Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-21
State News.
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ARoOsrooK.
About twenty BIDS of different kinds fol
the constructions Of the Houiton water works
nave been received from ~ many differen:
parties by the Board of Directors of the
Works, and are by the latter under consider
alton.
! CUMBERLAND.
The police found on Exchange street the
wallet and papers of Mr.. George Gowen OF
Springvale. who was knocked down and rob-
bed in Portland Monday night, but the
money was gone.
Liverpool, Thursday afternoon. She took
thirty passengers and, among other articles,
10000 bushels of grain and 100 barrels OF
apples.
| The unwilling of the Longfellow bust takes
place in Portland. on the evening of the
poets birthday. Feb 81 Mr. James P. Bax-
ter, Judge Svmonds, Hon. Geo. F. Talbot,
and Prof. F. L. Chapman of Bswdoin will
deliver addresses, and poem written for the
occasion by Mrs. Frances L. Mace of Bangor
will be read.
FRANKLIN.
/ Chester Greenwood & Brother. West
Pennington. have manufactured the past fall
10000 lear p otectors," $4,000 of which
were sold to one party in Dubuque, Iowa.
They are also manufacturing Greenwood
universal lathe Wheel for jewellers,
dentists, etc.
KENSEBEc.
ported in Benton.
A New York chap named Henry Mackey
stole suit Of clothes in Skowhegan. Wed.
nesday, and was arrested in Wateryille the
next evening by Sheriff Hill, taken to Show
hogan, and delivered up. The fellow had the
! suit on beneath an old one.
The annual winter meeting and exhibition
of the Maine State Pathological Society will
be held at the Library Hall in Gardiner,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. "a and %.
! PENoBscor.
The Wing says: Mr.. J. A. PIERCE of Hud
son raised last season 30S bushels on thirteen
acres of clear beans and two acres of beans
planted with corn. He estimates that he
used $50 loads of barn dres sing and one and
a quarter tons of phosphate on his farm. His
other crops were $50 bushels of oats, &C
bushels of corn, 100 bushels of potatoes and
80 tons of hay.
Mr.. +. G. Lunt, formerly tenor in the
Hammond Street church, Bangor, is meet
ing with success as singer in Massachusetts.
SAGADAHoC.
Piings which last fall were driven nearly
twenty feet mo the mud for the purpose OF
keeping the large booms of logs in Whine.
gance creek from blockading the channel,
have been worked out and toppled over
through the united action of the tide and ice
The largest artificial ice pond in Maine is
said to be the one ut Phipsburg Center,
which contains over les acres. and has great
ly improved the geographical appearance OF
that immediate locality.
SOMERSET
The Fairfield journal SAYS: State Consta
BILE Luce, on complaint of Warren Clark
searched the drug store of II. Evans, Sat.
urday. and seized key and demijohn of
whiskey. some gin. seven bottles and a hall
barrel of wine. But the warrant was found
defective. and the liquor was restored tc
Evans. Tuesday, Constable Luce got GU,
another warraDt and seized the same liquor
again. At the second hearing Evans waived
examination, and the case was taken to the
March term of court at Skowhegan.
WASHINGTON.
The PASSPORT Sentinel saws Although the
new lighthouse on Mulholland's Point, Lubec
Narrows, has been completed for more thar
month, the lamp has never been lighted
The structure was recently inspected by an
officer of the Dominion government, who did
not accept it, as it was not finished according
to contract.
The dog poisoner is abroad in Machias.
Within the past few years the egg traffic of
Cherryfield has developed into an important
item Of trade. The shipments for 1884
amounted to 100, 900 dozen.
YORK.
The seven year old daughter of r Firth
of Sanford. while coasting near the Mousam
River mills, "wednesday afternoon, slid into
the river and was drowned.
An effort is being made by the surviving
soldiers of the late war residing in NORTH
Berwick to organize G A. II. Post.
Three Reasons
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