Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-22
State News.
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1 A new post office has been established ut
Portage lake, in this county.
} Messrs. Kinney Watson viii soon start
up their starch Factory in Houlton; = sufl-
cient quantity of potatoes have been secured
for the purpose
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Union revival meetings have been held 1t
Oakland for some time. The town is now
experiencing gracious refreshing of divine
grace. A good number have recently COM
menced the Christian life and others are COM
ing nearly every day. MessTs. Smith. Allen and
Jones, evangelists, have been successfully
aiding in this work for weeks past.
i Mr.. John L. johnson of Augusta. has re-
moved to Bangor. He is engaged in j. ".
Clapp's candy mandatory.
Now Oakland comes to the front and means
TO have skating rink building erected in the
early spring.
Geo. F. Edw ards, a well known Oxford
sporting man, claims that he has the largest
English fox hound in the state. The English
are usually rather small breed Of fox hounds.
Mr.. Edwards calls his hound Jumbo. lie is
feet in length. He stands q inches high. His
ears mearure 81 inches fron tip to tip. He
neck girts % inches. His leg at the should
ers girts II inches His present weight is so
pounds. He is very lean. in good running
condition. If fat he would tip the scales at
over 100 pounds He is only two and one
half years old, and will probably grow more.
SAGADAHoc.
The Bath common council on Tuesday
evening passed in concurrence with the alder.
I men, an order offering reward for the con-
l viction of parties who cause incendiary fires
in that city.
An ARRAY between j. F. Harris and Geo.
Grinnell took place Tuesday, at Bath, about
a harness, Grinnell accusing Harris of steal
ing it from him. As both men are well
known the matter cause much excitement.
There is a fair prospect of obtaining the
necessary capital to start an iron shipyard in
Bath, to be carried on in connection with the
present extensive and lucrative business of
building wooden ships by the big yard firm of
Goss, Sawyer & Packard. New Hampshire
capitalists controlling the magnetic iron mines
| in that State are interested in the movement,
the outcome of which is the New England
Shipbuilding Company" The big firm. as
already announced editorially in the Bath
Times, contributes $500 900 to the required
stock. which has been set at $500, 900 and
given the remaining sl00,0O0 and Bath has
an iron shipyard.
SOMERSET.
There was a crowd of horsemen at Show
hogan Tuesday, Feb 10Th. Bishop, the
noted horse buyer, James Keegan. Augusta,
John Horn and NJ. II Horn, Oakland, NJ.
W. Stinson, Boston, and J. L. Horton of
Providence, r. l. Bishop was on buying
expedition and some fine horses were shown.
Mr.. Bishop bought in all fourteen, eight of
them were purchased of Mr. Wethren of
New Portland. The total amount paid was
81, 255. making an average of little more
than Sl6l per animal. The six horses pur-
chased from others than MIR. Wetheren
brought S2l9 per horse. Mr.. Walker of
Augusta sold one, Caswell & Williams OF
Arson a pair. and A. c. Wade of Athens,
Nathaniel Hall of Canaan and b. Wharf of
Skowhegsn one each. Mr.. Bishop will be at
Skowhegan again in two weeks
Company E, Skowhegsn Light Infantry,
are to give exhibition drill and ball at
Carabasset Hall, No. Arson, next Tuesday
evening, the 26th inst
Business is just booming at the Skowhegsn
shoe factory. They can't get help enough and
have been posting placards the past week in
Franklin county calling for 80 more girls.
The Reporter says that a firm in Skowhe-
gan have been obliged to send to Boston for
poultry recently. There is none in the mar
ket.
The young ladies Of Skowhegan are to
give a leap year party at Fairgrieves' Hall,
in about two weeks and are making prepare
tons for a grand good time.
Messrs Lawry & Pratt of Fairfield are do
ing quite q business in wood and lumber on
the line of the Androscoggin branch of the
Maine Central r 4ilroad about two miles above
Leeds Junction. Last spring they purchased
of Mr.. David Marston of Monmouth, piece
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acres for which they paid four thousand dol
lars; they have already cut off 500 cords of
wood and 100, 900 feet of hemlock lumber
, and are now at work on the pine of which
they estimate from five to eight thousand feet
will be cut in all.
The following are some of the real estate
transfers which have been recorded in Som
t erset county during the past week: Skow-
hegan-John B. Nutting to William II. Pear.
son, $3.50; Emeliue +. Coolidge ct ais to
Nancy W. Haines, $500: Oliver Walker to
Loring J. Addition. $1,000; Amos II. Fletcher
to Loripg J. Addition, $1,000. Madison
t Benz P. J. Weston to Somerset Railway Co,
| 81. Sko~hegan-Isasc Dyer, EXT, to Geo.
II. Palmer, Sl400; Isaac Over, Ext. to Geo.
II. Palmer. $500 Fairfield. Simon S. Brown
to John F. Gerold. slO50 Skowhegan-
William II. Pearson to John B. Nutting, sl75.
WALDO.
/ A dispatch to the Boston Journal says that
an important law decision is just announced.
, In August. 1880, the bark Marion capsized
at sea.and her master. Captain Arthur Parker.
of Winterport, Me-, with his wife and only
child, were lost Captain Parker had a poll
CIV in the Travellers Insurance Company,
payable to his wife if she survived, otherwise
the child If both died before the father the
policy was payable to his administrators, as
part of the estate. The policy assigned
by the wife, to Harriet F. Lewis as security
tor loan to the husband. On proof of the
death of the Parker family the administrators
claimed the money, assuming that an the
: common disaster the husband survived both
the wife and child. 1t was claimed, however,
! that the wife and child as passengers, were in
the cabin when the Marion capsized, and that
the father was necessarily on deck, and that
the latter consequently died first. The case
was submitted to the Court to decide both
. Law aRd facts. The counsel for Mrs. Lewis
raised the point that the policy, being pay
able to the wife or her sssignees, unless the
wife died before the husband, the adverse
claimant was bound to show that she did so
die: and there being no evidence so to show