The Somerset reporter., 1886-05-19
STATE NEWS.

ngion special state Deputy Grand Ghi~f
Tcmplar.
j NJ. Harvey E>q., who has long been
the AGENT Of III lIallowell cotton mill.
has resigned and VI VI Stone Of augusta
ha> been appointed to the position.
An Auburn lady was standing in front
Of window Ia house ON Spring street
a few days since. when crash went the
glass and a bullet fell at her feet \
gentleman Wa Practicing target shooting
with pistol on ncighboriug premises
Strange that She should Obj ct 10 this 50
called gentleman enjoying himself.
The Senate. with more than looe Of the
Presidents appointments yet To pas up
on, has quite enough work on hand 20
keep ii busy for several WEEKS To come.
The laundry ca.e~ of the san Francisco
Cinnamon have been decided hy TIM nit
ed States Supreme Court in favor of the
Cinnamon. The court holds thar the or
dinance> discriminating against the Chm
csc lanndrymen and designed IN drive
them ont of tile business are Invalid both
under the Fourteenth Amendment and the
treaty with China.
The telephone line between Augusta and
Belfast haVin. been discontinued the
wire has been removed from the polls
The job WAS completed last week. he
poles belong to the telegraph company.
and are still standing
The Senate has passed Mes>rs Dingley
and FRYE hin To abolish fees for meas
urcment and ccrt'ication of tonnage reg
,trs. etc
Representative Boutelle introduced in
the House, Monday, bill appropriating
fifty thousand dollars for bronze statue
If Edwin VI. Stanton, To be made of capt
ured cannon and erected in front OF of the
treasury building.
senator Frye has introduced into the
Senate Mr.. Millikcn.s bill to allow rail
roads compensation for mail cars in pro-
portion to the length Of the apartments
furnished.
The firm of Elias Miliken y Sons. Of
augusta, NJ lumber manufacturers, have
disposed of u portion OF their logs to H..
W Jcwctt 4 Co of q rdrer and now
say that their mill may rot down before
they will depart from the eleyeu-hour SyS-
TEN. Putnam and tlosson, Of PittstOn,
whose employees are now on strike, have
sold all the log they had in the river, to
Bowdoinham parties
The city of Augusta has made a con-
tract with the Augusta Water Company to
supply the city with all the water it needs
for 100000 for ~ years.
Judge Benjamin kingsbury, jr., died
the 18th inst, at his residence in Portland.
He has been in i'll health for about year.
the cause of his death being consumption
Of the bowels.
Work has been suspended in the trunk
factory of J. +. Parkhurst x Son, in Ban
cor. Me on account of a disagreement As
to wages
4 special train for the Democratic State
Convention will leave Portland at & o'clock
Il. III. running To Bangor via Lewiston and
Winthrop, connecting at Watcrville with
regular morning train from Skowhegan,
also with specia train leaving Bath at g.
% a. m and returning to Watcrvillc via
Augusta, arriving in Bangor 1910 IA. III.
Returning leave Bangor at 20 p. III. or at
close of Convention for Portland, Bath
Lewiston, Augusta, Winthrop and Skow-
hogan.
The publication of a new summer paper
to be styled The Maine Coast News"
will be begun early in June, under the ed
torial management of thales f. Whittier,
The Ialowell Granite Company ship
ped from their works in Ilallowcll during
the month of April one hundred carloads
of rongh and dressed granite, the points
of destination being Portland, Boston and
New York.
Business in the port Of Bangor is unus-
ually fiat at the p cscnt time Lumber is
not moving forward much and the freight
market is pretty inactive. The feet Of
vessels here i small.
Mr. ~ Of AM = ion,
ed as candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor
Chairman Brown says there is no truth
in the statement that he Is supporting
Mayor Dcering for governor He has no
fayoritc, and will exert no influence
whatever on the choice of the convention.
Miss Sarah X. Kicker died at her home
in Hartford, in this State. Sunday night
She was for many years principal of the
ladies department at the WatcrHille tlas-
steal Institute, now C0burn Classical In
sttute.
Governor West, the new governor of
| tab. has made oycrtures to the imp is
oncd Mormon~ at Salt Lake city To induce
them to become law-abiding citizens. He
did not get much encouragement from the
Mormon apostolic conyicts.
The republicans of Dover have elected
delegates to the State convention aS fol
lows s. O. Brown, +. A. Thompson, d
W. Brockway, V. A. Gray and &. g.,
Drowning. our correspondent says the
delegation is understood to favor DIR. A.
c. liamlin for Governor.
The Belfast Age expresses the opinion
that Mr.. Redman will probably be rcnom-
mated by the democrats.
The republicans of Phillips held eau
Gus, Friday evening, and chose four dele
gates to attend the State convention to be
held at Lewiston the 9th of June The
caucus voted unanimously to instruct the
delegates to support Mr. Bodwell for Gov
ernOr
The loss to the strikers in the South
west during their recent enforced idlcncss
is estimated ut 81 900 600, and to the rail
roads at 81, 900 900. And all because of
the discharge of one man for incompetent
cy The loss to the railroads can be made
up by increased traffic; the loss to the
men is beyond recovery.
A military and civil reception was Civ
EN- to Governor Robbie and his Stati AT Nor
way Thursday of last week, and another
at Gardiner Friday. They were brilliant
and enjoyable occasions.
The recent c'ronstratons in the South
over the arbitrator jefferson Davis leads
the National Tribune to say "In no 9TH
err country than this did such n thing ever
happen. In none other has it been posi-
bic for it to happen. Never before has
the head and front of a great rebellion
which was crushed at enormous cost of
blood and treasure. and the crushing of
which received the enthusiastic approval
of the right-thinking world, made tri-
unphal march years after his overthrow
and been the subject of cxtravagant ova-
tons by those whom he led to ruin
Prof. C. H. Fcrnald, who occupies the
chair of natural history at the Maine State
College, has been offered a position in the
Agricultural College at a
much higher salary. Professor Fernald
has not yet decided whether he will accept
the offer or not, but all friends of our
State College will unite in expressing the
hope that he will remain in the place
which he is now filling so acccptably
The following patents have been issued
10 Maine inventors for the week ending
April &, 1856 o ii. Buckley, Dcering,
lammock-spreads A. Daggett, Strong,
harm attachment for measuring vessels
l. T. Dion and j. T. Kelley BiddefOrd