Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-24
STATE NEWS.

The people of Norway are comforting with
parties from Lynn, Mass, with a view Of IS.
tahishing large shoe mandatory there.
. Ii these parties come to Norway, they will
! occupy building four stories high, loox3l
feet, and employ some two hundred hands
| The Sunrise says that Msxfield and Davis.
! two drovers from kennebec. started recently
| five hundred cattle bought in Pressure Isle vi
! cinit:, for 'fOn;sidc" and a market CATH.
bring good price this tall. Very larg,
| dro,es OF sheep also passed Monday anc
| Tuesday.
Eddie Moran, aged II years, son of Mr.
Amos Moran of Bangor. died of lockIaw on
Monday, caused by having stepped upon a
rusty nail while at play on Friday
The slate qnarres at Monson are all in op-
Grafton now, except the Eureka. Two new
quarFies have lately been opened there.
Probably ! 500 barrels OF apples hage been
raised ia Paris village alone this season and
AZ many more in town.
4 cunning little boy in Andoyer shot his
sister. Jast US he was in the act OF ,Iischarg-
ing his gun at a bird, she ran before it, threw
up her arm and received the contents in her
elbow and mead, putting out one eve and bad
y managing her arm.
A horse-thiei, named Edward johnson,
who resides in South Freeport, stole a team
IN Yarmouth and sold it to Portland parties
for $500. lie is shli at large.
The Gardiner journal says that Orrin, a
young man aged about twenty, only son of
Amaziah Googins of Litchtield, tell from a
tree Monday, badly breaking his shoulder
blade and iniuring his spine.
The Lewiston journal says that the Far.
mer's and Mechanics Club of Monmouth held
their annual show aad fair as the Town
House on the 9th inst. There was a good
show of oxen, cows, horses, colts, sheen,
swine, potatoes, corn, wheat, oats turnips.
beets, apples, pears and grapes. The ladies'
made generous show of butter, cheese,
canned and preserved feut. etc, and large
variety of needlewOrk. There were sixty
pairs of oxen, thirty pairs OF which were
working cattle. Some horses and colts were
shown which deserve special mention. The
exhibition OF corn was large aud of fine Qnal-
ity, there being some fifteen contributions.
A variety called the Dent corn was well
ripeued and handsome. MIR. f. Hall brought
i'll some stalks OF corn, grown by him, four
teen feet in height, with two ripe and well,
developed ears on each stalk. ! he specimens
of Lost Nation wheat, superior oats, potatoes,
onions, etc, were very creditable. In butter,
for quality, and cheese, for quality size, we
challenge any show in the county to beat il.
The show OF fruit was of large and excellent
quality. Monmouth compares very fayora-
bly, with any town in kennebec county, in
the cultivation OF different varieties of fruit.
The display of apples and grapes was very
fine. Tie show of canned and preserved
fruits, )elles, etc, was very large, and by
their fine appearance would not fail to tickle
the palate of the most tastidions. There
were specimens of nearly every variety OF
fruit grown in Monmouth. One jar of rasp-
berries put up in 1869 was in perfect state
o. preservation. 1t was q rich display Of
what the farmers better-havcs have done to
enrich the harder and table. In the depart
ment of plants aud flowers, there was very
good display.