Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-09
STATE NEWS.

that there are living within a radius of three
| miles Of that village sixty men born in the
year 1897. If such be the case here must be
an item for the curious.
Wednesday morning as John Holland, a
young man in the employ of A. & P. Coburn,
in Skowhegan, was hitching some horses to a
team loaded with supplies for the woods the
horses started, threw Holland down and broke
his leg.
One lot of poultry brought to the Bangor
market on Thursday contained several chick
ems y whose legs had been skinned to pre-
j vent their age being known.
On Wednesday, Col. Charles Uannaford of
Cape Elizabeth, while engaged in telling
trees, was struck on the head and shoulders
by one in its descent, and was very seriously,
but it is hoped he is not fatally injured.
At the railroad meeting in Norridgew ock
on Monday, the following resolutions were
passed:
Resolved, That we, citizens of the town of
NorrdgewocK, are determined to have rail-
road. and that we will persist in this deter
mination.
| Resolved, Further that it is the duty as
well as the interest of ali citizens of Norridge-
wock to lay aside all prejudice engendered
by debate, to the end that, by uniting the in
tluence, the will and the energy of the noble
town upon the most feasible plan, we shall
sooner obtain what we all SO earnestly desir e
| "a railroad.
The Wing says that while Mr., A. F. Me-
servey, furniture painter in that city, was
removing from the store some infammable
preparation used in his business, the SUBJ
stance ran out, covering his hand and wrist,
but despite the intense pain he held on until
he had carried the dish to safe place, where
he extinguished the blaze, afterwards return
ing and smothering fire in some shavings near
the stove, and thus preventing, by his pres
ence OF mind, what might have proved an ex-
tensive conhagration. His hand and wrist
were terribly burned.
Patents issued the past week:
G. II. Hathorn, Bangor; Spinning Ma
chine.
R. S. Morse, Dickield; Scissors Grinding
Attachment for Sewing Machines.
| Under date of Dec. ~, 1871, 254 patents
will be issued. During past week 800 appli-
cations and 50 caveats were filed.
| The Press says that since the first of JAM
uary last, the Portland Company have man
ufactured and sent out from their works %
new engines, besides changing five from the
wide to the narrow guage for the Maine Cen
trail Company. Besides these, they have now
| in their shop nearly completed one new en-
CINE for the Maine Central, and another for
the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad.
Two new engines for the Grand Trunk Rail-
way are also in progress of construction.
These are shifting guage" machines, which
by simple process can be made to run on
broad and narrow guage roads.
The Free Press says that the Thomaston
Shoe Company Is in operation, and that at
Warren will begin next week.
Considerable interest is manifested in the
town of Lvcrmore regarding the proposed
railroad changes in that section. Brettun's
Mills and vicinity are anxious to secure a
railroad from Lewiston up the Androscoggin,
and it is understood will endeavor to stir up
the next legislature in regard to the matter
1t is also rum0red that the rails are to be
taken up between Leeds Crossing and Crow
lty's, on the Androscoggin division of the
Maine Central, and Pennington trains run
into Lewiston on the old Maine Central
track.
Some II 500 bushels of potatoes have been
shipped from Orland this fall. Some 4, 900
bushels are stored. They are in bad condi-
ton chilled if not frozen. For these the
farmers about there have received about S.
$50.
A prize fight, on small scale, recently
took place at Goochs Ledge, in b. .deford.
between Nit Goodwin and Seth Green. Dan
Shaw acted as second for Nit, and He"
Wakefield for Seth, with Jack Donavan a,
referee. Ten minutes fighting and the ap-
pearanee of the police, ended the affair.
The Lewiston Journal thinks that andre
scoggn county would be benefited financially
and the prisoners morally, if a work building
should be connected with the County Jail.
Mr.. John Richardson, of Jay Bridge, cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday by picking from
a standard tree, bushel ofpears.
Some anxiety is felt with regard to the
schooner Annie G. Bowker, which sailed
from Bath over week ago for Boston, anc
has notSsince been heard from, either as hav.
ing arrived there or as having put in any
where for a harbor. She is owned by Mr.
Bowker of Phipsburg and others.
And now another coolest inhabitant" ap
pears. b. c. Bailey assures the Bath Time
that there is now a lady aged l07 or perhap
los years; she is in fair health, can convers
quite well, sight very good and hearing good
She was born in the present town OF Wool
witch in 1868 or 4. Her fathers name wa
Rose and her mothers name before marriag,
sc mi,