Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-04

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GRAVEL BANK.
AsDRoscoGGIS.
Mr.. w. A. Emery, of New York CITY. for.
merry OF Lewiston. has patented an ingenious
machine for the manufacture of cigarettes.
During the four months since the introduc-
ton of the special delivery system, the Lew
iston messengers have delivered l52 special
letters.
CUMBERLAND.
Fire was discovered about 10 O'Clock Mon
day evening in the upper part of Oavis's pro-
cerv store in Brunswick, and before il eonla
De extinguished caused considerable damage.
The chief loss was caused by the removal Of
the goods into the street.
A meeting will be held Monday evening.
Feb. 18th. for the purpose of forming a cor
poration to establish in Portland an infirmary
Tor the treatment of disease of the eve and
and ear. This is intended to be for the ben
eft of the poor people.
Early TUESDAY morning thieves entered the
cabin of the schooner Glover, Captain Max
we'll, lying at Portland Pier, broxe open the
captains trunk and stole $3.50 in money.
OXFORD.
]. A. French HIS taken the contract TO
build the new school house at Andover vii
lage, for sl275, reports the Oxford Democrat.
n Bean moved from West Bethel to
Gllead on Saturday, January 3Oth, and 1t is
said he has now moved eighty times
since his marriage, according to the Demo-
GRAFT
Measures have been taken to reorganize
the Norway Light Infantry. Thirty-eipht
men have already been mustered, and others
are to follow. This is one of the Oldest mil
itary organizations in the State.
The ice storm was very severe in Paris.
Trees four and five inches through are bent
to the ground with the heavy loads of ice.
Many roads are impossible on account of
trees bending into the road Men are at
work cutting the trees and clearing the roads.
II is feared that immense damage has been
done to the fruit trees, especially to new set
gratis.
PIsCATAoUIs.
The Willimantic Linen Company are doing
great business this winter at their works at
Willimantic, on Sebago Lake. They have
eighty horses and two hundred men employed
both around the works and in the woods and
are hauling four hundred cords of spool stock
TO the mill each week. They have about two
feet of snow, or just enough to facilitate
business. They are saving one hundred and
fifty cords per week, turning out about nine
thousand gross of spools and blocks.
SAGADAHoC.
Business in the special delivery line at the
Bath post-oftice is on an increase. Monday
there were seven letters Of the kind requiring
ten cent stamp in addition to the regular
postage, and SATURDAY. last the same number.
The telegraph Office has of late had to call
upon this branch of the postal service to aid
in expediting its business
Mr.. William B. Sprague, well known as a
master mechanic and shipbuilder, died last
week at Wyoming. He superintended the
construction of many clipper ships noted in
their day at the yards of Messrs. Foster &
Stetson in Medford and of Paul Curtis and
others in East Boston. During the late war
he was master carpenter in the Charlestown
Navy Yard. He was a descendant of noted
family of shpbuilders in Maine, his father
having built vessels manv wears ago on the
kennebec, at the city of Bath.-Po, tand
argus
The domed or, ''doomed" steamer Meteor
in which Capt. Bliffin. the designer, expected
to cross the ocean in five days, and which
plucky engineer stole away from sheriff in
Boston harbor to satisfy lien of the Goss
Marine Iron Works of Bath, is vet on the
hands of the Iron Works. Capt. Goss is try
ing to sell her to the United States govern
ment.
WASHINGTON.
Two small boys took basket of bones
into an Eastport junk shop last week, and
among them was found the lower jaw bone
Of human skeleton, which one of the boys
had found on the beach. 1t was evident from
its size that it cam, from the skeleton of a
man. Two of the teeth remained and were
well preserved, but the others were gone and
the bone looked as if it had been long time
in the water, says the Standard.
YORK.
While workmen were engaged in shoveling
gravel from the city gravel pit in Biddeford
a large portion of the bank caved in on them
All but one had time to jump out of harms
way, leaving their tools behind them. One
man was buried by the slide but just as he
was struck he had presence of mind enough
to throw his shovel from him. Had he not
done so his rescue would have been a difficult
matter, as his shovel was the only one not
buried in the sand As it was he was dug out
without serious injury.
People who sigh for the good old times for