Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-14
State News.
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ANDRoscoGGIN.
The Lewiston and Auburn Electric Light
Company Is making arrangements rapidly for
the introduction of incandescent electric lights
4 into the city,
Mr.. F. Z. Carpenter Of East Bethel, who
now languishes in Auburn Jail, was the author
OF the famous hair-lifting romance concerning
the discovery of human bones in an old house
IN Bethel. Mr. Carpenter it will be remem-
hered exhibited the bones and hair in a collar
box and one family in Lewiston mourned
over them for some time as possibly clue TO
/ long lost brother. They were decided TO be
sheep bones .-JourHal.
| ARoosrooK.
| Ii is the impression among Bangor railroad
men that the Northern Aroostook Railroad
from Bancroft to Houlton will be built this
summer. If the road is built il would not
! cost over Sl3, 900 a mile Ii will be nearly
40 miles long. 1t Will be of great advantage
10 the New Brunswick Railway Co., which
by using il, will be able to save so miles on
coarse freight, such as bark and lumber,
which II now has TO haul over 100 miles by a
roundabout route
CUMBERLAND.
/ The Argus says The great interest taken
IN sporting matters in this city and State the
past year, and the cheering prospects for the
coming season, has encouraged two of our
young and enterprising typos to enter the
Journalistic field with publication TO be called
the Maine Sportsman. The paper will be
devoted TO careful review of the sporting
events OF the week in the city, State, and
country, together with the latest news of flu
ture happenings. Particular attention will
t hl OIL m has bal AMI Al,
our local nine, as well as the other clubs in
the Eastern New England League, will be
| closely followed. The editors are W. H.
Greene and w. H. Mcdonald, and
if the demand for such sheet
proves as great as anticipated by them,
they will doubtless make an interesting paper.
The first number will be issued next Satur-
day.
HANCOCK
Mr.. Joseph Jameson employed in j. II.
Stimson's granite quarry, West Sullivan, re-
ceived severe injuries Thursday by prema-
ture discharge of powder. One of his legs
was pierced by an iron half-round and both
bones broken so that amputation at one time
seemed necessary. Severed other injuries
were inflicted
kENNEBEC.
Age in his report of the sad accident at Fl. W.
Jewett & Co.'S mill last week closes as fol-
lows: "Mr. Jewett. with his well known
characteristic benevolence, paid all the funer-
al expenses and the car fare to Waterville,
where the remains are to be inferred DR..
Tnrner has been their family physician and
gives his bill receipted TO the amount OF S22.-
80. The mills crew contributed S35 90, and
contribution was taken up in Pittston and
Gardiner for the benefit of the family"
KNOX.
Judge o. g. Hall of Rockland and w. 0.
Fuller, junior editor of the Rockland Courier
Gazette, have engaged passage on the Inman
| steamship City of Chester, which sails MAY
7th for trip abroad. They will make a
thorough tour of the British Isles and Paris.
with trip to the Rhine country, expecting to
be from home about four months.
LINCOLN
The town of Friendship will soon become
noted for the amount of shelled CLANS that
are annually cured there for fish bait saws
the Lincoln News SchoOners Henry Morn
ing Light and others. have gone to Portland
this week, with four hundred barrels of clans
and there have been three or four other
large fishing schooners in our harbor this
week, buying sailed clans to take with them
to the fishing banks, buying about one hun
dred barrels to a fishing schooner And there
are yet hundred barrels unsold
PENoBsCoT.
The positions of the PLAYERS on the State
| College base ball nine have been definitely
decided upon and are as follows: HULL, So
! captain and catcher; Ruth, 81, pitcher; Ray
SO, short stop; Mason, 81 first base: r gers.
IS, second base; Drew. 'SS. third base; Vose
81, left field; Dole, 80, center field; Bur
leigh 81, right field. The average weight
OF the nine is over 100 pounds Their first
league game is with Bowdoin, at Orono,
MAY 18th.
There are large number of woodsmen at
Oldtown waiting for the log driving season to
! open.
PIsCATAQUIs.
Parker & Co. of the Milo spool factory.
have cut, this winter, at WillmaEtic about
1900 cords of white birch snd 2OOO cords of
poplar which they will drive to Milo and man.
ufacture into spool stock and excelsior. for
which they have a number of orders
SAGADAHoC
The Eastern Steamboat Co. advertise to
commence running boats from Bath to Booth
bav, direct, this week, as it is thought the ice
will break up in Back river in the meantime.
SOMERSET.
Six Young persons were baptised and re-
ceived into the Congregational church at Mad
ison, Sunday, reports the Christian Mirror.
Says the Lewiston Journal; The sub
scription for the new mill at Madison, has
over $500 subscribed.
WASHINGTON
The Eastport Standard says: As a duty
will be imposed on fish, after July. the Grand
Manan fishermen intend to bring their smoked
herring over here in June and store them
until the trade opens in the fail.
Capt. John Shackford, formerly of
Eastport, has no occasion to fret about the
distribution of the offices, says the Standard
He is commander of Jay Gouds yacht, and
besides having fine room on board, large
library and the best that the market can af-
ford, to eat and drink, he receives salary
of $1,000 a wear, for sailing around on
pleasure trips.
YORK.
The tower at Old Orchard was not wholly
destroyed by fire, as stated Saturday, says
the Argus. The two lower stories of the
tower and the ell adjoining were but little in
jured by fire, and as they were unplaste red,
the water was not very destructive Mrs
Smart is said to claim that all her house
keeping goods and many valuabes were
stored in the second story of the tower The
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