Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-08
State News.
MALICIOUS MIscHIEF-TKRRIfIc STORM
BoDr ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ATTEMPT
AT BURGLARY.
AyDROsCOGGN.


was burned fat.
The werk of some malicious scamp has
been seen within a few DAYS in Danville. re-
sulting in the death of valuable yearling
colt shot in the field of Samuel Robinson in
that place. In Mr. Robinssn's field are eight
or nine colts and six or seven head of cattle
Mr.. Robinson went out into his field one day
last week and found the dead colt with bull
let hole over his eye and his body hardly
cold. The miscreant who did the deed is not
known. Monday morning. it was reported
that two colts and a heifer hal been also shot
10 the same field.
ARoosTooK. Bile
Limestone is happy in having no paupers.
There is q rebate on all taxes, on account
of school property. VARYING in the several
districts in Presaue Isle, from two-ffths of
one mill on the dollar valuation. to seven
mills, according TO the value of school-houses
and lots in each The valuation of the town
is s55l,5l2 The village corporation pays
one-third of the entire tax of the town.
Work on the new bridge across the Aroos-
took river at Presque Isle, is progressing sat.
isfactorily under the superintendent of Mr..
+. B. Smith. The two inside piers are to be
raised two feet higher than the old ones. The
whole structure is to be higher than before.
and to be built browning" that is, arching
up to the centre from either end.
CUMBERLAND.
The little son of Patrick Connell, of Sac
carsppa, who was scalded about 10 weeks ago
by CANADIAN with whom he was at work in
the mill, died last week, having fingered
along up to this time suffering the most in
tense agony. He has eaten nothing for six
weeks, but has lived solely upon drink.
The Portland & Rochester has declared a
semi-annual dividend of 50 share, PAYABLE
on and after July 18th.
Mrs. Raymond (Annie Louise Cary has
given the Maine General Hospital $3.50 to
renew for year the free bed maintained BY
her.
James Madison, aged eight years, was run
over by :. horse, Thursday, and received a
dangerous wound in the head.
Mrs. C. NJ. Osmand of Portland, WAS hit
and badly injured, Friday, BY a ball thrown
by one of two men who were PLAYING in the
street.
The tenth annual temperance camp-meet-
ing at Sebago Lake. will take place Saturday
and Sunday, July 25th and Goth.
HANCOCK.
1t is announced that Mrs. Charles B.
Pineo, nee Flora Rodck, has refused an of
fer of $50 600 for Bar Island. that contains,
perhaps, l5O acres. $1,000 per acre. Ten or
fifteen years ago $1,000 would have bought
the entire Island, house, barns and all.
Mr.. George Dunton.s Bangor fruit hawker
who went to Ellsworth to sell his goods on
Saturday, was arrested, and after being i'm
prsoned two hours was released. He saws
that he will sue the city OF Ellsworth for
damages.
Work has begun in good earnest at the
Brooklyn sardine factory after the long idle
ness. The employees have been working day
and night for the past week.
10 regard to the injunction which citizens
of Bar Harbor have moved on the electric
station at that place, on account of the disa-
greesbe noise, Judge Peters has decided that
they cannot cause its location to be changed
on those grounds if the company provide a
means of removing the sound. They will
therefore introduce steam tanks in connec-
ton with the exhaust pipe which causes a
noisless escape.
at East Buehill was sold at auction recently,
to John f. DonnelI, OF Portland, for twenty
one thousand dollars.
Quite violent earthquake shock was felt
in the vicinity of Brooksville on Friday
afternoon last, shaking up dishes and caus-
ing other disturbances.
LINCOLN.
The Squirrel Island Squid. one of the old
est vacation papers of the State. makes its
first appearance for the season Eext Saturday.
OXFORD
Geo. F. Andrews of NORWAY has been hav-
ing hard luck according to the Advertiser.
He lost COW valued at $40. thirtv-dollar
4
coat has been recovered
PENoBsCoT.
A bear recently visited the premises of Mr.
Edward Clary and carried off and devoured
SIX sheep and a lamb belonging to him. saws
the Mt Desert Herald Mr.. Elbridge Mann
set trap for him, but when he visited the
spot soon after, the trap WAS found in a
neighborng tree, but the bear had escaped
none the worse for his adventure, with the
exception of one of his feet which he had
left in the trap.
man named Medic. at Midway, injured
his foot so badly in the woods while bark
peeling, as to require amputation of the left
foot and ankle, reports correspondent OF
the Wing.
PISCATAQUIs.
Dennis Ellington of Milo, met with an &C.
cl0eDt AT blUOrO saw mill a Few 0avs ago by
having a slab thrown by one of the saws,
causing a slight fracture of one rib. This is
the second time he has been hit in a similar
manner.
Mr.. Charles f. Edes, of Deep Creek Falls,
W. T., arrived in Foxcroft on Thursday last
on visit to his mother and other relatives.
He was a member of the Sixth Maine Regi-
ment, and this is his first visit to his native
place since his discharge from service in
1865.
The county commissioners of Piscataquis
have contracted with Mr.. Daniel Dexter of
Foxcroft to repair and enlarge the Court
House at Dover, his bid for the same being
Sl0.560.
SAGADAHOC.
Edward Berry of Topshsm, while drawing
in his net recently in the Androscoggin, drew
up what proved to be a dead body, SAYS the
Brunswick Herald. The remains were badly
decomposed.
YORK.
Not long ago burglars made an unsuccess-
full attempt to break open the safe of Mr.
Charles +. Dimmock of Limington. An in
vestigstion showed that their failure was due
to the fact that an account book. which had
been placed between the two doors of the
safe resisted the blows of the hammer
Ar LARGE.
The assets of the Maine State Agricultural
Society are S3l $50; liabilities, s2l,ll5: as
sets over liabilities, Sll, 1856. All the proper