Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-11-24
STATE NEWS.

The Dover Observer . ys that Mr.. George W.
Wilmington, who resides in Bowerbank, was acci-
dentally shot on Thursday last while cunning with
| his son in the woods. 1t seems til at the man in
| suddenly stepping backward to allow his to
advance and shoot partridge which was in sigh I,
| accidenly came in contact with the latter's gun
dischsrgng its whole contents lodging in the body
of the father. The case is . very critical one.
The Ellsworth American says that - Mr.. Earn
est Wooster of Hancock was beating up the bay
on Tuesday last in an open boat, he unstepped his
foremost, and about sixty quintals Of fish went
overheard. The boat then drifted down upon one
of the Porcupne Islands and there went to
pieces. EST
A small child of Mr.. Wordsworth residing in
Foxcroft village, came very near being burned to
death on Monday last. 1t was left q lone in the
house, and its clothes took fire from the stove.
Its face and body were badly burned.
A child Of Sylvester Hanna of New Harbor,
fell from the chamber to the lower floor, . dis
lance Of about ten feet and badly sprained his
wrist.
The fall term of Houlton Academy closed last
Thursday The number of names reg istered DUR
ing the term was l24, with an average attendance
| of lis.
| Bangor has had the sensation of . fashionable
| marriage. 1t was the occasion of the marriage Of
| Miss Bertha j. Leavitt Of Bangor, to Mr.. VIM. E.
Carlton Of Boston.
The new Masonic Hall at Thorndike station was
dedicated on "Wednesday last.
The Telegraph says that man some twenty
| five years of age, giving his name ~ Benjamin
Acron, and reporti ng that he lived in Pittston,
applied to the selectmen of Topsham on Monday
morning for work. Mr.. Dearborn sent him TO
Mr.. Howard, keeper of the almshouse, to employ
him for few days if possible. Howard. about
| three o'clock, took him into the woods and desig-
mated certain trees which he was to fell. Not APP
pearing at dinner, Howard went to the woods TO
look alter him. He found the man lying upon
| ~ de AT he Inn of "a trAo
if he bad attempted to run and was caught before
he could escape. the tree possibly falling in . d.
rection from what he anticipated.
The people on the line of the old F. o. j. Smith
railroad, running from Mechanic Falls to Hart
ford are much interested in project to resusc-
tate that road. The road has not run at all for
sever al years, and in 1904 company was
even chsrted over the same route from Auburn 10
Rumford Falls, and this company has kept up its
| organization. The estate of F. o. j. Smith own
ed first mortgage bonds to the extent of two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars on the old road,
and these bonds have been bought by ex-Gover-
nor Washburn, s. Z. Andrews, s. T. Corser, l..
| N. Marshall. and Otis Hayford, at q email Der
centage with the view of reftting, changing the
gauge, stocking and opening it again to public
travel provided the inhabitants the line Of the
road will aid The plan is to lease the road when
re opened to the Grand Trunk. The prospect
now is that this plan will be carried out, and the
road opened another year.
1t is reported to be very sickly at Damsiscotta
Mills.
The death is announced of Mrs. Angie Davis
wife of Rev. j. A. Libby Of West Poland. She
was native of Lisbon and graduate of the
Name State Seminary, Lewiston.
The other evening, in Portland, the Marshal
took an insane woman named Rebecca Pickett,
who has been stopping at the City Hotel for .
week, and carried her to the station. She says
her maiden name was Litchfeld, and her native
place Rockland. She labors under the hallucina-
ii hat ha il 10 NH nf
money. The Marshal thinks she belongs in the
insane asylum at Taunton, Mass. She says she
married man named George Pickett, who lives
at Cape Elizabeth, nine years ago, BY whom she
grandmother, at Waltham, Mass. She is . young
looking and rather pretty woman.
! Bilious fever is having quite . run in Madison,
confined entirely to the young.
One day last week Col Frank Fogg, at Gray,
was attacked by a vicious hog, and was severely
wounded in both legs The animal pursued him
as he reiterated, but he finally made his escape BY
lodging under pair OF bars. ff
Schooners are unloading the stone from Hurri-
cane Island quarries, at the Portland Company's
works, for shipment via the Grand Trunk to st.
Louis, for the custom house there.
In the payment of the back dues to those at
work on the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad.
one engineer received 500 in cash, and others re-
ceived sums varying from 500 to $500.
The Bangor Commercial of Wednesday says:
a crew of lumbermen from the kenncbec passed
through the city this morning. They were going
up the b. 4 Z. X. X. to Moosehead Lake.
The first anniversary of the Embden Reform
Club was held at the Embden Town House, Nov.
9Th. Prayer was offered by Rev. Samuel Savage
of North Anson. The opening remarks were
made by President Berry. The secretary report
ed that the club numbered 240. Addresses were
made by Joseph Atkinson of No. Arson, Messrs.
Moore OF Madison Centre, David Randall of
Strong, stephen Bennett of Madison Bridge, Ezra
Bowen. President Concord Reform Club, and s.
Savage of North Arson.
Wednesday evening Mr.ADunlap heard pane
of glass broken IN Z. ID. Stevens fruit store, in
Portland, and suspecting burglar, kept watch
till he coulo speak with officer. Two officers
came down and found large square Of glass
smashed in. On enteringthe store they found Q
man lying on some barrels. He was taken to the
sta ton and put in cell.
Several of our far-seeing, shrewd business men
are purchasing unimproved lands and old farms in
the vicinity Of Sordans river. in Trenton and La
moline, with the view Of enrichpg them with mus
selbed and raising hay. They think ii will pay
better than hemlock lumber. Ellsworth Ameri-
can.
The Bangor and Bluehi Mining Company re-
Gently sent ton of copper ore from their mine to
Boston, where it is to be smelted At the Institute
OF Technology.
One day this week MrAbner Smith was thrown
from wagon near his residence in DeeriDg, aud
severely injured.
Wednesday night about IL o'clock, officer Reed
heard two pistol shots and directly Afterwards be
heard the cry of fire. The alarm of fire was
caused by some sparks setting some loose material
around The boiler 1t the jail workshop on FIRE.
The Babcock wss soon on the ground and in few
minutes she extinguished the flames. 1t has not
yet been discovered what the pistol shets mernt
4 fWhig.