Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-22
STATE NEWS.

The Bangor people are complaining about
thehigh price of gas. The Commercial says
that the exhorbitant charge is forcing many
people to abandon the use of gas and substi-
tute kerosene and kindred fluids.
| Another "defalcation" by clerk has been
brough, to light within a few days. A mer-
chant, missing money from his store, set Mai.
Bolton on the lookout, and the thief was found
to be clerk. The cash and some goods
were recovered, and the matter quietly settled
up, to give the erring lad chance to redeem
his character.-Bangor Wing.
| Accident items from the Gardiner Reporter ::
On Tuesday last while coasting, a little
| daughter of Mr.. H. d. Wakefield. was struck
| with such force by the sled of one of her
| companions as to render her senseless, in
| which condition she was carried home. Med
| ical aid was at once summoned, when it was
found no bones were broken, but the shock
| was a severe one will confine her to the house
some time.
Last Friday at the Knickerbocker Ice
House, Charles Morton, of Farmingdale, had
a leg crushed between two cakes Office.
Same day and place, Charles Morgan, of
Farmingdale, stuck pick into the forefnger
joint, making bad wound.
On Friday, little son of Mr.. Daniel Gid
den of Pittston, while using sharp axe,
chopped one of his toes on his right foot
nearly Off
Friday the 18th inst, as Levi S. Newcomb
of Pinhook was riding over Windham Hill,
Bridgton, his horse by sudden turn threw
him violently out of the sleigh, putting his
arm out of joint and badly bruising his face.
A correspondent from the town of Penob-
scot says peddler of an article called the
"Starch Polish" a stranger haillng from Au-
gusta, put up with widow lady, while stop
ping in that town, he calling himself wild
dover. He struck up a bargain with his
lady, and promised to return in week or
| two and marry her but months have elapsed
and the man has not put in an appearance,
| but rumor has it that he is a married man,
| Every likely and all persons of the female
persuasion are cautioned against trusting the
promises of the man who sells "Starch Pol
ish, and calls himself a widower, and halls
from Augusta; and we add, word also,-
that is, beware of the peddlers, any way
Ellsworth American.
Mr.. Lewis johnson, the new Sheriff of
Aroostook county, bids fair to be popular
officer.
Patents were issued for the week ending
Jan. 10th, to the following citizens of Maine
Theodore johnson, Portland folding chair !;
Linneus Cheetham, Lewiston, sbindle- bearing
for spindle machines; Simon II. Richard
son, Bangor, machine for edging boards |;
Simon H. Richardson, Bangor, saw mill !;
William p. Rix, Rockland, windlass for yes
sells.
The Bridgton News learns that the Bear
River Wooden Mills, Harrison, Mr.. Taylor,
proprietor, is now turning out three thousand
yards of Cassimeres, of fine quality, per
week, severely testing the capacity of its
machinery. Mr.. Taylor contemplates i'm
proving this property considerably next
spring, putting in an additional set of cards,
and erecting a capacious boarding house for
the accommodation of his employees.
Hon. A. G. Jewett, veteran of the forum
and the bar, and hard fighter, has retired to
a large milk farm half mile from Belfast.