Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-11
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. Seldom J. Woodman of Chicago is EN-
gagged on LIES portrait of Ex-Governor
Washburn.
The Maine Association at Washington has
organized for the year by the choice of Judge
Smell for President and W. r. Freeman Sec
rotary, with an executive committee to ar
range for series of entertainments and go
ciablcs a la down east
The case of George Al. Melcher vs. the
Ocean Insurance Company which has been
pending in the Supreme Court Of this State
since 1866, has at length reached a final deci-
sion. Melcher was master and part owner OF
ship Charles S. Penneli, which in 1864 was
chartered to go from New York to San Fran
cisco, with q mixed cargo. She was insured
by the Ocean Insurance Company, $1,000 on
charter. S2G5O on primage and $500 on prop
erty. The vessel was stranded on the coast
CT Brazil and taken into Rio Janerio, condem-
ned and cold, and the owners claimed the
insurance, which WAC resisted The court
gave judgment for the plaintiff in the sum OF
5000 with interest from April %, 1865,
amounting III the aggregate u about Sl4 900.
Isaiah NJ. Clark, hborer about 81 years
OF age, belonging in Biddeiord, was found
dead on Sunday evening last on Elm street in
that city. He was found leaning against the
fence beside the road, and undoubtedly died
from the effects of intemperance and exnos-
ure.
The quantity Of lumber surveyed at Ban.
gor between January lst and Dec. It'll, 1872,
was 24G, 452 ,649 feet, against 227 ,49l G75 feet
in 1871 and 202, 0li, 1872 feet in 1870.
The sum of Si2S.05 has been apportioneG
to Scion as its share of the school mill tax to
be distributed for the year 1873. Solon's
contribution to this tax was 1926, gain to
the town OF $l03.05. The school mill tax is
a tax of one mill per dollar upon all the prop
erty in the State according to the valuation
thereof.
The schooner Telegraph of Bucksport
Capt. Patterson, which cleared from Bangor
NOV. 2Glh, with cargo OF potatoes and a
deck load of shingles for Boston, struck on
Old Cilley Ledge during the snow storm on
Thursday night, filed and capsized. The
captain and crew took to the rigging and af-
ter much suffering were rescued from their
peIious situation by fishing schooner on
Friday morning. The U. S. revenue steam
er McCulloch while cruising to the westward
fell in with the wreck, hauled it off tire ledge
and towed it into Herring Gut, on the after
noon of the same day.
Henry M. IrentlsS, Esq, anu others OF
Bangor, engaged in numbering or who own
land on the East Branch, give notice that they
will ask the Legislature to be Incorporated as
The East Branch Log Driving Company, for
the purpose OF driving logs in the East
Branch and in Webster Brook, between Telcs
Lake and Midway.
Saturday evening the widow and young
child of Mr. VIM. Frazier, killed at the Bos-
ton fire arrived at Bangor. The search for
Mr.. Frazier's body was kept for eighteen days
after the fire. Under the ruins Of the build
ings near which he was working when killed,
nine dead bodies were found, one of them so
burned and calcined that not feature was
recognizable. For six feet around where
these bodies lay, the ashes were carefully
siited in the endeavor to find Mr.. Frazier
gold fireman's badge, but the search was I'M
successful.
Efficient measures are taken in Portland to
prevent the spread of the smallpox. The
street police are required to report every in.
dication of the disease that they notice, and
the persons infected are to be taken imme-
diately to the hospital. There are at present
several patients at the hospital. THE two
cases in the city are those of persons who
have have the premonitory symptoms OF the
disease, but who cannot as yet be said to be
sick with the smallpox, As soon as the dis
ease developes itself the patients will be re-
! moved TO the hosDital