Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-30
STATE NEWS.

1t is stated that there are 80. 900 less cattle
in Maine now than ten years ago, caused by
succession of light hay crops. The hay crop
is large enough this year, but still the sale of
cattle to 60 out of the State continues.
The iron bridge put up across the Little
Androscoggin at South Paris by the Grand
Trunk Railway Company, was "Pratt's Pa
tent Truss" Iron Bridge. 1t was made at
Phoenixville, Penn, at cost Of $4,000.
In going around the county we hear of nu-
merous cases of democrats, who declare they
won't eat crow" The democracy of old Ok
ford have been so indoctrinated into Hunker. =
ism by their leaders. that they refuse to 60 for
Mother Greeley, who was so very badly Carl
catured for their benefit last year. They
haven't forgotten the pictures yet.--Oxford
Democrat.
The Times says Frenchman employed III
the Pepperell Manufacturing Co., had his
hand badly cut up, and injured Monday
morning by getting it caught in cylinder
while engaged in taking of the lap.
A swindler with check forged with the
name of Henry Langdon, has been operat-
ing in Portland.
The Gardiner Journal says that Messrs
Croker & Richardson have developed quite
business in the Sturgeon fishery, at Farm
ingdale. They catch them with nets, in the
night, and tie them with ropes around their
tails to a gundalo anchored In the river, till
"boat-day" when they dress them, and send
them to Boston and New York. In the
height of the season, they get two tons a
week, which they sell for about 500 per ton
They have taken about fifteen tons this sea-
son. The rise in the water drove off the fish,
and their business 10 stopped.
Two little children we're nearly smothered
to death in Bangor few days since BY shut
ting themselves into a chest When discov-
cred they were nearly exhausted.
In July go Capt. L. G. Means, sailed from
New York in the ship Alice Ball for Callao.
The captains wife accompanied him. The
voyage was pleasant until off Cape Horn.
Here the ship encountered fields and bergs OF
ice. The weather was intensely cold, and
while drifting in those ice fields for fifty-five
days the passengers and crew experienced the
rigor and severity of sea life. Mrs. Means
unraveled her sontag, and other worsted gar
ments out of which she knit, herself, thirteen
pairs of socks for the crew. Most of the
time the sea was so rough that to kint she
was obliged to lie down. Besides being frost
bitten, for want of vegetables the crew were
attacked with scurvy, which complicated suf-
feriug and added to the distress. At the end
of about two months the winds changed and
the ship was enabled to proceed in safety
The chart made by Capt. NJ. shows the posi-
ton Of the ship in each of the ffty-fve days.
-Machias Union.
The Lewiston Journal says that on Mon
day, at Readfeld, while Joshua Z. Davis and
his brother, John L. Davis, were engaged in
blasting stone in a field near their fathers
nd bad oh al, t.
took place, rom some unknown cause. The
two persons were sent high in air, amid a
shower of stone fragments and in cloud of
smoke. Joshua, who was seated on the
stone holding the tamping iron, must have been
whirled through the air at height Of 25 feet
and fell to the ground 20 feet from the stone,
with force sufficient to drive with his elbow a
small surface stone 6 inches into the ground.
His eyes were filed with brick dust, bits of
stones and powder; his face considerably
SCARED and scorched. His left hand which
held the iron, was very badly burned, and the
left arm severely bruised. John, who had
been striking, was hit under the left arm and
on the side, by stone weighing 60 pounds,
which fell after following him SO feet; and
he continued his airy flight fourteen feet
further, going in the opposite direction from
Joshua. Not bone was fractured in either
man. There eyes were inflamed and in bad
condition.
Friday last Spanish negro from Phila-
delphia took lodgings with young negro in
Portland. On Saturday he shipped on
vessel for Richmond, Me-, taking the boys
trunk, containing all his clothes and 5000 in
money. Marshall Clark despatched an off,
Ger to Richmond and arrested him, recover
ing the trunk but not the money.-Bath
Times.
And now for a time the postal card system
falls through, just as people were congratu-
lating themselves on the near advantage of
the system. Cause: No appropriation by
Congress, and all must wait until the next
sesson.-Bangor Wing.