Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-16

The PASSPORT Sentinel says Hon. PartmoD
Houghton and wife will spend most of the
present winter in Boston.
The Wing says that there were Sc, 730,3l7
feet of lumber surveyed in Bangor during the
month of November.
The Chronicle says foxes are getting to be
qnite numerous in some sections of franklin
county. On the 4th inst, Mr.. Howard
Brockley, of Freeman caught three.
II. A. Osgood, Esq, one of the representa-
tives to the Legislature from Lewiston, has
bee n presented with gold headed cane, val
ued at $50, by a firm in Boston.
Arthur B. Morrill,, of Portland student in
Yale, few evenings ago delivered very
entertaining lecture to the citizens of Meridian
on ''the Use and Abuse of Public Speaking"
Mr.. Henry Bullard, of Portland, in the en-
ploy of C.. S. Clark, lumber merchant, fell
Wednesday forenoon from pile of lumber,
about eighteen feet, striking on his back and
injuring his spine. His injuries are severe.
The Wing says that the thirty-sixth ami
versary OF the Hammond Street Sabbath
School, of which L. f. Duren, Esq, has for
many years been Superintendent, was OBJ
served last Sunday evening.
Miss Sarah +. Sewall has been appointed
postmaster at Island Falls, vice Levi Sewall,
deceased; Melville johnson at South Molun-
kus, vice Benz +. Colburn, resigned, and
Leonard II. Caldwell at Sherman Mills, vice
Spaulding Robinson, resigned.
The Wing says the business of changing
the guage on the Belfast & Moosehead Lake
Railroad is being pushed as rapidly as possi-
BILE, considering the unfavorable weather.
Twenty miles of the track have been changed
| and it is believed that the work will be ac-
complished this week.
An exchange says pea vines several inches
tall, and green, were picked on the land of
Capt. Stevens of Bristol, December 8th.-
They seemed to be in blossoming state
This is the first instance of the kind ever
known in Maine in December.
Daniel Parker of Cutler, aged IA years,
while hunting in the woods, Dec. 9th, got
lost, and remained out all night A party in
search for him found him about 8 O'Clock the
next morning. He was badly chilled and his
limbs were considerably swollen. He was
| armed with a bow gun, with which he is said
| to be quite expert.
At the annual meeting of Dorie Lodge, 4.
& A. NJ, held at Mouson on the 18th of De-
A. L. Jackson, Master; E. r. Haynes, s..
W.; A. W. Chaplin, S. W.; Morrill, Prescott,
Treas. C. A. Packard Sec. G. A. Mathews,
s. d.; Z. w. Bray, l. d.
The Waterville Mail asks? !'Who expect
ed, in the warm railroad contests OF former
days, that engines bearing the names of \.
Bouteile, Reuel Williams, A, L. Morrill,, r.
ID. Rice, II. b. Dunn, etc., would ever be
found amicably knocking their heads together
on common narrow guage track!'
A Maine Association has been formed in
Washington, with +. B. French as President.
Judge Smell as Vice President, w. p. Free
man as Secretary, and the following Execu-
tive Committee, representing the Congress
sional Districts LIST District, Chase Andrews |;
I'd District, Benjamin Freeman; Sd District,
Colonel Joseph Noble 4th Distriht, Capt.
Ii. ii. Snow; 9Th District, T. c. Smart.
Gen. James A. Hail made speedh at the
reunion of the 18th Massachusetts Regiment
in Boston on Tuesday evening, in which he
took occasion to eulogze General John F.
Reynolds, declaring that when the impartial
history of the war shall have been written,
that officer will be shown to be the geat hero
of Gettysburg.
The State of Maine owns more shipping
than any State in the Union, except New
York, its tonnage being 1899, which is
46, 900 tons more than is owned in Boston and
all other ports of Massachusetts. The city
of Bath ranks as the fifth in the United States
in the amount of shipping it possesses, and
Belfast and Waldoboro each own thousands OF
tons more of vessel property than the impor-
tant city of New Orleans.
| The following New England postal changes
were announced Monday at the Post Office
Department: Joseph II. Mudd appointed
Postmaster at Wolfton Centre, n. H., vice
| Geo. w. Sawyer, resigned; John B. Rogers,
at Walded, Vt, vice F. w. Cheever, resigned /;
f. L. Wright, at South Weymouth, Mass,
vice Eleazer S. Wright, deceased; Chas. A.
Day at Pennington Falls, Me-, vice &. w.
Limington, Me-, vice Jas. Macarthur, re-
signed.
| Portland is to have skating rink. The
Press SAYS Mr.. J. l.. Shaw, the basso singer,
and Mr.. A. NJ. Smith, the secretary of the
Haydn Association, have leased the lot on
which formerly stood the residence of Hon.
J. NJ. Wood, on Middle ST., $50 feet square,
| have surrounded it with handsome iron
fence. are having it flooded with Sebago
water, and will issue subscription tickets and
keep suitable police in attedance.
| The Pennington Chronicle says debating
club was organized in New Vineyard village,
on Monday evening, Dec. 18th. The follow
ing gentlemen were chosen officers &. w.
Clark, President; j. McLain, Vice Pres. /;
E. II. Duce, Secy j. Waugh, Asst, Sec'y. ;
| |. Look, Jr., Collector and Treasurer.
Question-Should Mr.. Hoswell be justified in
killing Mr.. Lafiin?' Af.-Levi Greenlief
Il. NJ. Vaughan; Neg.-C. S. Hall, J. Me-
Lain.
The Wing says James Kirby an Irishman
about 80 years of age who has been for many
years past in the employ of I. Ii. Getchell,
Esq, of Bangor, was drowned between five
and six O'Clock Wednesday evening, by fall
ing from the wharf near the Brewer ferry
way 1t is supposed that he struck some
hard substance in falling, as his head was
considerably bruised. He was in the water
but very short time. He was alive when
taken out, but soon ceased to breathe, and all
efforts to resuscitate him were unavailing.
He leaves wife who is now confined to the
house by sickness.
The Argus says the bridge across the Pre-
sumpscot at Saccarappa which fell Tuesday