Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-28
State News.
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The Bates and old Lewiston High school
| nine played Saturday on the college grounds.
the game resulting in victory for the school
nine by score of TO 8.
Some beautifully bright and fresh Nav
flower buds and leaves. picked BY an Auburn
lady, were shown to the Lewiston Journal on
Monday
Evening schools have opened in Lewiston.
with q large attendance.
On the noon train into the upper Maine
Central depot, Monday, q portion Of the ma
chinery Of the locomotive broke and let out
the steam, stopping the engine slowly u short
distance out of the station. Many of the
Passengers got out aud walked into the depot.
Another engine went out and hitehed on TO
the train and pulled it into the station.
Two crews of men are now at work on the
quartz quarry near the head of Taylor Pond
The teams have hauled over one hundred
tons to the depot in Auburn portion of an
order for five hundred tons The supply con-
tlnues undated and appears to be inexhaust-
able.
An organization Was effected at Lisbon last
Saturday evening. named the New England
Mineral paint company for the purpose of
manufacturing the Lisbon paint and other
paint materials. The officers are president,
T. II. Caylor; secretary, Jno. L Tibbetts;
treasurer. Jesse Davis, directors, Z NJ
Shaw. Jno. l.. Tibbi,ts. W B. Jordan. Cap
ital stock, 5000 Per value of shares 500.
The team of j. II. Roak, Jr., of Auburn,
was stolen from Lisbon street. Sunday even
ing, at about 10 o'clock, while standing
hltched to post, but was recovered
CUMBERLAND.
matrimonial epidemic has broken out on
Congress stree,, Portland, according TO the
Sunday Times. Seven marriages are an
nounced TO take place Immediately from one
establishment
Mr.. }. l.. Winship, manager of the Port
lands, has commenced proceedings against
The Portland Base Ball and Athletic Associa-
ton for salary due, and has sued the Asso-
cietion for $1,000
Messrs. Collins and Chandler of Portland
are already arranging for next years band
muster at Lake Marsnocook.
David Bassett pleaded guilty to the charge
of stealing letters and checks from the 2. 0.
box of Deering, Milliken & Co of Portland,
before the U. S. Commissioner, Monday
Part of the stolen property was given up by
the boy. and the checks were found near
where they had been hidden. The offence
committed by Bassett is punishable by from
one to five years Imprisonment at hard labor.
peculiar case as to the ownership of a
pew In the Congregationalist church at North
Brldgton is on trial at the Cumberland Su-
perior Court. The case is George S. Farms
worth VS.. George II Brown. 1t will be re-
membered that the pews were taxed by re-
pairs, and some of the owners refusing to
pay, their pews were sold The conflict is
between the old and new claimants.
Hancock
Oct. 20 3 will occur the meeting Hancock
County Educational Association at Bar Har-
Dor.
Mr.. Chester johnson of East Sullivan re-
| Gently removed from his knee a needle
which entered his foot.
There are fourteen vessels haling from
BuckspOrt engaged in the fishing business.
They are captained and manned largely by
men from here and adj joining towns, and their
crews number in the aggregate abou: one
hundred and seventy five men. The busl-
ness for the past few years has not yielded
large profits, but the prospect for the catch
of the season just closed is good and the own
ers are hopeful.
The preparation of bait at Sedgwick is an
active industry and it employs large number
of the people during the proper season.
Grave fears are at present felt for the
schooner Caroline, Captain Dorr. which
sailed from Orland for the Banks last May.
Nothing has been seen or heard from her
since and it is supposed that she was lost in
l collision with an iceberg. Capt. Dorr and a
number of the men are from Orland.
LINCOLN.
| The bodies of the Tibbetts boys who were
drowned in Eastern river, last week, have
both been recovered, one Friday and the
other Sunday.
PENOBsCOT.
There are five nuns on Indian Island, Old
| town. The sisters are the Penobscot Indians
teachers, and are the religious instructors of
the young and old Indians.
YORK
Two men. one named Frank Ridlon, the
other, Moses Welsh, were badly injured at
South Limington Saturday last BY the falling
of a derrick. A heavy stone was being hoist
ed when one of the guys gave away, the mast
striking Welsh in the back and knocking him
down.
Thomas Harding of Buxton. committed
suicide by drowning Sunday morning. He
was young man of steady, industrious hab-
its and unmarried 1t is supposed that he
was temporarily dersnged