Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-13
STATE NEWS.

According to the Times considerable &C.
tivity is manifested in the shipyards at the
South End of Bath. Quite number OF
coasting and fishing vessels principally three
masted schooners, will be built the ensuing
season. Adams Hitchcock have in course
of construction ct their yard three
masted schooner of 800 tons, building for
themselves, which they will be ready to
launch some time in April. Hagan & Thur
low are building for parties in Gloucester
two-masted fishing schooner of about 100
tons, which they expect to launch about the
first of March. Messrs. III. & S. will COM
mence about the first of April three masted
schooner of 400 tons for Portland firm.
Mr.. Albert Hathorn has well underway at his
yard, for parties in Boston, a three masted
| schooner of $50 tons, 15l feet long. Will
launch about the first of March. He has also
contracted for building two more; one of
| about the same size as the present one, and
the other trifie smaller. Messrs. Hodgkins
6 Soule commenced to build at their yard
fortnight ago three fnasted schooner of 400
tons, will be ready to launch her in June.
They are building her for firm in Phladel-
phia, AND in few days will commence an
other one of 500 tons. Orrin Blaisdell is
building for himself three-masted schooner
of about GOO tons. Mr. Alexander Robinson
is building for himself three masted schr.
of $50 tons, which will be ready to launch
about the 10th of April; she is a fine vessel,
built of the best material. Mr.. r. expects
soon to commence another of about 100
tons.
The corn-packing house OF the Portland
Company at Cumberland Mills was destroyed
by fire on Saturday morning, with a consider
able amount of stock contained therein and
| all the machinery, tools, and fixtures, except
| two boilers. The building was a wooden
structure about 100 by foot in size. Loss,
$4,000; insured for $500. The mill is to
| be rebuilt at once,
! A servant-girl of this city, after her morn
| ing fire and got well under way the other
morning. was surprised to hear low but deep
miews from the oven of the stove, and upon
opening the door, out jumped the house-cat,
who had crawled in there the evening before.
She was quite dry.-Bangor Commercial.
Mr.. George Pinco of Cherryfeld, sue
cessfnl hunter, killed eight deer in one day
| a short time ago. He says that if the law is
kept strictly in force in few years there will
be deer in abundance.
The act establishing a State Industrial
School for girls, reported in the House on
Friday, provides that Sidney Perham, Sam1
E. Spring, Samuel f. Hersey, Nelson Ding
ley, Jr., and some twenty others, shall be
constituted body of polite and corporate
with perpetual succession for the purposes of
establishing an institution as indicated by the
above title; and when they shall have raised
| thirty thousand dollars for said purposes, the
Governor shall draw his warrant in favor of
the Institution for ten thousand more.
The Press says that the Portland Company
| has just closed q contract to build twenty
four locomotive engines for the Grand Trunk
Railway Company. Fifty freight cars also
| being built for the Portland and Ogdensburg
| railroad at the same establishment.
The Camden Herald says that DR.. Nathan
Bachelor of Union, was recently thrown
| from wood sled to the frozen ground, strk-
| ing upon his head and shoulders, and injur-
| ing him quite severely. On Friday DR.. Simon
NJ. Thompson of Union, fell from the scat
| fold in his stable, and is reported to be very
seriously injured.
A grist mill at Caribou Aroostook county,
has ground during the last five months, six
teen hundred bushels of wheat and thirteen
thousand, seven hundred and twenty-eight
bushels of other grain, mostly buckwheat.
At Mount Holy, Cape Elizabeth, on the
land of Joshua Bracket, Esq, is found a
material which when manufactured is one of
the best mineral paints now used. If the
deposit is extensive enough parties will erect
works for its manufacture.
Friday night about IL o'clock, fire was dis
overed in the back part of the lumber mill of
Mayo, Snow & Co., at Websters Station,
Orono, and before it could be got under, dam
aged the mill and machinery to the extent of
about $4,000. Loss covered by insurance.
Salmon Jones, Esq, Of Caribou, has a
cedar stump standing before his house, five
feet, four aud half inches in diameter and a
rod in circumference.