Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-17
STATE NEWS.

INV III uiOssOn nave DttH tOunu.
Small blocks of ice are still constantly
running down the Penobscot.
The steamer City of Richmond will begin
her regular trips from Portland to Bangor
on Monday next.
The improvements at the St. Julian Hotel
in Portland are about completed.
Litchfeld, the bank no bier, has been taken
from Belfast to Rockland to receive his sem
tence.
The dam across the Piscataquis river at
Rowland has been carried away by the high
water and ice.
1t is reported on good authority that
night passenger train will be run over the
Main Central on or before May LIST.
Wild geese commenced their northward
journey the first of March; the earliest ever
known.
The revival is still progressing in Cutler,
Seventeen persons have recently Joined the
Methodist Glass.
The Press says that Parties from Portland
have just completed an extensive factory on
the Damariscotta river for canning Holsters
and manufacturing guano.
Az "a AiiS anu equipments Tic DSllhst
company of volunteer militia, Capt. w. H.
Folger, have arrived. The company propose
to furnish a uniform soon.
Henry g., son of Mr.. David Blanchard of
Charlotte, was killed in the woods near Mar
ion. March LIST. A falling tree crushed him
so that he lived but few hours.
Lewis L. Wadsworth, Esq. who for quite
number of years has been the efficient and
successful agent of the Pembroke Iron Works
has resigned that Office, and will remove with
his family to Massachusetts,.
A young man named Fred Hamlin, son of
Mr.. Charles Hamlin, of North Bridgton, while
running with sharp axe in his hand, fell, the
axe striking his left hand, and cutting two
fingers therefrom.
1t is expected that b. M. Roberts of Stock
on, the newly appointed Collector for the
Belfast District, will take his place at the
receipt of customs this week. His deputies
have not yet been publicly announced.
The people of Pembroke are making con-
siderable preparations for schooner building
this season. Three are now tmbered out
and frames are in the yards for several more
all designed for coasters.
The Wing says that one day last week
Henry Thompson who resides on Filth street
Bangor, tipped upon her from the stove a
skillet full of melted lard in which ''dough-
nuts" were frying. She was terribly scalded
on the neck, hands, arms and chest, but is
recovering.
Harvey Partridge of Westbrook has cap
tured lot of young grasshoppers. They are
not full grown but about as lively as in June,
apparently unconscious that they, like some
of their human contemporaries were born
into the wsrld too early for their comfort, be-
ing little ahead of the age in which they are
obliged to live.
There is singular spring on Mr.. Daniel
Cooks farm in Kittery. In haying time last
summer there was no signs of water, but as
the drought became severe, good pure water
welled up sufficient to supply whole neigh
borhood. When the rains come on the spring
dries up.
The Machias Union says that the Penn
broke Iron Works have run steadily since
fall, until within three weeks, when the pud-
dlers side of the mill hung up for want of
water. The steam power will not be used,
probably, being so near the season of rains.
At the annual town meeting in Lisbon,
Monday, the following officers were chosen
Moderator, j. G. Jordan; Clerk, Aaron Nut
ting Selectmen, H. c. White, Orlando Mer.
ril and A. 4. Jordan; s. S. Committee, j.
Philbrook; Constable and Collector, Levi II
Coombs Treasurer, Jesse Davis. All the
officers elected are republicans,
A Connecticut democrat sent his son to
New York. to complete his education. After
short time the son wrote his father that h,
was studying Horace" On learning thi
the paternal parent replied: "Come home
l don't want Greeley to make republican o
my son."
One Professor Sands" alias Georg,
Knox probably States prison bird, visite,
PASSPORT recently and by PLAYER contracte,
bills at the hotel, printing office and othe
places, and left town suddenly not paying
He hired a team Of Mr.. futile, went to Rob
binston, where Mr.. O'Brien detained tn
team, but Sands chartered boatnan to tax,
him to st. Andrews on special business. A
st. A, the boatman waited long time for hi
passenger to return, but by inquiery h,