Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-23
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oaco mas new steam fre engine called
the ''Gov. Fairfield"
The E. & N. A. Railway bridge over the
Mattawamkeag river in Bancroft, will be in
place in less than fortnight
Jason w. Beatty has resigned his position
as Deputy Collector Of the Port of Saco.
The livery stock in the Tontine stable at
brunswick is to be sold by auction.
There appears to be regularly organized
gang OF burglars at work in Portland, several
places having been recently entered.
The annual reunion of the 18th Maine
will take place at Evergreen Landing, Peaks
Island, Friday, Sept. lst.
Three very valuable horses, owned by
| gentlemen Of Bangor, have died within a
| week.
Mrs. Alice Staples of Winthrop was in
| Paris on the 9TH inst.
The BURBERRY business in Cherryfield
amounts to nearly thousand dollars day.
The Machias Republican says that on the
Sth inst, at Lubec, Chas. Tanning fell from
the main rail of sch. Quoddy, distance of
about twelve feet, striking on an iron bar,
used as stake in truck. The truck was
along side of the vessel, on the beach for re-
pairs. The bar penetrated through the left
thigh, making fearful wound. 1t is doubt
full whether he RECEIVERS.
The corner stone of the new Custom House
and Post Office building in Machias was laid
with Masonic ceremonies Saturday, August
18th.
Master j. Lowell Nash launched from his
yard in Machias, Aug. l4th. a schooner of
ls5 tons o. m. named Lucy Lee, and owned
principally by VIM. c. and Ladwick Holway
of this town. The Messrs. Holway have the
frames for one or two more vessels in the
same yard.
Luther Perkins, Representative in the last
House from the Poland district, has been
nominated for reelection.
One of the boys at Little Blue School at
Pennington, broke his arm one day last week
while wrestling.
Hon. Phinehas Barnes of Portland, a we'll |
known and eminent lawyer, died at his home
on Monday morning, at the age of 60 years.
His disease was cancer, and his death has
been anticipated for four or five months.
The cancer had been removed several times. |
Mr.. Barnes was born in Orland, Hancock
county, in January, 1911; fitted for college
at Andover and graduated at Bowdoin in the |
class Of 1929; went to Portland and pursued |
his law studies, and went to Brunswick and |
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at the same time was cashier of the Union |
bank; in the Jackson contest of 80 he edited |
a paper in Bangor which supported Clay, the |
Wing candidate; became tutor in Waterville |
College in 1888, and the next year was chos-
en- professor of Greek and Latin, his connec- |
ton with the college ceasing in 1889. The
next year he became political editor of the |
Portland Daily Advertiser, continuing his
law practice, and left the paper in ls47, hav-
ing brought it up to an influential position |
In 1874 he was elected a member of the |
House of Representatives, and in 1916 was
reelected on the fourth ballot In 1876 he |
declined to be candidate, but in 1S47 was
re-nominated, and after hot contest into |
which the temperance question entered, was
chosen at the ninth trial. He was a member
OF the Senate in 1866. In 1860, when Gov.
Washburn was chosen for the first time. Mr.. |
Barnes was the Bell and Everett candidate |
for Governor. Mr.. Barnes active political
life closed with the expiration of his sena-
torial term, but he continued to serve the |
public in other positions. He was actively |
interested in agriculture and the common
schools, director in the Portland Athenaum, |
overseer of Bowdoin College, once a trustee |
of the Agricultural College, held MANY hon |
orable positions in the city government of
Portland, was one of the directors of the
Maine General Hospital, counsel of the
Grand Trunk Railway Co., and the last Pres
ident of the Atlantic and st. Lawrence rail.
road company, and President of the Portland
Savings Bank. He married the daughter of
Rev. Nath'l Butler, Baptist clergyman of
North Yarmouth, with whom he has lived
most happily, and who bore him seven chill
dren-four sons and three daughters.