Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-25
State News.



Gen. John Marshall Brown of Portland ha.
accepted the Invitation of Custer Post of
Lewiston, to deliver the address in Lewiston.
on the evening Of Memorial Day.
Some of the teams have already come out
| from the logging camp of George B. Bearce
On the Andfoscoggin near Cambridge. n. H.
Yearly all of them will be out By the close
! of this week. The loggefs say that this has
heen . good season With them. although snow
CAME rather late.
4 Lewiston man Who drove from Augusta
! to that city last Saturday saws that the trav-
cling vas very hard He had dozens Of
times to jump out Of the sleigh, and tfample
down the snow in front of the horses feet. In
some places the road vas bare to the ice. but
for long stretches il vas knee deep for the
horse.
Mr. Benjamin Merrill. formerly of Greene,
died in Tomah. Wisconsin, on the 7th of
March. Benjamin Merrill, grandfather of
the above. vas one Of the frst settlers Of
Greene.
CUMBERLAND.
The United States Coal Elevator Company
| of Portland has been formed with q capital
stock Of 81 ,0O0. 600; paid in, nothing.
The Sunday Times says: A first-Clsss drug
store will be opened on Peaks Island, Port
u
has been much desired by great many resi-
dents and visitors there. II will be in charge
of Mr.John E D-ehsn, of C H. Guppy & Co.
HANCOCK.
The Ca-tine packing COMPANY viii start up
| their Swans Island factory next month, Civ
| ing employment n about 40 operatives. They
| are nos housing loo tons of ice for con um,'-
| ton At this establishment during the summer.
The scarcity of corn in the Bangor mar
ket still continues. says the Wing Two car
load, were received here from the West last
week and the rest was from Boston The
supply vas far too small to lessen the price.
The corn merchants say that the great thor
oughfares to the West are unable even in two
or three weeks to place corn enough in this
section to meet the demand.
PIscArAoUIs.
Several gentlemen Of Lynn, Mass, have
purchased some land near Bear Pond, beau
tiful sheet of water in Elliotville township
about a miles from Monson village, where
they intend to build club house early in the
season.
SAGApAHoc.
The Lewiston Journal relates as follows
When the late Mr.. James Mustard of Tops
ham died he owned dog to which he was
greatly attached, and the dog fully returned
the affection. After the remain. were plac ed
10 the coffin, the dog took his place on il and
persisted in lying there until the cof6u was
taken out for burial, when Of course he was
removed. A day or two after the burial. Capt.
Geo. f. Mustard of Brunswick was driving
over to his brothers farm house, when he
saw the dog in the field near the grave; he
loo lad fh.,o nj nd ha IN In
inspection Of the grave, it WAS found that the
dog had dug down to the box aud had gnawed
through that and the coffin so that he could
get at the face of bis master. The box was
re-htted and the grave again covered up; the
dog slso was shut up. but he managed to get
out and At once went to dig up his master q
grave. So persistent he in this work
that at last friends were obliged to kill the
animal.
J VIM. Mampel and Son of Bath cast a $500
pound condenser, Friday afternoon, for Port
land parties. The firm the past year have
made a number of large cylinders and con-
densers with unusual success.
YORK.
Biddefo Times: The little peninsular in
the southern part of the citv, known As the
Pool, contains about $50 inhabitants, and OF
this number 81 are Goldthwaits. This pro-
portion is larger than that of the John Smiths
in Boston.
Ar LARGE.
Messrs. Shaw & Son. les sees of the Lang
ham House, burned at Chicago Saturday
night. formerly kept the Falmouth Hotel in
Portland, and afterwards the West End
Hotel at Bar Harbor
The Maine fish commissioners have OBJ
tanned from the United Stats Government
100000 sea salmon eggs aud $50 900 land
locked salmon eggs. Prof. Baird ha,
already given the commissioners 100, 00C
sea salmon eggs and sc, 900 land locked sal
| mon eggs, which are in addition to the above
OF this number of eggs, 100, 900 have been
! sent to Plymouth, n H.. to be Matched
, whence they will be distributed in the head
waters of the Saco river; 200, 900 will b,
matched at Weld, and be distributed
in the Androscoggin, kennebec and Pre-
sumpscot rivers. The remainder will b.
placed in the Penobscot river with whatever
number additional Prof Baird may be in
clined to donate Boston Journal
Since 1856 there have been sold to private
parties 402 of the islands along the coast OF
Maine. They range in size from 900 &c
$1,000 acres There are eight islands com
prising from 900 to 5000 acres. and forty
two comprising from 100 to 500 acres. A
large aumber Of these islands are settled
, having fine farms upon them others arr