Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-14


High strecti Perhaps Prospect street answers the
purpose.
Judge True being absent from the city, the
duties of police judge arc being performed by E.
W. Whitehouse, Esq. Yesterday, Henry Clay was
upfor drunkenness, and fined 81 and costs. Had
no money to pay, and was committed George
O. Miles, for assault and battery A. l.. Dunn,
was fined $40 and costs. Sent to jail
How many of the young men who have stood in
the court room, the past two days, with gaping
mouths and wide open, listening to all the de.
tails CT the social evil exhibited in family troubles,
with the supposit;on of crime, will ! be found in
our churches and Sunday schools Tomorrow
They will more likely 90 a-fshing or get in some
quiet corner and waste their time in reading such
demorazing papers as the Days Doings,' the
Police Gazette, or the 'Maine Standard
We understand from the Gardiner Journal that
j. NJ Carpenter, Esq, collector of taxes, in Pitts
ton, last Wednesday had quite skirmish with
young man in Pittston, who refused to pay his
taxes and assaulted Mr.. Carpenter when he under.
took TO arrest him. The result was the young
man was carried before Judge Palmer, and had
pay some twenty dollars, besides his taxes. Nh
by little upstairs, and they'll find that out TO their
The gold watch that the City Marshal found the
other day, to which We have alluded, was stolen
from a Mr.. McDay in Lewiston. The police
were unable until recently to obtain any trace of
the watch, but an officer got the track of one
simpson, who boarded with McDay at the time.
tie was arrested in Greene, acknowledged the
theft, and told where the watch could be found.
The other particulars already known to our
readers
Not single scholar from this city in the Indus
Trial School for Girls at IIallowel This argues
either most extraordinary good state Of society,
or a total neglect on the part of our people to
avail themselves of the advantages of the school.
Which is it : We think there are many little girls
in the city, who have parents, but who still are
worse than orphans, who would be greatly bene-
fitted by being received into the family of the In
dustial school,
Among the many beautiful places our coast,
well adapted to the purposes Of rest and recrca-
ton, may be mon tioned Mouse Island, Just out
of Boothbay harbor. Il is not large in extent, and
one wouldn't 90 there particularly seeking for So
cal advantages; but if in quest of rest, pure sea
air, good food and lodging at well kept houses,
plenty of sailing and fishing privileges they would
seek this place any other The island
of itself, is little gem, and easily reached twice
day by steamers from Bath.
Last spring the citizens of Manchester, in town
meeting, voted to dispense with the old system of
leaving the building, repair of roads ard highways
to the town surveyors and appoint road COM
missioner instead. Mr.. Phlo Benson was employ
cd as such commissioner. Sullivan kilbreth. Esq,
one of III, .>sding men in town, was active in in
Producing the new system. But some fault being
found with its working, u town meeting was call
ed on Thursday, to act upon the matter. By de-
cisive majority, it was found that the voters
were in favor Of the new system of having
commissioner.
Col. John Hodgdon Of Dubuque, Iowa, came to
this city on the train last evening" and is stopping
at the Augusta House, where he is warmly greet
cd by his many old friends. Col. Hodgdon was
once prominent politician in the democratic party
of this State, residing for many years in Bangor
and in IIoulton. He was Land Agent for many
years, member of the Senatorial board several
terms, and was President of the Senate in 1886
lie was two or three times prominently before
democratic conventions candidate for Cover
nor. He left the State in 1875. The Colonel is
accompaniedby his wife and daughter. Although
about seventy five years of age the Colonel is
still hale and hearty.
Isaac Merritt Singer, the eminen mechanician,
who recently led in England, the inventor of the
Singer Sewing Machine, was one of the few in
vcntors who secured the pecuniary rewards which
Justly pertain to the highest efforts of the mind
In youth he called to fight the battle of life.
alone. He turned his attention to mechanics, but
never pretended to he an accomplished artisan.
Turning his attention afterwards to theatrical
matters, he was severa years a theatrical manag.
err and often appeared upon the stage. He had an
ardent love for music, also while he still a
young man he invented a steam drilling machine,
which was used with much advantage in the con-
struction of various railways and canals. Suisse
quently he invented machine for carving wood,
metals or marble. While endeavoring to introduce
this invention to public notice and use, his attep-
ton was casually directed to the sewing machine.
Up to that time sewing machines had been eXper-
mental merely and had failed to be useful In
eleven days the first Singer sewing machine
invented and built complete The business
thoroughly estab lished, securing for Mr.. Singer a
vast fortune and enabled him to retire in 1860.
The last years of his lite were devoted to the I'M
provement of that property where he dispenseda
liberal hospitality, and to the poor of that neigh
berhood his Geath will be severe bereavement.
Singers life should be an inspiration to every
young man.