Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-22
State News.
AccIDENT-ADMITTED TO THE BAR-SUGAR
REFINrNG-HARDsHIPs IN THU MAIL SER
vICE-STRAYED AWAY.
ANDRosCOGGIN.

ANDROsCOGGIN.
Thomas Orland, an employee in Crafts shoe
factory, Auburn, met with serious accident
Wednesday. While putting a sole into .
moulder the machinery descended, amputat-
one. and breaking two fingers Of the left
hand. s25 was raised by the operatives
towards defraying the doctors bills.
A. NJ Edwards of Lewiston was admitted
to the Oxford bar. Saturday He is native
of Bethel, a son of Col Edwards Of that place.
He was graduated from Bowdoin College IN
the class of 1880, and from the Law School
of the University of Iowa in 1884. He was
admitted to the bar in Iowa in June, 1884.
He read law for time with Hon. Enoch
Foster, at Bethel Mr.. Edwards is principal
of the Lewiston Grammar School, and he has
won the confidence and respect Of our citizens
generally, who could i'll afford to lose his ser
vices and would find great difficulty in efti-
GENTLY supplying his place.
OF l42 students at Bates College, 50 have
been teaching in country schools this winter.
Mr.. Isaac G. Field, well known as one of
Lewiston's old residents, died on Thursday
evening, the 18th. Mr.. Field was native
of Falmouth, but came to Lewiston in early
life.
ARoOsTooK.
Charles Nealey of StacyviIle, who was SEN
fenced one year ago to one year in State Pris-
on for the murder of Mike Welch, has been
discharged and has returned to his home.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland and Rochester railroad COM
pany are preparing to lay long side track
between Cumberland Mills and Westbrook
Junction station.
Deputy Sheriff Chute Of Saccarappa found
a Scotchman, well advanced in years, lying
BY the roadside in state of intoxication, one
cold night recently. 1t required considerable
exertion to bring him to consciousness. In
his pocket was found quart of whiskey and
a pint flask of gin.
The Eagle Sugar Refinery of Portland will
renew operations about the lst of March. The
Eagle runs molasses entirely. employs about
so men. and produces 10000 to IL 900 hogs
heads Of sugar in the season, from March till
October. large amount of stock for the
refinery is now en- route. Appraiser Pierce
and Assistant Appraiser Woodmsn, at the
custom house. are making arrangements for
the increased work that the starting of the
Eagle will make. An important part of their
duties is the testing of raw sugars with the
polariscope. Mr.. Pierce has had a new
laboratory constructed and has made other
improvements in his department.
KNOX.
The recent rains did considerable damage
in the vicinity of Rockland by filling up the
limerick quarries with water. In some of
them, the water got the best of the pumps
altogether, and it will cost a considerable
amount to clear them.
LINCOLN
Few people know the hardships endured in
carrying the mail around the seacoast. Capt.
VIM S. Humphrey. who conveys the mail
from Monhegan to Boothbay, underwent a
severe experience in fulfilling his duty the
week of the storm. He started from Monhe-
gan Tuesday morning with the thermometer
10 degrees below zero and the vapor so thick
that it was impossible to see, in his boat with
one man. They had proceeded nearly half
way to Boothbay. when in reefing the main
sail the man with HIM was knocked into the
water, and rescued with the greatest difficult
tv, making it necessary to return to port.
Wednesday, with the mercury and vapor the
same he again attempted to reach Boothbay,
when his bowsprit and jib were carried away
by the gale. Thursday his mainsail was torn
to ribbons by the wind, Friday he had pro-
ceeded quite defiance when he was knocked
down by the sea, and his boat nearly filled
WIN wafer. SATURDAY he arrived In Booth
bay having hired vessel to take him there.
Bath Sentinel.
SAGADAHOC.
little ten-year-old Bath girl str ,yed away
from her home Thursday afternoon. long
search failed to find her, and it was l3O
o'clock Friday morning before she was dis
covered by parties returning from a dance,
asleep on the ground near Central church
She was very much chilled by the exposure
The girl is quite large of her age and has the
appearance of being possessed of a wilful ma
ture. The mother says her daughter is very
dlsobedlent and inclined to run away from
home, she having heretofore caused consider
able trouble in that respect The father of
the girl has been dead about five years and
an older sister is an inmate of the Industrial
School at Hallowell.