Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-22
STATE NEWS.

Waterville 10 going ahead. The Mail says:
'Hon. Edwin Noyes has sold his farm, of SO
to 40 acres, lying near the Maine Central de-
pot, to Messrs. +. A. Waldron, c. r. McFad-
den, L.. A. Dow and P. 8. Heath, Of this
| village. The price 10 reported at $500 per
| acre, amounting to between eleven and twelve
| thousand dollars. 1t is to be Immediately
surveyed and offered for house lots. This
looks like enterprise, don't 2"
There was great rejoicing in Bangor the
| other night when Col. James Dunning came
forward. signed the pledge and made
| speech. He did not think there was anyone
in sound of his voice who had seen the terri.
Bile effects of rum as he had He gave q very
interesting and pathetic account of his own
boyhood. BY rum he was driven from a
good to poor home and from that to the
street. Next he went to sea with a drunken
captain, and the vessel would have been
wrecked at White Head but for his own
watchfulness. That captain was afterward
driven 10 poverty. No one bat rum drink.
er knew how to despise rum.
In relation to the item published in some
papers, stating that he was to 60 to Califor-
mia, Rev. J. c. Snow of Auburn says that
the matter 10 by no means settled. If an
arrangement is made for him to 60 it will be
only temporary matter, taking him away
from his charge for q three months vaca.
ton.
The farm house of A. G. Buffers, about .
mile from Exeter Corner, was destroyed BY
fire early Monday morning. The hssss
stood some distance from its neighbors and
there was no people about. Mr.. Buffers and
wife being aged people and living alone, some
apprehension was felt among the people in
the neighborhood lest they had perished in the
flames.
Bishop Nicely sails for Europe on Friday.
curious mishap befel Mr.. Arthur Davis
of Brownville, Friday, which shows the risk
of carrying cartridges and such things loose
in the pockets. He had carried one of the
smallest sized pistol cartridges in his pocket
for some time. On that day the thing ex-
ploded and the ends of the thumb and forefn-
ger on each hand are missing. The suppo-
sition is that he had unconsciously taken the
cartridge from his pocket and was fooling
with it when it went off, but lie has no recol
lection Of the act and the explosion was
complete surprise party to him.
For the year ending March, 1874, the ag-
gregate losses by fires in Lewiston were but
$500.
The Bethel steam mill started up last week
With about 5O hands. Ihey nave put into
the Androscoggin and its tributaries seven
millions feet of pine and spruce lumber the
past winter.
The Postmaster General has appointed Ja-
cob S. Groves to be postmaster at North
Vienna.
The new proprietors of the Bangor Wing
made their public obeisance Monday. Messrs
Burr and Robinson are experienced journal
ists and will doubtless keep the Wing at the
high point of excellence it has hitherto main
tanned. Mrs. Lynde retains an interest 10
the establishment for her son Frank, who 10
now a student in Bowdoin College.
Orren Maddocks of Searsport. lad fifteen
years of age, accidentally shot himself in the
abdomen while Gaping revolver, on Mon
day, and death will probably ensue.
The commissioners to re-survey and re-
mark the boundary line between this State
and New Hampshire have accomplished their
work. The cold weather somewhat inter-
fered, and some who accompanied the party
froze their feet, says the Boston Herald.