Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-23
STATE NEWS.

The Presque Isle Sunrise has been enlarged
and its proportions improved.
Upwards Of fifty men were discharged from
the construction department of the kittery
navy yard Monday.
The new hall of the Portland Army and
Navy Union was dedicated en- Tuesday eve
ming.
Rev. A. Bosserman has commenced his
labors as pastor of the Universalists societies
in Winthrop and Readfeld. On Sunday last,
he preached there for the first time as pastors
The contract for constructing the Lewiston
City buildings, has been let to Norton & Ed
wards of that city, with whom is associated
George Hanson, for little under $4,000.
resigned the position of Inspector in the Bath
Custom House, and the vacancy has been
filled by the appointment of Mr.. Edwin A.
Morse. Mr.. M. is Il brother of the Hon.
Freeman II. Morse.
The Phillips correspondent of the Lewis
ton journal relates that there resided recently
in that town mother at the age of twelve
years. girl-a child-a young women.
Her baby was active and smart at birth, and
so was the mother.
The spring term of the Westbrook Semi
nary has opened finely, one hundred and
seyenty-tive names are already on the roll,
the most of whom are advanced students, and
are generally superior class Of students in
all respects.
The Maine General Hospital Association
will appoint building committee at once,
and take measures to commence very soon
the erection of hospital on the Arsenal
ha toto thnr tia,
will remove the Arsenal and the State proper
ty from the grounds at once,
The following town officers were elected in
kenduskeag on Monday:
Moderator. b. Nickels.
Clerk-F. N. A. Stackpole.
Selectmen and Assessors-Crosby Clement
F. b. Stackpole, A. X. z. Mason.
Treasurer-M. M. Radson.
Town Agent. B. Nickels.
S. S. Com.-Crosby Clement.
The Press says that as the morning train
from this city for Bost on was leaving Bidde-
ford Monday morning, drunken man named
Albert Piper got on board, and making some
disturbance the conductor put him off at the
next station. He again got on and was again
put off at North Berwick. When the train
started from that station Piper again attempt
ed to get on, but was thrown off, and three
passenger cars passed over his right arm near
the shoulder. The man belongs in Ports
mouth, n. III.
The city council of Bath has elected the
following county officers Treasurer and
Collector. Edward O. Hyde; Commissioner
of street, Joseph r. Mitchell; Assessors,
Michael +. Gannett. VIM. b. Stearns, VIM.
f. Moses; Overseers of the Poor, Israel Put
nam, Samuel L. Allen, Milton S. Briry;
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shall, Nathan Coombs Assistant Macshal,
Nathl Longley; City Physician, Israel Put
nam; City Constable and Messenger, Nathl
Longley; CHIEF Engineer, Fire Department,
VIM. Hodgdon; Second Engineer Charles L.
Turner; Third Engineer, VIM. c. Duncan;
Assistant Engineers, Chas. T. Hooper, Thos.
+. Craven, John T. Cook, John S. Larrabee;
Superintendent of Burials, John M. Clark.
A very mysterious affair occurred in the
vicinity of Bangor on Tuesday, says the
Wing. A woman was seen by a teamster
driving between Bangor and Oldtown, stand
ing in a field ON the left side of the road lean
ing on fence. Shortly after the woman was
found lying among the rocks, exposed to the
beating rain, and dead. A jury was called
and an inquest held but the verdict has not
yet been rendered. No one recognizes the
body and no one is missing in the vicinity.
The face indicates that the woman was about
40 years of age. There were no marks of
violence about the body, though the legs and
wrists were considerably bruised and cut,
probably by the poor womans death struggles
among the rocks where she lay. Who she
was, how she came to wander off into the
spot where she was found, what was the
cause of her death,-these questions have yet
to be answered. Heaven only knows what
the poor creature suffered to drive her out to
wander alone and give up her life where no
eye saw her but the All Seeing!