Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-22
snte News.


/ AWVBO0cO66IA.
During the mass 1t Sc. Josephs church
Lewiston, Sunday, one of the altar bow
named O'Connell accidentally switched hia
robe into the blaze Of . candle, igniting the
robe. 1t was torn from him BY those near
him. His neck Was burned slightly.
An Auburn man narrowly escaped fatal
blood poisoning and death BY loctiaw. He
thinks the poison was communicated from
dental instruments on which some poison re-
manned. from an liberated tooth, as the at
tack followed the extracting of teeth.
ARoosrook.
B. ]. Smith, of the Vaughan House, Carl
6ou. has sold his farm in Hodgdon to W. NJ.
Haskell for 5000, says the Aroostook
Pioneer.
CUMBERLAND.
| Daniel Leary. man about 20 years of age,
fell dead from heart disease on Burnham's
wharf Portland, Monday morning.
The employees at the leather-board mill at
Saccarappa, have been notified that beginning
Monday, the wages will be reduced ten per
cent and the mill will run on half time
Rev. F. NJ. Shanafeit. d.. of East Sagi-
nav, Mich, Chaplain-in-chief of the Grand
Army, will be in Portland on the 2lst of
June, and will occupy the pulpit of the First
Baptist church. He is one of the leading
Baptist clergymen of Michigan.
KNOX.
Rockland people have been somewhat in
terested in the big whale which has been cut
up and tried out at Green's Island The fish
was 81 feet in length, and ten feet high. In
cutting the blubber four men were EMPLOYED
The process is not quite completed yet, and
liza gallons of oil have already been secured
1t has taken the four men nine days to cut up
the blubber and try it out. The body is to be
made into fertilizers.
LINCOLN.
The postmaster general yesterday appoint
ed Nelson Carnage postmaster at South Bris-
toi, to succeed John Otis, deceased.
OXFORD.
Cottages at the camp ground in Fpyebnrg,
are already engaged by parties in Portland,
Saco and elsewhere for the C. L. S, c.. meet
ing in July.
SAGADAHoc.
Shad are plenty, at Bath. at five cents.
Twenty one hundred were caught recently in
an up river hedge. Boston fish dealers are in
town making arrangements to supply that
market with Kennebec fish the coming sum-
mer.
SOMERSET
VIM. Wescott of Cornville, aged ifty-five
wears. committed suicide at the homo of one
Daggett. near the Hartland line. His wife
has been living with Daggett for a year past
and on Friday Mr.. Wescott went to get her
to return home with him. She refused, and
some time that night he went to Daggett's
barn and hung himself to a beam. where he
was found at an early hour, Saturday morn
ing. He leaves the wife and five children.
| WASHINGTON
The Wassataquoix drive was chung up
in that stream one day last week. The firm,
which is composed of Calais lumbermen, se-
cured the most of their old logs, but none of
the new. They expended last year over $40, :
600 in building dams and blowing the rocks
out of their stream, and every dam was car
ried away bv this springs freshet. Eighty
seven drivers were thrown out of employ
ment by the stopping of this drive.
| 1t is reported that company is to be
organized to build steamer of about 1000
tons to run between Mschiasport and Boston,
touching at all the usual steamboat landings
except Rockland, says the Maclias Union. 1t
will be called the Boston and Maine Steam
ship Co. 1t is designed to have l40 state
rooms, with accommodations for 500
passe myers. and to make two round trips per
week, leaving Machiasport everv Monday and
Thursday at A. NJ. and Boston Tuesdays
and FRIDAYS at 5 80 P. M. Bound east, Cas-
tine will be the first landing, thence all the
intermediate landings, reaching Machasport
| at 3 p. M. In going west will reach Boston
at A. M. in season for the days market and
| business.
Bracket ID. Marsh of Acton, took heap
| L -f..I~ i
al intent, one day last week; being an over
dose it caused vomiting which saved his life,
but he is still in very critical state and may
not recover.
! On Saturday afternoon FIRE damaged the
building at Berwick owned by John Emery,
the lower story of which he uses for grave
stone mandatory. Two families lived in
the upper portion. The damage is $15. 900 ;
| insured.
| VIM. G.. Littlefeld of Biddeford was arrest
ed Saturday, by Sheriff Towne. for assault
and battery on a Mrs. Quint, Friday night,
says the Biddeford Journal. She occupies
his house at Kennebuuk Depot and he had
warned her out by word of mouth, but she
would not go until legally notified (thirty-
seven days bv written notice. He came
here and finding her still occupying the house
became enraged, using abusive language and
! 6trlklDR neF. lie case was trleu before
Trial Justice Haley and Littiefield was found
guilty. the fine and costs amounting to $50,
Mrs. Quint says she would move but cannot
find tenement. The assault cause consid.
cradle excitement in this usually quiet neigh
borhood.
There was time when meadow, grove
and stream" were unmolested There was q
time when this vicinity offered but little en-.
couragement to the surgical fraternity, and
when there were few opportunities to fool
with buzz saws. This pleasant state of things
however, existed about two centuries ago, and
the following grant relates to the first saw
mill erected on the Saco river: September
"a, 1868. 1t is granted by the townsmen OF
Ssco that Roger Spencer have libartie to Sc,
up saw mill within their township, provided
that he doth make his redie to doc execution
within one year, and also that he shall have
sufficient accommodation for such a work
upon this condition that all the towDsmen
shall have border I'D in a hundred cheaper
than any stranger. Secondly, that the towns
men shall be employed in the worke before a
stranger, provided that they do their work
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