Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-18
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. c. II. Skinner of St. Adams recently
sold black Knox gelding raised by him,
seven years old, to parties in Skowhegan for
the western market, for $500. The colt IL
said to be very promising.
The Waterville Mutual Insurance Com
pany have voted to close up their business.
A reform club has been formed in the tenn
perate town of West Waterville.
The Portland reform club has perfected it's
organization by adopting the constitution of
the Gardiner club. VIM. H. Sabine was
chosen secretary; Eben Leach. treasurer;
Rev. Z. P. Thwing, chaplain and correspond.
ing secretary.
The Portland Stone Ware Company, whose
works are situated in Deering, employ 60
men and have steam engine of 80 horse
power. The value Of the drain pipe BUSH
ness manufactured amounts to $4,000 an.
nually.
The Pennington Chronicle learns that Mr..
Joel Hobert of Temple, sold a fine Knox
colt, four years old to gentleman in Mass,
Thursday, for $1,000.
Chisholm Co. of Portland, have placed
carriers of newspapers on board all the
steamers of the International line.
A glue and bone grinding factory is being
built at Belfast, and a soap and candle fac
tory has been started.
The Lewiston Journal says that lady be-
longing in Oxford county, sixty years Of age
has been working i'll one of the mills the
past winter, to earn money to pay for winter
ing the farm stock. Last fall the stock could
not be sold, and rather than see them starve
the energetic lady went to work in one of
our mills, and has earned enough to save the
stock.
The enforcement of the new law is work
ing we'll in Thomaston and but few cases of
drunkenness are seen on the streets.
Workmen are taking up and re-laying the
pipe for the air compressor at Brunswick.
Each joint is tested as fixed, and the pipes
are to be laid low enough, we presume, to be
out of the reach of the frost.
An insurance company has been formed in
Calais under the name of the est. Crox
Lloyds." The company, as stated in their
circulars, represents more than two million
dollars, and is prepared to take risks on
freights and cargoes at the lowest rates
charged westward.
The Rocklapd Free Press is informed that
schooner Armida Hall, made a voyage from
Portland to Baltimore, took in a cargo of
coal, and returned to Boston within twelve
days.
Two operators in three card monte were
arrested at a hotel in Houlton, Wednesday,
for swindling passengers on the railway. One
of them registered his name as Horace
Greeley of Dexter, the other as Charles
Haynes. few days ago they swindled S2S
out of Provincial and one of them crept
into the affections of an elderly bluenose, by
talking Oh religious subjects, and induced
him to try his hand at the Orthodox game,
with the result that the pious victim lost $40.
The aged man remarked afterwards to
fellow passenger that he didn't intend to
make fuss about it, as he should not play
| at that game again.
Fifteen years ago the firm Of Lyndon Oak
& Co., Of Gardiner, lost money from the
draw of their store. The Wing says the
| other day letter came by mail enclosing the
| thirteen dollars, that had been taken.
Mr.. J. w. Blaisdell of Durham, has boy
| only two years old last October, who weigh,
| fifty pounds, is three feet and four inches
without stockings and measures two feet
| around the chest.
The first trot of the season will take place
| at the Skowhegan trotting park on Tuesday
and Wednesday, May % and goth.
The Brunswick Telegraph has the follow
ing remarks on the suggestion of the liberia
ton Of John Rogers, the defaulting cashier !;
1--WE cannot say that we ever felt much
sympathy for the criminal, though we Nave
ever felt the deepest sympathy for his inno-
cent and sorely afflicted family. We would
not now say word to aggravate their grief
and modification; but we remember the hy-
pocricy with which Mr.. Rogers covered up
his wicked career. If he feels his punish
ment just, it is to his credit; if he is truly
pepitent, it is much more creditable to him.
But penitence must not wrest the law from
its stern course. Act SO as to guard in
| future the public morals.
The Free Press says that four or five addi-
tional cases Of small pox have appeared in
Rockland the last week, where they were ex-
pected, the persons knowing themselves to
have been exposed to it.