Daily Kennebec journal., 1886-11-20
State News.
CuNBERLAxn.

CUMBERLAND,
The Portland Express says: One dav re-
Gently as one of the girls employed in the
rag-ronm at Cumberland Mills was AT work.
she found the skeleton of a babe wrapped nm
in a towel among the rags The overseer
ordered it buried. The rags came from
Lynn.
Hiram Titcomb. son Of Pennington, Who
has been a resident of Tennessee from bov-
hood, has sent his check for 800 to st Srt the
new Congregational church building fund.
HANCOCK.
Evidently something sils" the telegraph
line down east. The Ellsworth Americans
correspondent says it takes FIVE hours to get
dispatch from Bluehill 10 Ellsworth, and
almost twenty-fnur to get one from Lewiston
to that point. The statement 10 made that
the other day gentleman placed dispatch
iu the office at Ssdgwick for Ellsworth, and
then harnessed his horse. and started for that
city and arrived there two hours or more
before the despatch. One of BluehilPs pro-
fessional men having occasion to send a very
urgent message to Ellsworth, sat in the
Office over an hour, while the operator
thumPed. thumped, ttumped. thumped. but
no answer, and in the short space of five
hours time the message was delivered in
Ellsworth.
This county is not altogether a pleasant
dwelling place, to judge from what a cores
pondent writes the Mt. Desert Herald He
saws While Walter Young, boy seventeen
years old, was cutting hoop poles near the
foot of Patten's pond. three men on the other
side some fifty rods: off, began to use him
for a target for rife practice, firing about
fifteen shots at him as he ran.
The Rev. DIR. Tenney of Ellsworth, recent
ly informed the Ellsworth American that in
his long term of service as a clergyman he
had united 800 couples in marriage. He has
kept no record of the funerals he has attended
but estimates the number to be about twice
as many as the marriages he has soemniz I'd
He says that one year since he has lived in
| Ellsworth he attended forty funerals
! The Unitarian church at Ellsworth is to be
| lighted by electric light. says the American.
KENNEBEc.
A party of 1--WE left Waterville for Califor-
MIA, Monday.
| The schooner Rival. of Bath, Captain Stew
art, from Rockport, Me-, for New York
arrived at Vinal Haven Wednesday afternoon
with cargo of lime on fire She was sealed
up. and it was thought the fire would be ex.
tinguished.
PENoBsCoT.
| Mr.. Henry Crocker, of Alton, was relieved
of his pocket-book containing thirty-two dol
| lars, on the train between Bangor and Alton
on Monday. the 18th. The pocket-book was
| found at Dover station. Wednasd,y morning.
! just under the edge of the platforin, minus
| thirty-oup dollars. And now the question
arises, why didn't the thiat take the other
dollar?- Commercial
PIsCATAQUIs.
| kine0 hotel man says that the hunters in
that vicinity are meeting with very good sue
cess with moose and deer About the same
number of these animals are being taken this
year as usual. He also says that fishermen
have had better luck at Moosehesd this year
than ever before.
| SOMERSET
| Mr.. Stanton Dav Of Boston ha. been in
Skowhegan looking over the mill property
and water power on the north side and the
old paper mill and privilege ou the south
side. Mr., Day has in view the establishment
of pulp mill on the north side and the
building of a mill fo- the manufacture Of
book paper on the old paper mill site, with
| new Ouiiutn2 ana new modern machinery
throughout, says the Reporter
calf belonging to Mr.. Chss. Wyman of
Skowhegan, got into the woods and became
so wild that ten men could not catch him
Mr.. j. W. Jewett ard his dog were broueh,
to the scene of action Monday. The dog
was put upon the track OF the animal and in
less than five minutes had him BY the
nose, holding him fast until a rope was put
around his neck.
WALDO
The Belfast Journal hears of violations of
the fish laws at Swanville, several fine trout
having been taken from the lake with nets.
Thursday night.
YORK
The Bddeford Journal reports that John
A. Cohey of Boston, who has achieved
notoriety as Parson Downs counsel, and
who was instrumental in procuring divorce
for Mrs. Florence Page, of this CITY, from
DR.. Charles Page, formerly of Biddeford
but now practlcing in Boston, which was
granted at the May term of court at Alfred.
has been sued by Mrs. Smith of Bddeford,
Mrs Pages mother, for $1,000 Cotfey charged
500 for procuring the divorce for Mrs
Page, which she refused to pay Afterwards
he collected some money for Mrs. Smith, and
as alleged, kept it 10 liquidate Mrs. Pages
bill