of
four horse power TO drive his neat chopper
and sausage mill.
l.. NJ. Simmons of Rocklsnd. was driving
home recently from Warren, in covered
carriage. As he approached the Hanrahau
crossing, just beyond the depot, his horse
became frightened by the incoming freight
train. and being manageable. dashed acros:
the railroad track, clearing the engine, the
cowcatcher of which struck the carriage,
freeing it from the horse and throwing it t.
one side total wreck, with Mr. Simmon.
, underneath. The train stopped and tn,
hands picked him mp in a senseless condition
, and carried him into the nearest house. The
, injuries are not necessarily fatal although
serious, the severe conclusion and general
shaking up being the most important.
slight scalp wound and bruised shoulder
were received. The horse freed himself
from the harness and ran home uninjured
Had not the train been running very slowly,
Mr.. Simmons would no doubt have beer
instantly killel.
KESSEBEC.
One of the handsomest monuments evel
turned out by the Bodwell Granite Company
was shipped recently. II was ordered by A
S. Rice, Esq, of Rockland, for his father
the late Judge Rice of Augusta. The base
is of Jonesboro red granite, and was polished
to perfection at the Granite Compsnys pol.
ishipg works
Too much bad fluid caused young man
living on Clarke street, Winthrop, to knock
his wife down and otherwise abuse her and
to threaten her life, last Monday evening
the 18th inst. Sheriff Berry and others were
obliged to stay with him through the night
The next morning he went away on the train
rather than be arrested.
Inc business OUTLOOK Tor OaKlanQ IL not al
all brilliant. Heretofore when dull time told
heavily upon business in most localities, the
FORCES and hammers here, were comparative
ly active, but the scythe and ak business has
been so overdone and otherwise abused for
the past few years. that now, some of the
effects of it are felt here.
The agent of the Lockwood Mills, Water
vile, says the company has not fully decided
upon the amount of the cut down to take
place Dec. lst
LINCOLN.
new skating rink is being built in Wis
casset.
The Lincoln West Congregational Associa.
ton met at Newcastle. with Rev. c. ID.
Crane, Nov. 18th At the public service in
the evening Rev. G. II. Scott Of Rockland,
preached. and Miss Anna Cahill of Fisk
University, Nashville, gave an address on
Work Among the Colured People in the
South" Supper was served at six in the new
church parlor. The ladies had separate meet
ings during the day. There was a children
missionary service at o'clock.
OXFORD.
The mill owners of Keezar Falls have
entered into an agreement to refer all of their
disputed claims of the title Of the mill priv
ilege to Judge DaDforth and Judge Simmons
to bring forward all the deeds of the owner
ship of water and land the amount of water
and land each can draw, and hold and abide
the decision rendered by these two Judges
and thereby avoid litigation. An engineer
from Portland was at work here several days
last week, and is to draw plan of the falls,
water, land and buildings on either side of
the Great Ossipee river.
Mrs. Enoch Knapp of Mexico, has been i'll
fer some time, but was up and around the
house until Sunday morning, the 10th, about
nine O'Clock, says the Canton Telephone
While sitting in chair beside her husband,
he heard something fall, and looking around,
saw his wife had fallen to the floor. He put
her on the bed and called for help, but Mrs
Knapp expired IN moment Heart disease
was the cause.
PESoBscoT.
Mr.. WILDER Grant. station agent of the
Maine Central at Kingman, has contracted to
furnish 800 carloads Of sleepers to the Maine
Central and Eastern Railroads. They are to
be cedar and hemlock, and the contractor has
a large crew in the woods engaged in gettin g
| them out,
! Alfred Rowe. a lad about twelve years of
age, residing in Pstten, was accidently shot,
recently by carelessly handling rifle. The
ball, A caibre, striking the right shoulder,
passed through, forcing fragments Of the
scapula through the wound. Had the ball