The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-08


Joseph IF. Kallock informs the editor of the
Rockland Gazette, that he raised from one
pound of Early Rose potatoes, one hundred
and forty-five pounds -
The Knox County society will hold its third
annual tair in Rockland, on tbh Goth, 21st and
ODD of October. ~
The Rockland Gazette saws that last week,
Mr.. Reed, an Engineer from Lewiston, COM
menced a survey Of the Georges River Valley
Railroad. This road commences at Warren
and is to run up the valley to Belfast. The
Gazette says the towns on this route mean rail-
road
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Knox and Lincoln railroad held last week at
Newcastle, the following gentlemen were elect
ed as Directors: Oliver Moses and Edward
Sewall, Bath; Henry ingalls,, Wiscasset; Ed
win Flye, Newcastle; - Chapman, Damaris-
Gotta; B. B. HASKELL WaldOboro'; Edmund
Wilson, Thomaston; N. A. Farwell and Fran
els Cobb, ROckland.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The beautiful "Children's Home" at Ban
gor, erected at cost of 5000, through the
benefcence of the late Mrs. Sarah Marsh Pitch
er, and was dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies on Wednesday.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Mr.. Harlow Bigelow, of Skowhegan, raised
fifty-nine and half bushels of Norway oats
from forty-two pounds of seed, and fitty-nine
bushels of excellent wheat from three and q
half bushels of seed. Why go.out West?
Mr.. Nathan Tozier, of Fairfield, raised this
season, III bushels of barley on two and half
acres.
Mr.. Charles Rowell, ID, of Hartland, raised
80 pounds of Early Rose potatoes from a quar-
ter of pound of seed.
Last week, Mr.: Hobart of Madison, left to-
mato in the office of the Somerset Reporter
that weighed two pounds.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
There was launched at East Machias. GOD
ult., from the yard of p. s. j. Talbot & Co. "a
schooner of 200 tons named "Lucy Ham,
mond.'' M
Capt John Beckford of Eastport, has this
season dug from potato hill in his garden, in
| which had been planted but one seed of the
Early Goodrich variety, one hundred and eigh-
| ty potatoes. 1911 .t9
At an election held at Indian Township.
on the 21st ult., Lewey Beneuit was elected to
represent the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians
in the next Legislature.
Mr.. Atkins, the commissioner of fisheries
| has just returned from an examination of the
| ST. Crois and Penamaquan rivers, where he
| has ordered the construction of ishways.
We learn that James Thompson, Esq, of
Eastport. has been appointed by the Governor
| Sheriff of Washington county, vice B. w.
Farrar, Esq, resigned.
The Machias Uaion says that Stephen Hall
and Daniel 5. johnson, of East MachiaS have
purchased of Nathan Longfellow, of Machias,
| one thousand acres of timber land, on Har-
mons stream that empties into Gardiner
Lake, also, single saw, two lath saws, one
| single and one bog mill, on the outlet of
GARDENERS Lake, known as Chase's Mills.
The Union learns that Messrs. George Har-
| ris & Co., at Columbia Falls, have sold their
saw mill, and some blocks of timber land also,
about two millions of lumber in the logs on
Pleasant River to Mr., Otis S. Tibbetts of Adj
Olson. Price 100000 The sale does not in
clude portion of the logs on the river, and.
the company retain one block of timber land
.a.ap WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. @. Whitaker of Searsmont, planted
three sprouts of the Early Rose potato last
spring, from which he has harvested seven
pounds. One specimen weighed over pound
YORK COUNTY. t .,r
Edwin b. Smith has resigned the position Of
deputy-cOllector of customs, District of Saco
on account of election to an incompatible Of
flee, and Mr.. Chadbourne, the collector, has
appointed Jason W. Beatty to fill the vacancy.
A good appointment. So
The schooner Francona cleared from Saco
for Savannah, Ga, last Monday, with ma
chinery to be put into cotton mills near Macon,
Georgia.
Probate Court held its session at Alfred
Tuesday. Judge Bourne was somewhat en-
barrassed by the appearance of two women,
each asserting rights as the widow of Luther
Manson, late of Kittery, and claiming dover
and allowance out of his estate.