Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-12-13
STATE NEWS.

The IIomworaths of the State some time arc
petltioned the managers of the Maine General
Hospital at Portland, asking them to set Off a
ward in that institution for the lIom~opaths. The
petition was referred to commtte, that has held
several meetings upon the subject but have been
unable to agree upon areport. Finally, last FRI
day, the committee had meeting and reported
that it was not considered practicable to grant the
petition on the ground that more than one school
of medicine could not prosper in one institution OF
the kind 80 that shuts the Hom9opaths out OF
the hospital, if they wish to come under the med
zeal treatment in which they fully. believe.
The Wing says that a young man, who was ar.
rested in Bangor, on Friday afternoon, for drunk
enncss, after being locked up in his cell at the po-
lice station, attempted to hang himself with his
suspenders. One Of the men in the corridor called
Capt. Emerson's attention to the fact, and he inn
mediately went in and cut the suspenders. In a
few moments more the intended suicide would
have breathed his last.
The Fairfield Chronicle started little paragraph
few weeks ago, to the effect that the French PEG
pie of Fairfield. owing to lack Of employment and
the scarcity Of brcad-stutfs, were gathering acorns
for their winters subsistence. A German paper in
Detroit copies 1t and makes it include all the poor
people in the State of Maine.
The Oxford County Poultry Association held its
annual exhibition last week, closing Friday night,
at South Paris. There were on exhibition 500
fowls of all varieties, in III entries. Some 500
were distributed in premiums. j. II. Felch of Ma
tick, Mass, acted as judge. Alonzo f. Shurtleff
Of South Paris, is president of the society. The
exhibition was very fine one.
A correspondent informs the Wing that the ice
IN Moosehead Lake is now sufficiently strong to
allow loaded teams to cross with safety.
The city council Of Rockland will ask the legis-
lature to amend the water company's charter so as
to have the Supreme court appoint commissioner.
to revise water rates,
There have been seventeen cases of dptheris
in North Haven during the past four weeks, five
proving fatal up to Monday last.
The Register says that the town of Hanover i:
free from debt, and holds State bond Of $1,000
the interest Of VIII ich pays all the town expenses
except school taxes.
Miss Rose Monroe, the young lady who COM
mitted suicide while paying long visit TO her sis
ter, Mrs. j. {. Walker OF Mechanic Falls, was
usually of very lively and happy disposition
though subject to days Of melancholy, unaccOunt-
able, and battling friends efforts to dispel. Mr.
Walker came home to dinner on Thursday, and
was told by his wife (says the Lewiston Journal)
that this twas one of Roses blue days" Within
a few moments heavy fall was heard and Mrs
Walker stepped to the stairs and called to her sis
ter, but receiving no answer, assembled to find
her sister fallen from her seat, with the fatal wound
SO plainly visible, and death, with its relentles.
hand, had taken the young life. To her mother
she had addressed brief note-smply saying 81
| am tired Of life-forgive me this deed" Under
similar circumstances, some time since she hal
taken laudanam without serious result. This i
| the second instance Of suicide in the family
' her grandfather taking his life some years ago