Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-20

night. Its contents consisted OF tools, har-
ness, wagons, and 100 bushels of coal. Loss
$500.
A daughter Of Edward Reae of Portland.
aged abou. FIVE years., was standing before
an open CRATE yesterday morning, when her
sigh, dress caught fire and burned her very
merely.
The Wing says that on Friday last an in
FAINT son-only seven months of age-of Mr..
Leonard 4. Rich of Charleston, was so ter.
rib1y burned as to cause its death. Mrs.
Rich went into neighbours house for a short
time, leaving the child in care Of relative,
who tied the little fellow into his chair and
set him before the open fire. She was called
into an adjoining room for moment, when
hearing the child scream she ran back to find
that it had fallen forward on its face into the
hot fire, which was roasting its tender flesh
to a crisp. The little sufferer was shocking
ly burnd, but fingered ia great agony until
Sunday, when death came 10 its relief.
The schooner Arborer, Capt. Clark, sailed
from Ellsworth for Portland with cargo of
shuoks, November 2Sth. About the time of
the Storm OF the 30th ult., she was seen off
Mouhegau by vessels that have since arrived
in other ports. The severe gale Of that date
and no word from the schooner since, gives
cause for anxiety respecting her safety.
The Ellsworth American says that the
Union River is still open and vessels are
loading and unloading at the wharves in that
city as usual.
A Mr.. Whitaker Of Freedonl, Sky years of
age, was knocked down and stunned By some
boys on a hind sled, while coasting on a hill
in the village, Monday afternoon. He is now
recovering, but has not left his room.
The mail facilities have been increased to
such an extent that even so bulky and frail
thing as lady's hat can be sent by that con-
veyance to California. One OF the head
gears was recently gotten up at the establish
ment of b. +. Wells for lady on the Pscitc
slope-a drab Alpine, with velvet trimmings,
black ostrich plumes, white skeleton feathers,
and jet ornaments. This gorgeous affair was
enclosed in handbook and sent across the
continent for eleven cents postage. Belfast
journal.
Twelve young men of Stockton Intend tc
go the far west in the spring. to take up anC
settle on government land. One hundred
anu sixty acres of land are given to every
Union soldier who served ia the late war.
The Pennington Chronicle says that the
cradle used in the antiquarian entertainment
at the ladies' fair last Friday evening, was
the luGQtlcal one WHICH TOCkSu Tile uESt White
child born in Farminston-Stephen Titcomb
The Chase heirs in this State and elsewhere
have been for some time looking for a for
tune, and now the Louisville (Ky.) CONNER
cial says on the 9Th inst, that b. F. Chase,
Esq, of that city, received intelligence that
the great English chancery suit of Tomley
vs.. Chase heirs, involving an estate worth
E52 900, 600 sterling, or about 100000, 900,
;nl, haa han int In Of / for
the last thirty years, has been decided in IA
vor of the Chase heirs, who number about
ZOE. Daniel Webster was at one time coun-
sci for the American Chase heirs, and Robert
Peel and Sir John Russell once endeavored
to make a compromise with the heirs through
Mr.. Russell.
Accident items from the Gardiner Journal
Geo. w. Crowell, last Saturday received a
very severe injury. lie was riding with a
Mr. Reed over the Burnham bridge over the
Cobbossee, when the horse SHE'D at a hole in
the bridge. and ran against the railing, which
broke. The horse fell of the bridge and
fell through the ice and was drowned. The
sleigh threw Mr.. CFowell about two feet from
where the horse went down. He struck on
his left temple on the ice, and lay there as if
dead. The ice where he struck was about an
inch and a half thick, and was fractured as il
struck by big rock. He is now doing we'll.
A young lad, by the name of Sewall Peter
son, had narrow escape from drowning, on
Thursday evening. He skated on to the thin
ice near the bridge, and broke through. His
mittens were damp, however, and as soon as
his hand struck the ice, the intense cold froze
them and held his hand from slipping. Will
liam Hutchins and Russell Meigs, at the risk
of their lives, with boards ventured out when
the ice was not half an inch thick, and res
cucd him. 1t was a daring and manly deed.