Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-31
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STATE NEWS.


| that sad accident occurred at the Wooden
| Factory in Sangerville Village last Friday
| Miss Ellen Packard, about Is years old, a
daughter of l.. A. Packard of Parkham who
was working in the mill, stepped on the ele-
vatOr to go up into the loft. By some un-
known means her head caught between the
| first floor and the side of the elevator, and
was frightfully jammed. There is but little
hope OF her recovery.
Capt. Reuel Stanley Of Bangor, whose dan
gerous illness resulting from a shock OF
paralysis, Thursday evening, we mentioned
in our edition yesterday, died Monday morn.
ing, aged little over 60 years.
Thursday night the town of Cherryfield
was visited by a couple of burglars who COM
menced their operations upon the drug store
| Ut Dr. Milliken. They attempted to force
an entrance by staving in a PANEL of the
door opening from the rear Of the store but
failing in this they next tried window where
| they were more successful, and obtained
| many articles from the store.
The Machas Republican says that a ne.
| titlon to the Legislature for a Savings Bank
is circulating among the business men of Luz
bee, and receives the signatures of them all.
This a movement in the right direction, and
| the establishment of such an institution will
| meet want that has long been needed, and
| inure to the benefit of the whsle community
The Wing learns that Mr.. j. p. Weber of
Bangor has purchased the valuable ''Brown
Harry" colt, four yearc old, owned by Mr.. j.
W. Palmer. The animal is very promising
and will make fast trotter.
The school committee of Porter was called
| into the schoolhouse, a few days since, to de-
| in no Of VI hn haA
| mtted some misdemeanor. Most of the male
portion of the district were present. The
\ committee decided against the boys, and as
| soon as the decision was made known those
| present took sides for or against the boys.
A free fight was the immediate consequence,
which resulted in copious flow of blood and
and an almost complete demolition of the
school-room. The committee and the youth
full pedlar of ideas were silent lockers on to
the whole affair.
A Sweden correspondent of the Argus
says that the farmers of that vicinity are win
tering less stock than they have done for
years Yet they are not feeling very ''blue."
| They believe better times are coming. In
deed, they have not the reason to be despon-
dent that many have, for though their hay
crop Was cut Of last year, their other crops
were generally good. They supply the lack
outstanding the fewness of their cattle,
probably they will feed two bushels of grain
this winter where they have previously fed
| one.
The Portland Press says that quite a num-
Der of accidents are reported as having oc-
cured to boys coasting, none of them very
serious, but several were apparently narrow
escapes from death. The recklessness of the
| hoy in CHI i,u anJ
great thorough:ares should be checked.
The North Star, paper published at Carl
bou and Fort Fairfield, has a Swedish col
umn, edited by 4. Winberg of New Sweden,
from which we make this extract;
Utaf den af Konsul W. w. Thomas, sasom
commissioner for den Swenska emigrationen
till Maine, for Styrelsen nu iramlagda bemat-
tlese. fnna wi foljande.
The Bath Times says that a Mr.. Oliver of
Phipsburg, employed in one of the mills at
Winnegance, met with an accident last week.
A bolt belonging to some portion Of the ma
chinery was thrown out with great violence,
and struck him in the side, inficting a slight
wound. A slight deviation in the direction
of it would have killed him intantly.
/ A Cambridge correspondent of the Lewis.
| ton Journal writes that fatal disease has
made its appearance among the cattle of +.
A. Brown Of Cambridge. He had lost a,
last accounts six from his heard. The symp-
toms are violent trembling followed by bleed.
ing from the nose. The disease generally
proves fatal in two or three days.
The Maine Legislature has been discussing
the egg question, but has decided that they
shall still be sold by the dozen-which will
encourage the biddies of the smaller breeds.
Lewiston Journal.
The shoe manufacturing establishment OF
Messrs. F. Bragg & Sen is rapidly approach.
ing a state of completion, and it is expected
that they will commence active operations
next week. They are now getting in place
their engine, which is one of II horse power;