Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-21
ST ATE NEWS.

Tha PASSPORT Sentinel says that Mr. David
L. Brown of Lubec, has received intelligence
of the death of his son Winfield S. Brown.
The young man died of small pox on board
the ship VIM. F. Storer of New York, Capt
James Bryant, while on the passage from
Liverpool.
The Wing says that most of the machinery
has been put into Mr.. Boyd's new steam lum-
Der mill at Mattawamkeag, and he expects to
commence work in it next month. He has
nearly finished boarding house for his
workmen.
The body of Edgecomb, one of the three
young men drowned in Thompson's Pond.
Oxford, was found on Saturday. Bankers
body was found few days since, but DIR.
Verrll still lies in the Pond.
Smith and Hamilton, recently arrested at
Greenport l.. L., have been identified be-
yond doubt as the men who stold the silk
from the stores of }. T. Rines & Co. and Will
llams < Getchell, in Bangor, on the night OF
May sth, and made their escape on a small
sloop belonging to Mark S. Weeks of Brew.
er, on the Saturday following.
1t is said that the Portland Cadets are get.
ting ready to challenge the whole State to a
champion drill exhibition.
The Saco Independent says that intelli-
gence was received in that city on Saturday
last of the death by drowning of a son of Mr..
$. E. Cleves of Portage Lake, Mich. Mr..
Cleves has been stopping for a few days at
the Saco House with his brother John T.
Gloves. He came here for the purpose OF
attending to the interment of the remains of
a son who met his death by drowning in De-
cember last. He had previously lost son
by drowning while living at Lowell, Mass,
several years ago, and now inst as he was re-
turning to his home in the West, he receives
the sad intelligence that another son has met
the same fate
The Lewiston journal says that there was
raised Saturday, probably the largest build
ing that was ever raised in Winthrop. The
oil cloth factory of Messrs. Bailey 4 Jones
was raised on the old site, where the other
factory was burned last year. The building
is 240 feet long, Al feet wide and 80 feet
posts. 1t is a great building and reflects
much credit upon its proprietor, also upon
the architect and builder, f. III. McIntire of
Winthrop. Mesers. Bailey & Jones propose
to carry on the business on large scale.
The Portland post office has been removed
to its new quarters.
The Fifth Maine Regiment Association
will celebrate its Fourth Anniversary on the
eth of July, at Portland. The Literary ex-
ercises viii take place on Wednesday eve
ming prion to the Anniversary, and will con-
sist of an Grafton by F. G. Patterson, of Port
land, poem by volunteer, and music by
the Portland Basd. On Thursday there will
be an excersion and clam bake. Half fare
on railroads and steamboats,.
The graduating class in the Portland high
school numbers so, equally divided between
the sexes.
Mr. Allen Carter of Etna, has five daugh-
tiers whose average weight is over two hun
dred pounds each. One of them is the wife
of the Mr.. John r. Day who has recently
figured in the papers as mother of a infant
that weighed nearly II pounds at the time OF
its birth.
The Bath Times says that Alexander Mute
of Wiscasset, while at work on the Wiscasset
bridge, fell overheard and was drowned