Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-15
State News.
CUMBERLAND.

CUnBERLAxD.
| fresumpsc0t Park, in Deeriup. n tn he
sold 1t auction next Saturday
One day last week, . Mr.. Skillinps of
Steep Falls drove to the blacksmith shop To
nave his horse. which vas smooth shod. fred
Tor winter travel. Finding that it could mot
De done that day he started for home. On
the way the horse slipped, striking heavily
on the front of the head. and died instantly.
II vas found that his neck was broken.
Capt Horace Tolman. pilot of the revenue
steamer Dallas, and his wife, celebrated the
nfueth anniversary of their wedding Satur-
day evening, at Portland.
Last Wednesday in Portland there was
conference OF persons interested in the build
ing OF shore line railroad commencing nj
or near Ferry Village and leading along the
shore front to Bowery Beach or Two Lights.
thence following the shores of Cane Eliza
beth and Scarboro, passing the Atlantic and
hirkwood houses and leading down to the
numerous summer hotels at Black Point in
ocarooro, and within one or two miles of Old
orchard Beach. 1t was decided to formu-
late an organization under the special char
Ter granted by the Legislature last winter.
Inc total value of foreign exports from
Portland, for the week ending Saturday, was
1878, 1864, including $50, $50 feet of lum-
Der. The steamer Dominion, which sailed
Bristol, Eng, Saturday, TOOK a cargo valued
at sl25,72S and 274 cattle.
LINCOLN
A special to the Portland Press saws that
Sunday night the eastern wall of the kiln at
the Birch Point kindling wood factory in
Wiscasset fell with q crash. For the past
ten days there has been q constant addition to
the pile in the kiln and no drawing out, until
at the time of the accident there were one
hundred and twenty tons or eighty cords of
comparatively green wood packed in as it
was by the increased pressure from above
The damage will probably be large.
PENoBscor.
Some time during Friday night a man
named Geo. II. Emerson broke into a house
at Ellsworth, and stole a lot OF clothing which
he packed into box and carried to the depot
there and had it billed by freight to Bangor
He gave his name as Frank Card. As soon
as the theft was discovered, Station Agent
Crane of Ellsw orth, telegrsphed the full par
ticulars and partial description of the man
to the police station in Bangor. Late in the
afternoon Officer Allen was at the Maine
Central depot when man answering to EN-
erson's description, came to find trunk
which was in the baggage room there. By a
clever piece of detective work the officer
succeeded in making Emerson acknowledge
his indemnity and he then went into the freight
shed and recovered the box and clothing.
Emerson was taken to the police station.
The Wing says a man who has a wood
camp up in the woods entertained a fellow
over night recently. In the morning the lat
ter undertook to load revolver, which went
| of and bored the owners finger and lodged
| the bullet in the Others check
WASHINGTON
Last Monday during the storm, schooner
Excelsior of Lubec. Capt. Cousins, while at
Grand Manan, with part of a load OF fish
| for Kelly Bros. of Eastport, consisting of
about ton of frozen cod fish and 1000 frozen
herring, upset and sank in IS feet of water
The fish were of course lost but the Captain
hopes to be able to raise the vessel
The new schooner Christina Ellsworth,
met with disaster last Thursday at Penn
broke. The schooner was loaded with iron
bound for Boston. In getting out of the
river. she ran upon the ledge, breaking two
large holes in the hull and Immediately fill
| ing with water. The cargo had to be re-
moved
An effort is being made in Calais to turn
the rink into a shoe factory.
| This is said to be the hardest season for
the Passamaquoddy Indians at Peter Dana's
Point that they have experienced in many
years. The squaws find slow market for
their baskets, and the industry of building
. canoes is failing on account of the long dis
lance from which birch bark must now be
| conveyed. There is much sickness in the
tribe, and many families are suffering for
food.-Cala1s Times
YORK.
Biddeford man pulled of his wool boot
so energetically the other night, that he frac-
tured one of the small bones of the foot.
A Saco butcher was quite severely hurt by
an ugly boar which he attempted to slaugh-
ter, last Saturday. The beast wounded him
with his tusks and finally tossed him (the
butcher weighs 250 pounds) out of the pen,
over a wall three feet high.