Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-21

1868. by the judges of the Supreme
Judicial court. the members of the
Oxford county bar and the court
officers. The gavel is of white ivory,
mounted in solid gold, on head and
handle. Another honor that came to
Mr.. Hammond unscught was the re-
quest that he present to the law Ii
brary his picture, to be hung with
those Of the famous members of the
oxford bar. Mir. Hammond is 20
years old having been born on Paris
hill ir the house that he now occupies.
AS a boy he grew up with Hon. Hanni-
| bal Hamln.
The good news of new contract
| fer the Bath Iron Works is made
public by President John $. Hyde Of
| the Bath Iron Works who announced
| that it was for Il new steel passenger
| steamship which in all practical details
| Will be IL duplicate of the Camden now
| under construction at that ward for the
| Bangor and Boston division Of the
| Eastern Steamship 60. This news will
be Ealed with delight by every work
| ingman and laborer in the city, and
coming as it does just before Christmas
can almost be considered a Christmas
| pre- sent to the city. Work is. to br
| commenced upon the new craft inn
mediately upon the launching of the
| Camden which will probably be early
| in February. and the stock is Ia be or
! dercd at once and the work hurried TO
completion. The contract Was closed
! Monday and It's limited that this is only
the beginning of 4 series whit n VIII
| soon follow, for President Hyde is con-
stantly On the alert for new orders
ami always ready to snap up the ad-
| vantaseous ones.
| II ramon is true several Milford peo-
pie are enjoying Il laugh at the expense
who, who was evidently in authority
regarding the construction of that part
| of the big concrete dam not yet closed
I'D. II is understood that when the
gap had been nearly closed the rush OF
water through it made further work
| extremely difficult if not Impossible.
land it was decided to build Il big
| wooden wedge farther up the stream to
he floated down and into the gap by ac-
ton If the current and thus allow the
| work to proceed with the wedge for a
shield Accordingly the wedge was
built and Monday barrel of kerosene
was taken to the ruins of the mill just
above and touched off to burn the re-
manning timbers of the structure ana
all,w the water to rise and gam
STRENGTH to float the big wedge to the
Gan and there successfully Jam IT,
Everything went off finely, the Kerosene
| blaZed un skyward and the tlmbers
were soon ignited and as the flames ate
IN the pig beams the water held BACK
bv .hcm rushed on toward the dam
with greater fury. Things looked eN-
ceedinely promising and natures
forces were summoned to aid man in a
manner which was extremely crafty
ing 10 those who wished to get through
with the job in as short time as was
possible In short time the Dig
wedge swung off and commenced its
tourney to its destined end. gain
Ing il impetus as it went ana
bowlne along merrly in the churn-
in. current To the dancing names
ot the burning mill. Those in charge
| were pleased and the Workmen fclt ike
giving a cheer or breaking a bottle at
/ O.
Down rushed the big Y directly toward
the gap. ana with a rush OF water the
wedge leapcd up, pointed its nose I'LL"
the break in the wall ana pilSSeu
through to the other SIDE ana "'i
toward Bangor. Sometime later thc
Milford fire department was caiieu ~
10 help cXtinguiSh the flames AZ VIC
mill for another try later. but refused
ON the grounds that the mill was no
| GOOD and ought to be burned anyway.
The recent purchase by John Creish-
ton of the old Edward Kclleran house
lin Cushing recalls this houses conhec-
tim with the Athens slave case. III Is
lola by the Thomaston Herald as 1oi-
IIows. ON or about June 4th 1881. the
schooner Boston, Capt. Daniel Phil-
Ibrook of Camden, master. and Edward
Ikelleran of Gushing mate. sailed from
savannah for Thomaston with
,o.r.ted slayc on board, called AtticuS,
owned by James Sagurs of savannah.
One word in relation to this poor
slaves attempt to reach happier
haven He had been at WORK on poard
Iof this vessel had seen ana admired
1.-THE Jolly yankee sailors win tnelr
stylish shore costumes. blue jackets
shiny tarpanlin hats. pictured arms ana
Hands, earrings and Towering pants
light fantastic slippers. and brass but
tons galore. All of these helped to be-
wilder this human chatte, and maze
him think that Yankeeland must be
the Heaven he had heard of. He made
his appearance on deck when the
schooner had half completed its pas
sage. and arrived at Thomaston about
June 10 or IL closely followed by
Sagur. who arrived at the shore village
lnow the city of ROckland. on the l2tn
or 18th Here Sagurs obtained from
Henry G. Lowell, Esq, warrant LOT
. his slaves arrest: with this he came TO