Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-09
State News.
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ASDROsCOGGiS.
The county tax Of Audroscoggin county
this year is s28, 900. Last year it was $780,
600.
The salaries of some of the Auburn teach
ers have been cut down from Sc to s. week.
The salaries of the Auburn teachers range
from $500 a wear to S. week.
Elmer II. Harris. the young man who was
so horribly injured BY the explosion of the
gun shell, in Minot, Saturday. died from the
wound, Tuesday morning. He remained I'M
conscious to the last.
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W. c. Donnell, cashier of First National
Bank. arrived home from the Arkansas hot
Spring. Friday morning. much improved in
health. He made short stay at New Orleans
on his return.
A Bangor dispatch to the Boston Herald,
speaking of the proposed railroad from Ban
croft, on the line of the Maine Central, to
Houlton. says: Surveys will commence in
few weeks and the work of building pushed
to early completion.
CUMBERLAND.
The Advertiser says: 1.-The activity OF the
police has nearly driven beer and ale out of
the market. 1t is possible still for the initial
ed to get vile compound to drink that is
manufactured on the premises, and quanti-
ties of the stuff are still sold. 1t is known
the kitchen traffic. A"
The first case of drunkenness undrr the
new law was before the court Tuesday morn
ing He told where he got his liquor and the
dealer was fined for single sale But the
drunkard went to Jail for FIVE days just the
same, lie can't what he gained by ill.,
forming against the man who sold him the
whiskey.-Adrertiser
HANCOCK.
Our Seal Cove correspondent sends us the
following bit of romance, says the Mt. Desert
Herald: Mr. r. F. Sanders. after having
lived here at Seal Cove for thirty or forty
years, in December last went to Portugal to
visit an aged mother and other relatives He
was received with great pomp and show; his
people belonging to the nobility. He came
back two weeks ago, bringing many valuable
presents; two very nice gold watches and
chains set with pearls, considerable silver
plate and valuable cloIhing.
KNOX.
Horace II. Burbank of Saco, has been in
vited to deliver the address at Thomaston
on Memorial Day, and has accepted the
invitation
~ nv =,
ueotge =" french hau mario" escape
from neath' iast week, according 10 the Dem
ocrat. lie 1eil 1or"ard OF MS team ana the
sled with a cord OF WOOD passed over nm,
breaking some ribs. He is improving.
AT the BABY show held IN Lynn, Mass,
the hrst PRIZE for the handsomest baby, a
baoys silver service valued S20. was awar-
ded TO Carl Stoddard Nichois, whose mother
(nee Clara Libby is native of Sweden. At
presented by one of its admirers with a sill
yer dollar to be expended in the purchase of
fair ticket which drew cash prize of S25.
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| Twelve passengers left Bangor on the
Western train Monday evening for Minnesota
and Iowa, says the Commercial.
The State Fair and the Eastern Maine State
| Fair trustees held a meeting at the Bangor
| House Wednesday night to decide as to how
the stipend voted to the fairs by the Legisla-
ture for dairy purposes shall be divided into
premiums.
! SAGADAHOC
| The National Village Bank of BOwdon
ham, II. p. Kendall cashier. has Just declared
a semi-annuai dividend of per cent.
There is good business under wav at the
South End ship yards, Bath. r. NJ. Hagan
& Sons are masting the new schooner Joseph
A. Manter and preparing their yard for new