Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-15
STATE NEWS.

j. A. Pierce, Esq, late agent of the Lin
coin Mill at Lewiston, has been appointed
superintendent of the Atlantic Delaine Mill
at Olneyville, near Providence, X. l. He
will leave in few days for his new residence
On Friday evening as the five o'clock train
from Lewiston for Brunswick, approached
the big cut below Lisbon FALL the engineer
and fireman discovered that big mass of fro
zen earth had slid from the top of the bank
and rested directly upon the track By
prompt reversing of the engine and applca-
ton of brakes, the train was stopped just as
it touched the mass 1t was a hard lift for
six men to get it off the track.
On Friday afternoon, barn in Lagrange
owned by John Kenney was destroyed by fire.
II is supposed the fire was set by an insane
man who slept in the barn the night previous.
The hay was removed from the barn a few
days since, and the farming tools which had
been stored in the barn for the winter were
saved. The house formerly standing on this
farm was burned few years since, and a son
of Mr.. kenney, very promising youth, per-
shed in the flames.
The Waterville Mail says Mr.. Luke Brown,
who is the owner of large and well man.
aged farm in Benton, just opposite Kendall 3
Mills village, has this winter hauled thirty
two cords of wood to market, and cut and
hauled thirty loads to his own door for his
family supply. During this time he has taken
care OF his farm stock, consisting of cows,
horses, hogs &c. He is new engaged in cut
ting his wood at the door. Mr. Brown is
seventy-six years old, some forty wears of
which have been spent on the farm where he
now resides. M
A bold and successful escape was made BY
a convict in the Thomaston State Prison, on
Friday morning about 4 o'clock. The pris-
oner's name is Henry Grant, halls from
| Hampden, Me-, and was committed tor arson
He has been feighing sickness, and was con.
| fined to his cell in the old prison facing thu
street. Friday morning the Deputy visited
| him, and on leaving to procure him som,
medicine. left the cell door unlocked. Dur
ing his absence Grant stepped to the window
raised it, bent the bars apart sufficiently t.
admit his body, dropped to the ground, ruI
across Main street, took to the words, ant
has not been retaken.
| The Senate of the United States is DELHI
erative body, which properly divides itsel
| into Committees among which the subject.
which require its attention are primarily dis.
| tributed for scrutiny and digestion prior to
action thereon in its public sessions. 1t were
absurd to contend that this body should not
| assign to those Committees respectively the
members whom the majority shall from time
| to time consider fittest for the discharge of
their respective duties. We cannot, there
fore, consider the removal of Mr. Sumner
from the Craftsmanship of the Commit tee on
Foreign Relations as an outrage or ANYTHING
of the sort; yet we will not conceal our pro
found regret that any such action should have
been deemed necessary or advisable. Mr..
Sumner has fobles-as few have not-but he
is eminently Senator and has earned the
love and trust of the American People. We
could wish that this seeming indignity might
have been spared him.-New York Tribune.