Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-18
STATE. NEWS.

BY the will of Sally Osgool, recently de.
ceased, the sum OF $500 was appropriated for
the purchase of town clock for the village
of Fryeburg, providing the balance be raised
by the citizens.
In A recent Interview with Col. J. Walker
Fryeburg for many years President of the
West Oxford Agricultural Society, we found
that he has been great sheep grower-some
years keeping tlocks of 30. lie lives on tie
farm settled by his father and there has al
ways been fock OF sheep kept on the farm
In war times he sold one year 400 lbs of wool
al the barn for Sl.0O a pound-ordinarily 81
to 60 cents. Give sheep air and feed rough
and they will thrive. Corn stalks and mead.
ow hay are excellent. He has had Spanish
Merino and South Down stock. For the
market, the latter Is best, but for wool the
former. He considers sheep more profitable
than any other stock. What do the farmers
w. Oxford Democrat.
Officer York got wind that boy who ran
away from the Reform School two years ago
last July was in town, but could learn no
further particulars. The officers at the
school had forgotten the culprit. With hard
y any clue he worked up the case and this
noon John Cannon was returned to the
institution. He was juvenile burglar, II
years of age Portland Advertiser.
Parties in Belfast, Castne and Brooksville
are endeavoring to establish a steamboat
route in Pcnobscot bay.
During the fearful gale of Nov. 18th. Ar
thur S. Thomas of Eden, Mt. Desert, sail
or on the schooner Dexter Clark, bound to
Fla, was lost overheard and drowned.
The Gardiner journal says that on Tues
day lad about nine years of age, named
Keenan,, while sliding near the lower dam,
broke through the ice and would have been
drowned had it not been for his sister, aged
lG years, going to his rescue. She in turn
would have been drowned had not VIM. Bar
ron and James Dill gone to their assistance.
The body of the late Capt. Jas. A. Blanch-
ard was brought home to Gardiner for inter-
ment Monday. He has been captain on
steamers on the Kennebec, on the route be-
tween Portland and Bangor, on the ST. John
and in Virginia and his social generous and
genial manners made his favorite.
Capt. S. S. Colburn has been appointed
master of a new steamship of 1900 tons bur
den. She was built at Philadelphia, at a ccst
of $500, 900, and is called the Reading. She
will run coaslwise from Philadelphia 10 Cuba
and IS designed for collier. She has what
is called water bottom-that is, has a water
tight compartment over three feet Of the
hold, by which she can take in 500 tons of
water for ballast when she goes to sea and
when she enters river can pump it out
again. Gardiner journal.
Tuesday, at Lake Sebago, as John Moul-
ton was going to change switch, some plat
form cars sided on the track upon which he
was walking, ran down with unusual speed.
but making so little noise that he did not
perceive them until they were rather less
than a couple of yards behind him. He
Jumped to clear the track, but caught his foot
and fell inside, but succeeded in rolling out
of the way except one foot which was badly
jamned about the ANGLE by getting blow by
the outside of the wheel which did not run
over it. 1t was narrow escape from death.
Il Portland Press.