Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-07
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The brick work on the new factory building
is all done except days work or two on the
tower. This work has been done with won
derful expedition. Nearly four hundred
thousand bricks have been laid in the short
space of 81 days. The carpenter work has
also been pushed with equal rapidly. The
roof is on and the skaters commenced Wed.
nesday: The first floors are all down. and
the inside work will te put In at once. Very
seldom has building Of the dimensions Of
this been pushed forward with greater rapid
| ty. Every part of the work has been we'll
done however, not single stroke neglected.
The foundation is excellent, and the brick
work is handsome and even. The root 10 to
slated, with monitor op.-lSkowhegan Re-
porter.
Mr.. w. Hemmenway of Machias, one of
the prominent lumber merchants of that re-
gion, is dead.
A young man, printer, named Henry W.
Hunter, came to Portland last August, and
worked in the Argus office for few weeks.
He left there August 29rh and went to the
Willy House, White Mountains, New Hamp.
shire. He left there Sept. I'd. since which
| time nothing can be heard of his where
abouts.
George Eldtidge, son of Rev. VIM. Ell.
Wednesday afternoon, while adjusting belt
in the card room of the Guilford wooden mill.
His foot caught in the belt thowing him some
distance, causing severe fracture and severe
bruises below the knee. He is now doing -
well as could be expected.
day or since q man called at the Maine
Central freight office and enquired the cost Of
transporting dead body. The gentlemen
in the Office at once assumed the grave and
sympathetic mein with which they treat the
afflicted, and informed him that his departed
friend could not be carried - freight, but the
regular fare was required, at the same time
offering to show him where ticket could be
procured. ooh, didn't want ticket to- day
l only wanted to know about it, he isn't dead
yet" Comment corrodes upon the pen.
/ Bangor Wing.
The spans of the new bridge now completely
bridge the chasm between Lewiston and Au-
burn from the Continental Mill to the mouth
Of the little Androscoggin.
A portion of the wall on the south side of
the Piscataquis Iron Foundry In Foxcroft,
caved in on Saturday night last, letting por-
ton of the basement near the furnace into the
river. The large brick chimney had to- be
taken down, and another foundation 10 now
being constructed.
About two weeks ago man named Jim Per-
kins died in Lebanon, as was supposed Of
Bright's disease of the kidneys. While the
body was being prepared for burial, wound
was discovered in the small of the back, ap.
parently made with buckshot. How the
wound came there is not for certainty known.
Rumor has it that just before his death he
! called in physical and stated to him that
while in the act of entering the premises Of
gentleman in Rochester, q charge of Buck.
shot was lodged in his back, from the effects
of which he received his final quietus. Per-
kins had bad reputation. He served one
term in the Rhode Island States Prison for
horse stealing, and was considered . danger
Gus character.
The venerable Jacob Greene of Waterford,
died in that town last week, in consequence
of injuries received by falling from the top Of
ladder to the ground.