Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-14
.STiYE NEWS.

STATE NE Wy.
The Superintendent of schools in Hiawa-
tina, Kansas, is Noah Hanson, formerly of
Portland.
Probate Judge lothian Lippincott, OF CO.
lumbia Falls, has had relapse of his disease,
and is now confined to his house.
Rev. Mr.. Wright of Winterport has re-
ceyed call from the st. Lawrence street
church and society in Portland ; bee me
their pastor.
The trains on the Portland and L .ensburg
Railroad, on Monday, ran up TO Bale n, four
and half miles beyond Steep Falls, and de-
livered stage passengers.
Already the shipment of evergreens to Bos-
ton and New York, for the holidays, from the
interior Ct Maine, has commenced. Some
farmers make good thing by their enterprise
in this direction.
A dwelling house AID barn on Harding ST.,
Gardiner, owned and occupied by James S.
Thompson, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
evening. Most of the furniture was saved.
Loss about $500. Partially insured.
The Lewiston Journal says logging opera
tons on large scale are to be carried on by
the Lewiston Steam Mill Co., on Swift river.
They have a large number of men at work.
They will put in considerable cedar the COM
ing winter.
The Independent says that Mr.. T. T..
Brewster has consumed in his Paper Bag
Mandatory, this season, in the Pike Block,
Saco, over ITO miles of paper, making up
wards of 9OO,OOO bags.
The Sunrise hears that Isaac Hacker & Son
of Fort Fairfield, lost by the recent burning
of vessel off Mt. Desert, bound to Provi-
dence, X. l., shingles and clapboards worth
$4,000; also r. c. johnson, $500. No insur
ance on either.
The Argus says quite curious cargo was
that taken into Portland on Monday, from
Harvey, n. B., by the schooner Plymouth
1t consisted of 524 geese, l29 turkeys, ll2
| ducks, l29 chickens. All this cargo of poul-
try was alive, and would have kicked had not
| their legs been tied.
| A meeting of the evangelical churches in
York County is called to be held in Bdde-
| ford, in the Free Baptist Church on the 2lst
and 22d of this month. The services will
commence at 10 O'Clock on Wednesday the
! 2lst.
The Portland Argus says that Cleveland
the Orrington murderer, is likely to escape
execution through an informality in the ver-
dict of the jury which was guilty of the
murder whereof he stands indicted"-not
specifying whether it was murder in the first
or second degree.
The Lewiston Journal says Saturday Morn
ing Benjamin Galloway was arrested on the
charge of an outrage committed upon Mrs.
Butler of Webster He was taken before
Justice Cotton for examination, and the evil
dence was so strong that the respondent was
committed to Jail to await the action of the
Supreme Judicial Court.
The Portland Advertiser says that the
Portland & kennebec Railroad Company
have recently settled the claims for damages
suffered by several persons in the late rail
road disaster on the Bath Branch. Claims
have been paid in all to the amount of sever
al thousand dollars. To the wife of the late
Conductor Crawford, they gave the sum of
forty dollars a month, so long as she shall
remain widow.
The Lewiston journal says widow Solomon
Briggs of Hartford, died at the house of
Mevander Forbes of East Dixfield Dec.
9th, aged ninety years and five months, be-
ing the oldest resident of Hartford She had
lived on the same farm in Hartford 6S years,
and she died on the same farm where her
father, Dea. John briggs, felled the first
tree more than so years ago.
The Bath Times says the splendid new
ship North Star" was to-day launched from
the yard of Messrs. w. V. Moses 4 Sons.
She is the finest vessel ever built by this en-
terprising firm, and makes plain the fact,
that although our ships are decreasing in
number they are improving in quality. She
is 1874 tons, n. NJ, and 1928 tons o. NJ;
being 1876 feet in length, 80 feet in width, and
"a feet deep. She is to be commanded by
Capt, Chas. Owen of this city, who is also
part owner. Capt. Owen is one of our old
est and most successful ship masters, having
sailed as master for over forty years. 1t is
expected that his vessel will be ready for sea
within fortnight.
! The Lewiston Journal says the Lake Hotel
| at Waterford, owned and kept by Geo. w.
Hale, was burned Monday morning, about
o'clock. 1t was designed to have ball in
the hall, Monday evening, and the persons
who were to prepare the hall got up and
built fire early. Shortly fire was discovered
in the attic, and it spread so rapidly that the
house was destroyed. The fire extended to
the house of Mr.. George Kimball, adjoining,
which was also destroyed. 1t is understood
that the Lake Hotel was insured, but we do
not learn either the amount of the loss or in
surance. Mr.. Kimball was insured for $500,
which will cover but small portion of his
loss. The Lake House was large and well
built establishment, situated on the shore Of
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