Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-25
STATE NEWS.

A sad and fatal accident occurred at Rock
port Saturday afternoon, by which John Up
ham, lad ten years old was instantly killed.
He was carting dirt from the lime quarry sit
uated between Camden and Rockport, and
was prepared to go home. when from some
cause or other the horse backed into the
quarry distance of twenty feet to the rocks
below. The boy was fearfully mangled; his
skull stove in; jaw badly smashed, arm and
neck broken.
The Wing says that last Friday afternoon,
Mr.. Sewall p. Harrington, in the employ of
Mr.. Moses Parsons of Glenburn, took two
bush scythes and started to cut some bushes
on the Pushaw road. He did not return that
night, nor has he yet made his appearance,
and it is feared that in at Of temporary in
sanity he has wandered off into the woods or
committed suicide. ea5
Cumberland county is having the index of
the Probate Court revised. IIfJa
Searsport expects to make quarter of a
million dollars worth of ship-building this
year. U.s.
"A. &. Stewart young man belonging in
Damariscotta, employed in the night gang at
Wells oil factory. South Bristol, fell into
vat of fish chum Friday night, from the effect
Of which he died.
The Portland band has been engaged to &C.
company Claremont Commandery of X. T.,
Of Rockland, on their excursion to Skowhe-
gan.
A. B. Neville, Esq, of Foxcroft, recently
arrested for stealing horse, has been honor
ably acquitted of the charge.
The annual reunion of the survivors of the
4th Maine Regiment was held at Searsmont,
on Thursday and Friday Nearly 5000 per-
sons were in attendance and eighty of the vet
Grams were in the ranks. A parade, salute,
speeches and public dinner were among the
exercises, which closed with q grand ball
Friday evening. Officers were elected as fol-
lows: J. S. Huxford of Brooks, PreAfyeM;
a. ID. Chase of Belfast, Secretary; O.aJ.
Conant of Rockland, Treasurer.
The Press says that an Oxford street man
set up stove Saturday afternoon, and in so
doing nearly set fire to his house. He put
the funnel into hole outside of the chimney,
and when he built fire the stove smoked so
bad that he became frightened and started af-
ter fire engine.
1t is stated that the authorities at Washing
ton have decided that the case of Robbins,
charged with murder on board the schooner
Annie b., does not come within the scope of
the tAtrduitlOn treaty, ana nave uecilneu De-
livering him over to British jurisdiction, and
also that the trial of Robbins must take place
where the death occurred. He will therefore
probably be tried at the September term of
the Supreme Judicial Court of Knox county,
which commences its session in Rocklsnd, on
Tuesday, September 10th. Ga u#.N nt
The Press gives the following facts in rela-
ton to the case now on trial before Judge
Virgin. The County Commissioners of An
droscoggin county laid out road across Lit
tie River about mile below Lisbon Falls.
The town of Lisbon proceeded to bridge the
river, throwing span across from the west
ern bank to an island and building a solid
causewsy from the sther side of the island to
the eastern shore, thus diverting the entire
current of the river into the western channel.
In October of 1871 a large freshet occurred
and considerable damage was done along the
river, including the undermining Of about
ree-fourths of an acre of land on which
stood house and its out-buildings, all of
which, except barn, were swept away and
destroyed. The owner, Mr.. VIM. Dunning
of Portland, brought his action against the in
habitants of the town of Lisbon for the amount
OF his loss on the ground that il resulted
from the improper diversion of the river from
its natural channel. The case develops
many interesting legal poins for settlement.
w. L. Putnam and M. M. Loud of Portland
appear for the plaintiff and Joseph Baker and
Frye & Cotton for the defence.