Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-31
State News.
AHpROsCoGGIS.

Lewiston seamstress carelessly left q
needle in the back of Young lady custom
er's dress and now particular friend of the
family has his arm done up in arnica--
Journal
The friends of VIM. c. Jones. the dissp-
peared mule spinner st the Continental Mill,
Lewiston, have written through John Garner
to Portland, to see il Jones went by steamer
TO England. as he for some time had been
planning. Not long ago he wrote home for
tickets to return TO the old land once again.
ARoosrooK.
Mr.. Estes, associate principal of Houlton
Academy, Was injured in the face and one
eye BY al explosion which occurred in per-
forming chemical experiments on Monday
evening. Fortunately the eye was not SO
badly injured as was at first feared. and
there is prospect Of & speedy recovery.
CUMBERLAND.
The Advertiser says it was rumorei on the
street Saturday that the Law and Order
League had notified Mr. Munson that his ser
vices would be no longer required The ex-
ecutive committee of the lesgue say that no
action on the matter has been taken.
The new International Express Company
will bring TO Portland some very fine horses.
harnesses and wagons. Five new and elegant
Concord express wagons, built for this com
psny by Abbott. Downing & Co, were on ex-
hibition in Boston Thursday.
FRASALIS.
DR.. Fordyce Barker, the eminent New
York Physician, attending upon General
Grant Is a native of Wilton and is the only
son Of the late DR.. John Barker. of that town.
He graduated at Bowdoin 10 the class of 81,
md, tth fat
in Paris, and has for years stood at the head
of his profession in New York.
man from Prince Edwards Island died
recently at Eustis mills. with lock jaw caused
by cutting his foot in the woods working for
Swaw Son, says the Philips Phonograph.
kENsEBKc.
Rev. DR.. Henry A. Sawtelle, who assumed
charge of the Zion Babtist Church, San Fran
cisco, January l. 1884, has resigned his
charge on account of i'll health. His fami-
ly will take up their residence at Waterville
as he desires his children to attend Colby
University
DR.. Pulsifer of Waterville who has been
seriously ill this winter, has so far recovered
that he is able to walk out.
The Watervile Sentinel is collecting in
formation relative to the revenue which
licits statistics from railroad, steamboat and
stage lines. hotel and boarding house keep
ers, guides, etc.
The Bangor Commercial says General
John ID. Rust, Manager and Treasurer of the
Rockport Ice Co., is now cutting ice, the
second crop, sixteen inches thick, from Lily
Pond. 1t is clear, transparent ice, much
clearer than the first crop. He has loaded
several vessels with the ice and is now ship
ping daily, and will continue as long as the
weather will permit. They have housed
about 10000 tons and already shipped some
10000 tons from the water of first crop.
LINCOLN.
The dwelling house. porch. store and out
buildings of Roscoe ID. Wichenbach, at West
Wsldoboro, were destroyed by fire on Mon
day poon, reports the Rockland Opinion. The
fire caught in the store. The most of the
household effects were saved. Mrs. Ellen
Cook who was visiting her parents, lost her
wearing apparel. gold watch, etc. Insured
for $500.
PIsCAJAoUIs.
More than 1900 cords of hemlock bark have
been shipped to South Lagrange from vari
Gus other stations on the Bangor & Piscata
quis railroad during the past winter. Thi.
bark is all used at Procter's tannery, East
Bradford.
Gen. W. w. Lynde died suddenly in Brat
tleboro, VT, Friday afternoon, of paralysis
He was born in Guilford in 1929. He repre-
scented Marlboro in the Legislature in 1860 t.
1869 and from 1872 to 1878. He was State
Senator in 1870 and 1871, and was Quarter
master General of the State from 1870 tc
1874. He also served in the war "a Captain
SOMERSET.
B. J. Kinds, graduate of Colby 'S3, ha,
been engaged as instructor in the Noridge
wock Classical Institute. He is a successful
teacher and will no doubt be valuable addi
ton to that fourishing institution.
One day recently some thief, it is sup
posed, entered the house of Charles Getchel
in Newport and took therefrom some S55
while he and his family were out, reports tn,
Pittsfeld Advertiser.
WALDO
The trotting horse George . owned b,
George 0. Bailey, Belfast, died SUNDAY
night, the result of the injury received in tn,
runaway accident few days ago. The
horse had record of two minutes twenty
and one quarter seconds, obtained at MYSTIC
Park Medford Mass. last fall. He was
valued at four thousand dollars, and it is un.
derstood that on the day he received the in
jury he could have been sold to J. NJ. Hill
Margaret Mather's manager. for that sum
George o. trotted races at Portland, Lewis
ton and Bangor, and was almost invariably q
winner. 1t was expected the coming season
he would lower his record several seconds -
Argus
WASHINGTON.
The Eastport Standard says Nathan +
Pettingall, whose sad death occurred a,