Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-10
ASpROSCoGGIN.

Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. H ". Hale. who are
labsring as missionaries in Shusvgyeen. Bur
NAH, write home to friends in South Leeds
very encouraging reports of their lsbors.
| Under recent date they report several bap-
tisms, with more requesting baptism. Rev.
ID. Smith and wife have recently become as
ISOLATED with them in the work.
Monday evening an Auburn boy, named
| Howard Burr. son of Charles Burr, was
driving a team along Pleasant street. A
swapping dog darted OUT from the wsyside
ard jumped beneath the horses feet, startled
him into run. The horse became unman-
ageable and in bis flight down the street coll
lided with loaded team belonging to
Mr.. Robbie of Auburn. Tue boy was thrown
out. but clung manfully 10 the refine and " as
dragged score of rods up the street. The
carriage was demolished and had TO be left
BY the roadside. The boy escaped mirscu-
lousy, with only few bruises.
ARoosrooK.
! Tramps or thieves recently entered the
cellar OF Mr. Daniel Harrington, at Bridge
water, from which they stole tub of butter
and some other provisions. They then en-
tered the house of c. p. Church and re-
leved that family of similar articles; thence
proceeding to neighbOring unoccupied
house where they cooked dinner and ate it.
! The County Commissioners viewed the
projected road from Farnham's mil to Por-
tage Lake last SATURDAY., and concluded that
they would not be justified in laying out
such road
Mr.. S. W. Stratton, of Washburn, fell
from his hay NOV a few days ago, distance
of some twenty feet TO the barn floor, striking
on his side. He was considerably shaken up
and badly hurt.
al -; in
Johnson Phairs mill, at Washburn, sawed
4l2 900 shingles, and it wasn't much OF q
week for shingles. either. For the year end
ing September Both, there has been sawed in
tins mill Is, 440, 900 shingles.
| Sam Tompkins, of Washburn, was arrest
ed Sunday for openly peddling liquor from
door to door. He was fined 500 and APP
pealed.
CUMBERLAND.
The store of Osgood & Dunn at Cumber-
| land Centre, was entered by burglars at the
front door on the night of Tuesday the 9th
inst The safe was blown open and about
three hundred dollars were taken.
kENNEBEC.
| The Grand Army building at South China
is fast approaching completion. 1t is 60x4o
feet, making commodious hall and two sto-
ries high. 1t is an ornament to the village
and shows the Post is up and doing.
| Capt, Isaac W. Sherman has purchased a
part of the new ship Frederick Billings, and
has gone to New York to take command of
her as master. She is being loaded with
kerosene for Yokahamma.
On her last trip to Boston the steamer
Katahdin ran into the largest school of mack
erel Oft Monhegan which has been heard of
for years. IT extended for miles, and those
who viewed the sight considered it the most
wonderful which they had ever seen.
PENoBsCoT.
Cal. Turner has crew of 60 men and 20
horses varding logs at Richardson Lake for
| +. S. Coe of Bangor. State Fair week they
had eight inches of snow, and it was easy
slipping in the woods.
Mr.. L. l.. Brag ion, Bangor blacksmith
was kicked by horse that he was shoeing,
Wednesday forenoon, knocked down, and 1t
is thought that he was badly injured Internal
ly.
One OF the most respected citizens of Still
water-Rev. NJ. II. Matthews--died recently
after a long and severe illness. Mr.. Mat
thews was widely known in Eastern Maine,
and was a retired member of the Methodist
Conference.
As MIR. Fred Merrill, of Bangor, was fell
ing a large tree on Tuesday, carriage con-
| tanning lady and gentleman from Winter
port, drove by just as the tree was falling.
The lady, whose name is not known, was
struck by the branches and quite seriously
injured.
PISCATAQUIs.
There will soon be erected at the spool
works a drying shed about 400 feet in length.
they have recently added TWO new spool
finishers to their works.
A little son of Mr.. Nelson, who carries on
a farm at Sand Bar Moosehead Lake, met
with a severe accident recently. He was
sliding on sled load of grain, which was
supported by pointed stakes, and in some way
ran one of the stakes into the fleshy part OF
his thigh, making a wound that required sew
eral stitches to close. At last accounts he
was doing nicely.
The students of Foxcroft Academy recently
called on Mr.. and Mrs. X. E. Donnell and
receiver and two napkin rings as tokens OF
their esteem.
! SAGADAHOC.
The large saw mill of NJ G. Shaw & Sons,
at Bath, will close for the season in about
two weeks. Seventy men are employed al
the MILL which has been in operation three
years. and previous to this has not finished
the seasons work until December The early
closing is caused by a scarcity of logs.
Kennebeckers interested in shipping are
gratiied at the Improvement in Pacific
freight; and most of the Kennebec ships are
engaged in the San Francisco trade. A repre-
sentative of one firm owning eleven vessels
saws that seven of them load for San Fran
cisco altogether, and are now, for the first
time in year, doing good business.
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