Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-29
ST ATE NEWS.

iSho"- Woihuidu, WHO Tusneu III anu rescued
him from the flames. Shaughnessy was bad |
ly burned and has been confined to his bed
ever since. He lost all his clothing and is |
left in destitute condition.
Erastus Robinson, steward on board of a |
brig at Richmond, stole the chronometer oil
the vessel and tome articles of clothing be
longing to the captain, last Sunday night
then took the briggs boat and went to Bath,
where he pawned the chronometer for S22,
and was about to take the noon train for the
West, when he was arrested, arraigned before
Judge Tallman, pleaded guilty, and was
bound over in the sum of $1,000, and for
want of sureties was committed.
Blanchard Peters of Bluehill, while out
ducking recently was accidentily shot receiv
ing both charges from double barrelled shot
gun. He had put on a cap and was humping
the hammer with his hand when the gun was
discharged, the shot entering the bottom of
the foot and passing through SO that they
were picked out from the top. Mr.. Peters
was seated holding the gun in his lap. The
gun rebounded six or eight feet when the re-
naming barrel was discharged, the shot en-
tering the groin obliquely and passing along
under the skin. He is doing as well as could
be expected.
The lot where stood the store and Post
Office in Norrdgewock, destroyed by fire last
winter, has been purchased by Mr.. Levi
Leighton of Columbia, Washington county,
and building two stories in height is in pro-
cess of erection. The lower floor Mr.. l..
will occupy as store, with room for the
Post Office, and the upper one, +. G. Dan
forth cOntemplates OCCUPYING for the manufac-
ture of suspenders.
The second County Institute at Sabattis,
opened finely on Tuesday. Mr.. Abbott OF
Pennington is the conductor, assisted by
County Supervisor Stetson.
A few weeks since, Mrs. John Whiting,
of South Norridgewock, met with a serious
accident by a fall upon the doorstep, breaking
bone near that of the hip.
A stranger calling himself Harris hired a
team of Mr.. John Haynes of Norridgewock,
Sept. 18th, to go to Wilton, saying that he
would return on the next day. Not making
his appearance Monday, Mr.. ii. started in
pursuit, but returned after fruitless search,
soon to hear of the harness and carriage in
New Hampshire-minus the horse-whther
he has gone.
Mr.. Charles II. Pettingill, formerly of Au-
burn, now Assessor of Revenue in the LIST S.
c. District, is in Lewiston on brief visit.
Mr.. Pettingll states that business is dull in
the South, but the people are beginning to
learn habits of industry.
Last Thursday the editor Of the Farming
ton Chronicle, received a very pleasant call
from four brothers, Hon. F. N. Blake, L. S.
Consul at Hamilton, Canada; Z. n. Blake, of
the firm of Blake, Highbee & Co., Boston;
Geo. F. Blake, Inventor of the celebrated
Blakes Patent Steam Pump, Boston, and our
fellowtownsman, Increase Blake, Farming
ton Falls, all natives of this town. Some
thirty-four years have passed since they all
met at the old homestead. mother of
these gentlemen is still living, at the age of
81 years.
The rails of the Knox s Lincoln Railroad
are laid down as far as Knox street, Thomas
ton. By the end of this week the rails will
reach the bridge which crosses Mill River.
Hon. Edward Q. Brien of Thomaston, has
presented to the Episcopal Chapel the bell
formerly belonging to the Unitarian Society.
New Portland has &c taxpayers who pay
over S40sElias &. Gould pays the highest tax.
S9S.45.
Mr.. j. S. Norton, of Pennington, while a,
work in saw-mill at Lewiston, Sept. 9TH
got his hand entangled in circular saw and
badly cut The fore-fnger was split to the
second joint, and his thumb nail and part OF
the flesh sawed completely off. He will be
unable to return to his work for several
months.
Recently Mr.. Hiram Marden af Palermo,
went upon the scaffold, on the great beams of
his barn to throw down some grain to the
threshing men, and while SO engaged, his
fork slipped and he fell backwards, and,
striking on grit below, he was so badly in
jured that he died eighteen hours afterward.
He was prominent and worthy citizen of
about sixtyfour years of age.
The Belfast Age says the crop of potatoes
now being harvested is said to be the largest
and best raised in Waldo county for many
years. A field of them in one of the interior
towns, about seven acres, yielded upwards
of POO bushels to the acre. There are COM
plants of rot in some localities but it is not
general. The potatoes that are now being
brought into the market are the largest we
have ever seen and their quality is excellent.
They were selling Tuesday at 45 cents. The
crop has been good all over the country
and, in consequence, the price will probably
be lower than in past years.
We left our travelling companion, II. r.
Brown, the artist, at Lausanne, Switzerland;
when last heard from he was in Cologne, on
his way to Paris. He had visited Munich.
Dresden and Berlin, and was much pleased
with what he saw of modern art in Germany.
He has accumulated a fund of materials
which he will work up into pictures on his
return, and his many friends may expect to
see some fine reproductions OF European
scenery. He will return early in Novem-
ber.-M. ElreH IN Portland transcript.
The Machias Republican says that Rev. S.
l.. Hanscom of Lubee had narrow escape a
few days since. ie with absnt twelve
others, entertd an old shaft, in one of the
Lubec lead mines, to explore-Mr. Hans
com taking the lead. He had gone in
about forty feet when his foot slipped on
what he supposed to be a shelving his
first impression was to let himself slide,
thinking he would go down but short dis
lance, and be all right again; but finally
concluded to hold on to a large rock near
him; through this means he regained his
footing. He then to test what was at the
bottom of this shelving rock, dropped stone
Immediately in front of himself, the stohe fell
into water, and upon investigation it was
found that the shelving rock was at the mouth
of pit, sixty feet deep, with thirty feet of
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