Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-20
STATE NEWS.

Pennington savings hank has but $4,000 invest
ed in Western bonds.
The Houlton Times reports that sufficient funds
have toen raised to build the ID miles of the
branch railroad from the line to Fort Fairfield
Mai. s. Dls house IN Phillips, was slightly
damaged by fire Wednesday morning. The fire
caught from the furnace IN the cellar, but 1t was
discovered before it had made much headway.
The Laconia Co., of Biddeford. pays a tax of
so, 1870; Peppereli. 81, $780, Saco Water
Power Machine Co., 81 10000.
Edmunds boasts of boy months old, who
wears his fathers boots, and iejo:ces in the pres
ence of a father and mother, two grandfathers,
two grandp hers, u eat-grandmother, two un-
cles, great-uncle and aunt and two cousins, all
in one house-Smait boy that.
The ieiispar paper mill in Topsham is again
unn,nc. Men ale at work on the ledge, not In
getting cat leldspar, but the quartz, which goes to
as.act uSc.ts, where it enters into the manutac-
ture of sand paper.
The steamers OF the Maine Steamship Line
have no: lost ,inSle trip during the whole win
ter.
Real estate in Watclyille is firm and without the
least prospect Of being lower. There are few
who think that real estate must go down, but they
the who sold too quick and did not get the
rise. Those who have real estate are not over
anxious TO sell at the present time, though it will
sell for as much or more than it would last sum-
mer, Notwithstanding the scarcity of money at
present.
The Skowhegan Reporter says that Martin
Iockyer, the Attean Pond hermit, was found dead
in his howell, some miles from Moose River Bridge
last sunday ,by two men, Whipple and Halves, who
were engaged in lumber operations in that region.
lie lay on the floor the fire place, the last
stick of fuel burned up; appearances indicated
that he had tried to rekindle the fire and failed,
laid down and persisted. He was English or
hi,h, had lived here alone more than thirty years.
Aged o.
The Wing says that on Thursday afternoon
William l.. Morrison, the pedestrian, completed
lbs hundred mile walk in Doans Hail. within the
twenty four hours, having about thirty minutes
70 spare During the time he had taken his regu-
lar meals, and stopped at the end of fifty miles
for about an hours rest. The last mile was walk
ed backwards. The whole trial was done upon
honor" and the pluck and endurance displayed,
II directed to some useful employment, would en-
sure success.
Messrs. l.awry x Gulhier of Fairfield, report
j00,000 timber and 800 cords of wood as the
amount cut by them their late land purchase
at Topsham.
\. j. Knight, of Rumiord was arrested Monday
on charge of obtaining ,lG0 from W. X. "hte
of Winthrop on false pretence.
The starch mill in Mercer, owned by Wood and
iIaines, was burned Tuesday morning, with 1000
bushels of potatoes in the cellar. The potatoes
could not be worked up last fall for want OF water,
and they had to keep fire thus winter to keep
them from freezing.
/ \ Portland gentleman is said to have slept so
souudlv on the occasion of the recent Railroad ac-
cident al Kennebunk when seven cars were thrown
| from the track that he did not wake. and when
| the train came out to bring the passengers into
this city he had to be aroused. And he hadn't
taken anything, either
Mr. Thomas T. Pierce, formerly Of Harrison,
! this state, but since resident Of Lynd, Mimi.
while out trapping was overtaken by a severe
storm in which he lost his way and persisted. He
was known to be on the praiie, twenty miles from
home before the storm, and after searching for
him more than two weeks, his body was found
| less than a mile from home. He leaves wife and
three children TO mourn his loss.