Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-15
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STATE NEWS.

The Eastern Railroad Company have Just
had patent smoke stack put on one of their
engines. No cinders come from it and pas.
sengers can sit by the open windows without
injury to their eyes.-[Argus.
The valuable ship yard property known a.
the Larrabee ship yard, at the north end of
the city, has been purchased of the former
proprietors by A. F. Page, for Charles E.
Moody, Esq, of Boston. for $1,000 cash.
Mr.. Moody is one of our Bath boys, son of
John Moody, Esq, one of the early ship
builders of our city and has for the last 80
years been resident of Boston, in the whole.
sale grocery business, commencing ~ boy,
then clerk, salesman and proprietor, having
accumulated fortune by his unusual good
judgment and won the respect and esteem Of
his contemporaries by the honorable manner
of conducting his business. Mr.. Moody now
intends to remodel the old family mansion
which adjoins this property, by French
root, new outbuildings and q general improve
ment of the estate by making it one of the
most beautiful as well as one of the most
pleasant of the many desirable residences
which adorn the banks Of the Kennebec.-
Bath Times.
The three masted schooner LAME Cobb
was launched from Cakes & Sons shipysrd,
at Brewer, Saturday morning. Her dimen-
mansions are: Length, 1904 feet; breadth,
29.l feet; depth, SO feet; tonnage, PAS
tons, n. m. This owners are the builders.
Capt. Charles Cobb of Brewer. who will COM
mand her, Messrs. Lemuel Bradford, Thos
A. Taylor, Samuel Larrabee, Bowen & Bra
ley and David Bugbee of Bangor. and II. w.
Loud & Co. of N. Y.-GWhig, 18th.
A note from Granville states that black
flies and mosquitoes are very annoying to
pleasure seekers just now, but will disappear
by the end of the month. Fishing in the
lake region is reported good and anglers who
have the courage to "face" the insects are
bountifully rewarded, as large quantities of
beautiful speckled trout are taken daily.
The steamer Governor Coburn commenced
Monday, 18th, making regular trips from
Greenville to Mount Kineo.-[W Wing, 18th.
A good joke was played upon q score or so
of Thomaston sea captains who telegraphed
last Thursday for grand dinner at the Bay
View House in Camden. Their wives some
how ascertained their intentions and also tel
egraphed for dinner and started for Camden
arriving in season to eat with their "vagrom"
husbands.-[ Wing, 18th.
Saturday night the stores of Themes &
Blanchard and r. Rideout & Son, in Cumber-
land, were entered by burglars, who pried of
the shutters on the back windows and then
opened the windows. They secured about
$50 in goods at each store.
A young lady named Haskell, who has been
teaching school in Deering the present sum-
mer, made visit to her home in New Glou-
cester last week and while there lost $50
which she had earned by teaching. hired
man who was at work at her fathers is sus-
pected to be the thief as he left about the
time the uoney was missing Press.
Work on the Bucksport & Bangor Railroad
was commenced yesterday morning in earn.
est,.with large crew of workmen, and forty
more will come from Boston by to.day's boat.
The work will now be pushed forward as rap.
idly as possible. with view Of its completion
in October. large quantity of iron 10 all
ready on hand at Bucksport and the work
will be extended as fast as the road bed is
finished up.-[ Wing, 18th.
VIM Porter and his son Alfred are charged
with attempting to outrage Q young daughter
of Mr. Chesley Weber of Hermon, Thurs.
day evening, while she was going home thro'
piece of woods in that town. She was res.
cued by Mr.. p c. Work OF this city, who
happened along just in time to save her from
their clutches.-[ Wing, 18th.
Yesterday car load of clapboards came
from East Golding, Mich, consigned to
Stanley & Ayres of this city. The car con.
tanned $4,000 clapboards and the freight on
them was $l46.-[[ Rockland Globe.
A few years since there lived in this CITY a
gentleman of property who possessed many
excellent traits of character but was some
what eccentric withal. He owned q dog to
which he was very much attached and when
''the last summons came for him to Join the
innumerable caravan" he gave specific direc-
tons that the favorite dog should be tenderly
cared for during its life and when it died, that
it should be buried in the same grave with
himself. These requests were sacredly re-
membered by his family and the dog has all
these years been enjoying the hospitality of
his ancestral home. Recently he has shown
unmistakable signs of decay and after fam
lily consultation it was decided that the time
had arrived to obey the solemn bequest of q
dying man. Yesterday that venerable dog
died, but his death bed was attended not only
by DR.. Boynton, the family physician, but
by symhathizing friends. Alter his decease
he was tenderly dressed in a fitting shroud
and placed in coffin prepared expressly for
him and then sadly borne to his last resting