Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-26

Messrs. Goss & Sawyer, of Bath. have Jus,
commenced work on three masted schooner,
which is to be 700 tons burthen, old measure
ment, being larger than any schooner ever
before built on the Kennebec. They have
also another schooner of 500 tons about tim
| bered out, while on the 4th inst, they
launched one of 525 tons. as
A carpenter by the name of Samuel Ken
nison, belonging in Great Falls, N. H., was
severely injured in Berwick on the 18th inst.
He was at work on q staging, which broke,
and he fell distance of thirty feet, break
ing his collar bone and inflicting other in
juries sA = ssT
Hon. Thomas P. Cleaves of BrownAeld,
TOR i've years Secretary of the Maine Senate,
ana Tor the past two years q member of that
BABY from Oxford county, has received an
appointment to clerkship In one of the de-
partments at Washington. Mr.. Cleayes is
gentleman of industry and ability, and will
make most efficient officer.
The Belfast Journal says Saturday a lot of
Penobscot Indians, with canoes and all the
furniture for camping, came down on the
cars, and stopped at Unity Pond. That beau
tiful locality was in the olden time favorite
resort for the red man, and it is curious to see
them, after so long an intermission, COM
ing back by railroad to re-occupy their old
haunts.
AT Bangor on Wednesday, John Mcclure,
stevedor's laborer, was at work with others
loading schooner "Wm. Corners" with lum-
Der from raft, at a wharf near the Maine
Central depot, when he met with an accident
which it is feard will prove fatal. Mcclure
was on the vessel, holding one end of heavy
stick of timber, the other end being on the
raft, when it slipped and fell, throwing him
down upon the raft and falling across his
bowels. @8.%s -
The Ellsworth American says that on
Tuesday the 10th, Capt. William Folsom and
Charles ii. Emerson, both of that town,
started to go to Isle Au Haut, and their boat
was upset when near Merchants Island and
both were drowned These men were enter
prising citizens and each left a family. They
were sons-in-law of Sullivan Greene, Esq,
Capt. Folsom formerly resided in Augusta,
and Mr. Emerson was a native Of Bucksport.
Search has been made for the bodies but
without success. asa
The Pennington Chronicle says that on
Thursday afternoon, young man named
Fellows had his shoulder broke by being
thrown in a wrestling scufle, just south of
this village. The young man had been en-
gagged in raising up dwelling house in order
to put another story underneath, and feeling
risky and happy at the satisfactory compile
ton of their work commenced scufling with
the above result. The young man is now
doing well. .....s-....
The Portland Press says that the property
of the society Of Shakers in Alfred has been
bonded by Hon. Charles Shaw and others for
500, 900. The company contemplating its
purchase, are making careful survey of the
standing timber. The Shakers own two
thousand acres of land, about equally divided
by the Portland & Rochester railroad, and il
understood to be very valuable on account of
the growth of timber and its proximity to
very desirable water power capable Of being
increased. The village, so called, would
make the centre of manufacturing estab-
lishment Of shoes and could be devoted to
this purpose with undoubted success. It 10
understood money is to be made by the pur-
chase. Il