Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-10
State News.
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The annual meeting of the Relief Associa
ton of the Portland Fire Department was
held Wednesday evening Eight members
have been helped during the year. At an ex.
penditure Of s5l2- The resources of the
association are sll.S46 10.
KNOX.
The Congregational church in Washington
came near being destroyed BY fire. Sunday,
according TO the Rockland Courier-Gazette
After the fires were built. one of the chimney.
crumbled to.pieces over the ceiling and some
some of the bricks tumbled down upon the
organ. but doing no damage Luckily no
one was near enough TO be injured The
church services were not abandoned, but
were held in one of the other churches. Help
near at hand saved it.
The South Union postofice paid $50 the
past year. that being more than any veal
since it was started.
A man in Rockland, the owner of an ineu
bator. hstched four chickens out of 700 eggs
E. Burketr. of Union, has horse, twenty
nine years of age, that he has owned twenty.
five years. In that time this horse has rrav-
elled 10 Rockland and back nearly 00(
times. the distance being about thirteen miles
each way.
lions Herald reports as follows of revival
work in the county. In Boothbay twentv-tw
were baptized bv the pastor. March 26th, ant
twenty-.ix received to probation; in West
port twenty five or more converts are re-
ported as the. result Of the first wears minis
try there of Rev G Stilphen. The protrac
ted meeting held by the pastor of the Metho
dist church in Bristol, has resulted 10 the
fanv faf,n f 90 81
whom have united with the church on proba
tion. Several more were received into full
membership, Sunday, April 4th.
OXFORD.
Mrs Jerry Curtis of Rumford, aged about
Go years, attempted suicide "Wednesday after
noon. by stsbbng herself in the throat with
pair of shears. The wound is not consid
cred dangerous. Her husband was buried
last Sunday, which probably is the cause of
her dependency.
Mr.. Otis Howe, who lives few miles above
Rumford, has dog that has captured two
coons and one fox and brought them to the
house without assistance.
PENoBsCoT.
Last winter one OF the employees at the Old
tow pulp MILL lost envelope containing
about $50, and had given up all hopes of evel
finding it, when one day. Mr. l.. A. Butfuu
preseated 1t to him, having found it in the
road after the snow had settled.
The town of Carmel is quite excited over
the disappearance of $500 of its money. II
was part of its bank and mill tax that shoulc
have been divided among the schools but wa,
not. and the schools have been cheated out o.
this amount There is talk of special tow Il
meeting to raise this amount for the schools
The schooner Sylvanus q. Haskell, If
which Bangor parties are interested. was IT,
tally wrecked at Abacoa, March 2Sth She
was bound from New York to Galveston. A
part Of the cargo was saved. The vessel wa,
1874 tons, built in Millbridge in 1888, and tn,
larger part of her was owned in Deer Isle
says the Wing.
| The stage that runs from Pattrn to For
| Kent could not make Its trip Wednesday OF
occount of the snow drifts and had to return
to Patten. Quite heavy fall of snow oc
CURED in the northern part of the State whil
it was raining further south,