Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-24

Fish Warden Gribben recently seized
80 short Holsters from William s. Eusti.
of Harpswell.
Civil engineers are at work making {
survey of South Portland for a topo
graphical chart.
Several small children have died n
Washburn, recently, from the effect.
of whooping cough
| The frost will soon rattle down the
acorns; and they say that acorns are
going to be plentiful.
Mr.. s. b. Hayes Of Lewiston. Is build
ing n handsome summer cottage a
Casco Terrace. Falmouth Foreside.
| There are now los prisoners in the
| county JAIL About 40 OF the men are EN-.
pioyed at breaking stone in the basement
of the workshop.
| Dixfleld is planning to have good
system of water works in a year OIL
two. and it is reported that nearly q
mile Of pipe will be laid in Upton.
| Mrs. F. J. Chase OF Washington. has
a hydrangea paniculata granifora,
which covers an area Of 1856 square feet
and has over twelve hundred large
| panicles OF flowers upon II.
Several of the prominent business
men are in correspondence with a shoe
concern and there is a possibility that
there may be a shoe factory built in
Foxcroft within a short time.
Tramps are numerous. 1t Is UNDER
stood that a citizen was held up just
below Paris Hill and collared. But by
a skillful manipulation of his whip he
succeeded in affecting his escape.
Visiting in Bangor is Robert Gunner
son Of Stockholm. who was for a long
time employed upon the Andree bal
loon while it was being prepared for
the long voyage into the nothingness
of the North.
The prisoners at the county Jail in
Auburn are in luck again. a barber who
is willing to work cheaper than on the
outside" having recently been COM
mitted to the prison to serve a sentence
for intoxication.
The Thomson line are evidently sat
isfied with the business of last year at
Portland for instead of a fOrtnightly
line as heretofore they have arranged
with the Grand Trunk Railway for a
weekly service, for which they will put
on six of their largest steamers with n
cargo capacity of from 5000 to 1000 tons
each. -.,,- --ab
The dogs about Bucksport seem to
have suddenly taken a violent dislike
to the east and several pet felines have
been put to sleep during the past few
days, the former owners of which are
consequently much angered and are
looking for the destroyers with the in
tention of melting out a just and
speedy punishment.
At Lynch's market on Exchange
street. Bangor, Tuesday morning, was
displayed the carcass of a bear. The
animal was captured in Lincoln, was
evidently yearling and weighed about
100 pounds. AS an indication that it is
profitable to shoot bears at the present
time it is stated that the skin of the
animal was sold for SIS.
Warren is taking on airs and with
good reason. The tidal wave of pros
perity has struck this progressive Knox
county town so as to be felt by every
individual of no matter what political
party. The factory and mill are rushed
with orders and the waters of Georges
river cannot make the machinery re-
volve fast enough to turn out sufficient
goods to fill the orders. And there Is q
cry going up for new tenements.
The government agent at Portland
has been in Mi1bridge lately and has
given out word that no more appro-
priations will be made for the Nara
guagus until the mill owners cease
dumping sawdust and slabs into the
river. The river there is fast filling up
and the money appropriated and used
in dredging it in the past. has been a i
needless expenditure. The government
will do no more in this direction until
the practice Of throwing sawdust into
the river is stopped entirely.
David Hurlburt of Whitneyville. has
petitions in circulation asking the gov
eminent to remove the charge of de-
sertion against him, from the Sixth
Maine Regiment. Mr. Hurlburt de-
serted the Sixth Maine by reason of
home troubles, and as he entered an
other regiment and served honorably to
the close it is set forth that the remov-
al of this disability would be but JUS
tice Mr. Hurlburt is debarred from |
in the pension bounty of the |
government while such charges are
pending.
A Rockland man who has been look |
ing for a rent, told his wife, Friday |
night, that he believed he had found |
just what would suit them, referring to I
an unoccupied house on Gay street. /
About 2.30 o'clock the next morning |
they were aroused by the fire alarm
and from their windows could plainly
see the blaze. IF am not mistaken"
said the wife, Il should say that that
fire was very near the house you des-
cribed to me yesterday" And singu-
larly enough this proved the case and
the gentleman in question is still look
ing for rent.
Street Commissioner Remick Of Bid
deford, missed one of his dogs. Satur-
day night. and had made up his mind
that some OF the followers Of the fair
had stolen 1t when he received box
express from Gardiner with the miss
ing dog in it. 1t seems that the dog |
had been picked UP by one of the sail
ors on a schooner which cleared for
Gardiner. Sunday morning. The cap