Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-30
STATE NEWS.

Husking bees begin to hum in the country
around. .... i,.., f.t,r4arfbe
The Press says that Messrs., ". G.. Hall and
VIM. Irish Of Windham, have sold their fast trot-
ting colt, "Little Fred" (by Phil Sheridan) which
won the 40 purse, Tuesday, at the State Fair.
of Gardiner. This colt promises to b. one Of the
the fastest horses ever raised In the STATE.
The Lewiston Weekly journal u nov printing
and circulating exactly SAG Quies, Or 1874
copies, and the circulation is Constantly increas.
ing. The Journal has probably 5000 readers.
A shed is being erected over the side track of
the Somerset Railroad at West Waterville. Since
its extension to Madison, the business Of that road
has been very good. 1t is the opinion Of its o.
GERS that when in operation 10 AnsOn the success
of the road is secured beyond doubt. The
grading beyond Madison is being completed.
Geo. Wilson, soldier at Fort Prenle, Portland,
has been missing for week, and foul play il
feared. He was about thirty years old and be-
longed in Rockland. l1s. hns.
Seth Bracket, very worthy citizen or Dxfeld,
aged about 80, committed suicide by drowning in
Webbs river the 18th inst. Cause, general des-
pondency.
grand celebration will take place at Bangor
when the water works are completed, which will
be about the last Of November or the first of De-
cember. sgE45 tee
Daniel Brown, q smart little lad ten years old.
SON of MIR. Ivory Brown of Ellsworth Falls, went
into the woods the other night, after the cows
and did not return. The woods were scopred and
the the bells rung, but the next day the boy re-
turned all right. He slept most Of the night, and
house. This he reached ms short time. whence
he returned home without further delay.
The Livermore Cattle Show and Fair will be
held near the Washburn mansion, Livermore, on
Wednesday, Oct. 18th. The fair viii be held st
Kinds Hall, North Livermore, ON the 18th. An
al will ha dol an hv Rav A
c. Herrick. rt,.tI
Ferguson Haines, Esq, of Biddeford, has
shipped since the first Of January, over 5000
bales of Batting, and has orders for the entire
production of the Pepperell and Lsconia mills
to the middle of November.
The cost of heating the city building is so enor-
nous that the city council has appointed special
committee to see whether there can't be . COM
promise Of more heat and less coal.-[Lewiston
Journal.
At the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court.
ia Oxford county, Judge Barrows charged the
Jury at considerable length. He spoke OF the
hurry Of the present time as induced BY the tee-
graph, railroads, &c., and its bearing upon the
business in our courts. He cautioned the Jury
about being too hurried in their work. He then
read q complete charge concerning questions Of
law, to the jury, which had been carefully pre-
pared and committed to paper.
On = recent afternoon the children Of Mr.. j.
of wheels, which were connected by an axle that
had become so rusted that it turned With the
wheels. TIE children obtained some reins from
harness, and attaching the same to the ends Of
the axle, one of them. aged about four, had put
the loop thus made over his head, and Yves trying
to pull the wheels along. The other child pushed
from behind, and, as the wheels rolled, the
axle wound up the reins antil the child's neck was
brought across the axle with so much force as to
break it, causing instant death. 10
Robert White. an inmate of the Bangor Jail,
was severely injured yesterday afternoon while
working at a grower, ON the second floor OF the
workshop. He slipped and fell upon the ma
chine.
Liquor has been seized again upon the Devils
Half Acre, in Bangor.
Mr.. Lord, the Democratic candidate, has
intention of contesting the election Of Hon. j. W.
Potter, as Representative from the Burlington
District.
The next meeting of the Direc.ors Of the East
ern and Maine Central will be held the hrst Of
next month, when several important questions
will come up for consideration. Light may be OBJ
tanned upon the financial question.