Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-06
STATE NEWS.

Mr. Ireson Briggs of Dover has sold an
eight months old Harry" colt to Mr.. G. o.
Palmer of Dover, for sl25.
The Bangor Commercial says that about
so, 900 railroad ties are soon to come down
from VIM over the Il. & N. A. Railway, for
the Maine Central Railroad. The average
''life" of tie is eight years, except on curves
and near stations. Cedar ties are not nearly
as good as those of hard wood on curves ON
account of the tremendous lateral pressure Of
the locomotives and cars on the rails when
going round curve.
The Somerset Reporter learns that 8. b.
Brewster, formerly of the Brewster Hotel
now Skowhegan House) has disposed of the
remainder of his interest in said hotel to Mr.
Joel Gray, the present owner. "a - - "a a
H. B. Rice Of Unity, lost valuable COW
by slipping over the bank of the Sandy stream
and breaking her neck.
The Belfast Journal says that the expenses
of the steamers Cambridge and katahdin,
while waiting for the Polar. Sea to open, were
about $500 per day.
A gentleman who is just from Dix Island
quarries informs the Progressive Age that all
the water for domestic uses on the Island is
brought from Rockland in the form of ice and
melted 9 W I ssaRgs SkAkSAs
Mr.. T. NJ. ,Jefferds of Foxcroft, lost a
pure FLOODED Cotswold buck valued at 800,
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In speaking of the new paper mill in Tops
ham, the Telegraph says that considerable
work has been done towards the manufacture
of paper. A large quantity of pulp has been
made up and ia in the yats ready to be run
off on the machine. The only delay now ID,
on account of the breaking of some gear when
tine machinery was started a week or two
since. Mr.. 'Clapp, the agent, expects the
duplicates at any moment E, .4qta~
There has been good deal of excitement
in Benton village lately, on account of a lot
terry got up by man there who had been in
the egg business, and wished to dispose of his
| house and filings. Probably some $4,000
worth of tickets were sold, and many were
purchasers who need their money to make
their families comfortable.
Mr.. Joseph Gould Of Walton's Mills, was
injured seriously one day last week. He
was running circular saw in his mill, when
splinter flew from the board and struck him
on the under lip, cutting completely through
it perpendicular, making cash nearly an
inch in length.
Thrty.fiv thousand bushels Of corn were
received by sea, and forwarded by rail from
the port Of Belfast during March, as 49,
There were 70 deaths in Portland in the
| month of March.
The Chronicle says that A. II. Fletcher
Esq, is doing a large business in his plaster
mill in Pennington. The corn is carried by
elevators to the attic story, where it is sifted
| &C all nbaF and small nOhs and then
thro' spouts into bins, from which it runs into
the hoppers below and is ground The plas-
ter mill is in the basement story, so that no
dust can escape to the corn room. very
often the mill is in operation till late az night'
so great is the demand for meal ana plaster
Prof Fernald's abstract of meteorological
observations for the month of March just
mast shows the mean temperature of the
month to have been nearly 10 l-2 degrees
colder than in March of last year, the mean
! of the coolest day nearly SO degrees colder
than the mean of the coolest day in March
l87l and the mean Of the warmest day about
Is degrees colder, than the warmest day o =
last year. Thirty inches more snow fell than
in March 1871, and two feet more than in
February of this year. Four-ffths of the
time the wind blew from the north, north
west or northeast while in March of last year
points. Altogether the month has been re-
markable.
They are holding Washingtonian meetings
at Brunswick, on the same plan and for the
same ends as those in this city and elsewhere
The following are the names Of the Frank
liu County Republican Committee appointed
by the Republican Convention held in Farm
ington last August A. H. s. Davis, Farm
ington; Orrin Hall, New Vineyard; NJ. A.
Phillips, Weld; II. E. Dyer, New Sharon !;
j. ID. Storer, Wilton. sel sH..-
! According to notice to the corpsrators of
the Lubec Savings Bank, an organization
was effected the 30th ult. ..... e
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