Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-01
STATE NE1yS.


The spring term at Ken,'s Hill opens with
nearly two hundred and fifty students.
The Brunswick Telegraph is to be suspend
ed a week or more on account of repairs to
be made in the printing Office.
Brunswick elected on Monday for select
men. Henry Carvill, Capt. Bates and l.. E.
Smith all Republicans. There were four
tickets in the field.
A special meeting of the Leeds and Farm
ington Railroad will be held in Portland on
Thursday, April 9th, to see ift the stockholders
will vote to issue mortgage bonds on their
rord; to see if the stockholders will vote to
sell their road, with its rolling stock fran
chise etc. TO the Androscogein Railroad Co
The journal says that at meeting of the
Belfast Unitarian Parish, on Sunday last, it
was agreed to raise fund of $500 for Rev
DR.. Palfrey, of which $1,000 was subscribed
on the spot. 1t was also voted that he occupy
the parsonage for the present
The following have been chosen officers of
Phillips Savings Bank: s. Dill President ;
J. c. Holman, Treasurer; n. B. Beal j. E.
Thompson, s. D. Davis, G. W. Wheeler. By
ron Farrar. s. Dill, Trustees; ]. C. Holman,
Secretary. Organized March 2Sth, and will
commence business by the first of May.
Eighty-one years ago this month, Mrs
Elizabeth liodgkins was brought from ALdo-
ver Mass, to Minot on an ox-sled in her
mothers arms, she then being three months
old. The journey occupied about two weeks
She has always lived in Minot. She is the
only child of the late Major Samuel Downing
of Minot, who seSved in the Revolutionary
war.
~, G1l. 4 =
ton, had a narrow escape from death on Mon
day, by being thrown from carriage against
a derrick. At first it was thought his in
juries were fatal lie sustained severe
wounds on the head and face, but is now
quite comfortable. His jaw was fractured,
face gashed and forehead badly cut.
The punctual man, according to the Port
land Argus, lives in the new town of Deer
ing. lie owed bill in Portland, payable
in ten days" Before starting for church last
Sunday morning he noticed the ten days ex-
pred that day. Instead of attending church
he started for Portland, called at the resi-
dence of his creditor (who was at church, and
left the money to pay the bill.
We learn that the buildings of Amos Whit
ney of Thorndike, were destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night A part of the furniture was
saved, but the house, wood shed, grainery and
hay barn, together with a moving machine, a
horse, some hogs and provisions were des-
troyed. The fire originated in Il defective
chimney. Loss about $500. Insured foi
Sl400.
! The Waterville Mail says Daniel Jones
Esq, appeared at the counter OF the Ticonit
National Bank, few days ago, with bag
containing between three and four hundred
old Spanish dollars, Which he had found il
administering upon the estate of the late Mr.
Arnold Hoxie, of Fairfield. Mr.. ii. was
! prudent and careful farmer, and had saved
comfortable property; bat he-overlooked the
| opportunity, during the war, to put this bag
of dollars in a condition to have come to his
administrator worth at this time a thousand
dollars iii greenbacks. Some may think he
missed it,-but ii is all right now.
Items from the Lewiston Journal; There
is a far better feeling III real estate in this
| city and Auburn than Il year ago Prices are
| fully 10 per cent. higher. We hear of con-
| siderable transactions at good prices. A
| piece of real estate sold in this city recently
! for $4,000, which was bought in 1864 for
Sll00. Mr. McKenney's little child who was
so severely scalded in Auburn, Monday, will
recover. The child stepped back and stumbled
setting down in pail of hot water. Rev. &.
+. Tucker has resigned the pastoral charge OF
the Baptist church at Bryant's Pond Mr..
Joshua Lambert of Durham, recently fell
from his carriage over the forward wheel,
striking on his head injuring him severely.
Hay sells at S25 to $35 per ton.