Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-24
STATE NEWS.

There was picked up last week, near Dam
ariscotta Island, Boothbay HArbor, ships
library, supposed to belong to some vessel
lost in the recent gale. The library was fur
nished by the american Seanens Friend
Society" and is numbered 30OS, but there 10
no word nor key to a word to indicate the YES.
sells name.
T. Boswell of Starks was severely injured
by being thrown from his carriage while re-
turning from Skowhegan on Friday of last
week.
The Supreme Council of the Master Mason.
lie Jurisdiction of the United States now in
session in Boston, has voted to hold ito anuu :
al session next August in Portland.
The Lewiston Journal says that recently q
farmer living in Turner took an over dose
of morphine for the purpose, a. he afterward
confessed, of ending his life. Luckily it was
discovered, and physician called who re.
lieved and put him out Of danger. Loss of
friends and domestic trouble is the cause a..
signed for the rash act.
"More than we can do, all hands of u.s." Is
the report of Auburn shoe manufacturers.
young lady about seventeen years of age
by the name of Mary Lessor. whose parents
reside In Skowhegan, attempted to drown
herself in the river at that place on Tuesday
last ~
The Dexter Agricultural Society will hold
its second annual exhibition and fair in Dex.
ter on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. l6
and II, 1874.
The annual meeting of the Disciples of
Christ in the western district of Maine, is an.
nounced to be held with the church in Gar.
diner, beginning on Friday, Aug. 2Sth, con-
tinung over Lords day.
Maj. and Rev. A. Deering, formerly of
Richmond, in this State. and we'll known in
temperance circles in this State, is now edi.
tor of the Suncook Valley Times, published
at Pittsfeld, N. II.
Capt VIM. X. Spear, a native of Rockiand,
commander of the ship Geo. Skolfeld, died
on board of his vessel at New OrleanR, on
the I'd inst, after few days illness.
A bold leap for liberty was made few days
ago by sweet little three year.old daughter
OF Mr. c. II. THOMPSON, on the Fairfield
road near the new iron bridge. An elder
daughter had her in charge in a chamber, and
having occasion to leave for q few minutes,
fastened the door. The mother below imme-
diately heard cry, ane on looking out saw
the little one running from the spot where
she had fallen from the chamber window
unhurt She said, ~ put one foot out, den
two feets." She had evidently climbed upon
the window, which was as high as her chin,
and jumped down, distance Of fourteen
feet Watervillc Mail.
The grocery store of Savage & Pratt was
burglarously entered last Monday night, and
robbed of over six hundred dollars. What 10
| upaccountable in the affair 10 the fact that the
safe, from which the money was distracted,
"Halrs Patent, was locked by q new combi-
nation known by only two members of the
| firm; and yet, in obtaining the money, the
cafe was unlocked, thoroughly rumu,aRed,
and then re- locked.
The wife and two children of Rev. Mr..
Williams, and the daughter Of Hen. L. Flint
of Dover, came near being carried over the
dam in that village recently, in . birch canoe
which they were sailing In. They we're res.
cued by two persons VINO heard their cries.
Prof. NJ. c. Fernald of the State Aericul.
tural College, and friends have returned from
their scientific trip to Mt. Katahdin. The
party spent most Of the time from the 18th
to the 18th, on the summit of Katahdin, and
were quite successful, taking forty-three ber-
ometrical observations. Mr.. y. Lamson
Scribner, of Manchester, was also very sue
cessful in his botanical researches, and made
| q large collection.