Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-11-01
State News.


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There 10 an immense crop of potatoes IN
Aroostook this year. Those delivered 10 the
starch factories have been uniformly small
showing that they have been chilled and thai
the marketable ones have been held for ship.
ment. Every farmers cellar is full, and the r.
will be, as said one shipper said the othe,
day, ''ten car loads of potstoe. sent forward
this year to one shipped last" 1t will take
every heater car that can be obtained bv the
n. b. r. r from now until March, at least.
10 take the potato crop to market
/ FRANKLIN
The barn of Sedgely Ross of Rangeley wa,
burned Wednesday. An insurance agent.
who had been adjusting losses. was in Range.
/ ley 90 business, reaching there as the barn
was burning. He examined the los, and Mr..
Ross had his insurance, $3.50, next dsy
/ HANCOCK.
The Benedict property on Strawberry Hill.
Bar Harbor, has been sold to John r. Mason
Of Bangor, and others, for $4,000.
KESSEBEc.
L. Lessor, of Wsterville, was before the
United States court at Portland. THURSDAY.
charged with selling liquor without having
paid The special United States tax He was
acquitted
There is a great deal of sickness. at Litch-
held Corner and vicinity, principally from
colds. The wife OF j. f Jack died SUNDAY
morning, Of consumption. after a lingering
Illness DIR. VIM. Coehrane has been very
seriously i'll, but is now better.
Saturday night the house of the widow of
Joshua Stevens of Rome was broken into
and sum OF money amounting t. nearly
$4,000 was taken from the chest in which il
was Kent. There il nlpa
says the Watervllle Sentinel
OXFORD.
| The managers of the Maine Cbautauoua
Assembly at their recent meeting in Portland
reported plans for the Improvement of their
grounds at Fryeburg. new dining hall and
dormitorles are to be erected and 4 horse
railroad built from the Portland & Ogdens-
burg Railroad to the grounds.
Nearly thirty years ago u Young man bv
the name Of John Blake left Dem
mark for Boston, Mass. he being about
seventeen years Of age. After a few week.
his father received a letter from him saving
that he had shipped on board vessel bound
FOR Melbourne, Australia and from that time
until last week his friends had heard nothing
from him and had given him up for dead.
Last week the postmast, r in this town had q
letter from him post marked and dated in a
town IN Kansas, inGuiring if any of hi. family
were living, and if so to pass the letter 10
them. His mother is still living.
PENoBscor.
| Mr.. C. II. Cutler OF Andover Seminary has
accepted his call to the psstorxte of the first
congregational church in Bangor. Mr.. Cut
Ter graduated from Bowdoin college in 81,
and was for some time tutor there.
| A modern instance of Shylock and the
pound of flesh without any blood is aoitatiog
Bangor man. He has built four-,enement
house and the house has q bay window which
the authorities claim projects ID inches over
the street line, and will have to be cut off,
The records which show the line of the road
are at Ellsworth and the line has been an
object of some dispute for sixty wears. The
owner warns them. if it is to be cut out, that
they don't cut more than the thirteen inches,
and that they make no mistake about the
line, or he will go to law with them.
PIsCATAoUIs.
A dam across the PIscataquis river at San
gerville, completed last Wednesday, ha.
gwen boom to manufacturing enterprise IN
that village, and next spring a large mill will
be erected there. The dam is 800 feet long.
Il feet high, and gives head of "a feet.
SOMERSET
| Twenty five acres of woodland belonging
to Samuel Morrill, of Skowhegan, were
burned over recently. The fire is supposed
to have been set BY hunters.
WALDO.
Young man in Belfast, while eating
honey one day. got bee sting in the roof of
his mouth The pain was as acute as thou Oh
sung by live bee, says the Journal
WASHINGTON.
Thomas Mccarthy. lad thirteen year.
old, was killed while loading q heavy stone
on drag at Skiff Lake. The stone was on
end, the lad standing on the drag When
the horses started, the bov fell, the stone
also falling struck him on the head He did
not recover connection ness, and died in about
thirteen hours, reports the Calais Times
Crayton Z. Plummer, of Harrington. was
arraigned last week, before Judge Rounds
for horse stealing and burglary in Addison,
says the Calais Times. In default of s., 900
bail he was sent to Machiss Jail
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