The Portland daily press., 1872-07-04

at Auburn, has resigned his position to accept
situation in Mass.
Lewiston has new potatoes in market. Ir
The foundation for the new Continental mill
at Lewiston is finished and bricklayng has
commenced. ------ .....
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
From our Aroostook Correspondent
The road between Houton and Presque Isle
is receiving extensive REPAIRS rendered ncccsSa-
nv by the extreme wet of the spring and the
large amount of heavy training necessary for
the transportation of merchandise to the upper
country. a a+1a - .- s@
G. H. Collins is erecting tannery at Bridge
water which, with his lumber mills will proba-
bly, give employment to 80 men or more. He
is also erecting tenements for his employees.
III. o. Perry & Co. of Alva are engaged quite
extensively in the egg trade, shipping via rail
from Houlton from forty to fifty barrels per
week. 49,. g-.---.-.. ~.
The Saarise has been removed to neat two
story brick building built the present season by
the proprietors, ID. Stickney & Co. The first
floor is occupied as post-Office This is the only
brick building in the county north of Houl-
The starch factory at Caribou will be COM
pleted in time for the potatoe crop of the pres
ent season with capacity to use 1000 bush. of
potatoes daily. .a..ra SEA z--s. g.ra q. s.s-e
Hon. w. w. Thomas, Jr., reports 600 acres
in crop at New Sweden and 100 acres of grass,
all promising finely. He has purchased the
necessary tools and will have $50 men at work
on the State roads the present week.
Thus far this season seventeen millions of
shingles have been shipped from Van Buren,
Twenty-Five millions were shipped last year
from Fort Kent, and there will probably be
about the same quantity this season. The
larger portion of these shingles are Provincial
and duties collected at these places. They are
then bonded and shipped via st. John River to
American markets. - = r'~ -A
The crops are looking finely, but are rather
more backward than in the southern parts of
the county.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
At the Bowdoin College Prize Defamation
was awarded to Marshall w. Davis, the second
to Harry G. White.
1t is expected that work will soon be com
menced upon the paper mill at Little Falls,
Windham.
Mr. Law has force of men at work upon his
pulp mill at Mallisons Falls ~gl- ., q
KENNEBEC COUNTY. 49,
The Journal says: Mr.. C. Church and wife,
who have entertained so many parties at their
place on China Lake, on Monday last received
from a party of about forty persons china tea
set and silver cake basket-testimonials of
the esteem in which they are held by the pleas
ure seeking community. 81 aaz- aA --7ss.
The Journal learns that Mr. James Keegan
of Augusta, the well known horseman, recent
ly sold nice pair of matched bay horses to
lady in Boston for $780, These horses were
both raised in Maine and are credit to the
State .sfoa&
Work has been begun upon the foundation Of
new Catholic church at Waterville. fl
Trains will not run over the new Maine Cen
trail connection at Waterville for several months
Larkin Dunton,. esq, graduate of Colby
University, class of 80, was on Tuesday elect
ed Principal of the new Normal School in Bos-
ton.
-A5a ePENoBsCoT COUNTY. H4
The E. & n. A Railway have placed two
elegant new passenger. cars upon their road
from the New Haven car works. .=sa rssr
Bangor has furnished her policemen with re-
volvers. = q " a ms ma EHfnv 4
u,s oEa SOMERSET COUNTY AZ ~ a.
strengthening has been completed in Som
erset county, and farmers are holding their wool
for 70 cents. ea - - N ~ n~IE ~ Il
Mrs. c. s. Smith of St Adams, has field Of
three acres of winter rye that will average six
feet in height, some stalks being seven feet four
inches high. The field presents beautiful ap-
pearance. ~Af- FAX 4a<F 3 ~
ar" WASHINGTON COUNTY
James Ryan native of Barring, is reported
to have been killed recently by log rolling
over him on the Mississippi, about 200 miles
below St Anthony. His remains were buried
at st. Anthony. no n
There are more ships being built in Washing
ton county at the present time than there ever
was in any one year before. There are seven
on the stocks in Calais, six in Pembroke, and
more than an average number in Machias and
East Machias. Harrington is building six, while
there are several in various stages of progress
in Eastport and Robbnston.
Alexander Campbell & Co., are building a
center-board vessel of about 129 tons at Cher
ryield.
Talbot Smith, ESQ.,, at Cherryfield, launched
from his yard June "a, schooner Sabao, 23O tons,
Luther Stevens master carpenter. SD
ID. j. Sawyer has small schooner at Jones'
port nearly compile ted, which will be launched
in about four weeks. ss ~, ID. 49, h
-Hua "-. i t IN GENERAL. .gi
j. X. Osgood of Gardiner, III. W. Bryant of
Lewiston, and Francis Murphy of this city,
VIII address the great temperance mass meet
ing at Island Grove, Abingdon, Mass, to-day.