Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-23
ANDRoSCoGGIS.

Gently. inquired II camera wnicn ne saw IN
the street was zone of them things that they
call bicycle"
Fred Rock, of Auburn, lost a valuable
500 Jersey COW in a queer way. lately. The
co~ became unhitched and wandered out of
her yard into potato field. She ate plenti-
fully of the green potato tops that had been
in about two DAYS.
An Auburn lady, Mrs. L. A. Pray, found
behind the frame of an ancient looking glass
not long ago, q thin, crumpled up packet,
stained by time to an almost deep black, shad-
ing into q mellow yellow. Opened, the ps-
per showed bold front of headlines that
identified it as legal document of some kind.
The first letter is huge IS with quirk an
inch long at the bottom. The document is
written in French and the opening word is
Sentence" which is French as well as Eng
lish. Ii is dated July 49, 1919. and freely
translated reads: Sentence of July 10Th,
1919, in case of the Procureur du Roi VS..
Leonard du Cilly, wood merchant at Paris. ="
Cilly appears 10 have soil wood on the beach
at less price than he should have done by
agreement, and the prosecution sentences
him to a confscstion of wood, and also pun
ishes one Bernsult according to provisions of
the eighth chapter of Partisan laws, for
speaking badly of Cilly. The head OF the
paper was torn away, but was rolled up with
in the other. This paper was written within
lees than ten years after the assassination Of
King Henry of Navarro and during the reign
of Lous XIII. of France, and nearly LIS
years before the taking OF the Bastlle.
CUMBERLAND.
A countryman went into Portland Monday
with team which he valued at SIPS. During
the day he wandered around among the closed
saloons and also drove around the city, in the
meantime getting sadly intoxicated. When
the man came to his senses he discovered
that during his spree some one had uuhitched
his fine horse from his carriage, replacing II
with one worth about SIS. The worst Of all
is, the countryman remembers nothing about
his wanderings, and there is no clue to the
parties who exchanged the horses.
wreck WAS blown out Of the channel in
Portland harbor, Tuesday. by dynamite.
Mrs. Lenora, wife of Prof. B. 0. McIntire,
of Kent's Hill, narrowly escaped drowning at
Simpsons Point wharf, Brunswick Monday
afternoon She stepped TO the edge of the
wharf, lost her balance and plunged into the
water. Fortunately her husband and brothers
were near BY and rescued her before she could
sink the second time.
Officer Langmaid, of Portland, Tuesday.
arrested man giving the name OF L. b. Mil
lett, supposed to be an accomplice Of Paine's,
agent of the New England Metallic Spring
Bed Company, for also collecting funds with,
out authority from the company.
Ezekiel Pease, aged 10 years, a fisherman
of ST. George. while off the coast walked
overheard IN his sleep and was drowned
~, osl,. -. .L.t 10 l,,l
overheard when asleep.
The Oxford Democrat gives the names of
nineteen residents of South Paris who are
over eighty years of age.
PENoBscor.
1t is claimed, by those who profess to
know, that in the quantity of hav raised Ban
gor leads all the other towns in the State,
says the Wing.
The Bangor Commercial relates the follow
ing incident of the most absent minded man
in that CITY: We hear of Bangor young
man, lately married who went West on his
marriage tour and by way of Niagara Falls
The train stopped at the Falls and the newly
married couple both got off the cars to get a
better view of the Falls, and they both ling
cred longer than the stopping train allowed.
The bell rang and the young man, Forgetting
Cor the time that he was married. made a
rush to get aboard and barely reached the
platform on the rear car. He did not fully
realizing that he was married and had left
mis- wife behind $50 he says until he had got
Is miles away.
PIsCATAQUIs.
Johnson Nicholas. an Indian belonging in
Greenvjlle was examined before Trial Justice
G. A. Everett al Gulford, Monday, and or
dered csmmitted to jail TO await his trial at
the September term of court at Dover, on
charge of assaulting, with threats of killing
George + Kearns, at Mount Kineo. on
Thursday last. Nicholas is the son of Thomas
Nicholas. who was engaged in the murder at
Luce's place at the West Branch last winter.
SAGADAHoc.
SATURDAY. night the schooner Jacob Reed
arrived at Bath from Gardiner and anchored
in the river. Alongside of her vas the schoon-
er Harry L. Wilton. Sunday morning it
was discovered that two of the sailors Of the
Jacob Reed and the large yawl boat of the
schooner Harry l.. Wilton were missing 1t
is supposed that during the night the two men
stole the boat and left for parts unknown.
The attempt to raise the tug Mary Lee,
sunk off Small Point, has not yet proved sue
cessful Monday the large chain, placed
around her for the purpose of lifting her. was
parted BY the action of the sea, and heavy
strain upon it. Mr. Hitler. underwriters
agent who has charge of the work, was
seen Tuesday. He states that larger chain
will be procured in New York and in few
days another attempt will b. made to raise
the sunken tug.
The body of Geo. Peters, the colored boy.
who was drowned at Bath, Sunday. has not
been recovered.
WASHINGTON.
The Machias liquor agency was broken
into Saturday night. A two gallon jug was
carried off also more or less liquor The
bottles Of ale on the sidewalk and did not
stop to register their names, pay for the
liquor or name the quantity they took away.
A panel was removed from the outside door.
YORK.
A house owned by George Seavey and stu
ated on the old Seth bennett place, about
six miles out on the Alfred road. near Bidie-
to the ground. II is not known how the FIRE
originated. The house was worth about
$500
Chas Walsh, of Biddeford, has mysterious
ly disappeared.
Daniel ". Dudley. of Kennebunkport, a
seafaring man. has been taxed in that town on
his interest in a large sailing vessel. His
taxes for 1880 SO, remaining unpaid. and the
town officials being unable to find him in
Kennebunkport, followed him to New York.