Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-16
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Messrs. Deering, Hatch and Knowlton. q
coin'l.'tee OF the Executive Council are
Liquor Agency. A' 0'i''
son of Mr.. Davis in Mt. Chase was bad.
brother the other day while choppinv ~ , me
woods. ~ WV
| lady in Westbrook has plucked flowers !,
her garden every month since last March. a
year ago, except in January, 1871. Decem.
Der 3lst she plucked crysanthemum in full
bloom and in February of this year other
flowers. So says the Press.
The freshet has greatly weakened the
| bridge over the Androscoggin river at Lewis
ton. The Journal says there is no doubt but
the bridge may endure long enough for a new
one to be built, if immediate measures be
taken.
The Lewiston Journal says that an old lady
rs years of age, residing in Richmond, Me-,
made last year, 200 coats, and this year pre-
vious she made 100. Though advanced in
years she is not at all hard Of hearing, and
does not need to use glasses.
The Wing says that Mr.. Edward o. Chase,
night operator in the Western Union Tele-
/ graph Office in Bangor, has invented and con-
structed complete set of instruments for
sending and receiving dispatches-in short
whole telegraph office-enclosed in a metal
box inches long, ga inches wide and l
| inch deep, which can easily be carried in a
| vest-pocket.
The Wing says that on the afternoon of
Feb. "a, young woman named Jane Dewey
INN off rbarf in Co,
with the intention of drowning herself. Capt
7. j. Forbes of Bangor, master of schooner
Almatia, jumped into the dock at the risk of
his life, and rescued her; Grave deed which
does Capt. Forbes much honor.
| The Lewiston journal says that the shoe
business in Auburn will exceed three millions
! of dollars for the ensuing year, at the present
rate of manufacture. All the manufacturers
are doing a large business, and nearly all
| have increased their capacity for turning off
goods, quite percentage this spring. There
are three shoe firms in Auburn that are now
doing an aggregate of about 81 400, 900 worth
OF business per annum.
The Warren church at Cumberland Mills
is making its influence felt as working
church amongst a community of intelligent
and enterprising people. 1t has received
eighteen members during the past year and
a half, and the parent church has received
twenty-eight more than half by profession
since July 1869, so that the blessing of God
has crowned the labors of both older and
yonger, between which there is the beet Of
feelings. Another fellowship" meeting is
appointed for this week.
The Lewiston Journal is glad to hear that
the Lisbon Annual Town Meeting held on
Monday, abolished the School District sys-
tenn, putting the whole town into one district.
$3,000-an increase of 81 ,0O0-was appro-
priated for schools-a healthful Indication.
There was little or no opposition to the aboli-
ton of the old district system, nor to the in
creased appropriation for schools.
In the United States Circuit Court at Port
land, in the case ofNathaniel Mckay, ct ais,
VS. William Hill, Judge Fox delivered an
elaborate opinion, to the effect that a stock
holder of an insurance company who with
draws any portion OF its capital stock is per-
sonally liable in that amount to the creditors
of the corporation. The defendant retired his
stock FROM the Piscataquis Insurance Co. and
was thus held liable.
During the recent freshet the water in the
Piscataquis was very high. The ice between
Foxcroft and Guilford all broke up and came
down TO the head of the mill pond, where it
made a jam from ten to twenty-five feet deep
ana a il3li ilhle long. At ABOUT > L. M, TINS
jam started and crowded the entire field of ice
in the mill pond, down some distance, and at
| the foot of the pond it was close up to the
buildings. Fortunately it stopped there.
Much anxiety was felt lest it should again
start and sweep all before it. Several build
ings were cleared of their contents and some
families dared not remain in their dwellings
over night. The dam at Blanchard was
swept away at three o'clock Monday.
The Press says that Eben S. Tracy, of
Freeport, book-keeper in the wholesale shoe
and leather store of Messrs. Tyler & Cox, Oh
Union street, Portland was arrested Tuesday
evening by Deputy Marshals Sterling and
Decelle at his boarding house. corner of Fed
eral and Pearl streets, for larceny of money
from his employers. From his acknowledge
ment it appears that on the 2lst of February
one of the customers of the firm paid in $50,
which was credited on the ledger but not on
the cash book. That night the cash account
overrun some $50, fifty of which Tracy says
he took, leaving the balance. He refunded to
his employers befor the officers arrested him
Ssh. He was locked up for examination.