Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-05

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ANDRoscoGGu.
The Lewiston Machine Company bega
Monday to run 10 hours . day, and is maxim
100 worsted looms of IN English pattern 70
| the Manchester mills, Manchester, N. Il.
About $1,000 10 soon to be expended in i'm
pfovements on the Bates street Universalis
church in Lewiston.
ARoosrOoK.
crew of about so river-drivers arrived q
Houlton, Monday night and so more Tuesday
morning by railroad, from New Brunswick
and have since left for operations on the heat
waters of the St. Croix and Aroostook, say
the Times.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland base ball club have given VI
their proposed Maine trip, as satisfactory
terms could not be made with college clubs
young fellow calling himself Weston
johnson. was arrested at North Bridgton
Thursday, by Sheriff Webb. for stealing
nice team that morning of Fernald & Sawyer
Portland. The fellow hired the team sayin,
he wished to go to Gorham. Not returning
search was made and the team found il
Bridgton, and the fellow was brought t.
Portland and placed in Jail. He says he be-
longs in Nashua, N. H. He is about twenty
years old.
HANCOCK.
Maurice Farral, a boy of IL years wa,
drowned Thursday forenoon at West Sullivan
He was playing with other boys in a small
pond on Stinsons granite quarry. and fell
from a raft.
KENNEBEC.
he I'D
given currency in some papers that the Hal
lowell Granite Co were about to suspend op
erations at Hallowell for a time is untrue.
KNOX.
Whittaker's hotel in Sullivan, was dam
aged by fire the night of the Path ult, to the
amount of $50 The fire was communicates
from large lamp shich was burning on
bureau.
OXFORD.
Mrs. Deborah Ames of Hartford, accordins
to the Oxford Advertiser, says that she brok,
of the point of a sewing needle in her hand
and few months afterwards it came out Of
the end of her tongue.
PENoBscoT.
Messrs. E & l. X. Stetson. of Bangor, a
their shipvard in Brewer, have begun to la,
built during the summer. The vessel will
probably be commanded by c. II. Gary, il
the Mexican trade.
A little boy living on Kenduskeag Avenue
Bangor, was injured quite badly Thursda,
afternoon on Division street by the wheel OF
a jigger passing over his head The schoo
children are continually attempting to jun,
on to the passing teams and such accident
should be warning to them, says the Com
mercial.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The Piscataquis Observer saws that tn,
greatest religious revival ever known in Pts
cataquis county is now taking place. Since
the first of April there have been $50 CONVEX
sions.
The ice in Moosehead Lake is quite strong fo
the time of year: teams are crossing daily
1t is thought that it will not leave the lake
before May Goth or thereabout
WALDO.
correspondent of the Belfast Journa
says that there is only one town which doe
more knitting than the village of Penobscot
Waldo county, which for half a century ha
had an enviable reputation as headquarter
for knitting work. But the fondly remem
bered knitting needle of the grandmothers i,
thing of the past Machinery has crowded
it out of the chimney corner. One woman
in Penobscot runs 20 machines and employ,
20 knitters, of whom Miss Maria Bridges il
the champion knitter of America, having kni
in one day rs pairs of mittens.
WASHINGTON
The steamer Lewiston of the Portland. Mt
Desert and Machias steamboa company, mad,
her last trip from Eastport last Monday.
seems too bad, after all the expense the com
pany went to in order to establish the line
that it won't pay. 1t is said that the compan,
sunk 100000 in trying to establish perma
nent line of steamers between Mt. Desert
Eastport and Nova Scotia Eastport Stan
dard
Twelve converts to the Adventists persua
sion were baptised Sunday afternoon in tn,
river at Midtown.
AT LARGE.
The season for maple syrup just over ha.
been better than the average. The flow O.
sap commenced shortly after the first of A pri
and continued three weeks.
Charles w. Clement, trustee of the synd
cate which has taken charge of the affairs O
+. Shaw Brothers, has perfected sale to
Lloyd B. Clark of Springfield Mass, of the
tannery and sawmill village lots. etc., a
kingman the extract work and other prop
erty at Sherman and Bancroft, in all some
5000 cords The property thus purchased
by Mr.. Clark will henceforth be under the
management of Mr.. Walter d. Shaw, son o
the late VIM. Shaw of F. Shaw & Bros. Tn,
new manager is an energetic young bushes.
man, in whose hands the property is safe ant
likely to increase in value and importance.