Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-23
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TRANPs' PRAsKs-VEssELs BurLr IN rHx
WALDoBoRo DISTRICT
ANDROsC0GGIN.
Bummers who frequent the corridors Of
Lewiston's city building have hit on \ nev
| scheme for obtaining . small supplv of fire.
water They utilize the small amount of Al
cohol in the gas-lights, and ill up the recep-
tacle III the torch It'll sater.
The Lewiston Journal saws: The trustees
OF the Golf estate of Auburn began Monday
to pay, on the joint paper of Dana and Hor-
ace Cot. final dividend Of twenty three
cents four and q halt mills on the dollar.
The amount distributed is about $50. 900.
Inc total amount. paid on the double-named
paper is seventy-three cents, four and half
mills, per dollar. amounting in all to about
$4,000. Judge Walton, to whom the mat.
ter was referred has aw arded Sl7OO to each
OF the three trustees for their services in
clearing up the estate and $500 to the attor-
neys making $500. in all. All of the prom
erty has been sold, and this dividend finally
closes up the affairs of the estate. The prop
erty Is now owned by large number of pro-
prietors.
CUMBERLAND.
P j. Kelley, 25years DID, operator in the
III.
died Monday of consumption.
Steamer Toronto of the Dominion line.
from Liverpool for Portland, direct, arrived
Tuesday morning, She brought cabin, 80
steerage passengers, and 400 tons of freight
The county commissioners unanim ,uslv
decided to deny the petition of the Peoples
Ferry Company for public landing on Port
land pier.
The Damariscotta Herald reports a good
and increasing religious interest at East JEFF
| ferson.-The somewhat noted case of f. W.
Robinson VS.. Inhabitants of Wiscasset, in
which Hon. F. L Carney was principal, and
which was entered in the S. j. Court in Cum
berland county, passed through our State
courts and taken to the U. S. Supreme Court
on writ of error. has been settled by the
partial payment of the bonds and coupons BY
the defendant town.
PENoBscoT.
The Boston Herald reports Chas R. Leavitt,
carpenter and builder, of Oldtown as insol-
vent. The creditors are offered ten cents on
the dollar.
Mr. j. A. C. Mason, an elderly gentleman
of Bangor, was knocked down by horse
driven very rapidly through the streets, and
one or two ribs crushed in.
WALDO.
| John Reeves of Northport committed sui.
eide, at the hotel in Belfast, Saturday night
by shooting Cause. ill health and despon-
dency. He was fifty years old or more
/ WASHINGTON.
The Eastport Sentinel hears of "frozen
herring combination" including nearly all the
principal fish dealers in Gloucester, Boston
and New York, the object of which is to
freeze out the small dealers and shippers in
Eastport and vicinity who have always been
engaged in the business. The first shipments
of frozen herring were made from Ea.tport
last week. between four and FIVE hundred
barrels were shipped Monday the steame,
New Brunswick took upwards of 1000 bar.
rels.
| Twenty-Five men and twenty-one horses
on their way to logging camps of Tracy
Love, near Mt. Katahdin. passed through
Houlton Thursday of last week They
we're all from St. Stephen aud Calais. Tracy
& Loves force altogether will number l2O
horses and 800 men. They expect to haul
into Wassataquoik stream the coming winter
100000 feet of logs With the crew were
several ladies, and cabinet organ. Mr.
Tracy has camp fitted up in kingly style
and in it his family expect to pass q pleasant
winter.
y, Mr.. Henry Best's house at Robbinston was
burned to the ground, recently. leaving the
inmates only time to put on their clothes
and save a part of their bed clothes and a
few articles of furniture, says the Eastporl
| Sentinel.
| YORK.
| A drunken row occurred Sunday morning
in Sanford, in which one man was quite
severely pounded and rendered insensible.
| Mrs. Margaret Edgcomb of North Parsons
field died Sunday, at the age of l04. She
was born in Kennebunkport, Aug. II. 1881.
Two well dressed tramps broke into the
grocery store of Lincoln Littlefield, at Ogun-
quit, Saturday night about half past ten
o'clock but were frightened away before they
had chance to take anything. They were
seen by several during the evening and were
met by some persons about eight o'clock
headed towards York. They afterwards
stole the horse and sleigh of Mr.. Peletiah
Perkins of Cape Neddick. Biddeford Jour.
nal.
| Ar LARGE.
The following vessels were built in the
district of Waldoboro in 1885: Bark Isaac
Dodge, at Damariscotta, 5l4 So tons; schoon-
ers J. NJ. Haynes, at Waldoboro. 1868
Maggie S. Hart, at do, 645 10; Jose Olaverri,
at Rockland, 62S.65; William J. Lermond, at
| Thomaston, S43 30; Flossie, at do. 1881.
Total tonnage, 3,4l6.25. Only one vessel
has been built this year in the Frenchman's
Bay district-the schooner Lizzie May, Al
tons, built at Gouldsboro.
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