Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-05
State News.

State News.
A LAUGHABLE CASE OF ABsExr-MINDEDNRss.
OFFICERS OF THE BowDoIN BoArIxG
AssocIArIoN.-A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN
ANDRoscoGGIS.
The latest case of absent mindedness is on
Lewiston insurance man. He drives ligh,
red horse and makes q good many trips every
day with him. Friday, he drove up to a
Main street store and hitched his horse. He
did his business in the store and came out and
walked of down the street. II was noon
when he remembered the horse. He reckons
that he walked couple of miles while the
horse was taking rest.
ARoosrooK.
Mr.. Chas. Dunn met with q painful acct
dent last Tuesday noon in Houlton. He was
hitching horse with q chain halter to post
when the animal drew back and Mr.. Dunn's
right hand was drawn into the post ring, and
the end of his fore finger was torn of. The
wound was dressed by DR.. Cary.
Mr.. Fl. P. Todd of Lyndon, So. Caribou,
attempted to cline over q fence with an axe on
his shoulder, few days ago, his foot slipped,
the axe came to the ground, and he fell on the
end of the handle on his side, and for some
time he was unable to move. He has been
unable to do any work since, says the Her
aid.
CUMBERLAND.
At the recent meeting of the Bowdoin
Boating Association the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year Commo-
dore E. B. Torrey, 81; treasurer, w. A.
Moody, 80; assistant treasurer, IL. l.. Shaw
So; directors, E. F. Moulton, 81, c. w.
futile, 81, d. NJ. Cole, IS.
HANCOCK.
Mr. Richard z. Buck and daughter have
purchased the peabody lot at the corner of
Main and School streets, Bucksport as a site
for the erection of library building, which
will be presented TO the town upon its COM
pletion for the use of the social library,
tabllsed many years ago, reports the Ameri
can.
kENNEBEC.
G. w. Heselton of Gardiner estimated that
he would get crop of cranberries, this fall
of from ten to fifteen bushels. He sent a
party out to pick them last Friday, but some
party unknown had saved him the trouble
and gathered the whole of them.
Fred Belledeaux, of Rochester, was arrested
at Waterville, Wednesday night, charged
with breaking and entering the Boston &
Maine railroad depot IN Rocheater recently
and stealing railroad tickets. He was
arraigned in the Rochester police court,
Thursday afternoon and committed to the
county Jail in default of 81 900 bonds for
appearance at the Supreme court.
An Argus correspondent tells story of a
veiled mysterious woman who has been sent
to jail tor thirty days for vagrancy by the
Hallowell Police Judge She was suspected
| Of meditating an attempt to kidnap q lad,
relative of Hon. j. X. Bodwell. She begged
at various houses and kept closely yelled
| She says her name is Ella Bracket. From
the Argus story one could judge the woman
| to be victim of opium or alcohol. Hell
movements in Hallowell are said to have
caused good deal of suspicion and alarm
She protested with great cutlery against being
jailed.
The Rockland Water Co. Offer large reduc
tions in rates, driven by the new public work.
which are now approaching completion. The
| Free Press says not share of the RocklanC
Water Company stock can be sold in the
market at any price worth mentioning.
PENoBsCoT.
The proprietors of the cottages at Maple
|
ult., together with other citizens of Newport
and after thorough discussion of the ques
ton, changed the name of Newport Pond
that 1t may hereafter be known as LAX,
SebasIicook, says the Pittsfield Advertiser.
An excitement was raised IN Lowell, las
week, by the finding of forty stolen hides il
the woodslbelow the tannery buildings, say
the Dexter Gazette. The hides have beer
missed for over year, at odd times, and NJ
clue to them found. After the night watct
discovered these, as he was out cunning.
watch was set on them to see who tool
them away. The chaps, grown bold by Ion.
immunity, soon made their appearance ant
began operations. The watch fred on them
but not before they were identified. They
escaped. and are now at large with their gum
in the woods. The officer refused to arres
them until warrant was procured so the,
are running and the sheriff hunting. Or
their premises were found evidences of larg,
numbers of the same brand of hides having
been manufactured. Tie two young mer
are moccasin makers, and pursue the trade
diligently.
WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Samuel Dinsmore, of Charlotte, re
ports seeing deer feeding in an open feel,
near his place, one day recently.
After long season of watching for an,
signs of the body of Capt. Costello, who wa
drownad at the entrance of Webhannet rive
in June last. the bones of the unfortunate
man we're found last Saturday, the Goth
nearly a half mile from the place of the acct
dent, by lady by the name of LoveJoy, o
Lowell. Mass. The remains we're identifie,
by some of the clothing; funeral service
were held at his late residence; the Rev. Mr.
Sewell, of York, officiating, Tuesday after
noon, which were attended by large circl
of friends.
Charles Faulkner,s house at Steuben, wa
burned last Saturday night. 1t was the worl
of an incendiary. An unsuccessful attemp
was made to burn the same house the previ
Gus night. At these repeated attempts a
arson, which have been continued for sever
al days, the people of Steuben are, as ma
well be supposed, wrought up to fever hea
saws the Ellsworth American.
1t is claimed that the fish business in St
John, n. B., is growing to enormous proper
tons at the expense of Eastport and othe
eastern Maine towns. The standard say
Mr. Young who now receives about $50, 90
pounds of paddock weekly, the other fish il
proportion and who expects to more thai
double the business by the first of mex
month was at one time engaged in the bust
ness on this side of the line, but was oblige,
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