Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-05-10
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. NJ. S. Wadswsrth of Gardiner, who had
shock OF paralysis short time since, 10 very low
and no hopes are entertained Of his recovery.
Charles Hartman, Whitefeld pedestrian, re-
Gently won 500 in walking contest for ten
miles.
The Advertiser says that Mr. Harvey Gardner
and wife, of Calais, while out riding . few even
ings ago, were thrown from their carriage and
both severely injured, Mr.. Gardiner having biz
collar bone broken, and his wife being severely
recovery.
The Temperance Reform Club Of Fairfield has
been in operation three months and is in . very
fourishing condition
The town of Avon cannot be said to make much
of stir in the world, for therein is neither doctor.
lawyer nor minister; no meeting house, town
house, postofice, tavern, store or mechanic shop.
The farmers in that town, however, compare very
favorably with those in other parts Of the cou1-
try.
Mr.. W. Trott Kink, the efficient Chief Engi-
neer, of Calais, was ON Saturday last the recipient
| of a handsome gold cane, a. token Of
| regard from the st. Croix Hose Company.
A little daughter of Sullivan B. Luce, Of Union,
was struck, BY board coming endwise from the
roof of his barn, just below the knee, tearing TIE
| flesh in q fearful manner and denuding tie bone
for five inches in length and between three and
four in width.
The Gazette says that the Trustees Of Dexter
posals for the erection, this season, of brick
block, SO feet square and three stories high. with
Mansard roof.
Brunswick was settled in $685. and incorporated
the eleventh town in 1888; population something
more than AGO. The town has four phy:icisn:,
four clergymen and four lawyes; it has the old.
est college in the State, and the Maine Medical
School, and large number Of minor schools; has
eight religious societies, three national banks and
two savings banks, also cotton factory and pulp
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the county except that of Portland. 1t has ju-
| risdiction of $50. Brunswick 10 the residence Of
| a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and Of .
| large number of men of learning and celebrity.
Its population is larger than that of either Halo
well or Gardiner, both of which are cities.-[rort-
| land Press.
| The class of 1874 Of Bowdoin College, will have
a reunion and class dinner during Commencement
week early in July, at the Falmouth Hotel Tho
class numbers among its members . large number
whom are William Writ Virgin, Judge Of the Su.
preme Court of Maine; Hon. Chas. w. Goddard
and General Saml J. Anderson of Portland; Hon.
Horatio g. Herrick of Lawrence, Mass; Col. 8.
P. Dismore, editor Of the Stakeholder, New York.
aud Hon. j. S. Pickard Of Chicago, Ill.
Three little girls, Lizzie NJ. Whitman. Hattie
and Edith Hooper, of Turner. went Maying On
May.day, got lost in the woods and wandered ten
miles before they found their way out
The Wing says that Mr.. Joseph Grant, high
ly respected Christian gentleman, of Frankfort,
committed suicide Thursday evening BY hanging
himself from an apple tree in his orchard about
o'clock. He was at one time in the Insane Hos
pital.
The Lincoln County News says Mrs. s. s. Mar
bic of Waldoboro, was in the act Of stepping
down from chair upon which she was standing
to water plants, Monday, when the chair tipped
and she was thrown upon the floor 20 violently -
to dislocate the bones of the instep.
The Lincoln Baptist Quarterly Meeting is to 10
held with the Baptist church in South Thomaston,
on Tuesday and "Wednesday Of this week.