Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-15
STATE NEWS,

The Machias Republican says that the man
ufacturers of lumber in that vicinity are put
ting their mills in readiness for the spring
saving. Vessels are loading with seasoned
lumber, and some considerable life 10 mani
fetted in making preparations to do some
shing.
The Calais Advertiser says that lad named
Bellows, aged IA, was killed in saw mill the
other day in Milltown, Calais. He had been
down under the mill with his father and be-
fore he had time to get out, one of the men
hoised the gate and set the machinery in mo-
ton and he was struck by belt and thrown
some fourteen feet into the water below. His
body was found at the upper end Of the
sluice. His neck was broken and his head
badly bruised.
little boy in this town was tossing up
marbles and letting them fall on the ground
and when he heard them strike he would pick
them up. One of them he threw too far owe,
his head and his brother canght it without his
knowledge. The little boy listened q while
and not hearing it strike threw up another
His brother asked him where it was? He
said 81 don't know where it is but 'dess bod
has dot it. Machias Republican.
The Argus says that on Saturday little
son of DR.. johnson died at his fathers resi-
gular one. He had had the scarlet fever,
which has been raging in that town somewhat,
and, as is not unusual in that disease, an alb
scess formed on his neck. Thursday, the abb
! scess broke and there was the usual discharge
therefrom, and shortly after if commenced
bleeding. For two days, from Thursday till
Saturday noon, the father and mother took
turns in COMPRISING the part with their
hanis to stop the flow of blood, but on Satur-
day the little sufferer died. The physicians
speak OF this as most singular case.
David Barker, the poet, has been quite i'll,
but we are pleasedto learn that he is conva-
lescing.
The ladies OF Biddeford are beginning to
agitate for praying band of crusaders, but
the sheritfs are making matters so warm for
the saloon keepers that nothing will bed one
at present.
The Bath Times says that the schooner
Sinaloa, Captain Robinson, from Machias,
with lumber for New Bedford, while entering
the Sheepscot river for a harbor, struck a
rock, backed of and filed and then anchored.
The captain then went to Boothbay for assist
ance and calling ON Joseph Nickerson they
together procured the steamer Samoset and
towed the schooner to Boothday, where she
is to be discharged and taken on to the rail-
way for repairs.
The town of Waldoboro'. has appropriated
$4,000 for the purpose of building fshway.
under direction of the State Commission Of
Fisheries.
A Miss Worthing fell over the bannisters
Of the stairs leading to the police station in
Portland, on Saturday evening, ard struck
| on the stone floor underneath distance of
10 feet. Her jaw bones were driven up into
her head, but luckily no bones were borken.
| She will recover.
Charles f. Coombs got team at a stable
| in Arburn, as he stated, to go to Minot. He
did not return on time, and was arrested in
Portland charged with horse stealing.
| The Chronicle says that Mrs. Mercy Smith
of New Sharon, ninety three years old this
month, has accomplished ''heap" of work
since last September. Here are some Of the
items: She has spun, doubled and twisted
and knit twelve pairs of mems stockings,
knit six pairs of double mittens, footed six
pairs of stockings, and done large amount
Of sewing, besides making her own bed most
| of the time. She has lived in the same
house seventy years. She is as smart in
mind as in body.
A firm in Pittsfeld is sending potatoes from
| that place over the railroad and shipping
them from Belfast.
On the marriage of the Swedish minister
in Aroostook to an American girl, the Sun
rise thus gushes: Having an acquaintance
with both the gentleman and lady, we have
no doub, it will prove one of those happy
unions eminently fit and proper. In the veins
of the population Of Aroostook courses the
blood of the Scandinavian, the Anglo Saxon,
the Celtic and the Gallo races, and from the
union of these noble branches of the human
family, We may reasonable expect that in the
ages to come will live in Aroostook q noble
brotherhood, having all the splendid and de-
srabls traits of character of their ancestry.
Pastor Wren has set a worthy example, Of
which, if our young people think favorably,
We hope they will ego and do likewise"
The town Of Bremen, in Lincoln eounty.
has neither post office, lawyer, doctor, min
lister nor rum shop.