Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-03-01
STATE NEWS.

-Four military companies will be organized,
it is said, at Bowdoin College. Whether
these will constitute a part of the cadet COM
panies authorized by the State, is not stated
but the election of Gen. Chamberlain as Ma
jor General of the volunteer militia would in
dictate that such may be the case.
The Belfast Journal says that vest factory
is in full operation in Stockton, Jerome Har-
ris having started in the business about two
years since, and gradually increased until he
now gives employment to several hundred
women in the towns of Stockton, Prospect,
Searsport and Swanville.
w. w. Thomas, Jr., Esq, delivered his
popular lecture, entitled ga Ramble in Nor.
way" at City Hall, Portland, on Wednesday
| evening for the benefit of the Payson Me.
mortal Church. The Press says that a largs
audience was present and the lecture was
| listened to with the closest attention.
The spring term of Foxcroft Academy
| commenced Monday with 63 scholars, under
the tuition of J. G. Soule, Principal, ant
Mrs. j. E. Rowell, Assistant.
There is man in this city whose boots
are so large that he can't turn around in
much less space than a quarter of an acre.
He got stuck on the depot grounds the other
day, and they had to put him on the turn
table to get him pointed right.-Belfast
Journal.
The Wing understands that j. r. Frye,
Esq. of Boston, offered Orren Favor, Esq,
$3.50 for his fine trottiag horse "Hsnesty."
1t didt come up to his notion of the value of
the animal, and no change was effected.
The Odd Fellows of Bangor will dedicate
their new hall on the 2Sth of April next,
which will be the ffty-second anniversary of
the introduction Of this order into the United
States. The Grand Lodge of the State will
be present, and doubtless the affair will be
grand success.
John Crease, an old Portland printer, long
employed on the Portland Advertiser, died
very suddenly at Erie, Pa, on the 9th inst.
He was a devout Catholic, and became the
friend and confidant of the late Bishop
Young, with whom he went to Erie many
years ago. His domcl was a room in the
Cathedral adjoining the altar Like his be-
loved pastor he was q radical republican in
politics. He was a studious reader and an
entertaining and instructive talker. His
funeral was held at the Cathedral, on which
occasion high mass was celebrated, and sew
eral clergymen assisted at the ceremony.
The Portland Transcript says of him, that
one OF the boxes of his lease" was always
we'll filled with snuff, and as his fingers were
nimby piled at his task they went at short
and regular intervals to the compartment de-
voted to his solace.
The Masons of Dexter WILL the coming
season, put up new building, the ground
floor to be occupied by stores. The block
will be of brick, with a Mansard roof, and
the dimensions will be forty feet in front, by
fifty feet in depth. The front of the second
story will be finished of for offices. The
hall will be sixteen feet high and when COM
peted, will be one of the finest in the State.
Hannah Preble, maiden lady of Sulli-
van, about eighty years of age, fell down
stairs the 10th instant, receiving severe in
jures. One leg was found to be broken,
and the other was GO badly hurt, that she is
deprived of the power to move it,
One day last week a young man by the
name of Bennett, from Boothbay, attempted
to Jump from a wharf in Belfast, to the deck
of q vessel to escape the bite of horse,
missed, striking his knee across the rail,
splitting his knee-pan into several pieces.
Colonel Paran Stevens, Captain Hill and
DR.. Findlay of New York have purchased
for $3.50, 200 Campbello Island, near East.
port, and will the coming spring begin the
erection upon it of an immense hotel, for
summer resort. The building will be pushet
forward with great rapidly, and an early
completion of the hotel is confidently ex
pected.