Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-02
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AxDRoscoGeIx.
SAYS the Lewiston Journal: L. p. Rerrv
o. north Leeds was going from Winthrop to
wayne . few nights ago. Between the two
villages there 10 piece of woods nearly two
miles in length and only one dwelling the en-
tire distance. He vas walking up . hill
when he was met BY man who interrupted
him, doubtless bent on robbery. Amer some
conversation Mr.. Berry gave him 4 blow
from the shoulder which laid him PROSTATE
While be was recovering from the blow. M.
Berry got into his team and drove RAPIDLY
away, thus probably escaping being robbed.
Il u one OF the loneliest spots in this locality
Two men, Gays the Journal. made . bat.
teau trip from Livermore Falls to Lewiston
last Saturday. The river was At q high pitch
and full of running ice, while in plsces
anchof ice had made that almost stopped their
progress. II was an exciting and dangerous
Trip and their speed in some places was ter
rimc-overtaking and passing railroad trains
on the bank
The Bowdoin Manufacturing Co.. prono.s
to expend from s4OO, 900 to 81 600. 900 in their
new pulp manufacturing enterprise at Lisbon
Falls.
A Lisbon boy broke through the ice, while
skating on the river SATURDAY.. A man who
attempted to rescue him broke through and
not being much of q swimmer was nearly
drowned A Mr.. Jackson. by pushing a
board out before him was able to reach and
pull them both out.
ARoOsTooK.
Sunday night, a man. presumed to be IN.
der the ifluence of liquor, took it into his
head to jump of the Meduxnekeaa bridge
says the Houlton Pioneer.
CUMBERLAND.
The bark Bertha. owned by Capt. Benia-
min Webster and others of Portland. il long
overdue, and is thought to have been lost on
her voyage from the West Indies, saws the
Sunday Times. She was last heard of as
leaving Turks Island with a cargo of salt for
New York.
PENOBsCoT.
serious accident occurred SUNDAY morn.
ing at Oldtown. In attempting to light fire
fourteen-years-old girl named Violette, EN-
ployed bv Mr.. Moses d. Wadleigh, got her
clothes on fire and the flames were extin.
guished with a rug. but not before she had
been fearfully burned.
Nearly all of the Penobscot lumbermen
now have their crews in the woods Atwell
Mcleod of Saltwater. have thirty men and
ten horses and expect to cut about !, 500, 900
feet of logs on the West Branch. The largest
operations on the West Branch will be con
Quoted by Morrison & Hunting of Bangor, who
will cut about 5000, 900. John Ross of Ban
gor will have ninety men and twenty-four
horses hauling into Scott Brook and the
main West Branch, and will CT! 100000
SAGADAHoC.
M. G Shaw & Sons, Bath, will build a
large planning mill the coming winter to run
in connection with their saw mills. The
Bath Independent says the new factory will
be used for finishing lumber and also for the
manufacture of oil-cloth boxes, shocks, and
eventually sash and blinds. 1t will be in
running order another season and employ
from fifty to hundred hands.
The town of Hampton. Virginia, sent two
children to the Orphans Home in Bath last
Saturday. The two orphans are aged and
7. and are children of Private WEIGH, of the
9Th Maine. The father died recently and the
mother brought the children to that institu-
ton. where their expenses will be paid by the
town of Hampton.
dispatch from Richmond says that man
named Henry Whittum a resident of Lewis
ton, fell twenty feet at Clark & Chaplin's ice
houses at East Bowdoinham, Monday morn
ing He was insensible when picked up. AL
though badly bruised he was not seriously
hurt. Whntum was at work on the waste
run.
WASHINGTON.
Sunday night, Nov. %. the dwelling of
Capt E. G. Ferrin of Cherryfeld. narrowly
escaped burning. the cause of which was due
to the floor taking FIRE under the stove iu the
sitting room. The family had retired, but
were awakened by the fumes of smoke.
The death in Minneapolis of Mrs. Kate
Brown, formerly of Cherryfield, is announced.
AT LARGE.
A correspondent of the Lewiston journal
writing from Pasadena, Cal, says: made a
flying trip few days since to Ontario, a two.
year-old colony east Of here They are about
starting paper, without which no California
town can exist long, and the editor will be
E. P. Clark, former teacher in Bucksport
Seminary. One of the finest lots in this
model colony is owned by E. A. Halves,
Maine State College, class Of 70.
Mails from the Provinces are now brought
to Bangor by the fast freight recently put on
the Maine Central. This train is proving q
great convenience.