Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-11
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Some 250 men are employed grading tn
extension of the Bangor & Piscataquis Rail
road, and the work is going on rapidly.
Messrs. Dunning g. Eldridge are enlarginl
the capacity of their tannery in Brewer by
the addition of 10 new watts
Hon. p. Z. Burleigh, State Land Agent
informs the Bangor Wing that the Swedes
are well satisfied with what the State is doing
for them and are working industriously clear
ing land for farms and making homes for
themselves.
At the Ottawa House, Cushing's Island,
Portland harbor Wednesday afternoon, a
young child fell over the railing of the stair
way, distance of twenty feet, and struck
upon table below. 1t was taken up for
dead, but is now expected to recover.
The time of the County Convention for
Knox County is changed to the 18th instant.
The Fair of the Fourth Knox Agricultural
and Horticultural Society will be held at APP
pleton, Oct. 4th, 9TH and 9th.
The dogs are making themselves useful in
Franklin county. The Chronicle says that
one day last week, Jesse McLain, of New
Sharon, was informed that they were chasing
his flock. He started out and found that out
OF flock of thirty nine, one was dead, seven
had been badly torn and bitten and six could
nowhere be found.
Hannibal Belcher, Esq, is about to COM
mence the erection in Pennington. of COM
modious and elegant building for the accom-
mediation of, The Willows" a young ladies
boarding school, under the charge of his
daughters. 1t is to be 90 feet in length by 40
| IN width, with a projection 80 x IA and three
stories IN height, with basement. The build
ing will cost some $4,000.
The lobster factory at S. w. Harbor is
putting up mackerel. HOLSTERS are coming
in again, large and plentiful.
John d. Blaisdell, of Sullivan, and James
Macomber, of Ellsworth, having obtained
contract in Boston, for edgestone, have com
menced operating on a quarry in Sullivan.
Sullivan must be very unhealthy town
according to the Ellsworth American. On,
and three-tourths per cent. of the whole pop
ulatlon of that town have died the past year
and these rates of mortality are not above
the annual decrease by death for the last de
cade.
The Belfast Journal speaks discouragingly
| OF holding the State Fair in that city.
The Wing says that the next examination
of applicants for admission to the Colby
University is on Wednesday, Aug. 80th.
several young men are to be examined at
that time, and probably 4 number of young
women. Already one has signlfed her pur-
pose to present herself for examination for
the regular course, and others are expected.
The terms of admission, &c, are precisely
the same for ladies as for gentlemen; they
can enter the regular course, or take select
course of such studies as they choose, pur-
suing not less than two studies each term.
In yindication of the reports that the
grasshoppers are making fearful raids upon
the corn fields in Franklin county, the Farm.
ington Chronicle says that gentleman in.
forms it that there will not be bushel OF
corn raised on the east side of the Sandy
river between that village and the Falls, a
distance of nearly five miles, where usually
the crop may be reckoned by hundreds OF
bushels. "'This is probably not strickly so,
because we have no doubt that this destruc-
tive insect will fail to so Thoroughly destroy
the crop which now looks so finely; but there
may not be more than quarter the usual
amount harvested"