Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-12

PORTLAND VESSEL MIssING-BuRGLARY
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S c. Sweetser, of Island Falls, has re-
turned home. He says that he was knocked
down and robbed in Portland, and from there
was somehow sent out to sea in a boat He
was picked up bv q vessel bound to South
America, but before making port was trans
ferred TO q steamer and landed at some place
in Florida, and from there he went to Tenne-
see where he remained until he started for
home.
The Brighton News tells of a young man
who went from that place to run a street car
in Portland. On his first trip, he met q
heavy team. whereupon his native politeness
and spirit of brotherly love impelled him in-
stinctively to turn to the right to give the
team half the wav. thereby running the car
of the track, and causing vexstious delav in
getting it back again Since then the Young
countryman has devoted his energies 10 the
ancient and honorable pursuit of agriculture.
The value of foreign exports from the port
of Portland last week, waf sl7s,673.39.
The annual Bowdoin alumni dinner will be
given at the Falmouth Hotel, January 29th.
| The Portland Press SAYS; Considerable
anxiety is felt for the bark Henry Warner of
this port. From the description given, it i.
thought that the Warner is the vessel which
collided with and sunk the bark Ibis on the
night of the 9th inst, on Nantucket Shoals,
and it is feared that she may have been Grip
pied by the accident The Henry Warner
was built at East Deering some five years
ago. and is of $50 tons. She is owned by r
Lewis Co, of this city, and has cargo of
hides and wool.
FRANKLIN.
The franklin county treasurer's report
shows cash paid out S2S,s742O: on hand
and deposited. 81 06S 80; resources. Sl0.-
ll4.l,; liabilities, S20,352 46. Not a bad
showing, considering the expense of building
the new court house the past year which,
with fixtures, etc, has cost upward of $780,
600
A man of the name of Hiram Houston, at
South West Harbor, fell from an ice house
Saturday forenoon and was instantly killed
He fell distance of about % or 80 feet
The Boston Journal saws: James n Doug
lass, dry goods, Bucksport has liabilities of
$4,000 and assets of $4,000. A settlement
will be effected in insolvency.
LINCOLN.
The store of William Grav, of Southport
was broken into last week and three bar
rels of -four, beans, sugar, small stores and
some five dollars in cash were taken. The
officers are looking after suspected parties
and the chances are that the burglars will be
arresled.-Boothbay Register.
PIsCATAoUIs.
Reports from Moosehead Lake, written
Friday, state that the extreme cold of Thurs
day night again formed ice all over the lake.
| Teams loaded With two and one-half tons
each went from Greenville to Kineo in four
hours in the morning, Friday. and started
across North Bay in the afternoon. The
thermometer Friday morning indicated seven
degrees below zero.
One of Tracev's lumber camps on the Was
sataquoik stream, near Mt. Katahdn, was
lately destroyed by fire Seven Winchester
rifles, all loaded, were said to be hanging in
the camp, and no one cared to go near to try
and save anything. They heard the guns as
they were discharged by the fire one after
| another.
Maudie Thompson, a little girl of seven
years. belonging in UNITY. may well he said
to have a strict musical ear, but fingers that
seem made expressly to touch the keys of
music. She will catch tune on hearing it
once and seat herself at the organ and with
out hesitation play it "a she would an old
familiar tune. She plays without seeming
to have her mind upon the music, but looks
about, laughing and enjoying what may be
going on around her. She can play in the
dark as we'll as when it is light and just to
try her skill they will darken the room and
she will then play tune after tune in quick
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wonder, especially as she never took a
| lesson in music.
YORK.
There are nearly four hundred voumas Of
deeds in the registry at Alfred, says the
Biddeford Journal, and heretofore persons in
quest of a certain conveyance were obliged
to waste vast amount of time in deternIiR-
ing certain matters in this line But a new
index is being made OF all the deeds, and the
work will be so arranged that all the trans
ters of each man will be together, both the
convevances to and from. This will be a
great convenience, as matters of this kind
can hereafter be determined almost instantly
and the long, tedious and oftentimes frultless
search will be done away with. The work
employs twelve girls, and was begun last
summer, and such vast amount of labor
does it represent that another summer will
doubtless roll around before the work is
completed
Rev John W. Webster of Kittery Point,
has received a,call to go to Lowell. N. H.
AT LARGE.
The following is announced regarding the
eastern coast route: The steamer Longfel-
low will supply the desired communication
on the Machias line under the management
of Hon. f Gushing. She leaves Portland and
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