Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-17
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Whiting Halves, of Union, met with
fall last week, and fractured the bones of
her wrist.
A young man named Howard Ham, en-
ployed in Clark, Cilley & Co.'S furniture man.
ufactory, Kendall's Mills, sawed his left hand,
so as to lose the middle finger.
The Ellsworth American says scarlet fever
and canker rash prevails at fremont and vi
cinity. Typhoid fever has been raging at
Goulds5 oro'. and several cases have proved
fatal.
The Chronicle says the first Methodist sermon
preached in Pennington, was in 1884, on the
west side of the river, by Rev. Jesse Lee.
Since that time the society has steadily grown,
until it now is one of the largest in town.
A dispatch announces the death of Prot.
w. X. Eminger, of Lewiston, at Jacksonville,
Florida, on Tuesday. Mr.. Eminger was
well known as a musical director and in
structor throughout the State, and enjoyed an
excellent reputation.
d. s. Wood, Esq, one of the contractors
for the extension of the Great Falls 4 Con-
way Railroad, says the road from Union vii
lage to West Ossipee, y. H., distance of
twenty eight miles, will be completed and in
running order by the first of July next.
The Massachusetts, Hook and Ladder Com
pany, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, have
voted to visit Portland on the 18th day
of june next, and after paying their re-
spects to different Companies in that city, to
return on the morning of the 18th, to partici-
pate in the 18th of June festivities
The American says a barn about mile out
of Ellsworth, on the Hancock road, and be-
longing to Monroe Young, was burned to the
ground last Saturday night. The barn con-
tanned several tons of hay, team wagons, etc.
Insured to a small amount Mr.. Young offers
a reward of five hundred dollars for the de-
lection and conviction of the incendiaries.
Mr.. jeremiah Ellsworth, of Pennington.
died very suddenly, last Friday noon, while
sitting at the dinner table He was unusually
well in the forenoon. The Chronicle SAYS he
was seventy-six years of age last Semptem-
Der; had been an earnest and exemplary
member of the Methodist Church about forty
| six years; was good citizen, and command
ed universal respect.
The annual meeting of the Penobscot Val
ley Steamship Company was held at the office
| of General S. +. Hersey, in Bangor, on Tues
day afternoon. The following officers were
elected President, Samuel f. Hersey; Sec
| rotary and Treasurer, c. b. Bryant; Direc-
tory, 5. L. Jersey, William McGilvery, j. 2.
Baes, Stephen Jennings, and Noyes Ames.
The Ellsworth American relates that in
| Surry, as Capt j. L. Miler's family of nine
| persons were sitting around the stove, on one
| OF the coolest evenings of the winter, a stone
| jug, filled with water, which had been stand
| ing on the stove for an hour with loud re-
port burst into more than hundred pieces,
one of which was thrown to the ceiling with
so much force as to go through the plastering.
Fortunately no one was injured.
The Bangor Wing says Messrs. Blunt,
| Human 4 Co., have manufactured at their
steam mill the past season, in one hundred
and seventy and one-half days running time
| by day only-ll 1921 900 feet long lumber,
| 8, lS9, 900 pine and spruce laths, 1l6 M. of
clapboards, 3l4 M. of shingles, 26 NJ. of bar
rel slaves, l47 M. of four-feet pickets, and
$500 square yards of Robbins wood pave
ing. The mill contains one gang of saws,
one single saw, one rotary-saw machine, two
lath machines, one clapboard machine, and
one single machine.
The Lewiston Journal says North Wayne
has several aged people. Mr.. and Mrs. At
wood are, respectively "a and 96 Samuel
jennings, 81; Mr.. Lent, rs. These enjoy a
hale old age.-Mr. Armstrong breaches very
acceptably there. Considerable religious in
terest is manifested now.-Allen Fisk, in ad-
dition to his shovel handle saving, is manu-
featuring a patent knife-holder invented by
Thomas Swift, of Fayette. 1t seems to be a
good arrangement. Jennings brothers are
manufacturing their wood by horse power
This is cheaper and easier process than the
] present slow way,