Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-09
STATE NEWS.

Counterfeit so bills on the Auburn City
National Bank are in circulation.
Postmaster General Creswell has engaged
board for himself and family in private
house in Robbinston.
The Press understands that the Directors
of the Maine Central road will make an ex-
cursion over the road from Boston to Ban
gor, in company with the officers of the East
ern and z. S. & p. roads, on Pullman pal
ace train some day this week.
The Press says that a man named Downey
while assisting in removing a moving machine
from the New York boat had the end of one
of his fingers mangled by its getting caught
in the machinery. The finger was afterwards
amputated.
The Bath Times learns that Mr.. William
I. Donnell ad the misfortune to meet with
a serious accident Saturday. While engage
in taking down the staging around the vessel
built by himself and Mr.. Deering, a timber
fell upon him, breaking his leg very badly.
The Bowdoin Alumni Association at Calais
has offered gold medal of $50 its equiva-
lent in money, as a prize for the best debater,
each ofthe college literary societies to choose
three diSputants to discuss in public a ques-
ton which shall be selected and given out by
the Faculty.
The civil term of the Supreme Judicial
Court for Penobscot county which has been
in session since April 4th, was adjourned
Saturday to Friday, May 18th. During this
term OF little more than four weeks, nineteen
verdicts have been returned, and the docket
of eleven hundred cases reduced about one
half.
DR.. Cobb who eloped with Miss Dow, his
pupil, fortnight ago, has been brought back
to wilton with his victim, arriving home on
Friday last. The commu .ity are keeping
very quiet in the matter out of respect to in
nocent parties. Miss Dow is said to be about
medium height, IS years of age, intelligent,
but evidently not very strong of intellect.
No steps have been taken, as yet by the girls
family against the doctor.
The Bangor Wing says that C. E. LOFTS,
employed on Palmer Il Johnson's drive on
the East Branch of the Mattawamkeag, came
very near being drowned on Sunday of last
week. at Hams bridge in Smyrna. He was
engaged in breaking a Jam of logs, which
giving away carried him with the logs under
the bridge. He could not swim, but the force
of the current washing him ashore his life was
save.
The arrangements for the excursion of the
Woodbridge Cadets, Co. l, of Lynn, to Ban
gor, Augusta and Portland, are nearly per-
tected. They will leave for Bangor on Mon
day, June 18th, stopping at Augusta and
Portland on their return. They will be ac-
companied by the Lynn Band, and several
prominent officials of the Eighth Regiment
and City Government, and other invited
guests. They propose to be absent until
Friday, June 10th.
The wing says that lovers of billiards are
anticipating with considerable interest a nov
city in the shape of four-handed match
game, 1900 points up, for 800 side, which
is to be played in Norombega Hall, Bangor,
on Tuesday, May 3d. by Henry f. Shiel
(champion) of Portland, and Charles f.
Smith Of Augusta, (cx-champion) on one
side, and I. Herbert White and player We,
to be announced of Bangor on the other
This is the first match game OF this sort eve,
played in the State, and it promises to b,
closely contested
Items from the Lewiston Journal: A
Sebec Messrs. Leavitt & Weston who hay,
purchased the mill property there, are put
ting up new mill, into which they propos,
to put single and clap-board machine
stave machine and planer. 1t is expecte,
that the wooden mill which has been shu
down for some months past, will start vi
again in June, and there is some prospec
that the Shaw Bros. will erect large tan