Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-13
STATE NEWS.

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In the Supreme ceurt at Portland, parties
have been allowed to file charges against tn,
Boston & Maine railroad company, to deter
mine the right by which they had located
their road from Berwick to the Of line Cumber
land county without going through Soutf
Berwick. The case will be heard in Septem
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Officers of the Auburn Cadets, chosen
Wednesday evening: Herbert Richardson,
President; Charles Kicker, Vice President;
Geo. c. Young, Secretary; w. A. Gould,
treasurer; w. c. Bearce, Captain Lewis
W. Haskell, lst Lieut.; Albert H. Linscott,
I'd Lieut..
The children in Bridgton give parties at
the public halls.
A. G. Kinds of Oxford, has sold Eve
years old colt to Mr.. Comlee of Boston for
5000.
Rev. Francis C. Dyer of Bowdoinham,
Methodist clergyman, died in that town on
Friday, aged So years.
The Pressure Isle Sunrise wants to discuss
with. the Pennington Chronicle the best and
easiest method of killing cats! AK Il
| 1t is said that the Maine Central railroad
company, has, between Bangor and Kendalls
Mills, wood cut the past winter, enough to
make a pile four feet high and four feet wide
extending from Bangor to Waterville-56
miles-making $3.50 cords.
Gen. James A. Hall has been engaged to
deliver the Grafton at Newburyport, Memo
| rial day.
The Bangor Wing says that Mr.. Vernon
Mason of that city committed suicide on
Thursday by taking laudanum. Mr.. Mason
was over fifty nine years of age, and though
he has been in respondent frame of mind
late ~, was not suspected of suicidal intent.
The Grand Lodge and Grand Eucampment
/. Q. Of O. twill hold its annual meeting in
Lewiston, August next. az ~
The Press says that a son ofaMr. Went
worth Dresser of Standish was drowned
Thursday afternoon in Little Ossipee river
while rafting boom of logs. His body was
| recovered in 20 minutes, but all efforts TO
resucitate life were fruitless. His age was
20 years. He fell between the logs and his
head was jammed. ass A
Freddie LAZY, aged 10 years, grandson of the
late Hon. George Evans of Portland, was
rescued from drowning in a pond in Wal
than, Mass, by an older lad, who jumped
from a second story window and ran some
was sinking for the third time. The name
of the generous lad is unknown.
J. P. Norton has purchased of VIM. Miles
of Lewiston, his six years old horse called
Granger" He was sired by Lewiston Boy,
is 10 l-2 hands high and is very handsome
and stylish horse. FE5s ~
Farmers in the vicinity are taking all their
spare potatoes to the Starch Factory at South
Andover at 30 cents per bushel.
The Advertiser says that the movement for
a reunion at Westbrook Seminary during the
commencement in June, meets with general
approval of the graduates, and the following
programme has been decided upon: l. A bust
ness meeting of the graduates and former
| students on Wednesday, June 18th at 3
o'clock P M. 2. A social reunion on Thurs
| day evening, June 18th, in the parlors of
Hersey Hall. 8. Graduates who may be un-
| able to attend are requested to send their
names, the year of their graduation, and their
present address and occupation. All COM
munications may be addressed to Fred o.
Hichborn at the Seminary. ---
The sum of ss3, 100 is required to run the
city government of Biddeford for the coming
year.
We heard man scolding and making him
self unhappy about the Swedes, expressing
grave apprehensions that in very short
time they would all be paupers and all that
sort of fopdoddle. Another said that he
would ever vote for another Representative
who would not pledge himself to stop this
Swedish movement. Such men ought to be
| labeled ---- We will not say what, al
though we could write a terrible word. We
have one Swede in this town who paid $2500
| in cash for his farm and stock, who is attend
ing to his own business, making improve
ments on his farm and no doubt making
money. There is another in Maysville who
has just bought farm, paid $l4OO in cash,
and is buying stock, tools and furniture pay
ing cash for everything he buys. And there
is no town or plantation in Aroostook county,
nor never was, that has increased in wealth,
improved farms, built buildings, put in ma
chinery and generally gone ahead like New
Sweden since it was settled. We say this and
challenge successful contradiction. -Presque
Isle Sunrise.