Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-17
STATE NEWS.


The steamer Charles Ioughton will make
her first trip for the season from Portland to
Waldoboro', Damariscotta and the adjoining
towns, on Saturday next.
Joseph Fairbrouier, SON of Moses Fair
brother, boy 10 years of age, was at the
Guilford depot one ,.day last week and at
tempted to couple a car, but his arm was
caught between the cars, crushing it near the
elbow. Drs. Buck and 'RssAen were called,
and decided to take the arm off at the shoul-
der joint, and the. boy died within twenty
four hours after the operation was performed.
There was grand rally at City Hall in
Biddeford, last evening, for the purpose of
organizing Washingtonian Society, similar
to those lately formed in Portland and on
the Kennebec.
The ice embargo has been raised from the
Saco river. F&&+
There are about fifty Swedcs at work in
Bangor Most of the giIls are at work in
private families. They are represented by
their employers to be faithful and intelligent.
The Wing says that four cars, baggage
car, and a passenger car, on the rear of a
train on the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad,
were thrown from the track in Orneville, on
Monday. The running works of the cars
were considerably smashed and some four
hundred feet of the track torn up-there be-
ing but two or three sound sleepers left in
that distance. Superintendent Eaton was
on the train and went directly back to Old
town. whence he sent up wreckiag train
with the greatest despatch.
Joe Sockabasin has interviewed the Penob-
scot river and delivered the following opin-
ion :--''Ice he very big, very strong. Sun
he soak UNI two or tree days, bimhy souse
[south wind he come-ice he gone."
a breach OF promise case, Bertha Witham
VS.. Joseph Lemont, was opened for trial in
the SD. Court at Bath, last Friday. Soon
after opening it was taken from the jury and
sent up to the fullGourt on the special point
whether the minority of the defendant at the
time of the promise, although he represented
himself to be ofage, would be bar to plain
tiff 8 suit.
The debt of the Getty of Calais is SIT ,76O.
The appropriations for expenses the current
year are S3i,.oo. "a 11 49, - :
Hon. T. II. Hubbard is to address the Bath
Reform Club this evening"
The New Yorks Express says that Robert
Jennings, formerly of Kennebec county,
packed recently at his establishment in New
York, hog that weighed Sl0o5 pounds!
The dwelling house of Capt. Thos. NJ.
Reed, in rhpsbusg, was burned on Sunday
afternoon about four o'clock. Loss about
$1,000; insured 500. s.
The Bath Times calls for. the erection of
new City Hall ia that city.
The Heulton Savings Bank is prospering
tinely-large deposits were made last month,
or more propeIy, large number of deposits
Most of the ioggers have returned from the
woods, and ths total product is estimated at
over zoe, 900 900 feet. OF the entire amount
the Penobscst lunlbermen cut 225 200, coo
feet and the kepnebec lumbermen 10, Co.,
600. Most II the timber cut is spruce, and
the lumberhen predict that the supply OF
pine will be exhausted in five years.
Boothbayamade in 1871, 354 900 gallons O
menhaden al, and $500 tons of guano. Sol,
for $751; 500. This amount was taken from
the water and turned into cash.