Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-18
STATE NEWS.

There are 4941 natives of Maine in Iowa.
Jackson and Orono potatoes are selling in
the Bangor market just now at $l.00 a BUSH
ell.
citizen of Ellsworth, got a divorce from
one wife one day last week, and married anoth-
er the next.
Harry Brown left Portland Tuesday for
Montreal, whence he sails with Mr.. Elwell of
the Transcript, and others, for Europe on
Saturday.
The contract for furnishing 5000 tons of
rough stone for the Saco river breakwater
has been awarded to Messrs. Gooch and
Haines of Biddeford.
Mr.. Gilman c. Fisher, a recent graduate of
Colby University, who has been writing let
tiers from France to the Springfield Republic
can, will enter the lecture field this winter,
describing France and Scotland.
Mr.. Sheperd f. Smith, of Harmony, while
at work with planning machine, passed his
right hand over the feed roller, and severed
two of his fingers up to the bone, taking the
nail completely off, and of the third finger,
most of the nail.
The Saco FISHERMEN are in luck. We learn
from the Independent, that one day last week
of the river and caught two fine halibut, the
first that have been caught in this vicinity
this season. One weighed III and the other
IS lbs. On Friday last Mr.. Geo. H. Scam
man and Charles Berry were fishing off the
mouth of the river and in one day caught g.
900 pounds of cod and haddock.
a Livermore correspondent Of the Lewis
ton Journal says: Alver Record has bought
Hutchinson and Lanes interest in the water
power at this place and will erect a building
for manufacturing purposes at once. Mr..
Record is a smart business man,-may sue
cess accompany him. The Baptist society
have commenced work on their new church,
A. Rowell has sold his residence ON Middle
| street to Mr. Smith of Boston.
The Wing says, day or two since little
| son of Mr. f. P. Treat about years of age,
was riding on lead of hay at Frankfort
Mills, when he lost his balance and fell to the
ground in front of the near hind wheel. The
| wheel would, in moment have passed over
the little fellows neck, but Mr.. Millikin,
who was walking beside the load, sprang for
ward, with the strength of giant seized the
hub Of the wheel and lifted it so that the rim
passed over the child without touching him.
The long pause in the manufacturing es-
Enlistment at Waterford, has at length given
places to unusual activity, the recent rain
having swollen the ponds and streams to such
an extent that there will be no scarcity for
water this season. At South Waterford, Mr..
Albert Stanwood is putting up large bucket
factory, far superior to the one recently de-
stroyed by fire. 1t will be three stories in
front and four in the rear, and stan6ing in
conspicuous. place for an ornament in the
village.
The Lewiston Journal says that Langdon
of
with sixteen hens from January 18th, to Dec
It'll, 1870, not quite eleven months, with the
following results: They laid 235 dozen of
eggs, which sold for 23 cents per dozen, ag-
gregating $54.05, and raised 33 chickens, at
40 cents piece, amounting to $500, total
of S67.25. The expense of keeping was
5000, a net profit of S4705, and a profit
per hen of S2.94. Any one having a more
favorable account of the biddies will report