Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-12
State News.
ANpRoscoGGIN.

a. Tue dlHudl metIug nSlu i ucS1ay Al L.
NJ the Peoples Savings Bank of Lewiston.
elected the following board of trustees for the
ensuing year: President, c. l. Barker; vice
president, A. NJ. Jones; Mark Lowell. j. K.
blanchard. A. B. Nealley. s. A. Cummings,
John Garner. Il. w. Maxwell, W. NJ. Cham
berlin. The board is the same as that of last
year.
ARoosTooK.
We regret to hear that W. S. Gilman, editor
OF the Aroostook Pioneer, who has been ser-
ousiy ill, has been steadily failing since SUM-
day morning, and but slight hopes are enter
tanned OF his recovery.
There are now at Houlton and Fairfield
awaiting shipment about 200 car load. OF po-
tatoes. The extraordinary demand for these
potatoes is from the fact that they are the
very best for planting, and in New York and
the West farmers are trying to obtain them.
Ii is said that the yield from Aroostook po-
tatoes planted for seed is double that from
any Western or New York potato. The rail-
road authorities are using every possible eff
fort to procure the needed cars. and are send
ing them away very fast.
CUMBERLAND.
L. ). Arthur, the author, who died in Phil
adelphia last week, was married in 1886 TO
-AASS ASiiEa Shlucu. uaugutcT IdpI. james
Alden of Portland. She died in Pniladelphia
in 1876
Nearly six million bushels of grain and
over half million barrels of flour were
brought into Portland last year, and disposed
OF through the various channels of trade.
HANCOCK.
The lumber for the Green Mountain House
at Mount Desert has been secured at Els
/ at.1
have already been sent to the Ferry, and
there are more to follow. At Mount Desert
Ferry it is loaded on schooner and taken
to Bar Harbor and from there carried up
Green Mountain.
kENNEBEc.
The neS iron bridge over the Kennebec
between Waterville and Winslow is nearly
completed. The plsnks have already been
laid and before the present week is gone the
bridge will probably be in use.
The Colby base ball nine will go into inn
mediate training in the gymnasium, and will
make the best possible preparation for the
coming contests of the summer. The nine
will be selected from the following men:
Boyd, Putnam, Small and Webber of sc;
Larrabee and Goodwin of 'S7; Pulsiter.
Goodwin. Drummond and Gibbs of So
LINCOLN.
Edgar .. Achorn, native of Lincoln
county, young lawyer in Boston charged
with blackmail, is found to be innocent of
the charge-no bill having been found by the
grand jury.
Solomon Side!inger and family, at Munk's
Corner. Waldoboro, have been sick tor
number of weeks The physicians claim the
sickness is caused by eating potatoes on
which Paris green was used the past summer.
OXFORD.
John G. Wyman is putting in a circular
saw mill at Dickvale, according to the Ok
ford Democrat.
The quarterly meeting of the Oxforl Bap-
fist Association was held in Bucktield, last
week.
The late eXGov Washburn owned a con-
trolling interest in the Rumtord Falls &
Buckfeld railroad when he died. The Grand
Trunk and Maine Central both want it. The
Grand Trunk people would like TO stop the
proposed extension to Auburn or Gray, and
the Maine Central is pulling the other wav.
of course. The probability is that Mechanic
Falls will not be the terminus of this line
many years longer.
PENOBsCoT.
The Penobscot Bar met in the library of
the court room at Bangor TUESDAY morning.
and passed resolutions of respect to the mem
DRY of the late Hon Abraham Sanborn,
Judge Alpheus Lyon. of Bangor. and John
Benson, Esq, of Newport The Bar then
adjourned to the court room where fitting
memorial services were held.
SOMERSET
While cutting wood recently, Mr. w. w.
Tracy of St Adams found a rare curiosity
| formed between the decayed heart of a beech
tree and the outside, which resembled very
closely the leather tanned from the sheep
skin, or chamois leather. it being very soft
and pliable. 1t will be sent to Prof. Baird
of the Smithsonian Institution.
WALDO.
The report of the selectmen of Prospect,
for the year ending February %, 1885, shows
that there was expended for support of poor
| S2S7 A; repairs of roads and bridges. S219 =
| II; interest on town orders, Si66 81: abate-
ment of taxes, S92 Is; contingent expenses
! SOTO; salaries of town officers, 1879. | Z :;
support of schools, Sll26 70 There are un-
collected taxes to the amount S2S9S so, due
| from 1876, to the present time, quite por-
ton of which will have to be abated.
WASHINGTON.
Mr. Charles Mitchell, an old resident of
Charestown, and one of the oldest members
of King Solomon's Lodge, F. &. A, NJ. died
Thursday evening. He was born in Aberdeen
Scotland, and was in business in PASSPORT for
msnv years. He leaves three sons and a
daughter.
YORK.
The Biddeford Journal says: Our hotel
proprietors are arranging for larger amount
of summer business the coming season than
ever before. The accommodations at all our
public places will be taxed to their utmost
| capacity, if present appearances are to be
relied upon.