Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-03
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ASAAh IN DANGOR-OTHER ITEMS.
ANDRoscoGGIN
Mr.. l. T. Carville of Lewiston has so,d
two thoroughbred Holstein calves to r. r
Dresser of North Fryeburg, for $500. Mr..
Carville has sold this season three calves for
800; and taken $3.50 in premiums at the
fairs.
CUMBERLAND.
A workman engaged in digging the trench
TO receive the steam pipe from the First Ma
nonai Bank building to Storer Brothers
ooiier house. Portland. day or two ago,
found an old English coin buried at depth
Of several feet The piece was dated iii.
The officials of the Boston and Maine rail-
road have decided to enlarge the present de.
pot of the Eastern Division of the road in
Portland. and use it as station for the trains
OF both divisions of the Boston & Maine. and
the other roads using it. A new head house
viii be built. containing waiting rooms aud
the ticket office, and the train shed will be
broadened to contain eight tracks.
Saccarappa is reported to be a rapidly
growing and thriving place. Shoes, silk, cot.
ton,and leather-board are among its manufac-
lures.
The Deer Isle Gazette tells the following
as sample of what can be done by the
KIND of girls they raise on the island: As
h,r f.,ho. ,. ~. nea1" nuh
- " III 'ahooat' the nat
boat. Capt. Torrey spliced the halysrds, but
ne being so heavv-weighing over two hun
dred pounds-was unable to climb the mast
m thavV O.
spunky lady of min. teen, climbed the mast,
which is twenty feet tall, and rove them off.
A correspondent of the Bangor CONNER
cial writes thus of a quaint corner in the town
of Gouldsboro, called Prospect Harder: II
has two or three good stores. a good school
house. lobster factory and some hundreds of
inha bitants; bat in this place there is no re-
ligious person; no church organization; no
temperance society; no secret society and no
pauper. They have erecied and paid for q
handsome church in which services are held
twice month. The inhabitants all attend
and contribute what they please. and il is
said that the amount is satisfactory to the
minister.
KENNEBEC.
Henry NJ Pierce o,adpsta a, w,,e,v;,,s
in 1874 for many vaars hold n,om;non, od,.
is now engaged in Goodrich. Hickman conn.
ty. Tennessee. in WORKING o,t a newly X.
vented process for ,ha mann facture Of char.
coal. which promis.. 10 work a ravolution ;r
the manufacture of charcoal iron renort. The
Waterville Mail
u
oooh
oouth Deer Isle Is puzzling over compll
cation In regard to the mail The formel
postmaster seihg removed Tor political DIS
aoii's anu ne" one appointed tne mali II
."' ~: 'nai 'a'f'. Is! ieee'.e
mail, and as the new postmaster's place OF
| business is furlong, more or less from tn,
county road, he does not deliver it there
| Query: Shall the mail be delivered in tn,
street, or shall the postmaster place his .tor
at the disposal of his successor, or must tn
town erect post office?
A West Harrington man has worked a
Millb idge this season one hundred and forty
! feur DAYS, and-has walked ~ efve mites eacl
day. making seventeen hundred and twenty
| eight miles in all to say nothing of trans
porting four or five barrels of -four on
| wheelbarrow from one place to the other
after doing days work.
PENoBsCor.
A 25O-pound bear. trapped bv Mr.. Kirk
patrick Of Clifton, was to be found in Ban
. gor market the other day.
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