Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-22
STATE NEWS.

The Camden Herald wants to see some ad-
vance towards the construction of the Penob-
scot Bay and River Railroad.
The annual fair Of the Knox Agricultural
and Horticultural Society this year will be
held at Rockport. The exhibition of the
North Knox Society will be held at Warren.
Messrs. Nathan A. Farwell, Edwin Sprague
| and Postmaster o. ]. Conant, of Rockland
have been appointed by the Secretary of the
| Treasury a commission to select site for the
new custom house at Rockland.
-Four large and elegant dwelling houses are
going up in Presque Isle.
| The Auburn shoe manufacturers have ship
ped s29, 800 pairs of shoes and boots from
Auburn station, the past three MONTHS
marked increase over the business of the cor.
responding period of 1871.
The Journal says that Mr.. P. NJ. Wood
| man, jr., of Auburn, has recently returned
home from Mississippi, where he has been for
| the past year as Professor, in the Mississippi
College at Clinton near Vicksburg Mr..
Woodman reports that locality as not alto
gether agreeable for Yankee, although the
feeling toward the North is gradually improv-
ing
larly noticed the growing crops ars compared
with Aroostook. We have not seen any
where grass and grain near as large as in this
county. Potatoes are decidedly larger and
more forward here than any that we saw
whilst away. Corn is quite as large, and we
saw no better gardens than in Aroostook
We think we are within the fact when we say
that the acres of Aroostook will yield double
on an average of any part of the older por-
tons Of Maine.-Presque Isle Sunrise.
A telegram received in Rockland last
Monday morning by Mr.. Sumner Whitney,
brought him the news of the sudden death of
his wife, in Freeman, Franklin County,
whittier she had gone on visit to her friends
two weeks before.
We learn from the Journal that the whole
| valuation of Auburn is So, 1923 ,O27, on a full
cash basis last year on q two-thirds basis
the value was 81, l47 1896. The rate per cent.
| this year is Is IL mills last year 81 mills.
| The number of polls is 1859; last year the
| number was 1915. The total amount Of mon
ey raised by taxation this year is $75, 1926 80
| last year it was S7l,773.s3. 223 dogs are
taxed.
At recent meeting of the Rockland Re-
form Club, their hall was draped with mourn
ings in respect to the memory of the late
President Of the Club, Hon. l. II. Kimball,
consisting of festoons of white and black
cloth intermingled and caught up with roset-
ties of the same. At either side of the stage
was beautiful evergreen wreath, enclosing
the inscriptions 'In Memorium" and eve
Mourn our Leader fallen" while in the CEN
ter Of the platform was a small catafalque,
adorned with flowers and inscribed with Mr..
Kimball's name and age and the date of his
death.
Waterville items from the Mail: By the
overturning OF a wagon on Wednesday morn
ing, while on the road from Readfeld to our
village, Howe's Circus had a small confia-
grafton. The wagon contained their gas
works, and the breaking of kerosene lamp
set the whole thing in blaze. The running
part of the wagon was saved, but the body
was badly blackened and charred, and the
contents good deal damaged. Mr.. j. II.
Hanson, the principal of the Watervile
Classical Institute, met with a severe loss on
Monday. A pocket book containing three
hundred dollars, mysteriously disappeared
from the pocket of his coat while hung in
back entry; and though he is quite confident
that it was taken between four and five in the
afternoon, he is at loss to know by whom it
was distracted Il. b. Noyes of the U. S.
Navy, son of Hon. Edwin Noyes, is enjoy ing
visit at home, after two or three years
cruise in the Mediterranean and other eastern
waters.
Col. Wildes, one of the State Railroad
Commissioners, inspected the Z. N. A.
Railway bridge in Bangor on Friday. Some
repairs were found necessary which will be
made Immediately.
A young mans Grant club has been formed
in Bangor.