Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-27
3 STATE NEWS.

| There is to be reunion Of the graduates
and former students of Westbrook Seminary,
at the next Anniversary, which occurs about
the middle of June.
The Portland washingtonian Reform Clut
will hold a rousing meeting in City Hall mex
Monday evening, and President Chamber
lain of Bowdoin College, with other distin
guished speakers, and expected to be present
and address the meeting.
Mr.. Henry Dascomb, a much respected
citizen of Wilton, died very suddenly Mon
day night, supposed from heart disease. He
returned home from Boston Monday night
and retired as usual, but about IL o'clock his
wife was awakened by his irregular breath.
ing, and on raising his head she found he had
already ceased to breath.
The Lewiston Journal says that about
$4,000 of the 5000 900 stock required to
start the new Little Androscoggin mill in Au-
burn, has been Subscribed.
The Portland Advertiser learns that al
though vessels can be loaded with lumber in
New York at So thousand feet cheaper than
in Portland, the advantage in barber and
pilot fees, ETC., more than compensates at the
latter place, for the difference in cost of
freight.
Hon. G. +. Talbot of Portland, reported as
a delegate to the Cincinnati convention, sails
for Europe Saturday, and the report is there
fore incorrect.
At a special meeting of the town April
23d, Skowhegan voted to exempt from taxa
ton, for term of ten years, all the capital
that shall be invested, or is at present in
vested in this town by c. NJ. Bailey, ESQ.,
of Winthrop, for the manufacture of oil
cloths; provided that he (Bailey) shall put
up the present summer another building of
nearly the same size as the two at present
occupied for that purpose. Mr. Bailey pro-
poses, besides building new factory, to
make quite an outlay in repairing the old
ones; so that he shall nearly double his bust
ness there, which at present employs about
GO hands.
The managers of the course of lectures
given in Roekland the past season, have the
following item in their report: ''The fame
of David Barker, Esq.-the 'sMaine Poet
so called, having reached us from Augusta,
where he had recently read his poems, it was
thought advisable to secure him for the con-
templated extra. He was accordingly en-
gagged for the evening of February Is, when
he read several poems, including "Mr First
Courtship," which were well received, but
not quite up to the standard the audience had
fixed for the poet
Mr.. n. b. Turner of st. lbans, on FRI
day the 10th, sold two year old Knox colt
for five hundred dollars to Webber and Skin
ner of this place. 1t pays to raise good
stock.
Hon. Edwin r. Blaisdell was buried at
West Watervile, Tuesday. The knights
Templar, of which the deceased was men,
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full uniform and with appropriate music and
ceremonies. Rev. Zenas Thompson, HIM
self Knight Templar, over 20 years of age,
preached the funeral sermon.
The Press says that the friends of the
Maine General Hospital contemplate grand
fair in aid of this institution, to be held in
this city the latter part of September and the
the early part of October. 1t is understood
to be a State Fair, enisting the cooperation
of the people in every county and town in the
State.
Harry Emerson, the man devil, gave two
or three entertainments in Saco and Bidde-
ford last week, and then "stepped OUT with
out paying his bill, just to keep up the repu-
tation suggested by his name, we suppose.
The Boston and Maine Railroad Company
have completed the necessary purchases of
lana between ore KlVef anu tnelr depot
grounds on Maple street in Portland. Forty
nine dwelling houses have been purchased,
besides large number of stores and shops,
and a considerable area of unoccupied land,
and in each case satisfactory contract has
been made without the Intervention of
referee. The amount of these operations,
including land damages, is at least $780,
900. Included in the purchase is tract of
eleven acres of land lying at the western
base of Bramhall's hill, on which it is pro-
posed to erect the repair shops, car and en-
CINE houses of the Company. Active opera
tons are to begin at an early day in opening
the way and the erection of the passenger
station.
A young lady Of Bangor, some three years
since, lost a valuable diamond ring at ball
in Augusta, and could hear nothing of it,
though she advertised her loss. Last Mon.
day evening the ring was returned to her by
a young man, who stated that a lady had
found it at the ball though she knew to whom
it belonged, determined to keep it. The
matter weighed heavily on her conscience,
however; she never dared wear the ring, and
for long time dared not return it, but at
length coming to the conclusion that she
could bear it no longer she related the whole
circumstance to the gentleman who kindly
returned the ring to its rightful owner.-Bath
Times.