Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-02

mitted to practice as an attorney in the judicial
| courts of this State.
The Wing says that at the funeral of French
lady in Orono, the following curious accident hap
pened: They had got up to the burying ground
and were taking the casket ont Of the hearsc
when all four of the handles broke simultaneously
letting the casket fall to the ground.
There are 80 convicts in Penobscot Jail.
| There were 81 deaths in East Machias last year
-nearlysl IL for each 100 inhabitants.
The Press says that during the year there have
been 80 fires in Portland The total amount of
property destroyed is $l5,20S. Insurance to the
amount OF Sl39o1 has been paid, leaving Sl22l
| of loss over the insurance.
The Advertiser says that another case of small
pox is reported in East Deering, in the house
where the children are sick with the disease as
| already reported. The house contains four tene.
ments, two on one side and two on the other The
seectmen shut up the occupants of the other ten.
ements on the side with that occupied BY the sick
family, and it is in this tenement that the new
case has developed.
The little place of Milton plantation has Re.
form club with 65 names on the iron-cad pledge
Col. Hugh Nevens died in South Auburn, Feb
"a, aged 80 years, months and q days. He was
in the war of 1872, under Capt. Samuel Fessenden
afterwards Gen. Fessenden, in the New Glouces-
ter company. Col. Nevens was born in New Glou.
cester, and afterwards took an active part among
the militia in Cumberland county, and attained
the rank of colonel of regiment. He removed
from Pownal to Auburn in 1885, where be re-
sided until his death.
A Reform club was organized at East Knox last
week, with membership of 80.
The Lewiston Journal says that the dwelling
house of Deacon Kilbourne of Waterford, was
burned on the evening of the oath. The fire is
supposed to have orig mated from defect in the
chimney. The furniture was removed from the
lower story, but all other things in the house were
consumed.
The Gardiner Journal gives this list of acct.
dents Rev. Mr.. Brown, Methodist minister, Dres-
den, while crossing Middle bridge, Dresden, on
Thursday last, met with an accident. As he was
driving across the bridge, the sleigh struck a dry
plank, and broke his whiletree, and the horse
jumped again the railing and went off the bridge
on to the ice, dragging Mr.. Brown with him, in
juring his face and breaking his arm, and it is
feared hurting him internally, he fell some ten
feet. The horse was not injured. John Burns,
got his leg crushed above the ankle, while slowing
ice in the Great Fall. Ice Company's houses, Mon
day. The bones were not broken. A man be-
longing in Augusta, named Reuben Reed. got
hurt in the same place about an hour after Bnrns,
in the same manner.
The town of Paris has $4,000 in bonds and
$4,000 in town notes to pay, and there is ~ ,S26,
ga, due from 1879 taxes. There is $l9l.22 in the
treasury. Indebtedness has been decreased ST.
ibs-33F daring the gear aarv7s-zr
Hammond < Cole Of Paris Hill, recently fclled
mammoth pine tree, which was l65 feet high and
measured Is inches through, at los feet from the
ground. 1t is very rare to find such timber at
this time. Most all the large trees of which Me.
formerly boosted have been shipped, these many
years.