Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-03
NO. 3.

that in your wisdom you may be able to en-
body the principles upon which they are
based in the form of law that would be prac-
ticable in its operation, and commend itself
to the judgement Of the people.
SAVINGS BANKs.
The present number of Savings Banks do.
ing business in the State is fifty four; FIVE
having organized during the year.
Whole amount Of deposits S26, IL "a, 1853 03
being an increase of SO, ,3e6, $50 5s since the
last report.
The Bank Examiner states that the total
amount of deposits in the Savings banks OF
the State exceeds the total Of the capital, cir
aulation and deposits of all the National
banks in the State by nearly two million dol
lars
| REFORM School.
| The mana cement of the Reform School i.
generally satisfactory.
The Trustees report that the farming oper.
atoms have been unusually successful-health
| of inmates remarkably good and the prog
ress in the School commendable.
Whole numter in the school one hundred
and forty.
| SWEDISH IMMIaRATroN.
The number of our Swedish immigrants
has been increased during the past year, by
the arrival Of three hundred immigrants, who
came without any promise of aid by the State,
to Join their countrymen.
| This increases the immigration from Swe.
| den to thirteen hundred, about one half of
whom are in New Sweden. The others are
variously employed in other parts of the
State. The colonists have built ono hundred
houses and eight barns. They have erected
and put in operation one saw mill and two
steam shingle mills. They have now in the
colony seventeen horses, sixteen oxen and
seventy six cows. During the year they have
paid S2,o40.o0 towards the supplies furnished
them, in labor on the roads. Thirty miles of
roads in the township ara now passable.
school of seventy or eighty scholars, In which
the English language exclusively Is taught.
has been sustained about four months Of the
year and is now in successful operation.
I The large amount of rain and wet weather
of the past season has made the clearing Of
land and harvesting of crops somewhat diff
cult IN the older portion Of the State; but IL
New Sweden, where the clearings are neces
! sarilly small and where more rain has fallen
than in the sou;herly and westerly portions Of
the State, It has been with very great dificl-
ty that land could be cleared or crops proper.
y harvested Two-thirds of the land intend.
red for crops in 1872 remains uncleared on this
account. They, however, succeeded in SOW
ing one hundred and eighty-seven bushels of
spring wheat, and planting eight hundred and
seventy bushels ofpotatoes, besides win.
ter wheat, rye, oats, barley and other crops.
This is only abou. one-third of what they
would have sown and planted if the season
had been as favorable as the average. II
would have been sufficient however to place
the colonists above want if the season had
been ordinarily favorable but the long con-
tinued rain caused the wheat to rust and the
potatoes to rot, so that not more than halt
crops were realized
In a letter to me dated Nov. IS, 1879, signed
by committee in behalf of the colonis,s,
they express great disappointment on accoun,
of their inability to clear more land and the
partial failure of their crops, but they do not
appear discouraged They acknowledge with
gratitude the aid the State has given them.
They say they are Injured to labor and ready
to work; thai they are acquiring knowledge
of our language and customs and striving to
gain knowledge of our form of government,
'na. .t ",'en .'ss tecese .iia rish's ol eI'.
children. They predict that New Sweden
within ten years will by means of natural in
crease and immigration, number its citizens by
| thousands. \ large portion of these people
came on our invitation. They have done the
best they could, the failure of their crops is
| Hu iauil VI lieHs. " L ulust NOT a!!uW l'teIh
to suffer. The Report of the Board and Com
missioner of Immigration, containing a coni
plete statement of the condition efthe colony
will he laid before yon at an early day.
| p,.,,,cr,x,
ne report ol Tue Lana Agent makes
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statad ,hat na,,a ar"a. 80 ,o' ..; .;. aiso
nar,;a, ns r. 80. as .u,s.ns si',io.' y"
p',,'" Pa pa;,,ro, Cs '@ ~ perni's non'
60 i'ai'"" INV ~ Eo"pa'y' ins'e parties were
aaa. 49, u"e ~ nonce, plocee"eu asaihs. g ,res-
PaSsea' rn;' "tculuins r 10 .e provisions OF law;
".' ""s ,o,'o"1u oy ac.'o. against the Lahd
Tsent anu 'ne snerin oi AfoostooK county.
; TWO o' .nese cases, invoiving the questions al
M ls'ue oet"een t''e oNi'e anu Tue naliway con'
pany' 'ie 10 oe "isueu al lne IL" 'er"' 10 Dc
''o'"e" III bangor III june next
FIsHHRlEs.
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h"' irP9i' VI we .o'ii'li'ssioueFs Q. risii.
suggestions are made for the restoration Of