Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-29
STATE NEWS.

Our Columbia correspondent says: On Monday
evening the inhabitants of Meuitts corner were
startled by the report of pistol. As JOSEPH
Ilamlin, custom house officer from this district,
was passing at the moment, the shot was thought
to be intended for him, and search was made at
once with lanterns, but no trace OF the person
who fired the shot could be found. 1t has since
been discovered that the shot was not intended
for him, but for his dog, which was collarless-
Let all dog owners who have not complied with
the new law, take warning Machiss Union.
Our Geographic columns Monday made the
statement that the crew of the barque Edmund
Phinney had died of cholera. The Press says
that Capt. Small, the master of the vessel, was 80
years of age and leaves daughter. His wife
died about year ago. He has been ship
master for nearly thirty years. lie went out in
the Samuel E. Spring, and in Liverpool changed
vessels with Capt. Bacon Capt. Small was
Mason, member of lodge in New York city,
and leaves a large circle of friends in this city
lie was an honor to his profession and a man of
great nerve and spirit. His friends remember
with admiration an occasion some twenty-five
ago, when his crew mutinied. Coming on deck
at the sound of a disturbance, he found himself
IN front OF the house with a circle of mutineers
around him armed with knives his two mates des-
peraely wounded, and one Of them thrown over
board. lie sprang upon the house, though high
as his head, ran across 10 the cabin, secured
Ratchet and stretched them right and left; hove
his vessel TO and picked up his mate, laid the mu-
ed and punished. His personal bravery was &C
companied by the warmest of hearts and kindest
sympathy for others, as was exhibited when his
mate, Portland boy, dying of yellow fever in
Havana, begged on his death bed not to be left
there to be buried in the hospital trenches; at
personal risk, on account of the stringent regula
tons against it, and securing the aid of other
American captains. having the body embalmed,
he got 1t oil TO his ship in the night and brought
1t home for a Christian burial.
The Rev. c.. H. Webster of Rocky Hill, Conn.,,
died Saturday, aged SO. At the beginning of the
war he resided at Auburn and was at one time
pastor of the High street Uniyersaist church. He
otiiciated a chaplain of one of the Maine rcgi-
ments and went TO the battle-felds. At the close
of the war Mr.. Webster settled at CRANKY, Conn,
and became known as the State agent of the Uni
yersalst denomination.-[Le Lewiston Journal.
Mr.. James NJ. Hagar of Richmond. who was
seriously injured by falling into the hold of his
vessel, has returned home.
Monday, party of dozen emigrants, men
and women, from Sweden, in this State. left for
Kansas.
Mr.. Joseph Hobson will put into the Soco river
this spring about 900 feet of timber cut this
winter in Stowe, Chatham and Bartlett, n. ii.
Fisherman's island pleasant spot just outside
of Squirrel island, s offered for sale.
Messrs. Curtis & Fobes of Portland have re-
| ceved contract for dredging $40 900 cubic yards
| Of bottom from the harbor Of Baltimore, Nd.
Since Francis Murpey began his temperance
| meetings in Philadelphia, over 2300 persons have
taken the pledged