Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-24
STATE NEWS.

The rush of visitors to Harpswell this summer
has far exceeded the hotel accommodations.
The Western Hancock Agricultural Fair for
this year, by vote of the Society, is indefinitely
postponed.
The Belfast Journal has seen moic than seven
hundred people who cast those two votes last
week in this city which constituted the majority
for Charles W. Roberts.
The girls in the stitching room of the Belfast
shoe factory are noted for their generosity
When one of their number gets married, COL
lection is taken up for presents. Last week two
newly married couples were recipients of numer-
Gus presents Of silver ware, and other household
goods. .g sa-
The Eastern State Normal School at Castine
registers ll6 pupils this summer.
Tue Wing says that the sad intelligence Of the
death of Mrs. Godfrey, wife Of Col j. Frank
Godfrey, of Los Angeles, Cal, reached the
friends of the deceased in Bangor by telegraph
Wednesday afternoon.
The Skofeld Brothers of IIarpswell have fine
ship of 100 tons upon the stocks which will prob
only be launched this fall.
A large number Of the members of the
Eighth Maine Regiment organization cele-
brated their second annual reunion at Port
| land Wednesday afternoon. The meeting for the
election of officers resulted follows President,
Gen. VIM. Macarthur; Vice Presidents, Capt.
Hillman Smith, G. w. Mitchell, II. B. Sawyer;
Secretary and Treasurer James T. Cleaves;
Quartermaster, c. Z. Marshall; Surgeon, DR. A.
Walton; Chaplain, j. +. Nj. Wright; Orator,
Capt. j. ii. III. Hewett; Poet, Col. John Hem
mingway. In the evening there was social
gathering and general good time.
The Foxcroft Observer says that the new house
built by Mr.. Mayo on Main street, Foxcroft, will
be lighted by gas, the apparatus having been OBJ
tanned at the Springfield, Mass, Gas Works at an
expense Of about $1,000. Every portion Of the
house, and the ell and stable, will be furnished
with GETS and also two lamp posts at the entrance
of the premises, will be lighted with gas.
Litchfield Town Fair Oct. 7th. Wales, Oct.
18th Monmouth Town Eair, Sept. 80.
A tramp called at the house of Simon Jackson,
in Belmont in the absence of Mr.. Jackson. Mrs.
Jackson went to a trunk in which there was
money, when the robber stepped i'll ahead OF her,
took 49, ran out of the house and into the
woods, and has not been found
This is the season in which the man of integrity
is called upon to consider q question OF law and
conscience. His neighbours squash vine, running
through the fence, has trespassed upon his
grounds, and deposited in a hidden nook large
| and ucious marrow-fat. His own vines have not
done well, and he is short of squash. The early
fosts have nipped the leaves his careful neighbol
has gathered in the harvest, and the lone spec
men still lles 10 its concealment. What are hi.
rights and his duty' Shall he sing, in the melli-
huous numbers of Tom Moores address to thu
Last Rose of Summer,
I'm not leave thee, thou lone one,
To pine on the STEM"
| and garner it in among his agricultural treas
| ures s-or shall he call the attention of his al
| ready squash-burdened neighbor, and sacrifice on
the altar of tender conscience all his visions Of
| toothsomc pies We shall be glad to hear from
both sides of the fence on this question. ..t5