Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-06
State News.
PISCATAQCIs.

PIscATaoUIs.
The Monsoon State reports that the Viii
lisms Slate Quarry on Berry Riiye near the
lake has been abandoned. and the engines,
hosting gear and other machinery moved a
few rods away TO the old Highland quarry.
which was sbandoued few wears ago. and
has been recently purchased by the williams
Company The reason for abandoning the
Williams quarry, it is said, il that the slate
veins where tapped are SO badly cut up by
seams as TO render it Improbable working
them.
A centipede with twen,y-one pairs Of legs
was recently found in hides a. the tannery of
A. j. Chase & Co. of Atkinson. rh- hides
came from Rangoon. India. This is rare
instance.
PENoBscor.
! Orviile w. the splendid stallion owned by
/ g w. & W l. Whitney, Bangor, is looking
( 81 lendidly this summer. lie weighs about
300 pounds, and j. in perfect condition.
This animal Is one OF the post valuable stall
lions in Maine. He was Kentucky bred, hay
ing been sired by the famous Blackwood.
~Messrs. Currier & Hook, Bangor. have
manufactured 1900 of their patent ham mock
| chairs this season, outside of their original
order for 1000. There mas been large sale
| ioi tueIil, OrueIs uStu ulieu from 81.
Louis, ST. Paul. Chicago aud Milwaukee.
Capt. John w. Shute, OF the schooner Pa
vilion, died August 4, AT the residence of Mr..
Themes c. Wiley, Bangor. where he Was
tsken. Capt. Shute belonged in Buck sport
aud was ffty-.wo years OF age.
SOMERSET.
Mr.. Gerald of the Hartlsnd House is very
sick IF hemmorrhage of the stomach. He
had Ia of l,t1l
time loosing about q quart of blood. His
condition is very critical.
The races at South Norridgewock the 18th
and l4th insts. and at Fairfield the Goth and
2lst promise to be we'll attended. The gen.
erous purses offered will bring out some fine
horses
Mr. Geo. L McConihe of Jacksonville,
Florida, sends to a friend in Skowhegan some
remarkably large scales that came from fish
weighing l02 lbs, it. inches long, that he
caught recently. The scales are from % to
81 inches across them, are very bright and
transparent. They call the fish Tarpon
or Jewish. 1t is considered quite feat
| to secure one.
Hon. James G. Blaine will speak in Show
hogan Friday afternoon Sept. Sd.
Citizens of Skowhegan have formed a
"Citzens League" with the object, as stated
in the preamble TO their constitution, "That
every person shall be protected in his natural
and lawful rights, to labor for any
man who desires to employ him, or to
employ any person who wishes to labor
for him on such terms, and for such compen-
sstion as may be mutually agreed upon"
The officers are James b Dascomb, Pres
ident; E. F Fairbrother, Vice President
C. M. Brainard, Secretary; M. B. Heselton,
Treasurer; l. Anderson. w. II. Fuller, Geo.
ID. Arnold, Geo. E Goodwin, Jos. Cayouette,
Executive Committee.
Says the Scion correspondent of the Re-
, porter: As sequel of the romantic mar
risge of the bride of GA to the groom of %
winch occurred in town last SPRING a store
was fitted with goods bought with the brides
money and on credit. Things appeared to
move along all right until last week when
parties attached the property, which is now
| IN the care Of the sheriff. The groom has
left town and the bride is almost insane from
grief at the loss of husband and property.
Waldo.
| John II. Craig, the Kentucky giant, and
who claims to be the largest man living, has
been on exhibition in Belfast. His weight al
birth was II pounds; at 9 years Of age, 2O6
at 8 years. 302; 10 years. 405 ; 81 year, COL
20 years, 725. and at ,sent 1872 pounds, and
5 II hat Il gloves and l04 shoes, his head
t hands and feet not being any larger than
: those of most men of feet and over in
: height He is in perfect health, and says he
has been sick but eight days in eighte en-
years. He is now about 30 years Of age His
c father weighed but lbs and his mother l22
pounds. and his Heaviest brother weighed
but 154. He claims to have lost seven
brothers in the last var, four IN the Union
and three in the Confederate army lie had
children by his first wife, but they and theil
mother are dead. His present wife is ma.
tive of Circassia, Asia, is 20 years old and
weighs l2S pounds
Mr.. Chisholm of Truro, Nova Scotia, was
:, in Brooks, recently, to buy the stallion
"Young Bashaw," imported and owned By c.
Z. Peavey. An own brother of this horse
has been trottiDg very fast this summer, and
was lately sold to Bangor parties for a large
sum. Mr., Chisholm says the Bashsws are
the best stock horses IN the Provinces MIR.
Peavey refused to sell his nurse as he is we'll
pstroniz"d by the horsemen in this vicinity
! There are more cottage residents at Isles.
, boro this summer than for some years past
The cOttagers are mostly Bangor people
A four-year-old son of Abner X. Wood fell
into. Little River from the Perkins bridge
Belfast, Monday, August 2, and narrowly
escaped drowning. He was unconscious
nearly an hour after being taken from the
water, Fat was all right the next day.
YORK.
shark Weighing betwe cen 400 and SOC
pounds, was captured recently mile and a
half of Wood Island, by the crew Of fish.
Ing schooner.