Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-12
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State News.
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Hon. George C. Wing Of Auburn b..
relic of old Boston in the shape of a horn
volume of the Boston Magazine for the ve.
1888. 1t was originally owned BIZ the Judge
grandfather, Mr. Moses Warren, q cousin q
Gen. Joseph Warren.
ARoosrook.
The Commercials Fort Fairfield correspou
cent writes: Since the small furry of snov
We have had mild, lowery weather. and RI
mud in the street makes it almost irnpassahIa
thus retarding trade to considerable extent.
Nov. 9Th the buildings of Alden Smear n
Fort Fairfield were destroyed by FIRE. Tn,
loss Is some $4,000, including buildings, farm
implements. furniture and twenty-five hogs
| 1t ls decided to introduce the electric lieh
into Houlton, says the Pioneer The pece,
sarv water power will be obtained from IN,
Meouxnekeag stream, near which a buildins
suitable for the dynamo machines will bf
erected. plant of sixty lights will imam
gurate the innovation in Houlton, nearly thai
number having already been subscribed for
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland committee on stree,s have
awarded the contract for paving stones 10 this
Hallowell Granite Company-lO, 900 yards a,
81 10 per yard.
The Gorham Normal School is now having
course OF free lectures each week upon
education and kindred topics.
The bee keepers of western and southern
Maine are to meet at Brunswick on the l7rh
ior the purpose of forming a pertinent or.
ganization of bee culturists.
HANCOCK
The discovery of large scallop beds near
Castlne Is giving boom to that dainty in
many OF the State markets. 1t is said tina,
the beds cover acres and yield an unfailino
supply.
correspondent writes the Oxford Demo.
crat from Rumford Centre that it is very easy
to tell who will get the post office in that town.
II II Is changed-as there are only two demo.
Gratis in the place.
John 5. Shedd. one of the Oldest citizens
OF Norway. has recently died ae the age OF
nearly 80 years.
The principal business in Peru at presen,
iSsald TO De the buying of working oxen and
beeves, several yokes of the former having
been purchased of late for logging purposes
so many even. that there are hardly enough
left to supply the home demand.
Ayers Mason of Bethel, now IS wears old.
has given his sons valuable tract of tim
berland on the shore of Umbsgog lake, for
which he has refused $4,000, and they will
cut four or five millions of spruce timber the
present season.
PENOBsCoT.
1t is believed that the schooner Governor.
which left Bangor on October IA for New
London with cargo of lumber, was lost in
the recent gale. Nothing has been heard
from the vessel since she sailed, and the par
ties to whom the lumber was consigned do
not think any tidings of the vessel or crew
will ever be heard.
The Bangor Commercial says: The silver
medals awarded by the New England and
Eastern Maine State Fair have arrived. They
were made at the Philadelphia mint and are
very handsome. They are little more than
one and seven eighths inches in diameter. On
one side is the inscription New England
Agricultural Society" and pictures of a
horse, bull, hog, a goat, a duck, and a
hen and chicken. The reverse side Is finely
ernamented and place is left to put the
name of the person to whom it is awarded.
The up-river sportsmen, says the Wing,
report that there are more moose and deer
in the forests at present than for many wears
past. The animals are now scattered all
over the State and seem as plenty near the
settlements as they are deeper into the woods.
The boiler in Henry Poor & Sons tannery
at Midway was broken in two parts Monday
by high pressure of steam.
PIsCATAQUIs.
10 year old son of Augustus Savage, OF
Milo, while handling a pistol loaded with
shot, on the 3D. inst, was accidentally shot,
the charge striking him in and above the
right eye. He has lost an eye and has been
very sick, though there is hope of his recov-
cry.
The wife of c. II. Perrigo, of Milo, after a
long and dangerous illness, has so far recov-
cred as to be able to walk about the house.
SOMERSET.
Recently, when Mr.. Thomas Danforth OF
North Madison was on his way to North
Anson, he saw large eagle attack a sheep.
Mr.. Danforth stopped at the next house and
informed Mr.. Whitney of the fact, who with
his son started armed with shot gun, with
the intention of capturing the bird, but be-
fore they got within gun shot he made several
attempts to carry away the sheep which he
had partly eaten but could not fly but few
feet at time and finally went away and left
it.-Builetin.
WALDO.
According to the Journal, thirty families
of stone cutters have recently moved into
Belfast
YORK.
In the gale of Nov I'd, the barn connected
with w. +. Paul's cottage at Kennebunk
Beach was demolished. The wind got into
the building, lifting it bodily from its foun-
daton of stone and seemed to slam it upon the
rocks below, when the continued gale scat
tered the fragments along the whole length of
the beech, making total wreck of the build
ing, which was almost new.
AT LARGE.
There are four railroads in Maine which
are of only two feet gauge. Ordinary mar
row gauges are of three feet. These roads
are the Monson. the Bridgton & Saco River,
the Sandy River and the Franklin & Megan-
tic.
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