Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-14
STATE NEWS.

An itinerant photographer in Pennington held
womaDs baby as security the other day unit |
she could raise fifty cents to pay for taking its pic
ture.
The Reporter says the Skowhegan reform club
are considering the question of holding a grand
rally the 22d inst
Monson has held railroad meeting, to see
what steps should be taken for the extension of
the railroad from the Bangor & Piscataquis
branch to Monson, a distance of three miles.
We learn from the Argus that Mr.. Ordway, who
has been selling apples on the streets of Portland,
has fallen heir to the sum of seven hundred thous-
and dollars.
A letter from the Black Hills reports Iaborers.
wages at from three to five dollars day and -four
at twelve dollars per hundred pounds. Lewiston
Journal
Between S24 900 and $25 900 have been snb-
scrlbed for the proposed Masonic temple at Bel
fast. .s.-- ~.
We understand that Prof. Barbour will deliver
Temperance address at the City Hall on Tues
day evening next. He speaks under the auspices
OF the Penobsoot Valley Temperance Legion,
and will occupy the entire evening. Bangor
Border.
The Belfast Age says VIM. II. Mcclellan, Esq
has commenced suits for himself and for A. G.
Gilmore, against the Stockholders to recover the
moneys bet by them on the result of the pre- ST.
dental election, amounting to from three hundred
to five hundred dollars.
The Bangor papers are regretting that so many
OF its young men are leaving the city, A. w. Ben
son, ticket agent at the western depot having
ticketed sxty-four persons for the west since the
first of April.
Mercer village is seven miles west of Norridge-
wock, and is pleasantly located on beth sides of
small stream that empties into the Sandy river
one and one quarter miles below the village. IL
contains fifty dwelling houses, two churches, two
vestries, two grocery stores ready made cloth
ing store, one tannery, two blacksmith shops, one
hotel, two shoe shops, three carpenter shops, one
miner shop, one grist mill one new saw mill,
one of the best built mills in the country, built
last fall, with circular saw, planning single, lath
clapboard, and picket machines. One third of a
mile below the village the Woods & Co., have an
other saw mill wi circular saw, single, clap
board, lath, picket and peg machines.
The iron clads at Newport have started up with
renewed ylgor and n. B. Turner, president, is an
earnest man in the work. Some that have held
back are now coming to the front and signing the
pledge.
There are six stockholders in the Bangor Insnr-
ance Company, in st Albans. Their stockis Sl4,-
600. and they liable to lose fifty per cent. So
states one of the directors. bad affair for the
country stockholders, as they not able TO lose
such a sum.
AT recent meeting of the Androscogg in Poul-
try Association, held in Lew iston it was voted to
hold the second annual fair January "a, %, and
26 10 City Hall A much enlarged premium list
will be presented, open to competitors all over the
State. The receipts from this years exhibition
were very satisfactory.
The Observer says there has been much sick.
ness in Ornevle and East AK inson for the past
two months. There have been many cases of
lung fever and pneumonia.