Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-05
STATE NEWS.

| William E. Morang, late of the Eastpor
Sentinel, lie to conduct the mechanical and
business departments of the Ellsworth Amer.
lean.
The New York papers keep a man on sal.
airy to find new names for the horse disease.
He has run riot through all the known lam
guagcs and now mildly appears with his last
for the popular, Hipporhinorrhea."
Saturday the driver of the Harpswell stage
was obliged to walk from that town to Bruins
wick, distance of fifteen miles, with three
mail bags on his back.
| A young man named Cornelius Carney.
who had assume d the surname of Harrington,
and who was % years of age, his mother and
sister residing in Portland, was chopping
wood in Scarboro along with neighbor on
| Thursday night and appeared in good spirits.
Nothing was seen of him afterwards until
yesterday noon, when he was found in the
barn with one end of rope tied around his
neck. Close by was ladder from which he
swung himself off. A friend says that he
was considered little out of his mind from
disappointment in love.
Charles Greenleaf of Norway. who had a
watch stolen from his room while asleep, a
short time since, found it the other morning
on his shed door
| The Skowheean Reporter says that NJ. W..
| Norton Of North New Portland had nine bull
| lets fred through window at him while sit
ting in his house writing, Monday erenng
about half past eight o'clock. 1t appears that
the bullets passed both sides of his head strik-
ing partition diagonaliy, glancing, and 60
| ing through door into a sleeping-room,
some of the bullets lodging in the wall on the
| N ia or
Of the house through window. AS Mr..
Norton sat near the window, his face was
| filed with small particles of glass. Although
| he was knocked down and good deal con-
fused by the passage of the balls so near his
head yet he was not seriously hurt, as none
OF the balls hit him. No explanation is given
for this strange affair.
The Bridgton News has received favorable
news from Lynn in regard to the establish
| ment of a shoe factory In that town. The
| people will soon be called to vote npon the
| matter.
| Capt. Henry c. Dean of Oxford, So years
| old, was thrown from a load of barrels, II
week ago last Monday. and had his shoulder
broken.
| The Eastern Railroad Compuny has adopt
ed the Bailey ticket system, by which each
| station has disunctively marked ticket,
which facilitates the labors of conductors
| very much.
Saturday Nov. /, there was launched by
David Clark, first. class, white oak, three
masted, centre board schooner of about COO
tons, named Lemuei Hall, built on contract
tor Capt. Hall and others of Fall River, ane
will be in charge of Capt. Daniel Grennell OF
| Fall River. The dimensions are 100 fee
keel, IS feet beam and Is l-2 feet depth OF
| hold. Mr.. Clark has on hand the stock and
will Immediately commence a vessel in du-
plicate of the Lemuel Hall. He will launch
in about six weeks a centre board schooner o
about 270 tons, having frame of white oal
with other wood and tastenings of the hes
quality.
Mrs. Evvie Barker Plummer, daughter O
Hon. Devils Barker, and wife OF Stanle,
Plummer, Esq, of Bangor diedon Satur
day after long and painful illness, at tn
age of "a years. Mrs. Plummer has writer
some fine poems, which have been widel,
circulated through the columns of the press
Miss Annie Stsrbiard. is expected to be in
Portland, about the tenth Of December
| When she left Florence she was the recipient
of very brilliant complimentary concert,
and the people Of Portland are talking OF
giving her benefit on her arrival home