Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-20
STATE NEWS.

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The building of the Town House at Hamp-
den has been let to John L. Smith G. Sons for
$3.50, which, however, does not include in
side finish and plastering. The town is to
occupy the lower story as town house, and
the Masonic Fraternity are to finish the upper
part into hall, banquet room, ante. rooms,
&C.
The Maine Savings Bank of Portland has
$3,375,07l of deposits. ltV
Mr.. Joel Barry of Machias weighs 397
pounds, and worked at logging in the woods
the past winter.
No ardent spirits can be bought in Madison.
but last Saturday night some person or per.
sons, broke into Blackwell & GetchelPs store
and stole change, rubber goods and boots,
amounting to fifteen dollars or more. Mr..
Blackwell lost fifty dollars last fall in the
same way.
The Reporter says that town meeting is
to held in Skowhegan on Tuesday next, April
23d, at o'clock =. NJ, to see if the town
will vote to exempt from taxation the build
ings, machinery and capital of C. NJ. Bailey
invested in the manufacture of oilcloth CARPET.
ings in Skowhegan, for period of ten years.
MIR. Bailey proposes to more than double his
present business there, if the town will thus
exempt from taxation. 1Y
The Journal urges that as Gardiner has
two dams lying idle, the people there should
do something towards inviting capital there
to invest in manufactures.
| A reform club has been organized in Rid.
deford, with membership Of 400, which will
be largely and rapidly increased.
Launched from the yard of C. II. Holden &
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burthen, 0. NJ, to be commanded by Captain
! Halsey Newman of fremont The schooner
bears the romantic name of "Silverbells."
The Belfast Journal says that the corporate
name of the shoe factory to be established
there, is the Belfast Manufacturing Co., -
with the following directors Philo Hersey,
Brooks, w. III. Simpson, l.. A. knowlton,
Calvin Hervey. OF these Philo Hersey was
chosen President, and N. F. Houston, Treas
urer. For Clerk, L. X. Boyle was elected
The workmen are at work blasting and dig
ging for the foundation Of the shoe factory,
and work is progressing as fast as possible at
present.
Mr.. Charles Martin of .Pittsfeld was dis
covered about eight o'clock Tuesday morning
hanging by the neck from the stanchion beam.
Life was extinct when he was found. He had
been suffering severely for q year OF more
with cancer and resulting depression of
spirits induced him to commit the deed. He
leaves wife and three children.
One of our business men recently wrote to
| postmaster in q distant part of the State,
asking the address of a certain person sup
| posed to be a resident of that section. In
| answer he received letter from the postmas-
ter saying that the person inquired for had
been dead three years, and he (the OFFICIALLY
| was not aware of his present abode and adj
| dress.-G Progressive Age.
The subscriptions to the manufacturing
| fund in Bangor amounts to $3.50.
Mr.. Dennis Il. Clark of Strong, has sold a
three years old Knox colt to Mr.. Woodman
| of New Sharon, for $500.
The lightning, last Tuesday night, struck
the barn of Henry Lord of Lowell, killing a
fine horse and OK.
The Chronicle says that the citizens OF
Strong are really getting wide-awake in the
matter Of improvements. They propose to
give an acre of land, situated in the most
available portion of their village, and exempt
the property from taxation ten years, to any
person who will establish Spool Factory
there. White birch, the material from which
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almost endless quantity, and is easy of access.
j. w. Porter is to erect a pulp factory in the
place the ensuing season.
Another superbly finished Pullman parlor
car is running this week between Bangor and
Boston. Its arm chairs revolve upon fxed
supports, its retiring rooms are divided and
other improvements are introduced. 1t was
built in Detroit at cost of $4,000.
Mr.. S. A. Strout, who for the past Ave years
| has been managing editor of the Riverside
| Echo, has dissolved his connection with that
paper. ~
The Reporter says that the house and barn
of Mr.. John Irwin, Bingham, were struck by
| lightning last Tuesday night, April 9th.
The bolt struck the chimney, knocked off a
few bricks, passed. down the outside of the
chimney and entering the house, divided so
as to badly shatter the floors of three rooms !;
one Of which was the bedroom occupied by
| the family. Here it shattered the sill of the
door leading into the room and also the floor
| at the foot of the bed; without, however. do
| ing more to the occupants of the room than
to slightly stun them. Mr.. Irwin says ssThe
first he knew he was in the other room try
ing to light lamp, and holding on to his
| head thinking one side of it was gone.'a In
| the cellar it splintered about ten feet Of a
| large beam into fragments and did some other
| damages. The floors Of the three rooms will
have to be relaid. Asv -se&,
| Officer Perkins has traversed the whole
length of the city and notified the owner or
occupant of each and every grocery store or
place where liquor was supposed to be sold,
between Phipsburg and Merry Meeting Bay,
that none must be sold hereafter. Perkins is
pretty well known and parties will be apt to