Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-19
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Hyde Block in Bath, is now rapidly ap-
preaching completion.
A sad accident occurred on Tuesday. Geo.
Cannon, lad about 10 years OF age, son OF
Stephen Cannon of this town, was getting
| over a stone wall with loaded gun in one
hand and a basket of apples in the other, and
set his gun on stone in the wall, and as
he was getting over the gun slipped off the
stone and was discharged, the charge went
into his head and killed him instantly
The newspaper mill at Topsham is on a big
scale. 1t is intended to manufacture paper
of all qualities, and will be great acquisition
to the business activity of Topsham.
The Bath Times says that Bowdoin College
library is undergoing some repair for the ac-
commodation OF its yearly accumulated stores
OF learning, the number of volumes of which
exceeds that Of any other library in the
State.
Mr.. E. P. Tobie, Jr., of the Providence
Journal, Il. l.. formerly of Lewiston, recent.
ly gave at the hall OF the post of the G. A. R.,
in Lewiston, a very interesting account of
the cavalry fight at Brandy Station, Va, and
his trip to and residence in Richmond as
prisoner of war.
correspondent of the journal says that
X. b. Dunn, Esq. has purchased the proper
ty of the North Wayne Scythe Company, for
the Dunn Edge Tool Co., of which he and
the agent, John Aver, Esq, are sole proprie.
tors. The property was purchased with the
view of getting wooden mill or some other
large factory built on their fine water power.
The Rev. DR. E. II. Chaplin is expected to
lecture in Auburn on Thursday evening,
Nov. l6.
The Bowdoin seniors who are Just now
Suspended" for bad conduct will, we trust,
be restored on as easy terms as are common
ly offered in such cases. Probably General
Chamberlain and other college authorities
under the new regime do not believe in the
| divine right of students to be rowdes and
blackguards. Undergraduates have too long
been INDUCED in the notion that they are sub,
Ject to an easier code of manners and morals
| than other men.-P ortland Press.
Mr.. j. B. Webb, County Supervisor of
Schools. has resigned that position.
| Salt sprinkied OH the carpet before sweep
ing will make it look bright and clean. This
is also good preventative against moth.
At an adjourned meeting of the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Portland.
Rutland, Oswego & Chicago Railway Co
held on Wednesday, the llth inst, the fol
/ lowing board OF directors chosen Allen
/ Haines, \. C.. Rice. William t.. Fessenden
and John Neal. Portland; j. W. Lane, Hol-
( lis; 0. p Fowler, Bristol, N. H.. Frederick
Billings, Woodstock VT. Gilbert Molison
/ Oswego, N. Y; VIM. McEchron. Glen's
Falls. n. Y; John Cane, Rutland, VT; d
W. OBrion, Cornish, Me. At a meeting of
the directors, subsequently, held, Allen Haines
Of Portland, was chosen President and John
Neal Clerk.
Last Friday evening Miss Gilliard who re-
sides on Edward Street, Bath, while in the
post office slipped and falling on the marble
floor, was quite severely injured.
; A subscription of over $1,000 has been
raised for the Chicago sufferers among the
granite workers on Dix Island.
The new dam on the Little Androscogain
is built from both shores toward the centre OF
! the channel, leaving a sluiceway of Is feet.
which gave excellent opportunity to test
the water power. A careful test showed
1000 horse power on Monday, despite the
fact the water was almost at the lowest poin
on record-sufficient power to run two large
cotton mills. This, as the least capacity o
the power, is a good showing. And whe,
the canal is built, this extent of power ca,
be used several times over. There are o.
feet fall in a distance of about mile.-TLew
iston Journal.
Cumberland county Bar propose givinj
Judge Goddard complimentary supper a
the Falmouth Hotel on his retirement from
the bench.