Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-09
DaiIu krnnebrr Journal.
State News.

A young man clerk for a Lewiston mer-
chant, was arrested Saturday for embezzing
funds from his employer and is now in the
lookup. He viii be arraigncd in the police
court. unless the case is settled between his
friends and his former employer. Rum and
n fast life have been the cause of this young
mans downfall as well as of many others.
He was regarded as one of the smartest
Young men in this city.-IoHraai.
The Ministerial Association of the Lewis
ton district, will hold its next session at Cor
ham, n. ii. Exercises begin Monday even
ing, Sept. 80.
Senator Hannibal Hamlin has pleasant
cream-colored, prettily-furnished house at
Bangor. He has four children living, his
youngest son having graduated at Waterville
last commencement. The Senator is the
oldest living man in the public service. 'But
| am tired of it," he says. at harnesses me
more than it used to. Ii vou are in political
life You are everybody's slave, and don't even
own yourself. / shall quit as soon as ! can,
l would rather live here than in Washington.
have a comfortable home, and farm near
here of about twenty acres that yields me as
much as the average farm through the conn
ty, but am still strong. Very often 1 go
fishing or hunting with the boys, and ] hear
them whisper, Wen give the old man soft
place But they generally come home be-
hind the old MANI Enenange.
-Four farmers in Carthage, Me-, have been
arrested for the alleged killing at the close OF
the war of a II bel sympathzer named John
Bass Jones, who threatened to drive Union
men out Of the county. II is reported that
the arrests have been given political signifi-
canoe. and that there is considerable excite
ment in the vicinity of Carthage bond of
$4,000 each has been accepted for the fur
Their appearasce of the defendants.
The Sandy River Railroad Company have
begun to put down their rails, and expect to
start gravel train very soon.
The Lewiston Journal says-Mr. ii. T..
Farr of Manchester, who had a horse, har-
ness and wagon stolen from him May goth,
on reading in the papers the horse thieving
exploits Of the Glidden brothers, and their ar
rest at Lawrence Mass, was convinced that
tiey had stolen his team. He wrote 10 the
City Marshal OF Lawrence and learned that
horse corresponding to the description of
his, was in Pelham, n. H., in the possession
of man named Henry Lewis, who had
snapped with the Gliddcn brothers. Mr..
Farr then went TO Pelham. accompanied by
the City Marshal of Lawrence, and found his
horse. Mr.. Lewis was very unwilling to let
it go, and compromised by paying Mr.. FAIR
fair sum. OF the harness and wagon Mr..
Farr could find no trace.
William X. Jones of Quebec, who was
taken to the pest house, Portland, sick with
small pox, died of that disease last Friday
night.
Mr.. Jonas Talbot, man about forty years
old, who for some time has not been con-
sdered in his right mind, committed suicide
at Freeport by hanging Sunday.
Two deer were lately seen at Edgecomb
The Times says that Mr. Poole Of Bdde.
ford, dropped dead Friday.
Capt. kilby, for several years commander
of the steamer City of Richmond, died in
Portland, last week, after brief illness.
The venerable Rev. John w. Chickering,
ID. d., the former esteemed pastor of High
street church. Portland, and since the eff
cient Secretary of the Massachusetts Tenn
perance Society, and later of the Congress
sional Temperance Society, has been visit
ing Rev. DIR. Hamln of Bangor, for few
days.