Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-06
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Beware of cheating the printer! William
j. Sutherland, who swindled some Maine
printers, has just been convicted in Boston of
| receiving stolen goods and will serve term
OF years in State Prison.
Harris Lanfest while at work on the barn
OF y. =; Daggett, in Union, few days
| since, Tell from a staging, breaking his leg
below the knee and dislocating his ankle.
large school house is in process of con.
struction on the corner of Central and Fed
eral streets, Brunswick. 1t is for the pri.
mary department. and contains four rooms,
Zach of which will accommodate sc scholars.
The cost will be about $4,000.
The committee sent to Massachusetts by
| the citizens of Rockport to make inquiries in
| regard to the boot and shoe business have re-
turned home. They have not yet made .
| formal report, and probably will not until
| the meeting of stockholders to be held next
Monday evening, but we learn on the whole
| 1t is likely to be unfavorable. Like most
other business, boot and shoe manufacturing
| has its ups and downs, and sometimes money
| is lost instead of made. Yet there are par
| lies in Boston willing to put money into q
| factory down here, and q competent and
highly recommended man could be had to
take charge of the concern.-Camden Her
aid.
| An idea of the extent of the potato trade in
this part of the State may be gained by the
following statement of the business of one
shipper. James Morrow, Esq, who has
loaded fifteen vessels with potatoes for Bos-
ton, besides sending more or less by almost
every steamer that has left this port, since
| the fall trade commenced. In his operations
| 10 hao in oil h,,sb
els, seventy-five carloads Of which, amount
ina to some $4,000 bushels, came over the
Bangor and Piscataqus Railroad since Oct.
18th, the freigh. amounting to 81, l00.-l Ban
gor Wing.
The following are recent business changes:
Portland Fairbrother; Gro.
dissolved; now A. p. Waldron.
Cushman & Burrill, Hotel; dissolved,
Sawyer Wo dford, Ag. Imp. dissolved.
Hiram.-Hubbard Bros, Gen. Store sold
out to Pierce & Sanborn.
INSTRUMENTATION & Edwards, Masons;
dissolved now J. p. Norton.
Notwithstanding Farr, Mfs. shirts;
dissolved; now Farr & Hatch.
About 10 o'clock Sunday night FIRE broke out
in the -four mills at Yarmouth upper village,
and the whole establishment, including mill,
store house and Office were destroyed. There
being no engine in town, efforts to arrest the
flames were fruitless. The mills were owned
by Ansel l.. Loring, Capt. Buchanan and 9TH
ers of Yarmouth, and were insured though
to what amount it was impossible 10 ascertain
this morning, as most of the policies were
issued by an agency at Yarmouth. The loss
is not yet ascertained.
The Bangor Wing says that the taking of
eggs from the salmon at Orland has been At
tended with remarkable degree of success,
and about seventy thousand good eggs are
now on hand-a greater number, probably,
Of artiicially formulated eggs that have ever
before been in New England at one time.
Such marked success in the first attempt to
take eggs of sea salmon in this State is very
encouraging. The Commissioner of Fisher
les thinks that with the experience Of this
season for guide, salmon eggs can be OBJ
tanned and formulated in the same vicinity at
cost not exceeding eight dollars thous-
and
We learn from the Press that at the recent
meeting of the Portland city council, the me-
mortal of the Board of Manufacture asking
for exemption from municipal taxation for
ten years of all capital hereafter invested in
manufactures in the city of Portland, with
resolve appended, was laid before the Board
by the Mayor. A brief discussion followed,
and Mr.. Walter Wells, Secretary of the
Board of Manufactures, by invitation, ex-
planned the intention of the resolve and the
views of the Board. The resolve was passed,
as follows:
Resolved, That any manufacturing enter
prise established in this city at . date SUISSE
quent to the passage of this resolve, shall be
exempt from municipal taxation for the term
OF ten years upon the whole capital invested
and employed in said enterprise; provided
such exemption shall, upon the showing of
facts, be judged for the public advantage.
The order appropriating $1,000 for the pay
ment of such expenditures as shall be made
under the direction of the Board of Manufac-
lures, and that suitable and convenient
room in the City Building be appropriated
for the use of said committee, was referred
to the Committee on Judicial Proceedings.
DR.. Frederic Fl. Gerrish, of Portland, has
been offered full professorship in Compare
tive Anatomy in Bowdoin College, but has re-
fused to accept it.
Regular passenger trains will probably be
run to Guil1ord over the B. & P. Railroad
next week
The Lewiston Journal says this forenoon
young Frenchmen was passing along Lincoln
ST., when two men stepped up and demanded
that he should treat them. He answered
that he had no money, when the men knocked
him down and badly abused him. There
were several wounds on his head. The po-
lice took charge of him, DIR. Donovan dress
ing his wounds One of the men, McDon-
aid, has been arrested and committed to
the lookup, and the officers are on the
track of the other.
NEWS BY MAIL.