Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-30
State News.
AyDRosCoGGy.

ASpRoscoeers.
The Lewiston city physician has four cases
of typhoid fever 10 one house in the thickly
settled portions near the river
LIvERMoRE FALLS Our correspondent
writes thar the man found dead on the rail-
road track Thursday was Lawrence Garcelon
OF Pennington. He was a Young man about
IL years old.
ARoosrooK.
Ii has been found that the Pullman car be
| tween Bangor and Woodstock does not nav
and 1t will therefore be taken off at the end Of
the present month. Ii was put on expressly
for the accommodation of the Aroosrook nan.
pie, SAYS the Wing.
CUMBERLAND.
Thomas Hughes and John F. Hoyt. CHARGED
with smuggling, were before Commissioner
Rand of Portland. Wednesday morning. II
was shown that the defendants sold cigars and
liquors upon the International boats, and
were accustomed to transport their goods
from New Brunswick TO the United States
without the payment of duty. They were
ordered to recognize in the sum of $500 each
TOR their appearance before the U. s. Dis
trict Court.
FRANKLIN
Last Thursday a train of nineteen cars
loaded with paving blocks left North jaw for
Cincinnati, Ohio, and on an average eight
cars of blocks are daily shipped there. An
order for 1000, 900 more blocks has been re-
ceived from the same city, TO be furnished
next year. but the Pennington Chronicle
learns they are unable to fill the order, as
the capacity of the quarry will not be sufi-
cient.
KENNEBEc.
The Sentinel saws Catholic convent will
probably be built in Waterville before auoth.
er year.
man passing by the gasometre at the
North Vassslboro wooden mills, Wednesday.
thought he heard groans, and on investigation
found Joseph Libby, one of the yard hands
Frustrated by gas. Ropes were brought by
which the body was lifted out onto the grass
doctor was summoned who said that if he
had lain there one minute longer life would
have been extinct. He is now rapidly recoy.
ering. says the Waterville Sentinel.
J. P. Goddard, hotel keeper at Branch
Mills, had q reunion of brothers, sisters and
children, last Sunday. Thirty five Of them
in all sat down to dinner.
The Railroad Commissioners, having de-
cided that the exigency of the case demanded
it, have condemned all the land belonging to
Frazier Gilman and wife. between the track
and the river in Watervlle. Meantime work
on the shops is being pushed rapidly
LINCOLN.
The post-ofhce lately established at Wal
pole makes the seventh in the town of Rris
toll.
Business is very active at the Damarisco ia
shell mill now. Twenty men are constantly
employed and since Monday last the mill has
been kept running for half the nigh, grinding
out about twenty-five tons per dav. 1t is
said the proprietors will soon extend the bust
ness and employ twenty or thirty more hands.
OXFORD.
Mr.. Eben Norton of Porter died from min.
ries received in falling from load of hay.
He leaves a wife and eleven children, saws
the Norway Advertiser.
PENoBscor
The Bangor Commercial saws: Rev. G.S.
Hill of Dexter met with painful accident
while in the hay field few days ago. 1t
seems that the horses on the rack which he
was using started and he ran to seize the reins
when he was struck in the leg by the end of
spoke which, the tire being partly broken.
was left bare. Soon afterward Mr.. Hill was
| taken with lock Jaw and is now quite ill.
Bangor, saws the Wing, boasts of one spin
ster who for business, ability, pluck and &C.
tivity cannot be excelled. She is great
fancier of cows and has quite a herd which
she milks at all times of the day and night,
being exceedingly eccentric in the latter re-
gard. The animals are kept in splendid con-
diton and are said to be perfectly trained.
Last fall the owner sold six cows to 90 to
Fort Fairfield, but did not get her pay as
agreed. She waited all the winter, spring
and part of the summer and finally started
after them She walked the whole distance
Of 100 miles and returned driving her own
cows. The journey occupied about six
weeks and the pedestrian did not seem at all
tired after it Aass over. She was subjected to
many curious remarks in the towns through
which she passed. In some places BOYS tried
to stampede the herd, but the animals would
always halt at word from their owner and
would follow her anywhere.
SAGADAHoC
The executive committee of the Sagadahoc
Agricultural Society have voted to offer
purses to the amount of $3.50 for trottipp
horses in the different classes, and voted to
build on the grounds at Topsham stable, for
the use of trotting and other horses on exhi-
biton.
The big four-masted schooner lately
launched at Bath is being fitted with her sails
SOMERSET.
Plans and specifications have been made
for sewerage system for Skowhegan
The Maine Central are to build a new
freight house at Skowhegsn, on the lot next
the Skowhegan House.
keene Bros. have been sued and their
property at Skowhegan has been attached
Fourteen distinct suits have been commenced
by the discharged workmen. who claim that
they were engaged for a year. Merrill &
Coffin, in behalf of the men, have commenced
the suits, and Capt. Vaughan served the
papers on Mr.. Stafford, the Superintendent,
last Monday. Webb & Webb, Of Waterville,
are counsel for Keene Bros IN all matters in
this State, and they will defend the suits.
The Fairfield Journal says that Col. Bangs
men have dug q well near the quarries at
Dodlin's Hill, in NorridQewock, to a depth of
eight feet. and have obtained such flow of
water that curbing extending two feet
above the surface of the ground is over
flowed.
AT LARGE.
Some of the berry pickers in Maine, f ind
this year almost too many berries. From