Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-26

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The Press says thyt Prof. p. A. Grand
who claims to be French teacher and hail
ing from classic Brunswick, was arrested ir
an intoxicated condition, and is suspected o
being thief.
Geo. Stanley Of Hiram, is engaged in the
manufacture OF mackerel kegs making some
1909 year.
Capt. James L. Brown, of Northport has
been recently in suit in Boston, seeking to
recover $4,000 on Judgment for sulvago
against Nathan W. Bridge and others. After
a trial OF several days the jury was unable to
agree. t ffk 4Y Efxk
On the fifteenth Mr.. George Roberts OF
Penobscot died ninety-two years, leaving a
wife who has lived with him over sixty-seven
years. gre s@
Stanley Plummer, Esq, Supervisor of Pc
nobscot county, has rendered his resignation.
Some twenty suits brought in the name of
Hon. Lot M. Morrill, of this city, as trustee
OF the Galatin Land, Coal and Oil Company
West Virginia, have been pending in the
United States Courts Of West Virginia for
many years, involving the title to about one
hundred thousand acres Of land in that State.
test case was tried at Charleston, in the
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rendered in favor of the plaintiff Exceptions
were filled and the case carried to the Su
preme Court of the United States. where a
decision has just been rendered overruling
the exceptions and affirming the company's
title. 1t is an important decision, as it set
ties points of law long in controversy and
affecting the title to great deal of land
aside from that owned by the Gslatin Com
pany. Hon. Lot NJ. Merrill, Hon. r d.
Rice. Hon. F. A. Pike, Col. Darius Alden,
Col. A. B. Farwell, Gen. Geo. F. Sbepley,
and Erastus Bartlett, Esq, are some of the
largest owners in the Company.
= The Wiscasset Oracle, one Of the neatest
little newspapers in the State, says that re-
sponsible parties from abroad have within
few days leased for term of five years the
brick block formerly occupied by the New.
Castle Bank in New Castle and propose to
repair it Throughout and start shoe factory
as soon as the building can be put in order
Mrs. Purinton, wife of Cyrus Purinton,
Esq. of Topsham, while standing on chair
adjusting window shade, Sunday evening"
made mis-step, fell and fractured the hip
bone.
A post office has been established at East
Livermore called ''Brown's Mills" and E.
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Geo. B. Sawyer, ESQ.,, has entered upon
his fourth term as Clerk of Courts ia Lincoln
county.
Pursuant to call for the purpose the cit
zens of China met at the Town Hall OH the
18th inst, and appointed delegation of six
citizens to confer with the Legislative Com
mittee on Railroads, Ways and Bridges, in
procuring q bill and secure its passage for a
charter for the proposed railroad from Wis
casset, through the towns of Windsor, China
and Albion, to intersect with the Maine Gen.
trail at some convenient point. The following
gentlemen were chosen as delegates: j. +.
Chadwick, Thomas Dinsmore, John Murphy,
Roland Reed, Eli Jones and Francis Jones
Great interest was manifested and enthusiast
tic remarks were made by Messrs. Thomas
Dinsmore, Eben Meigs, Geo. Estes and 9TH
ers. and the meeting adjourned without date.