Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-21
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The new brick building at Kennebunk for
the Grammar and High Schools has been
completed.
Dennis NJ. Brady, of the diocese of Port
land, was ordained Deacon in the Catholic
church at Albany, on the 18th inst
The Bangor Wing says Thomas Rider, of
Bradford, IS years of age, rode in coach
one day last week, for the first time in his
life.
Capt. Silas Weeks of Bath, has received a
binocular glass from the British government,
for gallant conduct in assisting British ves-
sci in distress.
Ground has been broken at Grand Lake
Stream for Messrs. Shaw's tannery. canal
100 rods long and fifteen feet deep in some
parts is to be dug this winter.
The Ellsworth American says that on Nov.
18th, lad in South Hancock, while rowing
over the fields, pluckcd three strawberries
and bore them home in triumph.
A. G. Whitman, graduate of Bowdoin in
the last class, has been appointed to per,na-
nent position in one of the Boston schools, at
salary OF S2400.
Rev. +. NJ. Bartlett of Lvermore Falls,
has received and accepted call to preach at
the Elm street Baptist church in Bath, and
will enter on his duties on the first Sunday in
January next.
\ correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
writes that well-to-do farmer in the town of
Mercer, by the name of Abel Hubbard, COM
mitted suicide Sunday afternoon, by hanging
himself in his barn. No cause given. Aged
GO years.
On Saturday about II o'clock fire broke
out in the main room of the Yarmouth Acadia
my. 1t originated in the ceiling, near the
chimney, which was defective The damage
done to the building is estimated at $500.
The fire will interrupt the school for few
days.
Rev. Charles II. Weber, graduate of
New Hampton Theological Institution, and
for the past year pastor of the Il. b. Church
in Taunton. Mass, will on the first of January
assume the pastorate of the Free Will Baptist
Church and Society, worshipping on Storer
street in Saco.
Mr. Geo. II. Bailey. well-known horse
trainer of Portland, while temporarily stop
ping at the Dewitt House in Lewiston, was
given heavy dose of laudanum by the mis-
take of druggists clerk last Friday evening,
and his life was only saved by the prompt
use of the stomach pump. He is now doing
we'll
The Waterville Mail says as an experiment,
round trip tickets to Bangor, from all stations
east of Waterville, will from this time be
issued at reduced rates, to be good for one
day only. Under this arrangement one can
go from Watervile and KendalPs Mills to
Bangor, and return the same day for $3.7
from Clinton for $3.50; from Burnham for
S3.00-and others in proportion; being quite
saving to the passengers.
We learn from the Mail that at Sp. cial
Meeting OF Mcssalonskee Lodge, No. ll3. the
following officers were installed by z. NJ, J.
w. Gilman:
q. L. Benson, w. NJ; NJ. M. Bartlett, 5.
W.. A. j. Parker, J. W.; J. w. Gilman,
Secretary ii. c. Winslow, Treas; G.. w.
Hubbard, S. D.; c. f. Fogg, j. D.; N
Clemson, S. S.. Eugene Richardson, J. s..
j. Z. Phillips, Tyl"r. The last dollar for
which this Lodge stood indebted for its new
hall has been paid, and the annual reports of
the Sec. and Treas show the Lodge to be in
a very prosperous condition.
The Masonic fraternity of Rockland pro-
pose to erect in that city an elegant structure
TO by 100 feet--the ground floor to contain 3
stores, the second story u large hall for pub
lie purposes, and the third story to be devoted
to the Masonic order. The proposed build
ing will cost thirty or forty thousand dollars.
The city will be asked to exempt it from tax
alton.
a dispatch from Bath states that Back river
is closed by ice, and the submarine operations
at Hell Gate have been suspended FOR the sea-
son. The work thus far accomplished is of
great advantage to the navigation of the route
between Bath and Boothbay, some three to