Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-01
STATE NEWS.

The Portland Press says that the 9th
quarterly session of the Piscataquis County
Lodge was holden at Parkman on the 2Gth
inst. The reports from the lodges were en-
couraging. The county lodge, by vote, in
vited the cold water templars, who were in
session in an adjacent hall, to visit the county
lodge, which offer was accepted in form, and
were eloquently addressed by Rev. Mr..
Graves of Dover. This G. w. T. numbers
50 members, So of whom were present in re-
gala. Why does this temple live and pros
per where SO many die? Because the SUPER
tendent is present at every meeting.
The railroad commissioners of the State
have returned from an inspection tour over
the Bangor Piscataquis, European & North
American (Maine Division) and Penobscot &
st. Croix railways. They report the B. & P.
in excellent condition. the T.. & N. A. in good
repair, but the St. Croix road requires
large amount of labor to bring it up to the
standard. The bridge at Barring IL weak.
and the sleepers along the road requires re-
placing to asconsiderable extent.
Mr.. George w. Fenley, compositor EN-.
ployed on the Portland Argus, was overcome
by the heat, while at Old Orchard, Saturday.
He was senseless for some time and it was
with difficulty that he was resuscitated.
c. B. Pettingill, Hebron, has been granted
patent on a sad.iron holder and litter.
The surviving members Of the 18th Maine
regiment contemplate holding re union at
Bath some time in August next.
Hillgdale college, in Michigan, at the re-
cent commencement, conferred the degree of
ID. ID. on Prof. Hayes of Bates college.
Among the members of the Freshman class
Of Bates college, is young lady of II, from
Connecticut.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal,
in writing from Dixfield, in Oxford county,
says that Mr.. Stanley, the Fish Commissioner
has now turned loose about one hundred and
sixty thousand young salmon, chiefly in the
main river and its tributaries, and fifteen
thousand more, carried up Swift river, so we
may look for good fishing all along the line
by and by.
Dr. Torsey of Kents Hill, finds his health
restored sufficiently to permit him to land his
pickerel in splendid style.
little son of f. c. Moody of Camden,
stepped on some rotten boards laid over a
deep well in the cellar of his fathers house,
and went through into the we'll. There was
seven feet of water in the well, and but for
timely assistance would have been drowned.
Bangor firm has been making q pair Of
shoes for boy up in Aroostook county. The
shoes measure IL l-2 inches length by l-2
in breadth and weighed enough to load an Or
binary man down. The boy is nineteen
years old and still growing.
AT the meeting of the alumni of Bates col
lege the following gentlemen were nominated
as candidates for overseers of the college
Rev. w. ii. Bolster, 90; Geo. b. Files, 80;
G. c. Wendell, '6S; Rev. II. +. Wood. '67.
Mr.. VIC. Pitman of Bangor, has about 20
or 70 men at work ballasting the Somerset
railroad between Norridgework, and more
will be employed as fast as it is possible to OBJ
tain them. About three miles of the road
has been ballasted and is in good running
order.
Judge Virgin has completed the Goth vol
ums of Maine reports.