Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-22
STATE NEWS.

The Bath Times has these Richmond items
Hiram Cooper was badly injured in Richmond
Monday being run over by runaway horse
which jumped into his wagon crushing him
badly. He was attended by DR.. Smith, who
thinks he will survive the injury. p. X. Mil
lay, Esq, coroner held an inquest on the
body of the man who fell from Lswis' gonda.
10 above Richmond village some two weeks
ago. From appearance the man fell from the
gondalo in fit. Libby, Clark and others are
getting their timber and materials in their
yard for the purpose of building large
schooner this fall. Bankers ice houses at
Dresden blew down in the gale Monday night.
The journal says that the dwelling house
of Samuel ID. Rand, about mile from Lisbon
village, caught fire on the roof last Sunday
but was extinguished with a loss of about
5000. The neighbors gathered and with lum
Der and hard work repaired the house before
nightfall.
Appearances certainly seem to indicate that
Kelley is the murderer of the boy at Houlton.
But reporter of the Bangor Commercial in
tervened him in Jail and he was vehement in
declaring himself innocent. He admitted that
circumstances were very unfortunate for him
but he denied ever having threatened Mar
tins life; he had only said that the boy was
too yong and if he didn't leave Mary alone he
would whip him. On the reporters leaving
Kelley expressed hope that his Bangor
friends would not believe the stories set ahoat
about him. He denied being incorporate in
Houlton, where he has resided since the 4th
of May.
Miss Fairweather was married in Portland
on Monday, and it rained all day. The name
of the bridegroom. was Fogg.
The Argus says that the amount of fines
and costs in criminal prosecutions, paid into
the County Treasury by County Attorney
Yeaton during the late term of the Supreme
Judicial Court at Alfred, exceeded the sum of
thirteen hundred dollars, which is larger by
several hundred dollars than at any previous
term The criminal docket of the late term
was the largest known for many years, and
rising fifty actions were tried and disposed OF
during the term.
The premiums awarded by the Maine State
Pathological Society at their annual exhibit
ton in Bangor, are now payable as follows ::
Premiums in Penobscot and Waldo counties,
at the office of Mr.. Albert Noyes, in Bangor
all others at the office Of the treasurer, Mr..
Chas. S. Pope, in Manchester.
Thd accident to the quarrymen at Brown
vile was not so bad as at first reported. John
ed by tamping stick, had merely his lower
jaw fractured
The Press says that on Saturday, Oct: II,
tLorenzo Smith, boy ii years old, shot
large grey eagle on the shore of Society pond
in Denmark that measured nine feet from up
to tip of his wings, when extended.
According to the Wing, a small lot of logs
viii be wintered over on the Penobscot river
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there is stock of about 35,00O,0 600, and
these are being cut at the rate of about one
million day.
The survey parties now on our coast are
engaged in survey of Mt. Desert island,
ann the adjacent hydrography on the shores
OF Eggemoggin reach, on the coast near Cas-
tine, on the islands in that vicinity, including
that of the Isle in Haul bay, and of the Pc
nobscot above Belfast. Supplementary work
has been done in the upper part of Casco bay
and Portland harbor.