Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-05
ANDROsCoGGM,

| BorroN OF THE SEA.
ANDROscoGGIH.
| military board of examination. consisting
of Col. Henry l.. Mitchell, Mai. H. NJ
Sprague, and Capt. W. S. Choate, has been
| ordered to convene at Lewiston, Feb. 5th
for examining into the capacity, Qualification
and propriety of conduct and efficiency. or
for all other purposes relative to the good
order and discipline of any commissioned
officer or enlisted men of the militia Who NAV
be reported to them ss fit subjects for such
examination.
CUMBERLAND.
The Hinkley family. in Brunswick. have
received intelligence from England that thew
are heirs to q large estate in that country.
A lodge of Knights Of Labor has recently
been organized in Brunswick and already
numbers seventy members. Ten wears ago
the Free Masons were the only secret organ
ization in town. Now there are eight secret
societies, all in q fourishing condition. and
embrace among their members nearly all the
young men in the village
Rev. D. w. LeLacheur of Portland has
been very ill with neuralgix of the heart.
Edwin G. Titcomb, of New Gloucester, who
lately Rradusted from the Gorham Normal
School. was taken to the insane asylum at
Augusta last week.
The finding and recognizing of a police
mans billy" led to the arrest CT the Decos.
tas on the charge of burglary at the summer
cottages at Cape Elizabeth. The club was
formerly in the possession of Emma Decosta.
FRANKLIN.
The North jay Granite Company have con.
tracted to furnish the city of Cincinnati, Ohio,
the coming season, with one million paving
blocks, 10000 feet of curbing and 20 900 feet
OF tagging, which will make business brisk
In their quarry next season.
KENNEBEc.
In consequence of the breaking of wheel,
Maine Central train No. 26, freight, detached
five cars about mile this side of Annabes-
cook at midnight, Tuesday night. The cars
left the track free and clear, and did not tear
away the rails. No one WAS hurt and there
was little delay, says the Argus.
HANCOCK
E. E Mills, of Amherst, who WAS implica-
ted in q case Of arson, has been put under
81 200 bonds, which were furnished by his
sister, Mrs. Dunning, and Mr.. A. S Merrill,
reports the Bangor Commercial.
Parnel B. Moor got out three large trees
last week for bowsprits The largest re-
CURED eight horses to haul it. Such trees
are very scarce.
PENoBsCor.
William Abbott and P. A. Abbott of Dex-
ter, professionals in the art of fishing and
hunting, have established a salmon bust
ness there. They have built freeze house
and bring their salmon from Nova Scotia.
and ship it to the trade from this point
SAGADAHoc.
Timber on the Capt Goss farm, Woolwich,
is being cut off. The pine. spar timber, etc :,
goes to Days Ferry landing. The oak is
hauled to Bookings point, now Capt Pres
colts farm, and by help Of the ice bridge, the
ship-yard teams are taking it directly across
and to the wards of the N. f. Shipping Co.
The ice is about ~ to is inches thick at this
crossing.
WASHINGTON.
A ton of smelts sounds pretty large for
weeks catch, bv one man, but according to
the Machias Union, that was the luck Of
Austin Look Of Addison lately. Others
caught nearly that amount.
The Machias Union says there are at least
eleven couples in Addison who have been
married fifty years and upwards.
YORK
Contractor Scion S. Andrews of Biddeford,
who has been engaged to wreck the schooner
Juliet, which went down in Broad Sound out
side Boston harbor, several weeks ago, is &C.
lively engaged in the work, having begun
Monday. A letter from him states that he
went under water at 9 O'Clock Monday morn
ing, remaining Until three o'clock in the af
ternoon, at which hour he came ont for din
ner He went back again in half an hour
and stayed until quarter before 6. During
the day he sent up between so and 80 tons of
stone. They we're not the largest stones on
the wreck, for had they been there would
have been $50 tons probably
AT LARGE.
c. w. Morrison, grocer and lumber, Ellis
worth, Ne goes into insolvency. Sherman
& Hall, grocers, Boothbay, Me-, owe about
$4,000.