Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-16
STATE NEWS.

! From $40 to S75 night will be charged
for the New City Hall in Lewiston, according
to the character of the entertainment.
The Union Insurance Company of Bango,
has voted an assessment of % per cent. or
the capital stock.
Otisfeld has had hunting match, in which
Capt. knights party was victorious. Both
parties killed 40 partrdges and bushel OF
squirrels.
large temperance meeting in Rockland
passed a resolution asking the city govern
ment to prosecute rum sellers, in conse-
quence Of which several prosecutions have
been begun.
The next Legislature will be peti,ioned for
an act Incorporating Mutual Fire Insurance
Company in Dexter. Several of the most
prominent business men of the place have
| taken hold of the matter
The Somerset railroad is so far completed
as to allow an engine to run to Norridgewok
| The slecpers are laid in many places upon
the snow.
\ young man stepped into an uptown drug
store yesterday and delivered himself of the
folio King: 'uayc you any vaccination. mis-
ter? My brother, that I've been sleeping
with right along, broke out all over with the
small. poX this morning and had to b. carried
to the pest house, and kinder feel as though
I orter be vaccinated." Instantly the clerk 3
jumped behind the counters, and the druggist,
hastily opening the door ordered him 70
leave.-Portland Press.
The Bangor Wing sa, that on Friday,
Walter, the young son OF II. b. Stewart,
Esq, while passing up Centre street on his
way from school, was knocked down by q
grocery delivery-team and the runners pass
ing over his head cut two gashes. enc over
his right eye and one beneath !. was a mar
row escape from death.
/ George Verrill of Minot, fell from the great
beam in his barn, by which he was severely
| injured, on Monday.
Launched on Saturday, from the yard Of
Master Sargent at East Deering, the new
barque Sacramento" She is OF COG tons
measurement, and is to he commanded by
Capt. w. II. Lewis. The Sacramento is in
tended for X. Lewis & Co.'S ''White Line" of
South American packets. This makes the
number OF this line eight, and two others are
already building which will be added as soon
| as completed.
Ambrose iittleAcid Of kenncDlnk, u youth
gust out of his teens has Invented a water
wheel which those who are competent to
Judge pronounce superior to anything cXtant.
Freddy Frost ana Hattie Abbott of Nor
way, came upon fox, one day last week.
apparently run down by q hound. Tie boy.
being little frightened was for letting him
go, but the girl seizing the foXsaip by the tail
held him until the boy killed him with stick.
The Belfast Age says that Captain john
Toothaker of that city, has got some hard
knocks at sea. He has suffered shipwreck
several times narrowly escaping being lost :;
the last time losing his oldest son. On re-
cent voyage from San Domingo TO New ork,
his whole crew were, one after another, tax
en- down with fever. Three of them died and
for two days before arriving at New York he
had to navigate the vessel alone.
A few days since the schooner Thames
Fremont, was run into by schooner Midnight
Hopkins, near Squirrel Island. She was cut
to the waters edge, the main boom and main
sail carried away, and other damage done.
The deck load was shifted, and she was bat
| tered SO as to put into port. The Midnight
! lost figure head, cutwater, and both the main
and flying jibbooms. The damage claimed
on the Thames is 500.