Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-02
State NEWS.


STATE NEWS.
A farmers club has been organized at South
LHchfield, with s. Powers, President.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. r. Pitman, of Skowhe-
gan celebrated their tin wedding on Saturday
evening last.
The Readfeld Wooden Mill is to be en-
larged by an addition Of forty feet next
season.
The county of Waldo has seven Farmers
Clubs located as follows AT Belfast, Pros
pect, Winterport, Monroe, Brooks, Montville,
Unity.
The semi annual meeting of the Maine
Eclectic Society will be held at the De Witt
House, Lewiston, on the second Wednesday
of JAM, at 10, A. M.
But four indictments, all for larceny, were
returned by the Grand Jury to the S. J.
Court for Somerset County last week An
geline Raspberry was divorced from her
husband.
The funeral services of the late Colonel
Samuel Dana, who died in San Francisco on
the 9th of September, took place Wednes-
day at University Place Church, in New
York. The remains were taken in the eve
ming to Augusta, for interment in the family
vault.
The Somerset Reporter learns that on
Tuesday last Edwin Goodrich young man
residing in Bingham, while cutting wood with
two companions in the woods, severely woun-
ded himself with an axe, cutting entirely
through LIS left foot, severing the bones.
Notice has been given that grant for a
new steel factory at Bucksport will be asked
of the Legislature this winter, to work under
a new patent different from the Sherman
process. The corporation will be called the
Damascus Steel Company.
Peter Daely of Portland, and Lawrence
| Murray of Boston, have been arrested for
knocking down and robbing Mr.. Patrick
McGlinchy on Thursday night, of $500 and
watch. Part of the money was found on
hurry, who was on his way to Boston, and
he told where to find the rest, and duplicates
Daley.
Hon. Joseph A. Thacher, of Zumbrota,
Minnesota, formerly of Rockland, has been
appointed by the President, one of the Com
missioners of the Kansas and Denver Pacific
Railways. The commissioners received in
structions to meet at Kansas City ON the 10Th
inst, to examine and report on the roads and
telegraph lines OF the companies.
Judge Goddard, in Portland, Thursday, in
the case of G. F. Emery, VS.. City of Bangor,
to enforce the payment of certain coupons in
gold instead of currency, decided that gold
should be paid, saying that defendants are
not at liberty to repudiate any part of their
original contract with their bondholders. as
interpreted by the United States. ,a t
The population of Alfred is twelve hundred
and nineteen, showing decrease of thirty
six since 1860, it being at that time twelve
hundred and ffty-fve. The number ofdeaths
during the year ending July 1870, were
eighteen, the oldest being ninety, the young
est eleven, and thirteen were above sixty
years of age.-We think there are but few, if
any, healthier towns in the State than this.
The Gardiner Reporter understands that
the New York, Boston & Kennebec Ice Co.
are the first to ship ice this winter from the
State. They are now loading vessel at
their wharves at Bremen with ice which they
cut from pond in that town. The pond is
mile and half from the wharves, and a
horse railroad has been constructed, under
the supervision of Mr.. A. G. Chase, from the
house at the pond to the place of shipment.
The new and fine church recently erected
by the Methodlsts and Baptsts, at Kings
Mills, Whiteield, was dedicated by appropri-
ate services on Thursday of last week, as we
learn from the Gardiner Reporter. Rev.
William Brown, of Sheepscot Bridge, deliv
cred the dedication sermon. Rev. Mr.. Her
ring of Gardiner, Rev, Mr., Plummer, of
Wiscasset, and other clergymen assisted in
the services. The pews in the new church,
with the exception of one or two, have al
ready been sold,
The Gardiner Reporter says quite an excit-
ing town meeting was held in Pittston, on the
2ith of December, to take some action in re-
gard to the ice houses being erected just
above the bridge on that side of the river by
McDuffee & Co., parties claiming that the
buildings interfere with the highway. The
Selectmen were instructed to notify the
County Commissioners to find out the bound
aries of the road, and if none existed, to lay
out road to meet the demands of the town.
Several resolutions were passed favoring the
building of the houses, and preventing any
prosecutions being made against parties con-
cerned in building, SO long as they did not
obstruct the travelled way.
The Press says Friday morning, Mr.. w.
w. Thomas, Jr., of Portland Commissioner
of Swedish Immigration was visited by four
fine looking Swedes who represented to him
that they belonged to a colony of Swedes
that emigrated to this country about three
months ago and settled in Norwich, Chenan-
go County New York. That owing to the
high price of land in that locality and other
disadvantages, they decided to come and visit
the Maine colony, of which they had heard
such fiattering accounts, and if it came up to
their expectations, the whole of the Norwich
colony would join them at New-Sweden.
They had plenty of money with them, and
after receiving full directions from Mr.. Thorn
as, left at noon for the Aroostook. The col
ony at NewSweden now numbers iinety- six
souls, of which over fifty are men, and Is In
a most fOurishing condition.
Tyvensy-seven Years MAractfee