Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-08
State News.
HoULroN WArERwoRKs CoMPLErEp.-THE
WORK OF BURGLaRs.-NARRow ESCAPE
FROM DRowS1SG.-BREAKING THE GAME
LAWS
ASDRoSCoGGIN.

ASDROSC0GGlS.
An old. decripit msn. past 20 years of age
and with bent form, is one of the earlies
risers in Lewiston. The officers on the nigh
watch on the streets often meet him. H,
| makes il a business TO collect cigar stubs
Officer Marshal stopped him Monday morn
ing about o'clock. The man had abou
twenty water-.oaked cigar Stubs in his
| pocket. He is a French Canadian, and coult
talk no English.
Ellie Boardman. of Lewiston. was run ovel
by a team while she was crossing the street
Tuesday noon. A physician who was close
al hand, said that he couldn't tell at that time
how severely the little girl was hurt. She
was carried into John Harper's house near
| by.
ARoosTooK.
The seven-year old son of Mr.. Orrin Bow
ers, of Eas;on, by catching hold of a rope
which was being pulled through a snatch
block attached to the barn floor, lost two fin
gers and fractured his arm near tue elbow
says the Pioneer.
The contractors commenced filling the
mains of the Houton Water Company. on
Monday afternoon, using for that purpose the
boiler iced pump only, as precaution against
accumulation of air in the pipes. This work
was finished on Saturday, when the larger
pumps We're started up TO ill the stand-pipe
and insugurate the regular pumping service.
CUMBERLAND.
The total value of foreign exports from
Portland last week was S21.5l9.l3
Goldfish exhibited by Loveitt & Co., of
Portland, weighed 10 pounds, and measured
five feet four inches in length.
Nineteen vessels arrived at Portland, last
week, bringing 2.547 barrels of mackerel
There were no arrivals Friday or Saturday
Sergeant Liebman, of the signal service
office, Sunday, saved from drowning small
boy who fell from Portland pier.
Some time Sunday night the store of L. A
Slater at the Ferry slip, Custom House
wharf, was broken into and $40 worth of
cigars, tobacco, candies, etc., stolen.
A marriage recently occurred at Wood
fords, Rev w. +. Berry being the officiating
clergyman, and George S Pitcher and Miss
Patti l.. Fernald the contracting parties. The
girl is said to be only fifteen years of age aud
the man twenty-one. They drove 10 the
minister's in a carriage and the girl Offering
some objection to getting out, they remained
seated in the carriage while the service was
performed. 1t afterward transpired that the
girl had on short dress and she was afraid
the clergyman might suspect her age. Mr.
Pitcher gave his age as twenty-one and the
girls as eighteen when he applied for the
certificate. Mr. Pitcher has returned to his
studies at college.
A building lot on Main street, Bar Harbor
was recently sold tor $4,000 per acre.
The Rev. DR.. Tennev has now been a
clergyman in Ellsworth for more than half a
century.
capped drowning at Bar Harbor. Sunday even
ing. II walk ID off the steamboat wharf in
to the water. and when resc led was more
dead than alive,
In Paris, wild goose has been shot weigh
ing l2t pounds, and measuring in length 81
feet.
PENoBSCOT.
A. j Darling, of Enfield a State fish and
game warden, last week arrested l., ID. Shorey
for setting a net for trout in the waters of
Cold Stream Pond, and brought him before
Trial Justice Hanes, at Passadumkeag, when
he paid the fine and costs. 1t is learned that
there has since been captured in Enfield an
other net 10 feet in length The wardens are
on the war path and the poachers and pot
huters must look out for themselves.
Jack Ryan, the prisoner who escaped from
the county Jail, Monday night of last week,
was recsptured, Monday evening. He was
found in the house of Geo Martin, concealed
under a bed
SOMERSET.
Thursday morning one of two small store
houses belonging to the Jones Corn Packing
Company. at Skowhegan, was burned to the
ground. Loss small.
WAsHINGToN
Col Blunt U. s. engineer announces the
completion of the important work of dredg-
ing and widening the new channel across
Moose a-bec bar, below Jonesport. TO a width
of 200 feet, aud low water depth of fourteen
feet
An elopement is reported to have taken
place last week at Dyer's Bay, SAYS the Steu-
ben correspondent of the Machias Republic
can. The youngest OF the couple is said to
be only IL years of age. The pair left home
under the pretence of making visit to
friends in neighboring town, but instead
took the steamer at Millbridge for parts I'M
known.
The Milbrdge Packing Company has put
up the present season l0, 900 cases of sardines
which have already been placed upon the
market. Last Tuesday, a steamer owned by
the Island Packing Company, brought them
-OU OdrTtIs OI WHICH nave since
been canned.
YORK.
In the town of Dayton there is rock bear
ing the perfect impression of a human foot
1t is very near the locality where Mrs. Little
fields house was burned some time ago. The
spot is known by every resident of the town.
and visitors are continually shown it during
thu summer. 1t has always been known as
the devils track"
Women are everywhere using and recon-
mendng Parker's Tonic because they have