Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-24
STATE NEWS.

Samuel +. Cobb, Esq, Of Bangor. while
crossing State street Thursday afternoon, was
knocked down BY horse and badly cut ABOUT
the head, and also injured in the chest.
The Secretary of the Maine State Agricul-
tural Society is filling the diplomas awarded at
the last State Fair. They will be ready for de-
livery in q few days. The delay has been occa-
stoned by the manufacturers. The Commercial
learns that the Honorable Mentions" to he
authenticated by the autograph of the Prssi-
dent and Secretary, will be forwarded very
soon.
Samuel B. Drew, of Parkman, was wounded
in the eye, Saturday, 18th inst, by a kernel
of wheat. which few from the treshing ma
chine which he was feeding. The wound
though painful, will not, it is hoped, destroy
the sight of the eye.
A reliable correspondent informs the Wa
terville Mail that the Wooden Mills at N.
VassalbOro' are now running on fve-sixths
| time, and that the pay of the operatives in
| some departments will be reduced about ten
per cent. on the st of December.
The good people of Ripley, Cambridge and
Parkman, are looking at the subject of the
| Wiscasset & Moosehead Lake Railroad.
Meetings were held in these towns on Thurs
day, Friday, respectively. In Ripley, the
meeting was adjourned three weeks. We
have not heard what was the result of the
meetings in Cambridge and Parkman.
The Wing says that r. G. Stickney, Esq ,
and his son, were riding up the Ilampden
road Friday afternoon, when the horse took
fright and started to run at a fearful pace.
1t was found impossible to stop the animal
so Mr.. Stickney refined him in toward the
Bangor House stable, when in turning, the
sleigh was tipped over and both its occupants
thrown out with great force. Each received
severe bruises, but Mr.. Slickney suffered the
worst, his hip bone being fractured.
writer in the Biddeford Union and Jour.
nal, from the interior of the State, says he has
the most positive assurance that the Boston
and Maine and Eastern railroads are in entire
harmony in the inner circles, and that the
| outside talk is made to merely amuse the
public. He also intimates that Judge Rice
has been offered the presidency of the Boston
and maine.
The schooner David WATSON of Brooks
vile, bound from Bangor for Curacao with a
cargo of lumber from James Walker & Co
was lost at sea in the gale of August Gath,
ten days out. The captain and Eve men ar.
rived at Montevdeo Oct. Goth, probably
picked up by some passing vessel. The ID.
w. was a three. masted schooner of 229 tons
burthen, built in 1867, and owned partly in
Brooksville and partly in Bangor. Capt.
Jerry Jones of Brooksvlle, her master, re-
NAMED at home this trip, and she was under
the command of Capt. Jerome T. Tapley
when lost.
Our aged, and worthy townsman, DR.. Chas.
! Croker, had a narrow escape this morning
from instant death while attempting to cross
the railroad on Water street when the shift
ing engine was backing down to make up the
train for the east. He was only saved by the
presence of mind of the flag man, Hugh Glare,
who seized his horse by the head and ran him
down the track, being unable to turn the
sleigh around because Of the runners catch
ing in the rails. When the engine stopped it
was within three feet of the carriage, and his
escape was indeed providential.-lB Bath
Times, Saturday.
An epidemic is decimating the canary birds.
1t is sudden in its attack and nearly always
fatal.