Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-27
State News.
ANDROSCOGGIN.

ANDRoscoGGIN.
twenty-five thousand young salmon from
urshd Lake stream are to be put into Lake
AUBURN this spring or early summer.
CUMBERLAND.
The streets of Brunswick presen, hrsr
appearance. Large crews of men are a,
WORK IN various parts of the town dippino
tfenches for the water pipes Mr.. Over Of
Portland. is the contractor for LAYING the
pipes. and there will be nine miles 70 Law
Inc men employed are nearly all Brunsv;ck
men, mostly Canadians.
In the libel of Joseph A. Brewer vs.. steam.
er Sandman for sinking the schooner Hori.
ION at the Grand Trunk wharf in Portland
last winter the judge decided that both mar
ties were in the fault and that the DAMAGE.
should be divided. hearing on the ones.
ton OF damages was held Saturday forenoon.
FRANKLIN.
Mrs. Polly. widow of the late DR.. John T.
Blake. died in Pennington. THURSDAY, aged
20 years. DR.. and Mrs. Blake were we'll
known, highly respected residents of Frank
lin county.
1t is said that the Maine Central manage.
ment is talking of running Pullman parlor
car on the through train from Boston to
harrington this summer. to accommodate
tourists and sportsmen to the lake region. A
large travel is looked for into this section of
Maine this summer.
HANCOCK.
shocking accident is reported to have
taken place at Sullivan, Friday. Working
men were loading vessel at quarry. The
derrick ourdened with an immense stone had
been put in motion, and Nathaniel Gordon
stood just under it, when, Unexpectedly, the
Sing broke, letting fall the great stone on
his Fad and shoulders. He was crushed to
the earth. and an hour afterward he died.
Gordon was "a years of age. He leaves a
wife and child.
new industry has been started in Vinal-
haven. A firm purchases Holsters when thew
are cheap in the latter part of the summer and
In the fall and puts them into forty acre
pound. This pound is situated in a cove.
The entrance to this cove has been wired
across similar to fishing weir. Here the
Holsters are kept through the winter, and they
are fed on fish heads and similar food, a man
taking several barrels in a boat and spreading
1t over the surface of the whole pound In
this manner they keep thousands of Holsters,
which when spring arrives can be sold in the
Boston market for $40 hundred pounds, and
each one will weigh from two to six pounds
OXFORD.
James r Osgood. native of Fryeburg,
sails for London. next week. to take charge
of the Harpers' business affairs in place of
Mr.. Low recently deceased
More than forty modern houses were built
in Norway last season, and this summer prom
lses to see nearly as many more.
The shoe firm of B. F. Spnney & Co., a,
Norway, are busy changing their patterns
and will soon begin their summer run with
about 700 hands.
PISCATAQUIs.
Friday, says the Wing, was the warmest
day yet experienced at Moosehead Lake. The
ice is no longer safe tor teams. A horse
broke through between the foot of the lake
and kineo, Wednesday night, and since then
there have been no teams on the lake. A,
West Cove there is considerable open water
The lumbermen here say that they never
knew the ice in Moosehead to weaken so ear
ly, and predict that the lake will be open the
first week in May.
SAGADAHOC.
A Bath schooner ran dow n the Oregon. and
now President Cleveland is going (?) to
marry a girl who has a cousin in Richmond.
Sagadahoc county is happy.
SOMERSET.
HARTLAND. - Oar correspondent writes
April 26th: Mr.. E. II. Skinner and family
arrived home recently from Oakland, Cal.
where they have been spending the winter
The say that the past week has been equally
as warm and pleasant as any weather expert
lnced by them on the Pacific coast How
could it be bettered? Our streets are dry and
dusty as they will be in July. Fast Day was
observed here by horseback riding and game
of football in the afternoon. Later a street
brawl occurred, which resulted in the arrest
of a father and his two sons. They were
fined ST. each and costs.-Mr. Burton, a
workman in Linn's wooden mill, got his
arm caught in belt on Saturday last, but
received slight injuries Several other acct
dents happened during the week. but none OF
a serious nature.
WASHINGTON.
Mr.. John Mcdonald of Machias, twenty
years of age, on graduating recently from the
jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia
was awarded with his diploma a case of very
fine surgical instruments, with his name and
the name of the college on the case. Young
Mcdonald was given his choice between this
and a gold medal. He will settle in his owI
town.