Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-30
State News.
WALKING IN Her SLEEP.-A LIQUOR TRAP
That BEATS THEM ALL-CAPr kIDD's
Treasure.
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journalist and author of the popular life of
Blaine, is a, the Poland Spring House.
! Hon. Wayne McVeigh, ex-Secretary of the
Interior. is a, the Poland Spring House with
his family. He was at the Lake Auburn
House on FRIDAY for the dsv.
The first piano upon which the electric at
tachment, recently patented and now man.
aged BY the Electric Piano Company, which
was formed recently at the Poland Spring
House, has ever been placed. is in the Poland
Spring House music room. The electric sp-
pliance comes from two jars of q battery
placed beneath the piano. The current from
the batteries is introduced or cut of by means
of an extra pedal. The effect of the electric
attachment is TO vibrate additional sets of
hammers so rapidly when the key is struck,
as TO produce the sustained notes of organ
the tone being sustained as long as the key
is pressed. The resources of the piano are
thus greatly increased, since when the foot is
removed from the pedal the piano is as if
there were no attachment of any kind Leo
istoa Journal
James Dempsey, Esq agent OF the Lewis
ton Bleachery and Dive Works. is confined to
his house. lie fell, Thursday. from pile
OF granite which was being used in repairs
about the front of the office, striding on his
side. His injuries 10 the side aud back
A well-known, highly accomplished lady
in one OF our two cities thinks that she must
have done a highly successful feat of sleep
walking She awoke, the other night, to find
herself seated in her room, but unable to tell
whether her wanderings had taken her out of
the room or not. A day or two later her
hands sweled and showed signs of poisoning.
which the physicians think were caused by
poison wv At last accounts it was ques-
81. -hatk 1sa.. a ~
ing in her sleep.-Leriston Journal.
CUMBERLAND.
Judge Nichols of Toledo. Ohio, who Is
rusticsting on Long Island, Portland harbor,
while attempting to get in boat TO go out
fishing, Saturday morning, slipped and fell
on the rocks, bruising one of his knees pretty
badly.
J Officer McGrath of Portland. a few DAYS
ago discovered neat device for conceaing
the ardent. Behind a saloon stands little
shed built as refr gerator. The interior is
sheathed with matched boards, and the officer
in examining the place took hold of a couple
; of hooks and pushing them up, found. much
I to his surprise that the board into which they
were driven slid through the fiat roof, dis
closing in the space between the inner and
outer boarding, shelves holding a number of
/ b tues of liquor.
w. A. Kidd, who has been boarding in
Portland while he prosecuted his search for
information in regard to the whereabouts of
the gold of his famous ancestor the redoubt-
able captain, has proven himself good re.
preventative of that naval gentleman Mr..
Kidd has left his boarding place and valuable
jew elrv, the property of others, has left with
him. Nothing is now known of his where
abouts
Al r
Jacob Wakefield near Goodwin's Mills were
destroyed by fire Sunday noon The fire rap
idly spread to the house and soon all were
destroyed. horse and colt also persisted in
the flames.
Sir Leonard lilly, of the Dominion Cabi-
net, arrived in Portland on the through ex-
press from Montreal, Tuesday afternoon in
the official car of the Canadian government
railway. Sir Leonard will 90 from there to
st. Andrews on, it is understood, official bus
mess.
court martial is in progress at Fort
Preble on DR.. Wilson. post surgeon on ac-
count of disagreement between Gen. Ora
ham and himself. Some ten officers are on
the court martial which is presided over by
Col. Wilcox, 18th L. S. Infantry, from Sack
! ett's Harbor, n Y.
kENNEBEC
The China cheese factory is in operation
as usual. and the cheeses made are looking
nicely. The fall term of the high school
commenced on the last Monday of August,
under the charge of F. +. Jones.
1t will take - 900 wards of canvass to
make the suit of sails for the new ship now
on the stocks at Carleton Norwood & Co
yard at Rockport, and will cost $4,000.
John Thorndike. of Rockport. met with a
severe loss, by thieves unknown entering his
house during his absence and taking S2I
from clock where he had it hid away. This
is quite a loss to him from the fact that he is
unable to work, being about eighty-six years
of age
Seven hundred and seventy five members
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians from
Bangor came to Camden, Monday on the
steamer Kstahdin. on their annual excursion.
OXFORD.
Samuel o. Grover had a nice colt, grade
Norman, two years old, in pasture at
Bethel. He went to salt it, few DAYS ago
and found it dead. Killed by lightning say:
the Oxford Democrat.
PENoBsCoT.
Mr.. Charles A Sanborn. the oldest printer
in Bangor, died on Saturday after long i'll
ness. Mr.. Sanborn worked at the case for
over forty years. having commenced his trade
with the late veteran Mr.. Edes, on the Pisca,-
aquis Observer.
An accident which damaged the railroad
bridge at Bangor to a considerable extent oc-
CURED Tuesday forenoon. The schooner
Mary WILEY was being towed up the river,
and VI hen opposite the Bangor & Bar Harbor
steamboat wharf the lines were cast off and
the vessel continued straight ahead. The
anchor was not cast and she ran into the west
end of the railroad bridge. breaking dow
the railing and foot-way and also breaking in
the boarding 90 the side of the structure
/ The bridge was not damaged badly enough to
prevent the passage of trains. and the foot
way on the upper side can also be used.
PIsCATAQrIs.
Mr. 0. w. Davis. Jr. has commenced
! clearing away the debris at the old furnace at
Katahdn Iron Works. katahdin, preparatory
TO rebuilding Mr.. Davis has secured the
services of Mr.. Ernst Sjostedt, a Young man
/ of energy. ability and experience, to act as
agent at the works.
/ Memorial Grant services were held in
I Cornish, on the day of Grants death The
| Free Baptist church was draped in mourning.
| Addresses were given by Hon. G. F. Clifford.
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