Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-20
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
THE AROOsToOX RAILROAD
RsiIroad Commissioners viii Inspect ii thurs
day Nexs

On THURSDAY next the State railroad
commissioners will inspect the line Of thc
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. After
the inspection if the rosi is thought ser
regularly. This rev road will save the PEG
tie of IToulton and vicinity consiIe rable
time and WEAKNESS of travelling. To reach
he shire town of Aroostook county Houlton,
one would have to spend all day upon the
train leaving this city and going by way of
the Canadian Pacific after leaving the Maine
Central. When the line known as the
Bangor & Aroostook is finished, ready for
daily passenger and freight trains, the
!Ioulton people will be able to breakfast at
home and reach Boston in time to take
supper of baked beans and brown bread.
At present the traveller is taken by
way of the c. Z. r. r., desolate, and
roundabout way before the Garden of
Maine is reached. On the other hand the
b. & A. Railroad extends through a section
of Maine where beautiful scenery greets
the eye and lakes, rivers, and huge forests
add to the splendor of the trip.
This new railroad means saw
ing in distance Of about eighty
miles between Houlton and Bangor. There
/, link, so to speak, between Brownville
and Dover of ten miles, which if connected
by railway, will still make the new rail
road more direct route TO Aroostook.
Tuesday evening corpse arrived on the
rs train from Boston. The certificate
upon the cover of the box bore the follow
ing Samuel Grove, aged Sc years died
in Weisbaden, Germany, Nov. 4. Cause
of death, paralysis of the heart" The cof-
fin was an unusually large one. Undertake r
knowlton took it in charge inn ediately
upon arrival and conveyed it to hi, head
quarters, where the coffin was taken out of
the box and then carried to the Episcopal
where it will remsin till today at
II O'Clock, when there will be private
funeral. The decea.ed was relative of
Mrs Rufus Childs of this city.
On and after Tuesday, the 2Gth OF De-
cember. the cars on the Electric X. r.,
Leaving Augusta and Gardner on the half
hour from 5. so to A. NJ, and from : 30
to 80 p. NJ, viii be discontinued until
spring. The other cars will run as hereto
fore, viz, on the even hour from eath end |
from s A. NJ. till 10 2. NJ, and the half |
hour cars will begin at each end at so A. |
NJ. and run till 7 80 p. NJ, and this last car |
70 Hsllowell only. Saturday evenings trips |
will be made every half hour as at present. |
E xtra ears will be run-to all entertainments |
q the three ciiies AMI q: such other lines
u are wanted.
Tuesday, William Trimble of Calais, v no |
. overseer OF the poor at that place, came |
iere and took Miss Ellen McAlpine from the
usane hospital to her home in Calais. This |
little girl, who is about thirteen years of
age, was never considered wholly insane by |
he family physician. She will be well
jared for when taken to her native town. |
1t has been two years since she was PLACED
"a the hospital here.
IL it lack of system or desire to make an |
economical ~ sho~ing or both to which |
he poor condition of sidewalks may be |
attributed? People resiiing back of State !