Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-02
State News.
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ASDROSCOGGIN.
number of Lewiston gentlemen are abon.
to organize in Lewiston q society for preyen-
ton of cruelty to animals. Copies of the
constitution and bylaws of the society have
been secured from Portland. A petition
very generally s,gaei has been made and pre-
sented to Justice of Peac. for q warrant to
call meeting for the organiz alton of such a
society.
OXFORD.
An Oxford man, having purchased COW.
promptly returned her because she had no
teeth in the upper jaw. He thought she was
too old to be of any value to him.
PESoBscoT.
The hop pole business on the line of the
Bangor and Piscataquis is booming. There
were "a many as Is carloads to leave the road
for Western New York last week.
The Commercial SAYS: few DAYS ago
twenty of the prisoners in the county Jail re-
fused to go into the shop to work, but Mr..
Braodon, the guard, after Considerable
trouble compelled them 10 go to work as usual.
After getting into the shop there was further
trouble, and Mr. Brsgdon took the ringls ad-
er, man by the name of Hart, back into the
Jail and placed him in the dungeon. Another
prisoner, named Jordan. was placed in the
dungeon. Hart resisted. but was overcome
by the officers
SOMERSET.
The Island Avenue Congregational church
of Skowhegsn celebrated its centennial ami
versary last Wednesday. The church i. the old
est IN Somerset county, having been organ
lied in 1885. The first meeting house was
built in 1888, the second one in 1925, and the
third and present one in 1862. Nine min
listers have served the church in this
time, including the present pastor, Rev. A.
j. Rackliff. who entered upon his work in
1882.
! As Mrs. Bernard Thornton WAS walking
along the street. in Biddeford recently
with her eight-year- old child and . man
named Berry, her husband, with whom she
had not lived for some time, drove by. He
jumped from the sleigh, seized the child and
attempted to make off with it. Mrs. Thorn
ton and Berry both made dash for the team.
After short but exciting struggle the mother
succeeded in reg,ining her child
! The Journal reports much suffering among
the poor of Biddeford, this winter. From
thirty to fifty applications for help are ma de
to the overseers of the poor, weekly. The
greatest amount of the suffering is among the
The produce firm of ID. F. Littlefield Co.
of Saco is sending large quantities of apples
| to the English market. Since the season
opened the firm has shipped from 300 to 700
barrels week and last week it sent away
over 700 barrels.
WALDO
| II. w. Colson, formerly of Stockton, has
been before the police court at Somervlle,
Mass, charged with obtaining goods under
false pretense, and for conspiracy to defraud
the public generally. says the Belfast Jour
nal. 1t 10 alleged he was conducting business
under the name of NJ. A. Burbank & Co. He
was held in $1,000 bail which he could not
procure. The case has gone to the Grand
Jury.
| WASHINGTON,
The largest vessel ever built in Machias 10
all ready to launch. 1t is the three-mssted
schooner Gen. s. E. Merwin. Her actual
measurements are as follows Length over
all, 1873 feet; keel, 1853 beam, sc feet; depth
of bold, Is feet. She is registered at 69S
tons burden, rated A for IA years to the
American Ship Owners Association.
! Last Monday morning at Midtown small
boy found the body of baby half frozen in
the ice underneath barn, says the Calais
Advertiser. The marshal placed it in the
tomb, where it awaits investigation.