Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-02-25
STATE NEWS.

Hunting is good down in Perham, and game
plenty. for the North Star says that Wallace,
the "hig Indian" from Presque Isle, with two
others, killed three moose and one caribou
last week near the west line Of Psrham.
When last heard from they were after more
Of the same sort.
Captain Rufus NJ. Hartman, killed on
board his vessel, of the coast of England, BY
collision with another vessel, was q native
OF Orrington, ia this State.
There was launched from Longs yard.
Tenants Harbor, substantially built schoon.
er of 800 tons burthen, the l2th inst. She Il
owned BY the builders, Messrs. Long & Bean,
Capt. Paul Watts, who is to command her,
and others Of Thomaston.
The Rockland Gazette says that Messr,.
John McAllister and Williams & Dean will
build three masted schooner Of about $50
| tons in Rockland, the coming season, to be
commanded by Capt. Freeman Hail. Mr..
McAllister is an experienced shipmaster and
his vessels rae well.
Judge May of Lewiston, has resigned his
office Of Register in Bankruptcy, and John
, W. May, Esq, has been appointed TO succeed
him.
Patents, issued to Maine inventors for the
week ending Feb. 4th. 1873 :-Hirsm Peavy,
assignee one-half to Michael Schwartz, Ban
gor, Single Machine. Thomas Hersey,
Bangor, Moccasin. H. P. Hood, Indianapo-
lis, and VIM. Cosmbs, Bangor, Nut Lock.
A Lewiston woman swept her floor q few
days since Gan unusual occurance) and . me-
tallic pistol cartridge was put into the IRE
with the other sweepings; there was . plate
OF fiapjacks on the stove at the time, that
w q rop ho~I ...k 10
neighbors have been harvesting them ever
since, and using em for door mats.
Mrs. j. P. Moore, who had one leg broken
and was injured about the face, chest and
back, in the accident on the Grand Trunk
last week, belonged in Dexter, and was re-
turning home from Racine. Wis. She 10 rap
idly recovering from her injuries.
Hon. I. G. Jordan died at his residence In
Berwick on the morning of the 2lst inst,
from a complication Of diseases that has caus.
ed him years of suffering.
A little son of Mr.. Albert Ball of Mapleton,
four years old, was about three weeks since
kicked by horse on his head. He fingered
until Thursday last, when he died.
The levee at the West Village, Wsterville,
in aid of the Soldiers Monument Associa-
ton, melted about eight hundred dollars.
TWAS Portland chap who, after coming
to railroad crossing the other day, and read.
ing the sign, "look out for the locomotive"
climbed to the eop, and gazing up the track,
wanted to know "wheren thunder the old
thing was?"
Honest people have not entirely disappear
ed from the face Of the earth. One day last
week man who lives eight miles from the
village, in making change at one of the places
| of business in town, by mistake received
| twenty cents too much. On reaching home
he discovered the error, and came back the
| same day, over the terribly rough roads, for
the purpose of rectifying it Dexter Ga.
| yete.
Through the courtesy of f. NJ. Stillwell,
Esq, of this city, one of the State Commits
sioners of Fisheries, we had the opportunity
yesterday Of examining some formulated sal
mon eggs collected at Bucksport the past sea-
son. The eggs at this time are about the size
of a haif-ounce bullet, are of delicate pink
color, and so nearly transparent that with .
powerful glass the blood disks can be plainly
seen moving towards the embryo heart in
regular steps in time with its pulsations.
There are now 5000, 900 of these ezgs At
Bucksport, $4,000 of which are to be turned
into the st. Croix and 900 into the Pc
nobscot and its tributaries. One hundred
and fifty thousand more are on the way to
Dixdeld, where Henry o. Stanley, Esq, the
other Commissioner, will turn them into the
Androscoggin. The Eggs are carefully pack
ed in moss for transportation, and are sent by
express as rapidly as possible to avoid injury.
Bangor Wing.