Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-31

The jury in the case of Elbridge W. Reed,
OF Midway, or trial in Bangor, for the muir
der of John Ray, in September last, have re-
turned a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree
A correspondent of the Portland Press in
Piscataquis county, says that the price of
hay is rapidly declining and it is now difficult
to realize 500 per ton. Farmers are freely
buying corn, of which they CT nsi Ter twelve
bushels, equal in value, to ton of hay for
stock.
Schooner Sea Lark, of 100 tons, was
launched from the yard of Master John Nc
Bride, in Lubec, Aug. lG. She is to be
commanded by Capt. VIM. Miller. Master
Mcbride is to put up two more vessels inn
medately, one for Capt. Orrin Densmore.
400 tons and one for Capt. Howard Allen
100 tons, built mostly by parties belonging in
Lubec.
Mr.. Granville Hill, of Kennebunkport,
who was thrown from his carriage on the 9th
inst, and his body paralyzed from the lungs
downward, died on the 22d inst, aged about
40 years.
The Portland Light Infantry have voted to
60 to Bangor to attend the opening of the Eu-
ropean and North American railroad in Octo-
consequently been abandoned.
The foundation stone of the Maine General
Hospital was laid in Portland, on Tuesday,
with very little ceremony. Various articles
were deposited beneath the stone.
The Jonesboro' Granite Company have
an ineXhaustible field of granite and are getting
out pieces and quantities to fill orders. The
quality is generally liked.
The Westbrook Seminary has begun its
fall term with about one hundred and fifty
students. The number of boarding schools
has increased. Goddard Hall is full, and
Herser Hall is fast fillingur.
The Nashua & Rochester Railroad Com
pany have voted to lease their road to the
Worcester 4 Nashua Il. Il. Co., and it is ex-
pccted to put the road under contract in a
week or two.
Willie Clark, son of the late Hon. w. G..
Clark of SangerviIle, was kicked by horse
on the 25th inst, dslocating the ankle and
fracturing the fbula of the right leg.
1t was a little son of Mr.. George Swan, of
South. eyed years and ten months who was
killed by lightning on the 18th of July last,
lie was standing near Il tree In the door
yard whiting, when he was struck. His
little brother Just behind him was knocked
n.
door knitting, and saw it all. He was a
smart, allectionate and promising boy, and
the blow was sad one to his afflicted par
ents.
The Oxford Democrat tells of bear hunt
in the woods near Bryant's pond. Two
bears were routed, and started off in differ
ent directions, and were evidently an old
female and cub; the old bear escaped in
the thick underbrush, while the cub, less
fortunate than its dam, was captured and
brought triunphanty into the village. Soon
after boy who had been out cunning, heard
a shrill whistle near the railroad, and saw
the old bear accompanied by another cub
cross the track and enter thicket near by,
from which they were soon driven by a
charge of shot from the young mans gun.
The cub escaped, going in the direction OF
West Paris, while the old bear, evidently
wounded, made her way into the forest near
the foot of the pond, where she has doubt
less had beat for some time, as she made
sad havoc in that vicinity the last season.