Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-30
STATE NEWS.

| The following are business changes in this
State during the past week:
Portland - Richardson & Cross, lumber,
bought out J. w. Deerng, Milan Steam Mill
| Co.
j. w. Deering, bought out Richardson &
| Cross.
Auburn. NJ. Perry, gen. store, sold on,
to NJ. S. Smith.
Bangor-H. & A. A. Pond, groceries and
provisions, dis, now Hartford Pond.
Biddeford-G I. Huntress, boots aud shoes,
sold out to A. w. Atkinson.
Hudson-Beals & Weber, gen. store, dis.
now L. X. Weber.
Lewiston-S. SScruton, groceries and fish,
sold out.
Minot-Solomon DeCosta, carriage mfr,
sold out to A. f. DeCosta.
Presque Isle-Wight & McEacheron, furni.
ture mfrs, dis. now AE. Wight.
Waterville-A. A. Carter, confectioner,
new.
Last Saturday child of Mr.. Geo. B. Dag
gett, of Rockland, narrowly escaped being
killed by a COW. He started to drive COW,
when the COW turned on him, knocking him
down and placing her foot upon his back, re-
peatedly struck at him with her horns. The
child escaped injury.
| The Wing says that COW jumped on the
track in front of the special train that took
the Knight Templars from St. John to Ban
gor, just before it entered the bridge at Vance,
boro. The engine struck her at full speed,
throwing her into the air and over eighty feet
ahead against the end of the bridge, from
which she rebounded over the embankment
iato the water.
new and elegant diploma for the Maine
Poultry Association is now being engraved
from neat and very appropriate dssign-the
work of Fred Atwood, Esq, of Winterport.
There is a man in Rockville, 65 years of
age, suffering from the whooping cough. Bet
ter late than never.
Farmers are selling off their old hay at $lS
a ton, to make room for the crop of 1874
J. Norton, at Bearce Co.'s steam saw
mill, in Lewiston, in one day sawed with cir
eular saw, 81, 656 feet of dimension lumber,
no extra preparations having been previously
made.
Mrs. Mark Kimball, of Biddeford, has
''night blooming cerus." Last Friday night
one bud opened, showing beautiful flower
inches in diameter.
The Journal says that Mr. Elisha Clark, of
Wilton, received serious injuries Tuesday by
falling from the roof of building on which
he was at W0rk LOT NAT. stephen Alien.
short rafter which he had just nailed, but not
entirely secured, gave way and caused him to
fall to the ground, some dozen or more feet,
striking upon a bed Of stones. His shoulder
was badly broken, besides sustaining other
injuries. This is the second fall Mr.. Clark
has had within few weeks.
The Piscataquis Observer says that MIR. H.
L. Leonard made trip to his fish breeding
works at the mouth of Ship Pond stream last
week. He took up between $4,000 and Co.,
600 young sea salmon, in good condition, co.
900 of which he put in that stream, and
about %, 900 into Salmon stream, a tributary
of the Piscataquis, in Guiford. He has now
246 fine land licked salmon, caught in Sebec
lake. Mr.. Leonard will soon put 6000 young
land locked salmon into Ship Pond stream
and others elsewhere.
"Camp Meeting John" Allen, during the
gale at Sterling, Mass, Tuesday, had mar
row escape from being killed by the fall of a
tree near his tent, and though he did not re-
gard it as special providence, he stated that
he prayed during the storm to the Lord to
save him if he could.
The Lewiston high school has gradu ated
this year 20 pupils.
Speaking merely from hearsay, the Rock.
land Globe says that the heat was quite op.
pressive in church on Sunday.