Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-27
State News.
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| Hhe first dandelion has been heard from
Il vas in Lewiston and was picked Wednes-
day morning, in the yard of the Lewiston
Machine Co.
The Pest Office department has increased
the mail service for the North Lirermore
post office, by giving thar office an additional
trip to Livermore Falls every Monday morn
ing--to commence April lst- This enables
the patrons of that office TO send out mail
matter Monday morning so as TO connect with
the morning train for Lewiston and the West.
| The liquor agencies of both Lewiston and
Auburn seem 10 be bright and shining points
at which numerous aspirants in both cities
are aiming Each city has four or five can
/ didates.
! W l.. Eldridge of Auburn, who is super
| intending the making of the gsvel for the
National Encampment at Portland, will have
piece of the apple tree under which Lee
surrendered. TO insert. The relic is presen-
ted by friend in Kansas.
| The Lewiston police are looking for one
William Clayton Jones. q mill hand, who
disappeared from that city day or two since.
| He left his trunk and clothes at his boarding
place, taking only a razor without its case.
! His friends are anxious about him. as he has
seemed unsettled in mind for a short time
| past.
I The annual return of the wild animal in
| Sabatis is announced He is sand 10 be late,
but man who saw him Monday night, says
that his eyes gared more iendishly than ever.
and that By the Pickering light OF the moon
his teeth were seen TO be crashing hungrily.
| II is said that Sabatis will turn out TO cap
I ture the varmint.
| ARoosrooK.
Mr.. Estes, associate principal of Houlton
Academy. was injured in the face and one
eve by an explosion which occurred in per-
forming chemical experiments on Monday
evening Fortunately the eve was not so
| badly injured as was at first feared, and there
is prospect OF speedy recovery.
PESoBscoI
| When the Maine Central train reached
Bangor, one night recently, mail bag was
found on the truck frame of the car. 1t
proved TO be one ~hich was thrown out at
Hermon Centre where the train did not stop
that night. and when it struck the ground.
rebounded and landed on the truck frame of
the car and rode into Bangor, a distance of
seven miles.
| George Davis, who committed the robbery
in the hospital at Portland, went there from
Bangor.
! SOMERSET.
| The young men of Skowhegan met March
oath and organized Reform Club by choos-
ing the following officers: l. +. Merrill,
President; F. A. Thompson, LIST. Vice Pres.
r. W. Morrill, Sec. and Treas. Motion was
made and sustained that the Club stand by
each other, to see that order is maintained
and to discou ntenance the use of tobacco in
the meetings.
Parties are soliciting stock for new
woolen mill to be erected At East Madison.
! Over 81 900 have already been subscribed.
The Odd Fellows lodge organized at Nor
ridgewock last week has been christened
"Quinnebasset. No. l09." They talk of
erecting building for their use, which be-
sides shall contain large town hall, a thing
much needed in that place.
The wooden mill of A. Linn, at Hartland
has resumed work on full time.
At the recent town meeting of st. Albans,
5000 was appropriated for the arrest and trial
of J. NJ. Skinner its defaulting seectman,
who decamped so suddenly sometime ago.
The Somerset Reporter learns that sur
vey for q railroad from Monson station in the
town of Abbott to Athens village will be
made as soon as the snow leaves. The
owners of the slate qnarries at Monson are
determined to find shorter line to market
than that over which their slate now goes.
YORK.
medical department of the Columbian Univer-
sity. Washington, ID. c., Eugene Goodwin
son of Thomas J. Goodwin, formerly of Bid
deford, bore away the first prize, $50, having
the highest marks for proficiency in his med
ical studies.
A Frenchmau living in Biddeford and en-
ployed in the Pepperell Mills, was struck in
the left eye by a cotton hook the other day
The point of the hook passed through the ball
of the eye DESTROYING the sight, and came ut
on the side of the face.
lions Advocate says the Baptist church in
Limerick has voted unanimously not to &C
cept the resignation Of the pastor. Rev. J.
n. w. Dick, and at the urgent request of his
people he will remain. He accordingly de-
clines the recent call to China.
AT LARGE.
Hon. John L. Cutler of Bangor sold forty
millions of Maine shingles, last year Mr.
Cutler handles not only the product of his
own mill, situated away up on the line of the
New Brunswick railroad, but of a large
number of other northern Maine mills. He
said recently: MAINE shingles are sold in
limited territory. For instance, in Worces-
ter, Mass, they use Maine shingles-l6
inches long; but in Springfield, 30 miles dis
: tant, they won't have them, preferring the
, Western shinele, which is is inches long.
In Nashna, n. H.. they use the Maine shin
gle, but in Manchester you can't sell one.
They use the lS-inch shingle altogether. In
Philadelphia. they use cypress shingles, 20
to "a inches long. The Queen Anne craze
in architecture has made large demand for
new brand of shingles-sawed all one
width, of which millions have been made in
) Maine, the past year
1t has been decided to keep the steamer
City of Richmond on her present route be-
tween Portland ami Esstport, until April
Both. She will then be placed on the route
between Portland and Machissport, making
two trips week, leaving Portland every
Tuesday and Friday at II 10 P. NJ, arriving
at Machiasport the succeeding evenings at
O'Clock