Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-10
STATE NEWS.

A correspondent of the Portland Press
saws that Skowhegan is bound to have voice
in The Jubilee, although in a limited way.
About a dozen of her singers have joined the
Pennington Chorus and will go with them.
full club intended to go from Skowhegan,
but like many other unfortunates, their ap-
| plcaton for admission to Mr.. Gilmore's
| Grand Chorus was sent too late.
| The Biddeford correspondent of the Argus
says it is generally believed that those per-
sons hesetofore engaged in the sale of intox-
icating liquors in Saco and Biddeford are
disposed to obey the law and discontinue the
traffic. The fact is eSinced from the general
closing up of their places of business.
Castine is TO have another lobster factory,
to he located at Brophys wharf, the Messrs.
Jones of Portland, propretors.
This is the way the Argus describes the
death of a poor horse: ga bunch of bones
tied up in a skin and made to pass for
horse, finished his earthly race on India
street"
Recent business changes. Portland
Covell & Vapey, dry goods, dissolved; now
| Covell G. Co.
| Green, Fogg s. Co., W. flour and CON-. dis
solved; now Green & Fogg.
Miss l.. Merrill, fancy goods, sold out to
Miss A. M. Peabody & Co.
Bangor-Blunt, Human & Co., lumber,
dissolved.
Gibson, kimball 4 Sanford, dissolved; now
Kimbal & Sanford.
Gardiner-M. A. Libbey & Co. fancy goods,
dissolved.
The Saco Independent says that the town
of Elliott has been excited the past few days
| over case of real small pox. Mr.. James
kimball, living at Sturgeon Creek, was taken
| i'll on Sunday, March 24th and died on the
morning of Thursday, the 2Sth. The disease
was brought into town by man from Bos-
| ton.
| Mr.. James Bray of Skowhegan, weighs
4o2 pounds and his girth is five feet ten
inches. Two years ago Dir. Bray's weight
was 446 pounds.
! Mr. Luther Bryant is negotiating for the
purchase of the French Catholic church on
Foss street, BiddefOrd, which he wants to fit
| up as an opera house.
Hon. Augustine Hanes of Biddeford, still
| lies in a critical condition, with but slight
| hopes Of his recovery.
The April term of the Supreme Court be-
gan yesterday morning in Portland Judge
Barrows presiding.
Mr.. J. B. Grant has been appointed Post
master at Prospect.
An agricultural friend and reader OF the
Portland Star residing on the Penobscot,
writes that he is trying the ''Vacuum Cure"
on his hens which never used to do much at
laying, and that now he has twenty that pro-
duce five dozen eggs week, on an average.
He does not explain in detail his mode of
treatment but says it is very simple pro-
cess. For years in obedience to hints he had
seen in his agricultural papers he had fed his
hens on boiled meat and vegetables, shell
nsh of all sorts, cayenne pepper, old saws,
crockery, flax seed, pork scraps fried in
cobble stones, and al the possible delicaeies
| of the season, but he never got any such re-
suits as he is getting now.
The reform Club of Bath has the following
officers: President, David o. Foye; Vice
| Presidents, George E., Morse, George ii.
Brown Secretary, John G. Conley; Treas
urer, Fred III. Low. The club is appealing
earnestly TO all good citizens OF Bath, for aid,
which we have no doubt will be granted.
The sudden death of DR.. S. T. Neal at
Livermore Falls, is much lamented in that
vicinity.
! The Winthrop Savings Bank will go into
operation the first of this week.
The Lewiston journal says that a petition
is in circulation, which is receiving the sig
natures of most of our business men, asking
for the removal of hanging signs and other
distractions on Lisbon street, in that city.
most distressing accident happened to
young woman, named Matilda Walton, in
Oakland. She fell out of n pung, striking on
her head and shoulders with such force as to
produce injuries that led to insanity and it
has been found necessary to remove her to
the asylum in the Province.
| The Advertiser learns that one of the re-
suits of the rigid enforcement of the new law
/ in Portland, is the establishment of club
room by a number Of young men not far
| from the business centre of the city. A nice
room has been hired, nicely furnished, sup |
piled with liquors and ale, and probably each
| one will endeavor to see that he secures his
share of the intoxicating beverages.
The Treasures of several of the manufac-
turing corporations of Lewiston are opposed
to that city voting to aid in the construction
of the Lewiston and Auburn Railroad.
NEWS BY MAIL.