Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-06
81 ATE NEWS.

There are not less than ten quarries opened
IN flscataquls Country, from some of which
are obtained forty tons of slate a week, SELL
ing it in the aggregate for not less than ST.
900, coo a year.
few friends of the Colby University or
dered Mr.. Mlllmore, the sculptor, to make a
copy OF Ihorwaldsens famous statute of the
Lion of Lucerne, which is so familiar to all
travellers, for presentation to that institution
Mr.. Milmore has completed his task. and il
will soon be placed in the building at Water
vile.
During thander storm Tuesday after
noon the Frcewill Baptist church at West
Paris was struck by lightning. The steeple
was ruined and considerable damage done TO
the belfrey deck and end of the church.
The Argus says that the track of the Port
land Ogdensburg railroad was completed to
the station at Fryeburg, at o'clock on Sat
urday afternoon. This work has been pushed
with commendablc vigor. The iron arrived
at Portland on the 18th of May, and the work
of discharging begun on the 10th. Track
laying commenced on the DIST or 22d.
The extension of the Bangor and -Piscata-
quis railroad is being located from Foxcrofl
to Guilford village, and, it is understood that
work is to commence upon it at once.
The Lewiston Journal says that it is init
mated that they are likely to have 4th of
July celebration in that city. big tent,
Grafton, public dinner, fireworks, music, &C.,
are likely to be in the programme. Rev, w.
ii. Murray of Boston, has been invited to
deliver the Grafton.
The Wing says that on Thursday, the body
of an unknown man was found in the river
between VIM and Nicatou. The BODY was
well dressed, about feet inches in height,
and the face was not so disigured as to rem
der ider tiication impossible but no one who
has seen it knows who it is. The man was
apparently about &c years of age, of light
complexion, and had light hair A good
watch and quite sum of money were found
in the pockets
We learn from the Machias Republican,
that on Tuesday last, a severe tornado passed
over the north part of Washington Co. In
the town of Cooper the barn or Mr.. George
McPhetres, containing six cows, horse and
a calf, was blown down, while Mr.. McPhetres
and boy were in the barn milking. Strange
to say no life was lost, Or bones broken, ex-
cept the poor calf, which met a tragical death
a barn on the Low place was blown down,
and one barn unrOofed, and fences generally
"tiS pIoStldtSus II is TuHbOIeu also, lnaL SIX
barns were blown down in the town of Craw-
ford, but the fact is not vouched for. At
Englishman's river the rain, hail, and wind
were perfectly furious. small boat in
which man named Fish was capsized, and
A. Fish went to the bottom, but he came up,
and was saved.
A correspondent of the Press says that
John Works of Abbott, received a frghtful
wound Of the hand on the 30th ult. by get
ting it caught in a circular saw.
Launched at Somesville on the 10Th ult.
a schr. called the "klla Eudora, about 81
tons n. L. desi gned as treiehter, of fine,
model, built in a very substantial manner, by
Master VIM. S. Newman, for A. j. Whiting,
Esq, and others, and commanded by Capt.
IL. =. Mason of Somervlle, who is part
owner. Mr.. Whiting is about to lay the keel
for another vessel, in the same yard, of about
100 tons n. t. which he intends to complete
and launch sometime during the fall
Ellsworth's lumber business is of consider
able importance. The returns for the year
ending June, 1870, show the total amount OF
long and short lumber manufactured for that
year to be little over sixty-three millions,
valued at S733, 400. OF this 1888, 400 wages
of laborers consumed 1882 300, besides the
person labor of many of the smaller opera.
tors. This lumber business, though small in
comparison of values, is of such a nature
that it affords large profits TO the operators
and great deal of employment to workmen
The cutting of the logs, driving them to the
mill, saving them, hauling the sowed lumber
to the wharves, the shipping, etc, ETC., KEEP
many hundreds busy the year round Almost
the entire material prosperity of Ellsworth
results directly from the saw-mills,l