Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-03-15
State News,

The Wing announces the death of Hon.
Abner X. Hallowell of Bangor, al the age OF
- years. He was one of the leading men
of the place. having resided there since ls26.
In 1856 he was elected to the State Senate
and was the same year appointed member
Of the National republican committee. He
for several years held the position of Assist
ant Assessor of Internal Revenue for the
Fourth District of Maine. Mr.. llallowcll
was at one time President of the Bangor
Mechanics Association, has served as an As
SCISSOR of Taxes, was one or more years III
the Board of Aldermen, and at one time was
candidate for Mayor of that city. He leaves
a wife, two sons and four daughters. his
oldest son, Harry c., being principal of the
grammar school at Gloucester, Mass, and
his youngest, Clement Howard, having jus;
graduated from medical college. and had
arrived home but few days since. His
eldest daughter is Professor in Wellesley
College, and of the others one is a teacher in
Bangor, another in Gloucester. Mass, and
the fourth is the wife of Rev. Mr.. Hart.
| While Watson n. Joy of North Hancock.
was engaged in raising heavy beam, the
staging gave way, and he fell, breaking both
bones Of the leg and dislocating the ankle.
The Belfast Journal says that the friends Of
Frank Whitmore will be pleased to learn that
his daughter, Fannie, lately an inmate of the
insane asylum at Augusta, has returned home
fully recovered. Alexander Greenaugh. of
NorthpOrt, formerly a prominent citizen OF
that town, has become insane. and has been
taken to the ASYLUM. Mr.. q. il 81 wears OF
age.
Al little before twelve o'clock Wcdne> ilv
night, a woman came running down Main
street and informed the police that her hn =
band, John Hart. was drunk and abusing
their little child. Hart lives on Patten street
and officers Nickerson and Mccoy started for
the house at once. They found the hnT>c
locked, and il was sometime before they
gained an entrance. Hart was in bed nth
the little child, whose face was scratched and
bleeding slightly where the inhuman wretch
had abused it, He was taken to the stat ii
house, Bangor Wing.
Hanging out clothes in the winter time j.
the way fremont husbands are persccutcL
Too bad too bad.
A son of Capt. Andrew j. Freese of Ban
gor, some twelve years old, while playing
ball Wednesday afternoon, was badly Bit ten
on the arm by large and vicious dog.
Gov. Garcelon is to deliver the addrcs, at
the next annual show and fair of the. kcnnr-
bee Agricultural Society at Readfcld.
\ party of three from Pennington, recent
ly returned from fishing excursion t. the
Dead River region. They secured about
POO lbs. Of trout
The officers elect of the North Franklin
Agricultural Society are as follows: Presi-
dent, Seward Dill Vice Presidents John c.
Conant, Z. A. J. Norton, NJ. c. Kelley; Sec
rotary, J. W. Butterfeld; Treasurer. VI. W
Dutton; Trustees, w. c. Beal, r. VI. Els
worth, Milton Bean, j. II. Toothakcr, W.
l.. Durham. 1t was voted to hold the next
show on Wednesday and Thursday, the LIST
and I'd of October, 1879.
He kissed yer last night didn't hc?" said
the small boy the other morning. "What."
said his sister turning scarlet. ooh. yer
can't fool me. knew the sound in mnnit
It's just like COW pulling her foot out Of
the mud The girl tainted.
At grccnback caucus held in Temple prior
to election. one of the soft money advocates
arose and proposed that the caucus look into
the feasibility of putting an article in the
warrant to impose tax on government
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