Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-17

Inc dSScSSofS estimate -
population at 40, S45.
Bridgton Centre has about decided to
illuminate with electricity.
The mackerel have struck the Maine
coast and there is good ishing on
Brigham's and Small Point.
For 10 successive years past a Fort
Fairfield farmer has sold a local firm a
pair of fat oxen, the average price of
which was 500.
A citizen who has ived in Bruins
wick for the past 60 years says that
the longest time that he has been alb
sent from the town is three weeks.
j. H.. Garland of Pemaquid Beach,
has completed a lobster pound which
cost $4,000 and covers an area of five
acres. 1t will cost more to fill it than
to build it.
About a year ago a Bath lady
stepped on a needle which penetrated
her foot and remained there. A few
days ago her physician removed il
from her side.
There have been built in the nelfast
customs district for the year ending
June, 1896, 2,404.37 tons of shipping,
dB dlilSt only abOu IL WINS INV oihNh
yachts, for the year 1895.
Potatoes took a sudden start in Fort
Fairfield to q dollar a barrel Saturday.
1t is claimed to be a merely speculative
boom in price, with little in market
conditions to warrant it.
Mr.. Geo. f. Soule of South Portland,
is one of the heaviest. if not the heavi-
est, bicycle riders in the State of Maine.
Mr.. Soule is a young man "a years OF
age, and weighs 325 pounds.
OF the 2S graduates in the class of '9e
IN the mems college at Colby, % are
Republicans. OF the other three one
Is a Democrat, one Il Populist and one
is on the fence. Twelve of the Is
graduates in the women's college are
Republicans and the other three are
Democrats.
The blubber of the biggest big fish"
recently captured at Mill river, which
has been under treatment at the
V%inalhaven Fish company factory
Yields four barrels of oil for the cap
tors. The teeth, some of which meas
ure five inches long, have been pre-
served as souvenirs.
1t is said that there is q small pond
between Little and Big Russell noun
tains in Blanchard that is full of
speckled trout. The name given the
pond is P~unchbowl and it is said to be
known to very few people. One of the
game wardens in the vicinity of Dover
is said to know its location.
There are two persons who row live
in Freeport whose fathers were sol
d:ers in the American Revolution.
Mrs. Susan Dennison Soule aged about
90 years whose father was the late
Capt. David Dennison, and Mrs.
Emery Jones also q resident in this
town is the daughter of a Revolution
ary soldier.
Alexander Dawes, a young man OF
1S, while out cunning a Thinkers Island.
Seal Cove, Friday, attempted to clint
n fence, and while doing so stumbled
and in some way discharged his CUR
the entire charge entering his throat
and lower part of the face, coming o u
at the back of the neck and head
Death ensued instantly.
A party searching for the emains Of
Aaron Learned, the missing Washburr
man. discovered. a week ago, a single
Done three miles northeast from where
Learned entered the woods. This bonC
was examined by DR.. Sleeper Of Wash
burn. and pronounced by him to be the
shin one of a man. On it were marks
of the teeth of animals. Parties are
now searching for other portions of thu
body of the unfortunate man.
Charles Pride of Norway. had his
cows examined and tested by DR.
George H. Bailey, chairman of the
State board of cattle commissioners
who found three of the herd slightly
affected with tuberculosis and they
We're killed Saturday. Mr.. Pride hat
no idea that they were troubled will
the disease, but as some other parties
were having their cattle tested he con
cluded to have his examined, with the
result as stated above.
There are at present several thou.
sand beautiful large salmon in the pools
at the Green Lake hatchery. Thes
salmon are to be turned into the lakt
soon on account of some repairs ant
changes which are to be made in the
water system. Among other thing.
there will be a standpipe erected t.
supply water without passing through
the pools as at present. All small fish
at the hatchery are to be distributed
right away. Most of them are to be pu
into Maine ponds and lakes, all but abou
$4,000. The United States Fish commits
sion car is now at the lake to receive
a load of fish to be distributed.
One dose of DR.. Fowler's Ext. o