Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-28
Miseellat1eons.
STATE NEWS.


| Quite crowd of people gathered to see
the breaking of the ground on the Lewiston
& Auburn railroad, Tuesday, and cheered
the workmen with will.
paper box mandatory is soon to be es-
tablished in Portland, by two young men
| from Boston.
Messrs. Little, Smith & Co. are putting in
to their shoe factory in Auburn an eighteen
horse power Exeter Machine Company's sec.
tional boiler, for heating purposes. They
have just added to their factory patent
screw elevator, moved by steam.
Mr.. Roderick Mcleod, proprietor of sa-
loon ir Pickering square, Bangor, died very
suddenly Thursday morning while sitting in
a chair at his boarding house. He was ma
tive Of Prince Edwards Island, unmarried
and about SO years of age. Congestion Of
the lungs is supposed to have been the cause
| OF his death.
Mr.. Russell LeBaron of Harrison has
tried the experiment of keeping hens for
profit. In one year he has received from 20
hens over $50 for eggs alone, to say nothing
of the chickens which he fattened and sold
Mr.. LeBaron fully believes that poultry keep
ing pays.
The North Star says that W. NJ. Cyr, who
married the widow of the late Gilman Savage
of Fort Kent, and who lives on the farm re-
| Gently occupied by him. raised over thous-
and bushels of grain the last season and cut
80 tons of hay.
| movement has been begun for the organ.
ization of division of Sons Of Temperance
| in Calais.
merchant who has lived in Fort Kent for
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that twelve years ago no less than $4,000
worth of spirituous liquors were brought an
Iually above Great Falls and consumed by
the people living on the waters of the Upper
st. John. Now he thinks there is not more
than tenth part as much as at that time,
and he attributes the reform in q degree to
the influence of the priests in that region
They are anxious to have the laws against
the sale of intoxicating liquors vigorously
enforced.
A new cornet band has been organized at
Castine, ,.under the leaders hip of Mr.. William
Lawrence.
The Bangor Whig says the Watson boys,
who assaulted the teacher at Basin Mills on
Tuesday, have been put under bonds to keep
the peace for six months.
Great numbers of deer are falling victims
to the hunters in the northern and eastern
parts of the State, says the Whig, this season
and nearly every day load of venison is
brought to that city. Forty-seven carcasses
of deer killed at Nicatous lake, weighing in
all over a ton and half, went to Boston Fri.
i day, via Bangor.
James Goodwin caught three pound pick
erel in Long pond the other day, the right eye
of whiclSHas blind Nothing remarkable in
that but when, in little while, he pulled
out another pickerel which had likewise a
blind right eye, he and his companions wore
completely mystified over the singular coin
cidence.
The North Star says the high school at
Frenchville, established and carried forward
by the determined energy of Rev. Charles
Sweron, priest of the parish of st. Luce, has
now three efficient female teachers and ninety
two pupils, mostly young ladies, fitting fer
teachers. By constant exercises on the black
board in translating from English to French
and from French to English, the pupils are
making rapid progress in the acquisition Of
the English language. This is the largest
school at the present time in Aroostook coun-
ty. twill psDbably be still larger when the
district schools in the neighboripg towns have
closed, so that teachers and pupils are at lib
erty to join the high school.
Mr.. Samuel Packard of Hebron, an old
man over 20 years Of age, who lost his wife a
few months since, was found in his house on
Sunday the 10Th in benumbed and almost
insepsbe condition. After he was resusci-
tated he said that he had been without dre or
food for four days and that his inactivity was
caused by ride in the cold and ON returning
took his bed which he has occupied during
the time. He died in few hours however
from the result Of this privation and exposure
He had ample pecuniary means for his sup.
port.