Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-01

weeks ahead and are running day and
night. They are making nice quality
of ladies cloaking
The vacation at the Castine Normal
School has lust commenced. The past
term was very successful one and there
was good attendance.
The Maine Central has adopted an
other metropolitan idea which is fast
finding favor with the travelling public
| On the outskirts of the different cities
and towns at cross roads corners little
sheds open toward the track are being
erected. with switch target stuck
| through the roof. When person wishes
to take The train he turns the target
around as 3 switch is turned against the
| main line, and the trains stop to pick him
up. Thus every local train becomes in
| truth an accommodation train. This idt a
! has been In force on the Fltchburg Rail
| road out of Boston for several years and
is very popular. Express trains are not
affected by it
Machias people will welcome the ar
rival Of the City of Richmond which
will commence her regular trips for the
season between Portland and that place
on March Sth. which is much earlier
than last spring
| William P. Townsend of Clearwater
Trout Ponds, Bux on. has sold $500
worth Of raw furs this winter, of which
he has caught good portion. He says
he has caught 30 furred animals since
the 18th of last October. and also shot
30 wild ducks. and other small game
i W 4 ~
county, or in the State perhaps, can
show 80 good record as this. Town
send is we'll versed in the use OF steel
traps, having used them for "a years.
Three families, Is persons in all. have
been poisoned at Mount Chase, recently,
probably by the use of cooking soda
which had been kept for a long time in "a
| box. One death ia9 ensued and others
are seriously i'll The cause is unknown
but il is thought that there may have
been poison in rhe box before the soda
| was placed in il,
Alba Holmes has purchas I'd the water
| compsnys plant at Caribou and it is
| expected that pulp mill and large lum-
| Der mills will soon be erected there. The
| dam across the Aroostook will furnish
| unlimited power. All the town wants
| now is the direct railroad.
The Waterville Sentinel gives evidence
| Of its prosperity by appearing this week
in new dress Of handsome BREWER type
he face, though smaller than that Of
the type formerly used,is clear and dis
tinct, and the paper looks very neat and
readable. 1t is model weekly.
Bernard Kluisner. who lives in Au
burn, near the point where the big and
little Andr oscoggin rivers join, has been
digging up for several years Indian rel
les Of all kinds, There are pieces of
pottery Of every description. These,
though well worn, possess marks that
show thNt they were well figured and
,rnamented There is large number
of arrow and spear heads. some Of flint, |
and some of various other kinds OF rock. |
These vary in size, the arrow heads |
from one to three inches in length, |
those for the spears 1siderably |
larger A well worn axe of stone |
with deep crease around it where |
the handle was attached, not by insert |
ing ii inside the axe. Tut BY splitting |
and binding it around the outside. small |
rounded, sharp edge stones for removing
the skins OF animals, lorg stones Of |
small diameter, some for fisying AMI
mails. some as cubs. peces of toma
hawk. sinker for fish net and several |
other instruments Of unaccounfabie de-
sign, compose the remainder OF the co.
lection An interesting fact about the
ind is That in places there were solid
beds Of clam shells be'ow the surface.
and an ong these shells nearly all the
pottery was found One piece OF the
pottery pas found in well prt served
fireplace built Of stone and of circular
shape.