Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-13
STATE NEWS.

The weather was SO cold in Portland. the
other day, that persons were able to walk on
the ice from Peaks Island to the city.
The spring term of the Sherman High
School will commence Monday, Feb. 27th,
under direction of Rev. W. I. Sleeper, Of
Sherman assisted by Miss Helen M. Gilkey,
of Houlton. Mrs. E. T. Sleeper, Music
Teacher.
At meeting Of the Aroostook Farmers
Club " in West Houlton, January 30th, the
following officers were chosen for the ensu-
ing year Andrew Porter, President; Hi
idents; VIM. Mckinley, Secretary; w. Fall,
Treasurer; Elk. Compittee, B. f. Nicerkson,
J. K. Slipp, and r. M. Mansur.
Mr.. Hayford, of Belfast, makes the follow
ing personal explanation in the Bangor Wing,
in regard to the Stevens suicide -" Please
correct the statement of the Wing, convicting
Stevens of larceny, for stealing $l1 900 from
me in New York. He stole no bonds from
me; was no party to the suit; was not at
the trial. The whole statement connecting
my name with the transaction is false.
At the adjourned meeting of the Casco Bay
Steamboat Company on Wednesday in Port
land, the following gentlemen were elected
Directors for ensuing year, viz Capt WIN.
Batty, Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, Col.
Elias Mlliken, ,Chas. H. Mcclellan, John W.
Perkins, Leander w. Fobes, Charles b. Var
ney. At meeting of the Directors Capt.
VIM. Batty was elt cted President, and Capt.
VIM. Mitchell, Clerk and Treasurer.
The editor of the York County Indepen-
dent has been shown an elegant bound work
in vols, of 1926 pages, embellished with
several fine steel engravings, of the genealogy
of the Wentworth family, ~ america. 1t
has been arranged and published by John
Wentworth L. L. D., of Chicago, at an ex-
pense for the edition of over 500, 200, and
was presented by the author to Asa Went
worth, Esq, of Saco.
The Belfast Age says last week number
of prominent men from the town of Canaan
visited Belfast, to consult with the b. & NJ.
l.. railroad directors, and people in regard to
extending that road from Burnham to Canaan
a distance of eight miles. They represented
that the road could be built very cheaply and
that large amount of business would center
at terminus there. They stated that they
thought that 100000 could be raised by
the road could be mortgaged for the balance
necessary to complete it.
The following officers Of the Somerset Cen
fral Agricultural society were electeu AZ the
annual meeting of the Society. held at Show
hogan on the 9Th inst:
Hon. Abner Coburn, President; VIM. d.
Hayden, Amos c. Tobey, Vice Presidents !;
William 3. Snow, Secretary and Treasurer;
Levi C. Emery, VIM. d. Hayden, Daniel
Snow, Trustees; Warren Russell, w. H.
Haynes, Horace Eaton, Standing Com. on
Stock; S. w. Coburn, Joshua Burnes,
Joseph Courier. Standing Com. on Crops;
Amos C. Tobey, c. c. Emery, r. E. Lyon,
Standing Com. on Manufactures.
Mr.. J. H. Douglass of Eden Gays in the
Ellsworth American that his father has a
volume of sermons printed in London, dur
ing the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the scrip
ture being that of the Wiekliff translation,
and the photography that of the age. This
volume is dedicated to their Hoovs (honors)
the Vertvs (virtuous) Margaret, Countess of
Cumberland and Catherine, Dowager Coun-
tess of Huntington, by the Rev. Servant Of
the Lord Iesus, (Jesus Christi Richard
Greenham. TWAS brought to this country
before the Revolution by John Caldwell,
taken to the Canadas by one Of the family,
and thence to New England. Not a leaf is
torn from the binding, and there is only a
pencil mark on the margin of a leaf by hands
now returned to dust.