Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-30

llallowell municipal court on the 18th inst
/. IL. Jackson, Esq, was counsel for Peas.
ley and c. X. Rice, Esq, for Rollins. The
complainant recovered amount claimed, which
with costs footed up S2S.
Mr.. Geo. w. Finn, an old resident of Au-
gusta, called at the Journal Office yesterday
and was in state Of great ecstacy over the
cure of his disease, that has been performed
by DR.. Fitzgerald. lie says he had been
suffering for years. but the burden has been
rolled from him, and lie ''feels like new
man We have heard of several other re-
markable cures, Payson fuckers among the
number.
We have received a fine lot of specimens
from the bakery of Messrs. Holmes 4 Shaw,
that do credit to their skill as bakers and fully
sustain the reputation of their establishment.
Indeed the samples before US of crackers Of
different kinds, bread, buns, cakes, ginger
bread and jumbles, are the best we have ever
seen and suggest that our Augusta bakers
possess versatility as we'll As vim. We trust
their labors will be well rewarded by the
public which they seem dispose d to faithfully
serve. N&& #&&M 60
We regret to learn that Mr.. Samuel W.
Huntington of Hallowell received severe in
juries yesterday at Hallowell by attempting
to get on the passenger car of an outward
bound freight train after the train was in mo-
tiou. He was thrown against the depot plat
form and then fell upon the track behind the
train. Dr. Hill attended him. Mr.. Hunting
ton some months ago endured severe and
painful illness from which he has yet hardly
recovered. We hope his injuries received
yesterday will not prove so severe as feared.
A correspondents of London journal writes
"a singular story is related of Madame de
Lavalette, daughter of NJ. Rouher. This lady
was, few days ago at Royan, where she
bought a photograph of NJ. Theirs, declaring
she would gnaw him in pieces dog would
bone. She changed her mind however, and,
going to shooting range, placed the photo
graph on the target, and fired twelve shots at
it, hitting it three times. She then held it up
to the crowd who had assembled, and
claimed, Now am satisfied have finished
my work of destruction The crowd were
indignant and some cried out: 1T is NJ.
Rouher who ought to be served like that
Madame de Layalette had to make her escape
to her hotel, followed by the jeers and un-
complimentary remarks of number of the
spectators of her singular conduct"
An Hour In the HallowelI Cotton Mill.
Through the kindness of the gentlemany
Agent, A. d. Barker, Esq, we have been
shown some of the mysteries of making cloth.
The first room we entered called the
.:opening room" is situated on the south side
of the mill in brick building in which to
place machine called Kittson's Opener.
Into this room the cotton is first received
on arriving from the South. II is shipped in
bales containing about four hundred and fifty
pounds each.
The cotton is effectually picked to pieces
or Opened by passing between cylinders
filled with teeth; it then passes along and is
wound upon rollers; they are called laps
II is then picked to pieces again and wound
as before until the process has been repeated
FIVE times; each process making in finer and
cleansing it from Impurities.
1t is then carried by draft alone, through
what be called ''psnstock" into the third
story of the main building, where we purpose
to follow it. tl@"sA%r
The first machine that claims our attention
is called '.Breaker,'' or perhaps we ought
to call them breaker cards. as there are
forty of them in this room.
These machines receive the cotton as it
comes from the 'opener," separates whatever
dirt may remain in the material, and also the
poor staple, which stops at this point, and the
good cotton passes along in railway box"
80 called.
The cotton from all these machines then
passes into what are called finishing cards,
forty eight in number, which straighten out
the fbres more eflectually, and from these the
cotton passes upon what is called Lewiston
Railway" where it is extended by part of
the material being held in reserve as it passes
along, until it centers through small aper-
ture and passes into receptacle provided for
it, which has its appropriate name. 1t then
passes through another machine, which ex-
tends it still more, and makes it yet finer,
where it is wound upon bobbins, These bob
bins when filled are taken from this machine
and placed upon another, when the. material
il taken from them. and having passed through
another process is wound upon another set Of
bobbins, when it is ready for spinning.
These rooms employ 80 hands.
In the "Spinning Room of the Hallowell
Cotton Mandatory we find eighteen mule
spinners with their corresponding carriages.
We had the Yankee inquisitiveness to ask the
agent why they were called ''mule" spinners,
and the answer was, that ga mule is neither
horse nor jackass, which made the an
swer as ''clear as mud" The probabilities are