Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-03
ASDROsCOGGIS.

AsDRoscoGGIN.
ne mule spinners in one of the room. in
the Continental mills at Lewiston struek Fri.
Gay on account of being obliged to start their
rooms before the regular time in the morning
and at noon
CUMBERLAND.
Some of the citizens of Bridgton. have
taken up a goodlv subscription for Mr.
ingalls,, whose buildings were recently
destroyed by lightning. Lumber was con-
tributed, and by the united efforts of the
nelghbors Mr.. ingalls, has a house up.
boarded and shingled. and it will soon be
ready foS occupancy.
AN interesting spectacle just now is the
Matching house in Israel Li,tle6eld's mill. at
fondlcherry bridge, Bridgton. About IOO,-
Ooo sea salmon have hatched out and some
$4,000 landlocked salmon. Mr. Frank Gibbs
mas charge of the hatchery he and State Fish
Commissioner Stillman having put the eggs
therein last winter.
" j. Johnson, who until recently carried
on business in Portland, under the STYLE of
the Great Eastern Tea Company, has settled
with his creditors at 10 cents on the dollar.
The Portland lady who thought she lost
her diamonds, or that they were stolen from
her, reported her loss to the police, and the
vaiuaoles were found at the store where she
lett them and where she first discovered her
loss.
OXFORD.
freight train on the Portland & Ogdens-
burg railroad Friday morning met with an
accident between Fryeburg and Center Con-
way oy which some ten cars were thrown
from the track down an embankment and
hlH Iy .hnl
cldent caused delay of three hours to the
inward bound passenger train.
PENoBsCoT.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas REYNOLDS who live
in what is called Rutland" in the northern
part of Plymouth, left home for a short time
Sunday, April 25th, leaving their two chill
dren, girl and boy, aged five ana three
years respectively, at home alone. Soon the
little boy came running to his mother who
was In neighbor's house, saying that the
little girls clothes were on fire. just as
they reached the house, the little girl ran out,
her garments blazing 6ercey Before the
fire was extinguished the child was fatally
burned, although she lived for several hours
When her clothing caught fire, the little girl
was attempting to light \ fire in the stove
and the match ignted her sleeve, says the
Pttsfield Advertiser.
1t Is a curious fact says the Dexter Gazette
that there is not mill privilege IN the town
or Hermon, though there are two large
ponds in it, and several streams, including
the kenduskeag and SowadabscoOk, run
through it, 1t is dead water everywhere,
where enough runs to amount to anything.
in one place the Kenduskeag and Sowadabs-
cooa come very near together on low land
and are connected by short run through
which water flows from one to the other
Generally the current, when there is any, is
from the Sowadabscook into the kendu.-
keag; but sometimes in the opposite direction
when the Kenduskesg has the highest water.
Some of the Bangor coal dealers have
rugged mast and boom arrangement for
unloading coal, thinking this will be an i'm
provement on the old way.
A seven-pound land locked salmon was
caught in Reeds Pond by Bangor gentleman
one day the past week The fish was hooked
by the rear under the fin. In its mouth was
found another hook with part of the line
attached. 1t had evidently met fishermen
before.
schooner is being loaded At Brewer with
ice which is four years old.
Rev. G.. w. Porter, late pastor of the Meth
odist churches in Oidtown and Saltwater, has
received al unanimous call to the pastorste
of the Union church in Caribou for another
year.
PIsCATAoUIs.
The steamer Governor Coburn at Moose.
head Lake, which has been thoroughly re-
poired and almost rebuilt was to be launched
Saturday.
SAGADAHOC.
Rev. II. E. Foss of the Beacon street Meth
odist church has been engaged to deliver the
Memorial Day address in Bath.
SOMERSET.
The men employed by the Somerset Fibre
company, at Fairfield, Me-, have asked
through committee for an increase of TWEEN
ty per cent in their wages. Wages at the
pulp mill for common laborers are from nine
ty cents to one dollar and thirty-fve cents pei
day.
J. w. Killredge, of Rockland, W. S. Bowie,
of Gardiner, Q. c. Phillips, of Auburn, and
J. w. Mcguire, of Biddeford, members of the
executive board of the Maine Knights OF
Labor, have investigated the case of the two
men who are alleged to have been discharged
from the mills of the Kennebec Fibre COM
pany in Benton because they belong to the
Knights of Labor.
A valuable horse was stolen from the barn
of Mr.. Abel Written IN South Canaan. one
night recently, says the Pttsfeld Advertiser
WALDO.
April goth, the house of Mr.. VIM. Jones
of Brooks, came near being totally burned
He was heating some tar in an old tar tea
kettle. While boiling it exploded and the
room became enveloped in flame.
The East Maine Methodist Conference will
be held in Winterport, commencing May 9th.
WASHINGTON.
Officer French arrested and locked up a
boy, Wednesday, says the Calais Times, for
illegally catching young salmon at the Union
Mills, and has a warrant for another boy
guilty of similar officer. The river was
never so full of young salmon as this spring.
They are about elk inches long, and have
started on their first trip to the sea. They
take the bait eagerly, and the practice of fish
ing for them must be stepped
St. Stephen and Milltown. n. B., have de-
termined to obtain a water supply from the
company that is about to build the works fol-
Calais. BY having a system planned for
three towns conformity, the pipes Gamble sc
laid that break in any main will not affec
the supply, which will be never failing.
The sardiue factories at PASSPORT are run
ming part of the time, but the market does
not yet promise profitable business this
season. Some of the weirs are making good
catches of little herring, but the tendency i:
not towards higher prices
YORK.
Rev. Gilbert Robbins. for the past seven
years the esteemed pastor of the Baptist
church of Cape Neddck, died of heart dis
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