Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-07
DaiIu kennrbrr Journal.
State News.


iNbRb>CoGGiN,
Charlie Penny ! thirteen ycar-old boy, liv
ing in Lewiston, fell from tree on Saturday,
and broke an arm and leg. The injuries
are very severe and his condition is thought
to be critical.
Postmaster Little of Lewiston has com
menced issuing money orders on post-oflices
in Germany and Canada.
Mrs. l.. ii. Pencil Of Portland intends
soon to publish a pamphlet on the subject of
Sanitary Reform. Prominent gentlemen to
whose attention she has brought the subject,
heartily commend her efforts. Mrs. Pennell
desires all persons interested in furthering
sanitary reform, to address correspondence
on the subject to herself at Lewiston, where
she now Is, care of Professor Stanton.
CUMBERLAND.
A new daily has been started in Portland.
Congressman Reed has gone TO Ohio TO
take part in the campaign
The man killed Friday on the Boston &
Maine road at Scarboro', was Myron L.
Stevens The body was identified by Mrs.
George Bracket of Portland, sister of the
deceased.
FRANKLIN.
Frank l.. Furbush, of Freeman, at work at
the corn factory in Pennington, cut 2j2l
pounds of corn in one day last week; the
usual average per day being about 1900
pounds.
HANCOCK.
The contract for the granite for the rail
road bridge IN Philadelphia. over the Schuyl-
kill river, has been awarded to the Collins
Granite Co. of East Bluehill
KENNEBEC.
Lawrence & Brookins, butchers in Pitts
ton, are now shipping ton of poultry a
week to the Boston market.
KNOX.
Mr.. o. f. Blood of Camden, expects to
take the premium given by the Lewiston
Journal this year for the best acre of Indian
corn raised in the State
LINCOLN.
The Boothbay soldiers monument is of
llallowell granite, surmounted by IA figure of
a private soldier standing at ''parade rest,
the whole being twenty-one feet in height.
Three sides of the monument are occupied by
the names of the honored dead, and upon the
fourth is the inscription 'Erectedin memory
of 2j6 Soldiers and Sailors from Boothbay
in the war of ls6l-5. The world can never
forget what they did. 1879
PENoBscoT.
Rev. B. G. Snow and wife, missionaries
to the Micronesian Islands, are to pass the
fall and winter in Brewer.
Charles Veazie, while at work in Cakes
ship yard in Brewer, cut three of the fingers
on his left hand nearly off.
The Bangor Theological Seminary now
has about thirty students.
The lumber surveyed in Bangor from jan
uary LIST to October lst. this year, is 92,j0o,-
900, 1900, 900 more than last year
~ man by the name of Seth l.. Hamilton
has been arrested in Bangor for entering
nearly all of the rooms in the Bangor House
and taking articles therefrom.
SAGADAnoc.
There is cat in the Bath depot dining sa-
loon which will not allow a piece of money
to remain on the counter; if she finds piece
there she will 90 to the proprietor, point at
the money, as much as to say, put it away"
and if he will not she will, with her paw,
throw it on the floor, knowing that he will
then pick it up.
The Bath Rowing Association will hold n
regatta on the Kennebec, this fall, in which
the Portland Rowing Club " i'll take part.
WALDO.
The October term of the Supreme Judicial
court for Waldo county, begins Tuesday, the
2lst. The most important case will be that
of Leander j. Hatch against the city of Bel
fast; il is claim of $50, 900 in damages, for
breaking through the Poors Mill bridge.
Another action of interest will be pauper
case, Belfast VS.. Montvillc.
YORK.
Work is decidedly brisk in the Saco Water
Power machine shop at the present time.
Nearly 400 men are employed, GS of whom
are in the foundry.
Ar LARGE.
The internal revenue collected in this State
for the last fiscal year amounted to S75,j3l,
at a cost for collection Of IS, 7SS.
Few are aware of the importance of
checking a Cough or common Cold in its first
stage. That which in the beginning would