Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-17
State News.
PASTORAL CHANGEs-A LoNG-L1yKp F.Nr.
LY.-FARA BUILDINGS BURNED.

State News.
PASTORAL CHASGEs-A LoNG-L1vEp FAM
Lr.-FARh BUILDINGS BURNED.
AKDRoscoGGIN.
Six new pastors viii occupy the pulpits O.
Lewiston and Auburn thi. wear, At the fol.
lowing churches: Auburn. High street Con
gregational. Court street Free Baptist: Lev
l1Dn, Park street Methodist, Hammond stree,
Methodist, Bates street Baptist and Pin,
street Free Baptist. Mr. Thomas of the 9Th
street Chapel, Auburn, is also a new man
ut has been a standing custom for MANY
years. (says q correspondent no allude tc
Methodist ministers as having no abiding
place or continuing city, and a. being pecu
farly subject to short psstorates; but it han
pens. singularly enough, that Rev. Mr.. Roe.
ers of the Park street Methodist and Rev. MI,
Sanderson of the Hammond street Methodist
are the two oldest settled pastors in the two
cities, with the exception of Rev. Mr. WASH
burn of Trinity church.
A tramp who was entertained over night a,
the Lewiston police station, Sunday, said he
came from the ''north end of Maine" Cross
questioned he defined it as Houltou.
CUMBERLAND.
Mrs. Bethiah A. Bearce of Portland. died
IN that city on Friday and is remarked bv the
Portland Sunday Times as the last to die from
out family circle remarkable for longevity
OF the members and numbers composing it,.
The family consisted of ~ brothers and sis.
ters-tive males and seven femsles-the chill
dren Of Moses and Rebecca Fits, who came
to Maine from Gloucester, Mass. Every
child BORN 10 the family reached an advanced
age, and at a family reunion held in Auburn
number of years ago, on the 50th wear of
the youngest, every member was present.
the Oldest there being 70. Their united age
was 7S4 years months. An inciden: in con-
nection with this case is that several of the
family, although living on the same spot
many years, have been residents during that
time of two States, Massachusetts and Maine ;
of two counties, Cumberland and Androscog-
gin; of three towns, Pejepscot, Minot aud
Danville, and of one city, Auburn.
Harry Hooper, the man who was so badly
injured at the powder mill explosion at Gam
DO, last week, died Friday night.
A Portland lawyer found q large quantity
of valuable historical matter, Saturday, in
the basement under the clerk Of courts Office,
including fine plan of that part of the city
between High and Centre streets from Con
gress to the water front. This plan wa,
traced by Lothrop Lewis in 1907 for use in
the case Of Greenleaf vs.. Mussey, in the
Court of Common Pleas.
HANCOCK.
Burton N. Harrison, who was Jefferson
Davis private secretary during the war, j.
having summer cottage erected at Bar
Harbor. He is now practicing lawyer il
New York
KENNEBEC.
Parties who saw the Portland swindler or
Saturday recognized him as a man who ha
previously offended in the same line o
swindling in Kennebec county AMI wa. know,
there as the "weasel." A few mosths ago h,
made an offer to purchase the residence of S
w. Huntington in Hallowell. but was discov
cred to be swindler and driven out of tn,
county. His real name was discovered a
that time to be Orrin Longfellow, and hi
proper place of residence is 10 Palermo, Me
Physicians performed, this week, yer,
difficult operation on the eyes of Mrs. LAWNS
Sherborn, of DunD's Corner, Readfeld. Tn,
| object was to remove two cataracts from tn
lady's eyes, although she is now in her S3t
year. The physicians were successful be
yond their most sanguine hopes, as no feve
| or subsequent inflammation set in. The oil
| lady would probably have died without eve
knowing that she could expect relief, had no
| the doctor been summoned for another com
plant.
| Saturday afternoon, the farm building o
James and Lincoln Williams, Oak Hill
| Litchteld, were burned. The fire took in
| room over the kitchen, aud it is supposed
| from the chimney. The fire extended to tn
wooashed, carriage house and barn, consum
| ing all with most of contents. The sheel
were burned. A small portion of furnitur
| in the house was saved. Loss about $500
| insured for 1925. No one was at home a
| the time but Mrs. L. Williams with an infan
child.
PENoBsCoT.
The stage route from Bangor to Stockton
which for some time past has been in thu
hands of various parties has been sold by tn
owner to Frank Brown of Hampden.
WALDO.
A number OF pairs of fat oxen have bee
lately sold at Thorndike, at about seve
cents per pound, dressed weight -Harves
Moon Grange had a deaf and dumb suppe
Thursday night. good number was pres
ent and all pronounced it first rate time
Shedding is hard, not much produce bein
hauled in, the dealers are paying so cent
per bushel for potatoes and Sl4 per ton 70
best hay.
WASHINGTON.
Colonel Greene recently addressed q meet
ing of citizens of Calais concerning the pro
posed Shore Line Railroad. He asked Of tn
city S45, 200, under proper guarantees, tina
the through line from Calais to Bangor SHOULD
be completed within two years from the tim
of commencing work. The result of the de
bate which followed was the appointment @
. committee to draft proposition to be re
ported at an adjourned meeting. An expires
sion of the sense of the meeting with refer
ence to the railroad was then taken, and tn
vote was declared unanimous in favor of aid
ing the road. The adjourned meeting va
held Tuesd " evening, when the report of til
committee was submitted. The commtte
offered three several propositions and it wa
voted to re-commit the reports to see if tn
committee could not agree upon a sngl
proposition, which Col. Greene would acceI
and which the city council could be instruct
ed to submit to vote of the people. TIL
meeting then adjourned to next Thursda
evening, March Is.
| The Biddeford repesters were brought int
court Saturday, arragned, and plead nc
guilty. Bail was fixed at $1,000, and as n
one appeared to furnish it, they were con
mtted to Jail
A manufacturer association has been oil
ganzed in Bdieferd. with J. G. Garland