Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-04
STATE NEWS.
KAPPA.

| Bieddford is 10 have a course of temper.
| ance lectures by gentlemen resident in the
| city.
\ two story house near Dummer street il
Bath, owned and occupied by Dav id o. Brad
bury, was totally destroyed by fire Friday
| Night, together with its contents. Loss
t"e ive hundred dollars insured for six hun
dred dollars on house and three hundred on
turnitu e in the Continent al of New York.
| W. o. A. Kelloch, lately clerk of the
otldiAe Hotel at Rock and, has sumed
t9e mana gemeut Of that house since the
death of'le late landlord Mr.. Andrews.
| Cna.ley, aged 3 years, son of Mr.. T. p.
| klles of De colt, seems to be an unluckv
! child having met 18th several severe acci-
| dents dprlng his Lrief existence. and a DAY
or NO since he fell from chair breaking
hi> r.n Just above the elbow joint.
There were $4,000 barrels of -four export.
e. iron Portland during the month of Nov
| ember.
The Argus says that few days age lady
had very narrow escape from instant death
a. the Maine Central depot in that city. She
was standing on the platform, talking with
| some one in ,he cars, when the cars started
and she tll' off the platform and rolled be-
meath the rain. The train was quickly
stopped and she was taken out of her perilous
situation without ny injury.
The Wing says that while chopping in the
woods one day last week, Mr.. Andrew
| Young, of Detroit, raised his axe over a
limb, which sprung with the ,orce of the
| blow ard struck him in the face, iniuripr ON.
eye so badly that it will probably destroy the
sight.
| Patents wel issued last weel. to Whitman
| Leslie of Gray, FOR sleigh; Henry r. But
ttrfield, of Vassalborough, for machine for
| maxim shovel handles Edward II. Dunn
| OF Portland, for saddle tree; James L.
| Chesseman of Gardner. assgnor of one half
| of his right to Henry c. Chesseman of the
| same place, for swinging railway for loading
vessels; Jabez b. Fellows of Augusta. for
clothes drier; Charles L. Morrill, of Deering.
| for process OF manufac;u ring shoe bindings
We give the following extract from the SER
mon of Rev. Mr.. Williams, delivered in the
| Plymouth church, Portland, on Thanks eiyin-
Day:
1t is said that when the sun is going ont of
| sight the picus Swiss herdsman of the Alps
| takes his horn and shouts, ''Praise We the
|
distant slope tax, the echo, Praise We the
Lord Soon another answers still higher up
the mountain, till hill shouts to hill and peak
echoes to peak the sublime anthem of praise.
SO it may be on this National Thanks giving
Day The church bells of Maine ring ont,
praise We the Lord" New Hampshire
catches the sound and echoes over her noun
tains, praise we the Lord" Massachusetts,
for two hundred and forty years on the day of
Thanksgiving has not forgotten to send out
the note praise We the Lord" The Middle
States, the South, the far West set their bells
urging in unison, ''Praise ye the Lord"
| From the ST. Lawrence to the Gulf, from
&, Atlantic to the Pacific, echoes and re-echoes
the glad sound; church bells and anthem,
and song and prayer and family rejoicing are
all pitched upon that key note, Praise We
the Lord That sounds enters the ears OF
the Lord God of Sabaoth, and from the Sc
rene skies there comes an answering voice
like the benediction of jehovah. "Happy is
the people whose God is the Lord"
Mr. Gershom Lord, who recently died in
Harmony at the advanced age of o. years,
was the father of the late John NJ. Lord of
this city, and son of Rev. Tozier Lord of Ber-
wick one of six brothers who devoted their
lives to preaching the Gospel.
The Bangor Daily Commercial" is to be
the name of Marcellus Emery's new paper.