Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-22

HIS IlOuSe.
It's been a bad season with the Mil
bridge Smelt fishers.
OF the large total of 50 arrests in Port
land last week, AZ were for drunkenness.
Thirty-four signers to the temperance
pledge in one day is not so bad, even for
Gardiner.
The Biddeford school board has decided
to limit the number of graduation parts
to six. X
A Bangor doctor says that out of
24.799 people in that city at least $4,000
have colds.
4 James A. Muldoon of PASSPORT, is said
to be the most eaSterly licensed bill
poster in the country.
During the past week Mrs. H. c..
Hall of Jonesboro, who is ninety lone
years of age, cut and made herself a
dress.
About 1925 was realized by the. Ebony
Swells' minstrel performance at Els
worth Tuesday evening, the talent being
all local.
A Biddeford horse while working in the
woods slipped and sharp stick was
thrust into q leg, rupturing vessel and
the horse bled to death.
The total assessed value of real and
personal estate in Hancock county for
1896 is $l2051, 255. an increase of Sl20, 2s9
over the preceding year.
The first carload of oranges ever re-
ceived in Lewiston or Auburn direct
from California arrived. Monday. ten
days ahead Of schedule time.
A 13-year-old cigarette ''iiend' in Bid
deford. fell insensible while playing the
other day and remained unconscious 20
minutes. the result of smoking and it's
fleet upon the heart.
We are informed on good authority
hat another undertaking establishment
is to be opened in town. Well. competi-
ton is the life of trade.-York Courant.
Death has been supposed to be the life
of that trade.
The laugh is on three Skowhegan young
men who drove to North Arson, last Fri
lay night. to attend sociable. Judge OF
their surprise upon reaching the house
where t.,e affair was held to find that 1t
was a wood saving bee to which they
had been invited.
A little miss living in the lower part of
Randolph. and somewhat isolated from
other children, amuseS herself with a
breast-plate and tugs attached to a pet
heifer then to hand sled on which she
sits while the patient animal hauls her
around the neighborhood.
George A. Sanborn of Baldwin. lost his
dwelling by fire with contents. e. w.
Rounds and Tom Richardson started IL
paper and soon got money and material
enough together. and in live days from
the time they started they had him
house built and they moved in to it on
the sixth day.
Arrangements are being made for a
telephone connection between Eastport
and North Lubec, the wires to be
strung early this spring. The line will
pass through Shackfords Head and by
cable to North Lubec across the river
Little Lillian, the three-years-oid
daughter of Mr.. Albert Lebrun of Lewis
ton is at the point of death. Mr. Le-
PrtI al a :
in his family, the death of his father,
wife and sister following one another in
rapid succession. and now his blind baby
who has hitherto been well, is at the
point of death.
The Calais Times tells of a man who
lives near that city who found the top of
his steel range warping and wrote a let
he he purchased it. The he firm replied that
they warranted the stove against break
ing but not against warping and sug-
gested that he turn the stove upside
down and let it warp back.
The clam business has grown to be an
important one in Friendship; about 10
barrels are shipped weekly to Boston.
Reckoning three bushels to the barrel.
there are 600 bushels dug here every
week, employing about $50 men to dig
them, and four men to haul them to the
station. The factory will start up soon.
making Friendship one of the prosperous
towns these dull times.
Harrison Folsom of Monticello, while
hauling a load of bark to Bridgewater,
recently, stepped on the front of his sled
and one of his horses kicked him in the
stomach. causing him to fall from his
load. helpless, where he remained until
relief came. At present he is in q crit
zeal condition. but the attending physi-
clan gives more encouragement for his
recovery than for several days.
A Biddeford storekeeper spent the
greater. part of last week taking account
of stock. and when everything had been
gone over, found that he was just eighty
six cents ahead of the game. He in
cluded in his expenses those of the shop.
of his house. and also the expenses of WIS.,
itors who were at his house during the
summer months. He says he will be sat
isfed if he works this year out as well.
Charles Vining of Pittsfield on going
to feed his horses one morning last week.
was Mortified to find that one of the ami
mails throat had been cut nearly from
ear to ear. The animal was alive and
will probably come out all right. Vining
claims that someone broke into the sta
bic in the night and committed the deed
but at present 1t remains a mystery as
no clue can be found to throw any light
on the subject.
Some idea of the enormity of the task
of building the Notifications at Fort
Prcble, may be had from the fact that
there is 81 feet of solid ledge yet to be
removed in many places. No idea of the
time that will be required for the COM
Next summer from $50 to $50 men will be
put to work at Fort Preble. At Portland
Head, Hog Island and Cushings Island,