Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-27
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The little Richardson boy at Brunswick
who was kicked by horse, has since died.
The Annual Exhibition of the Kennebec
Agricultural Society, will be held at Read
field Corner on Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. eth and 2Sth, 1871.
The Land Agent says that a thousand more
Swedes will arrive in this State during the
next week. There are already $50 Swedes
in the Aroostook colony. Mr.. Kingman has
a large number of Scandnavians at work in
and about the tanneries, and likes them so
well that he wants to increase their number
to three hundred. Many are at work on the
E. & N. A. Railway.
The Watervile F, w. Baptist Quarterly
Meeting has been held during the past week
at Rev. Mr.. Corttis' church in Gardiner.
This church which was purchased of the
Swedenborgians a short time since, was re-
dedicated Thursday evening with appropriate
exercises. The church building was painted
inside and out inst previous to these meet
ings.
A man in Belfast informs the Progressive
Age that he saved his plum trees from the
ravages of the black knots by driving small
nails or tacks into the spots on their first APP
pearance.
The Wing learns that the engineers of the
locomotives which came in collision on the
f. & n. A. Railway last Wednesday, have
been discharged by Superintendent Lunt-
one because he was running into the city
ahead of the schedule time, and the other
because he had no right, according to the
rules of the road, to be on the main track
after train had left Veazie on its way
down.
Thirty-fve millions of shingles go down
the st. John to Fredericton this year.
A young man named Edward Jarvis was
was badly wounded in the face and will
probably lose the sight of one eye by the ac-
cidental discharge of "a pistol he was examin-
ing in Bangor the other day.
The Portland Press says that both branches
of the New Hampshire Legislature have
finally passed bill changing the charter of
the Rochester and Nashua Railroad Com
pany. This alteration is made so as to give
the company larger capital and an in
creased number of directors, and removes
some embarrassments which grew out of the
enactment of the several charters and subse-
quent changes which were links in the line
of road between Rochester and Nashua
which confusion by recent legislation is re-
medied and that several charters are now
united into one company with common pur-
pose and interest to connect Rochester with
Nashua. 1t is understood that the result has
been accomplished for the purpose of re-
moving the only hindrance in the way for the
immediate commencement of this important
link of line between Portland and the
South and West; and we shall expect to
learn in few days that steps have been tax
en- for active work.
Gen. j. C. Fremont, it is supposed, will
build a summer residence on Little Porcupine
Island, Mt. Desert, which he purchased last
summer.
Capt. James S. Otis, of Brunswick, master
of bark Andaman, died at Havana 18th inst.
The new Masonic hall in Pennington was
dedicated on Friday afternoon, with interest
ing and impressive ceremonies. The address
was given by Rev. Mr.. johnson of Jay.
The Belfast Age says that Willie McCorri-
son, aged five, and Brattles boy of seven
years were fishing in the pond of Mr.. Frank
lin Treats mill, in Belfast, when they were
rolled from log into the pond where the
water was fifteen feet deep. Mr.. Treat who
was at the mill, plunged in and brought both
the little fellows to the shore.