Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-31
State News.


CUMBERLAND.
Portland is to have sire Inquest TO in
vestigate the causes of the late FIRE. Such
hres are growing too frequent 10 that city for
| comfort.
LINCOLN.
The post office at Winslow's Mills. tvosn5
. half miles from Waldoboro centre will on
into operation April l.t. The Office will he
in Vannsh, Sweeney Company's mill. W.
A. Vannah, Postmaster Mail. will proba.
bly, be received by rail. 1t is perhaps a
waste of words to say that mail should be ad.
dressed ''Winelow's Mills. Lincoln County.
Maine" and that the addition of "WaIdobo.
ro' will delay matters from one to two DAVIS.
OXFORD.
Canton toll bridge is being rebuilt and il is
expected it will be ready for travel in about
10 days. The timber used is Southern pine.
Reuben Weld, Esq, of Livermore Falls. has
charge of the building. Mr. Dexter, the man
that was injured by the falling of this bridge.
Is getting along very we'll. and thinks he will
be able to get to his home in Wayne, in abou,
six weeks.
PENOBsCor
There are no new Developments in the cat.
tie disease at the Maine State College from.
The superb tepdent, still says that all of the
cattle are sick and thinks it is only a question
OF time when they will all be killed. They
are now in charge of the State Cattle Com
mlssioners. and will await their disposal.
The Bangor police have begun a raid on
the gambling houses of that city SATURDAY.
evening they closed five dens, and captured
800 worth of chips. The keepers of the
nj
court, Monday. Each was fined 500 and
costs. Appealed.
There are now AZ prisoners In Penob.cot
county Jail, slight increase during the past
few weeks.
SAGADAHoC.
The Lewiston Journals Bath correspond.
ent gives the following shipyard notes, and
says Business is booming in the New Eng
land shipyard Two steamers and five other
vessels are being constructed, including the
Jonathan Sawyer Of Dover, N. H., which
will be launched. Tuesday. She is 40 feet
long, 80 wide, 1913 deep, net tonnage 379 =
20. {. II. Tricky and others of Dover are
owners. Capt Reynod. will be commander.
The Sawyer is a three-master, has all the
latest Improvements. including steam holster,
and will be ready for sea soon, to load ice at
Boothbav for the South. The Maine Cen
trail steamer is planked up and the cabins
nearly finished. The l0OO-ton, four masted
schooner for j. T. Anderson. Port Richmond,
Staten Island, is half framed out. The keel
is stretched for W. A. Anderson's 1000 ton
four-masted schooner. The stone steamer
for New York and the Maine Granite Paving
Block Co, of Frankfort is framed 1t is
800 tons and will be commanded bv Capt.
Patterson of Bangor. The Capt. Jake Phillip
| schooner of Taunton, Mass 1900 tons, is
nearly framed. The moulds for Number
2O4, for Capt. Mason of New Haven, $50
tons, have been sent into the woods for TIM
ber The fOur-masted schooner Agnes Man
| ming, launched last week from this yard, will
load ice at Boothbay for Savannah.
WASHINGTON.
The Machas lunbermen are out of the
woods. They report hard season for ope-
rations but say that the total amount of
lumber put into the Machas River will not
fall so far short of an average cut as at one
time it was thought it would.
YORK
"Uncle" John Kimball, "a he was familiar
ly called by the people of Bddeford who
knew him, a pensioner in the late war and a
farmer in a small way, was foand dead at his
house Monday forenoon. He was about II
years old and . veteran of the 32d Maine
| regiment in the war of the rebellion. Three
dau ghters survive him.
Rev j. w. Webster of Kittery Point, has
accepted call to Lowell, Maine.