Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-20
State News.
AROosrOOK

AROosrooK.
twelve year cid son of Mr.. Hubbard Fo,.
ter OF Presque Isle, had a narrow escape
some days since. He was given creo.
sote BY mistake and had it not been for the
almost Immediate attendance of physician
death would have soon resulted.
CUMBERLAND
Ofhcers McDonough and Frank of Port.
land toek woman named Hamilton TO the
STATION Saturday night, who tried to drow n
herself at Franklin wharf, and also cut her
wrist with a case knife.
BUcKsPoR1.-Our correspondent writes.
april 18th: The athletic association of the E.
NJ. &. Seminary was organized last Wednes.
day. with the following officers: president.
W. Wiggin; vice president, W. NJ. Crawford
secretary. Allen Chase; treasurer, C. N.
Higgins; committee of arrangements, w. NJ.
Crawford, Walter V. Hanscom, A. ]. Torrey.
The river is open at Bangor and the boat
made her first trip of the season to Bangor
last Friday.-The Cimbria W i'll make her first
trip between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Satur-
day. April 24th.-Rev. H. R. Heath of tbi.
place supplied the pulpit at Brewer SUNDAY.
April lSth.-The spring term of the village
schools opened April 18th, with an able corps
of teachers in the different apartments
At Blodgett's tannery at Bucksport, Il, 900
sheep pelts are tanned per week Employ
ment is given to about thirty-hve hands, and
nearly 1900 cords of bark are annually
consumed.
Samuel Royal. Jr., miller, Ellsworth. Me-,
has gone into insolvency Boston Journal
KNOX.
Concerning the Camden railroad scheme
the Rockland CONFERENCE.-THE says: The lime
manufacturers of Camden are well satisfied
with the proposition, while the rank and file,
when they take into consideration the amount
of heavy teaming such an enterprise would
remove from the streets. can but favor the
project. 1t is thought there will be little op-
position to the scheme.
On request of the knights of Labor of
Rockland, boycott was recently placed on
the schooner Jennie Greenbank. Capt. Perry,
of and from Rockland, at Norfolk with car
go OF lime. The notice to the Norfolk men,
bers of the order expressed the desire that the
lime be allowed to remain in the vessel till it
Stacked. which would have involved, had it
been carried out, loss of two or three thous-
and dollars to exMayor J. S. Case, and also
large damage to the owners of the vessel,
or possibly her total loss The owners of the
vessel are Capt Israel Snow and several 9TH
ers After detention of several days the
boycott was removed, and the lime has been
discharged, reports the Free Press.
LINCOLN.
Mr. Freeman Murray is building yacht
for Mr. Albert Lewis OF Squirrel Island, who
will run from the island the coming season,
carrying pleasure parties, visiting among the
islands and other summer resorts, says the
Lincoln County News.
PENOBsCoT.
The money found at Patten, last Sunday,
has been claimed by Mr.. Adam Steen of Crys-
tai. About one year ago, he lost wallet
containing $l6l. The wallet found did not
contain so much money as he claimed he had
lost, bat the description he gave of the wallet
and contents identified 1t. Mr.. Steen is an
old man and needed the money.
Rev. j. ID. Smiley of Eastport, has accept
ed call to the Congregational churches in
Brewer village and East Orrington, and ar
rived at Brewer village Wednesday, with his
family, to take up his residence in the par
sOnage.
SOMERSET.
CANAAN.-Our correspondent writes: Mr..
Whitten's dog one day last week made his
appearance at Bella Burrill's, where Written
was at work, about five miles from home, and
by his strange actions drew the attention of
his master, and soon led the way into Bur-
ril's field back of the buildings, where they
found Whitten's horse, till then supposed to
be at bone; the horse had on parts of a
broken harness. Gong through the village
and about mile below, they found the rest
of the harness and a broken wagon, and a
mans hat in the road. From there Mr.. w.
L, tbn g tI,n
smash-up. The dog, which left home with the
team, knew enough to hunt up his master and
notify him of the accident, and the horse
went with the dog on the same errand.-Geo.
F. Barrett, while handling boards with span
of horses, fell before the wheel, and the
heavy load passed over him, the wheel strlk
ing and rolling over the calf of his leg as he
Law upon his face His leg sank in the snow,
and the resulting injury was not very serious.
WALDO.
An od-fashioned hauling took place at
Burkettville, Appleton, recently. Mr.. Miles
Burkett moved the building which he had
used for wood-house about thirty rods from
his house, 1t took 81 yoke of oxen to haul
it.
The Rockland Opinion says the members
of Medomac Valley grange are making prep
arations to erect a new hall. 1t will be two
stories high, % feet wide, and 40 feet long.
The new hotel at Belfast will cost S45 900,
and will be furnished at a cost of $40, 1000.
The citizens of Belfast have taken hold of the
matter more strongly than ever and are bound
to carry the project through.
Ex-Gov Caflln of Massachusetts is having
handsome summer cottage built at For
Point on the Penobscot
WASHINGTON.
The Passport Sentinel is appalled, at the
increase of pauperism in that town. Las
year the poor bills of the town were So, $50, oil
about one-sixth of the amount raised by tax
alton, anl the prospect of better times this
wear is far from encouraging. The Sentine
saws the poor of the town are allowed to cal
in doctor whenever they wish without con
sulting anyone, and the bills are footed b,
the town at the end of the year.