Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-20
STATE NEWS.
The Penobscot County Jail has twenty one

The Penobscot County Jail has twenty one
inmates.
Arrangements have been made with parties
in Boston to have the floor of City Hall
Portland, waxed, on the occasion of the
printers dance Christmas night, which will
very much enhance the pleasure of dancing.
"Ali gentlemen with tar on their heels will
please keep outside the ring
The Wing says that on Monday afternoon
two boys, named respectively - Silver
and jerome Spaulding, stolea ride from Ban
gor to Carmel on the train leaving at three
O'Clock, with the intention of returning home
on the freight. In attempting to get upon a
platform car of the latter train, after it had
started from the Carmel station, young
Spaulding fell upon the track and the wheels
passed over his right arm and shoulder
crushing bone and flesh in a horrible manner.
His head was also considerably injured and
he was insensible when taken up. Surgical
aid was at once procured, and his arm ampu
tated at the shoulder joint; he still remains
at Carmel and his recovery is considered
very doubtful. He is about IA years of age
and is son of Albert NJ. Spaulding, who re-
sides in Baskerville.
Tie late ]. II. Gilbreth of Kendall's Mills,
whose sudden death we noticed yesterday,
was sick but a few days. He leaves a wife
and three small children.
On Monday Flags were displayed at half
mast upon the City Hall, the steamer house
on Harlow street, Eagle Engine house, and
the stats of Union Hose Company, and
Champion Hook and Ladder Company in
Bangor, in respect to the memory OF the late
Mayor Dale.
Mr.. Wilder W. Perry, a member of Colby
University, has been engaged as assistant
editor of the Camden Herald.
James Wood. Esq, has just returned from
Swift River where numbering operations OF
the Lewiston Steam Mill Co., are getting a
fine start. The company has ten teams and
thirty men at work on that river. The COM
pany has purchased three millions of logs to
put into the main river above Berlin Falls
About ! 2 millions will be cut on Swift
River and as many more logs are now there,
cut last season.. About 100000 hemlock
pine and spruce will be cut this winter on
the Company's purchase in Livermore. The
Company hope to have about millions OF
logs to cut next season.-Lewiston Journal.
The Journal says that Simmons, the
sculptor, and wife. hope to be able to return
home for brief visit, next spring. They
have been residing in Rome over four years,
where Mr.. s. has achieved success in his art,
almost Unprecedented in the record of modern
sculp,Ors.
A special despatch to the Portland Press
from Pennington, states that Mr.. Royal OF
East Wilton, met with horrible death last
Saturday afternoon. He was engaged at the
time hauling wood for Mr.. Moody Chandler,
at West Pennington. He went after load
about three o'clock, and as he did not come
back within an hour, Mr. Chandler was fear.
full that something had happened and started
to find him. He was found a short distance
from the team with one side of his head stove
in and his collar bone broken, with other
bruises about the person. Life was extinct.
1t is supposed, as he was subject to fits, that
he had one and fell off his load, being crushed
between the load and stump. Coroner Tuck
was summoned, but he deemed an Inquest
unnecessary. The deceased leaves a wife
and was about % years of age.
One of the best washes for ordinary wounds
on horses is to take one quarter Of pound of
saltpeter, half pint Of turpentine, and put
them into a bottle; shake up well before
using; apply to the wound three times a day
with feather.
Last Wednesday a small building owned
by Messrs. Golf and Plummer, at Little
JAM" Gorham, and used as a dry house was
entirely destroyed by fire. The building at
the time was full of slaves. Loss about 5000.
No insurance.