Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-29
State News.
THREE MEN PROBABLY DRowNEp-GRaNeE
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ANpROSCOGGIN.

ANDRoscoGGrN.
| Hon. Rufus Prince of South Turner has
put 600 barrels of apples into his cellar this
fall.
The Lewiston Journal states that Mr..
/ Chas. Hebbard planted a great quantity of
Russian sun-ho~ers the past season, and in
gathering the seeds recently, obtained from
eigh: flowers a rounded peck of seeds
The wood turning, lesther5oard and pulp
mills at Livermore Falls. which have been
shut down for repairs, are nov in operation
| The whole of the G0ff estate IN Lewiston
has at last been disposed of by the trustees.
1 The amount realized from the joint estates
OF Dana and Horace Goff is about 20 cents on
the dollar-not quite so much as was sntiei-
pated.
ARoosrooK.
On Monday evening, the 18TH
three men started from the vicinity of Orient
in boat for point on North Lake, where
game OF rattle was 10 take place. The boat
in which they embarked was subsequently,
found minus the men, but containing a cat.
several chickens and a number of bottles
supposed to contain whskey. Ii is inferred
that the latter article led TO a scuffie or quarrel
amene the three men, resulting in their being
Auochtu oSerOodru anu drowned. NO trace
of the missing men had been discovered UP 10
Thursday. when some twenty men were en-
gagged in dragging the lake Two of the &C.
cupants of the boat hailed from ST. John. the
third residing across the boundary line from
/ Orient. One OF the unfortunate men, il is
learned. leaves widow and several children
In reduced circumstances.-HoHl Pioneer.
CUMBERLAND.
/ plaaSan, n
~ finished itself a new hall. Ii is 25x50 feet
and has hard wood floor.
The Henderson Gold Mining Co.. has re-
Gently been organized at Portland Capital
stock. Sl25, 900; paid in, SO 900; par value of
shares, $500; president, VIM. F. Knowles
Somerville, Mass: treasurer, VIM. H. FLOYD,
Boston. Business TO be prosecuted, mining,
treating and selling ores.
HANCOCK.
Lamoine has a large and wide-awake
grange. 1t numbers at present $50 members.
II. s Bartlett is Master. and Mrs. n B.
Coleridge, Secretary.
i Miss Marv Agnes Tinckner of Ellswo ORTIZ
the author of "Signor Monaldini's Niece" is
spending the autumn at the quaint little tow
of Assisse, Italy.
As an illustration of the large business
done in lime in our State. on Sunday, Oct
25th, thirteen vessels arrived in New York
with lime from Rockland and three from
Thomaston, making total of sixteen in one
day. This gives some idea of the immensely
of this Maine industry.
The house and stable at Rockand owned
bv the estate of the late Allen Bowler and
occupied by Eugene Bowler were burned at
l O'Clock Sunday morning. The contents of
the stable including a horse and COW, were
burned. Insured. The FIRE was probably of
incendiary origin,
LINCOLN.
Mr.. G. W. Clary. of Turner's Corner,
North Whitfield, raj ell this year, from
one seed, l65 lbs. of pumpkins.
Steamer Samoset is being put in condition
for the winter route between Wiscasset and
Boothbay, by having her deck recaked and
her upper works reprinted.
OXFORD.
Z M. Howard of East Peru, raised four
hundred pounds of cabbage heads on piece
of ground 22x23 feet, also an English turnip
measuring % feet around.
PENoBsCOr.
During the week ending Monday Oct
26th, there arrived in Bangor by vessels,
1852 tons of coal, l3, 900 bushels of corn and
5000 bushels of oats.
A curiosity in the line of vegetable growth
is turnip to be seen at the Bangor House
The seed fell within the ring of horseshoe
and inside Of this the root grew up 1t entire
ly filled the shoe and grew around it embed
ding the iron an inch deep. Thus collared
it is a peculiar looking turnip.
SAGADAHoc.
Edward F. Dyer, carpenter at the New
England Company's yard, in Bath. fell into a
hold Of four masted schooner, Monday fore
noon. a distance of eighteen feet. In falling
he struck large timber and before striking
the bottom revolved around several
times. He was unconscious when taken up
Two ribs were broken and he was badly
bruised Mr. Dyer is nearly sixty years old
and the accident will cause him to remain in
the house several months. Several years ago
he received a similar fall and broke several
ribs
WASHINGTON.
A correspondent of the Calas Times counts
within twenty miles of Calais thirteen streams
formerly turning wheels for lumber mills,
that are now abandoned This fact is an in
dicaton of the inroads that have been made
on our timber lands. The correspondent W no
seems to be we'll informed, states that FIRE is
very great destroyer of our forests, and
estimates that in tract of $50 900 acres on
the st. Croix waters, over 200, 900 acres have
burned over. An enormous waste.
YORK.
Two New York ladies, staying at one of the
cottages, were all that were left of Old Or
chard's summer visitors, Wednesday.
A Saco gentleman owns a dog that is fond
of going out on hunting expeditions Of his
own. The other day, quite early in the
morning the dog was found sitting on the
door step, with a fine plump partridge which
he had captured.
The death is reported in Traverse City,
Mich, of Mr.. Joseph Milliken, a native OF
Scarboro, and some time resident of Bidde-
ford
News comes from Pittsburg, Pa, of the
arrest for dcfraudng by false pretenses of one
John II Ellis of Boston but formerly we'll
known in Biideford.
For lame back, side or chest, use Shiloh's
Porous Plaster. Price % cents. Sold by
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