Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-16
STATE NEWS.

| The schooner Empire State, belonging in
Portland, will prove total loss. She went
ashore on Cape Porpoise few DAYS since.
Sixty -four of he seventy three candidates
examined at Bowdon College, Friday, tor
admission in the o.hman class, were ac-
cepted.
Slim Jim has slipped Oh board the trains of
the Maine Central again, and is playing his
tricks on travellers.
One Of the workmen Of Asa Mayberty,
Esq, Windham on Saturday, while loading
hay in the field dropped fire from his pipe,
and the load Of hay, rack and wagon were
consumed.
! The Times says it is the current talk on the
streets in Bath that large real estate trans
action in that city is in progress OF negotia-
ton, il not already consummated.
Rents are scarce in Richmond.
A son of George Clement OF kenduskeag,
last week fell and broke his thigh. This is
the second time he has broken it.
| Saturday night a son of Lot Culllnan OF
! Leeds junction was missed. Search was i'm
| mediately instituted, and about eleven o'clock
| the lad was found lying dead beside fiat car
near the station. 1t is supposed that he was
He was about ten years old.
A large number of the csterns belonging to
the citizens of Bangor having given out, the
city government has appointed a committee
composed Of gentlemen of Judgment and dis
erection to report upon the feasibility Of bring
ing water from Fitz and Hat Case ponds into
| the city. These gentlemen propose visiting
Salem and other cities for the purpose of pro-
curing information and to get generally post
| ed in relation to the whole matter.
| The house of Mr.. Goud, in Falmouth, was
entered by burglars while the family were at
spoons, ladies' clothing, and other things,
| taken.
| Two barns belonging to Messrs. Porter 4
| Son, of Calais, situated on the Garry near
Springfield, were entirely destroyed by fire
| on Sunday last. One of the barns was a large
new one, upon which men were working the
other older and not as large. Forty tons of
pressed hay were burned in one of the barns.
| The cause of the firc is unknown. No insur-
| aBce.
| The Portland Advertiser says that young
/ man in this city, about month since, met
and fell in love with and married off hand, Il
pretty girl, whom he took home to his moth
er soon as the ceremony was completed.
This next morning she disappeared, and has
not been heard from since. On Saturday an
| officer visited pawn shop and recovered $50
! worth of clothing the girl had stolen FROM her
husbands house the day she left, and pawned
! for Sll.
The people OF Gray are not slow in wash
ing their hands Of the nativity OF Black. They
say he was not horn there.
The Wing SAYS that on Sunday afternoon a
dog came into Mr.. John Leonard's house in
Bangor, and made an attack on his family,
attempting to bite every person within his
reach. The dog was frothing Mt the mouth,
which, with the unprovoked attack he made,
showed that he was mad, and Mr.. Leonard
promptly shot him dead.
The Belfast correspondent Of the Lewiston
journal writes that paper that news of a sad
accident came to the mother of young mar
who sails in one of the coasters from thai
place from Boston last week. Itappears thai
when the vessel was going to her wharf ths
young man stepped into coil of rigging, not
thinking the coil OF rope was in use, while
one end was made fast on the shore to check
the vessels Roadway, and before he was
aware of the danger that he STOOD the rope
brought up about his ankle, and before he
could clear himself his foot was taken OH
above the ankle. He was taken to the hos
pital, and the last account from him was a.
favorable as could be expected.
There is at the present time, in the well OF
Mir. ID. McGregor Jones, in Dexter trou'
which has be en- there just forty-si years TINS
summer having been placed mere uy me
nresent owner OF the place in 1927. When
nut in. the trout was four or five inches in
length. but is nov some more than foot long,
it being species of brook trout that does not
grow very large. The well has at times been
almost dry, but the fish has always been live
~, and bids fair to live another decade,
should it manage to keep its head below wa
ter [Piscataquis Observer.