Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-30
STATE NEWS.

The engineer of the Boston x Maine road
reports that the road will be graded from
Portland 10 South Berwick Junction in eight
weeks.
The "class rings" for the Eastern Normal
School at Castinc are sixteen in number, of
solid gold. highly chased and ornamented
and bear the letters "E. n. S. -"
Mr. Eden Rider Of Brownylle was recent
~ badly injured by heavy swing falling up
on him from the high beams in his barn His
cheek was laid open by long cash, and the
bone of his nose crushed and broken.
The Machias Union says the people ol I.u-
bee are in earnest about building the railroad.
At recent meeting they subscribed about
$40, 600 to the stock, and elected Geo. W.
Peavy, S. Ryarson, l.. \. Davis, W. IL. Hun
ter, James NJ. Parker, Geo. Comstock, A.
Rows eli, and Samuel Mowry delegates to the
Cherrytield meeting, and authorized them 10
pledge the town to the amount of IL per.
cent. of its valuation.
John ID. Packard of Winthrop, sold to a
man, on Saturday last, the Ki,trdge colt for
between Ave and six hundred dollars.
The Wing gives an account of a successful
bear hunt. On Monday, a lad abont IL years
of age, named John A. Fitzpatrick, son of A.
j. fitzpatrick of Clinton, took his gun an |
went into the woods to look after his father
bear-traps, when he met an old bear and three
cubs. The old bear showed fight, but he
fired at and wounded her, killed one of the
cubs and drove the other two up tree. He
then fastened home for his father, who took
his big dog and returned to the place where
the bears were last seen. The old bear and
one cub had gone. but the other remained,
and they secured him. Both cubs were very
fat and weighed thirteen pounds each. The
distance travelled by the lad was thirteen
miles, and he may be set down as "a smart
boy"
The Press says that two fashionable incl
! dents have occurred in kennebunkport-a
temperance reform club and the small pox.
/ The first appeared in the village and is taking
mildly. The latter broke out some two miles
from the village in low house upon a back
road. which but few people have occasion to
travel, and will probably be confined to the
person of a girl, returned here from the
Portland aims house tor disabilities incident
TO ways that are vain.
Piscataquis County Lodge, |. o. G. T.,
will meet at Parkman on Tuesday, June 18th,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ. Gov. Perham is engaged
to be present and deliver the evening public
address. Rev. Q. NJ. Cousens of Hallowell
Superintendent of the Order of Cold Waite,
Templars, is expected to be present and ad
dress the children at some hour during tn,
afternoon session.
Hon. W. W. Bolster of Dixfeld, has sol,
his real estate 10 that village to Il. G. Har
low, Esq, and contempiates removing t,
Lewiston.
II. M. Plasted of Bangor, formerly Col
of the lth Maine, will deliver the Grafton an,
poem at the decoration in Bethel to day.
Denmark man last week dug full grown
potatoes for dinner, in his garden.
The Portland Advertiser says that Jewisl
ceremony was performed in that city las
week, the first ever witnessed there. 1t Is
known that the Jews require their meat to bi
killed in a certain way and a priest OF the
faith came on from New York who went 10
the slsughter-house, attired in his othcia'