Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-13
STATE NEWS.

sharp LOOKOUT at the rumeeilers.
The Rockland Gazette has the record of
heavy family, that of Mr.. Gardner, living
in st. George. The surviving members of
the family are father, three sons and three
daughters, and the united weight of these
seven persons is / ,66S lbs. The father turns
the scales at $40 lbs, and the weight of the
brothers aud sisters is, respectively, 230, 220,
2lS, 2l0, 200 and 200 lbs.
In York county there are FIVE hundred and
twenty mine actions on the continued docket
and one hundred and twenty on the
new.
Ivory Small, Esq, well-known citizen of
Bangor, died on Friday, aged y.
The new Barber mill at Lewiston is lighted
with gas manufactured from naptha. 1t costs
five cents gallon, delivered, and eight gal
Ions will yield one thousand feet of gas. The
mill is in full operation.
The many friends of Mr.. E. V. Whittier,
telegraph operator in the office of the West
srn Union line in this city, will be pleased to
know that he has so far recovered from his
recent sickness as to be able to resume his
duties again. He has been absent several
weeks at his home in Newburyport, Mass
Gardner Reporter.
The Reporter says that the school in Pitts
ton village, in which the trouble occurredlast
week, is progressing quietly and very sue
cessfully under the management of Mr.. Sen
bury, of this city, as principal. No fire
arms or other weapons have yet been found
necessary to preserve good order, and the
scholars appear very peacably and studiously
inclined.
Louisa J. Huutley, woman IS years of
40 was IN no of in
Boston, Thursday, for being idle and disor-
derby. The woman was born and educated
in Norway, in this state. When seventeen
years of age she was teacher in school in
Somerville, Mass, where she was a favorte
with parents and teachers. But there are
"moments when the most virtuous become
most frail." She fell, as thousands have
done before, and after that ''all sin was easy"
until at last she became so low as to visit
brothels where white and blacks mix proms-
cuously.
A man, of fine tastes, in Norway, snapped
his horse for a hound.
The Sunrise says that little child years
of age, named Bertha Wilson, living at Hen
ry ClaIk's, on the Houlton road, on Monday
last pulled vessel of hot water from the ia
BILE upon its head and scalded its head, neck
and upper portion of its body so severely that
it is doubtful if it lives.
On Thursday afternoon little girl named
Murphy fell into the stream that crosses Har-
low street, near the foundry, and was carried
by the swift current under the arch on which
the street crosses the stream, and some dis
lance below. Fortunately a short distance
from the edge of the ice in the Kenduskeag
her dress caught on some obstacle and held
her long enough to admit of her rescue, or
she must have been carried under and drown
ed. She was insensibls when taken out, but
by prompt treatment was resuscitated.-
[Whig.
John H. Woodcock, of Durham, broke his
leg sliding down hill on a sled Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. VIM. Woodbury. of Pstten owns a
clock which was made in London over 100
years ago. 1t still, keeps good time.
Among the postmasters recently appointed
are Enoch Allen, East Parsonsfields, York
Co.; Clifford J. Ramsdell, Lebanon, York
Co.; Russell b. Kersey, Strckland's Ferry,
Androscoggin Co.
On Sunday morning of last week the store
of Mr.. Thomas Armstrong, in Calais, was
entered by some burglarious rascal and robbed
of various articles.
Arthur 1Smyth, son of VIM. Smyth, Esq,
of Bangor, died recently at sea of he yellow
fever. Mr.. VIM. Bishop, of Bangor, also on
the same ship, was attacked by the disease
but recovered.
List of Patent issued to citizens of Maine,
under date of Dec. 23d.
Enoch Lord, Portland-Sofa Bedstead.
j. b. Lucas, Portland-Razor Strap.
VIM. A. Stewart, Bethel-Fog- Signal.
The Wilson and Clarke troupe closed lis
engagement at Music Hail Saturday evening.
Its most successful play during its stay here
was, "a new way not to pay old debts
Portland Press.
The prospects of the Evans Rifle Manu-
featuring Co., at Mechanic Falls, are flatter-
ing, and it is now expected that their works
will be so complete by March next, as to be
able to turn out every part of the finely fin
ished guEs by machinery. At a meeting of
their directors, Hon. A. c. Dennison was
elected president, in place Of Gen. J. l..
Chamberlain.
Mrs. Betsey Willis, widow of the late Pre-
served Willis, is said TO be the Oldest person
in Thomaston. She is between "a and 100
years old Her maiden name was Long, .and
she is a native of ST. George.
The Bangor Commercial is panied to see
ond that the Rev. Arthur May Knapp, Of the
Unitarian church, in that city, is seriously i'll
with cerebro spinal meningitis complicated
With slow fever.