Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-20
DaiIp Kennrtsr .journaI.
State News.
ANpRosCoGGIN.

Messrs j. A. Buckman & Co. of Mechanic
Falls do an extensive work the present sea-
son, in the manufacture of garments for Bos-
ton parties. They furnish work for no less
than sixteen hundred women and girls, at
their homes. and now want one thousand al
ditional. They manufacture from $4,000 to
100. ZOO coats and pants annually. This year
they will exceed the figure. The garments
are all cut in Boston, and forwarded to Me-
chanic Falls, and sent by Messrs. Buchanan
& Co., by teams to their employees in all the
surrounding towns, including radius OF
twenty miles or more-reachng from Free
port to Dixfeld, and from Turner and Au-
bum to the Sebago Lake. Nearly S5o,oo
are paid out annually by the firm for this
kind of work.
w. W. Whitcomb of Boston, has large
boot and shoe mandatory at Mechanic Falls,
which employs nearly $50 hands, and is run
ming full force at the present time.
A company of young musicians have been
formed recently in Lewiston. They will APP
pear with the title of Boomers Serenaders.
Their first tour will be through the Middle
and Western States.
SAGADAHoc.
The dog licenses pay about $500 into the
Bath city treasury.
This year Bath has three scholars in Yale,
one in Harvard one in Wesleyan. one in
Rochester University, three in Worcester.
and two in the Boston Medical School, and
one at West Point.
Woolwich was purchased of the Indians
nearly two centuries ago for one load OF
pumpkins and a quantity Of rum.
WALDO.
One hundred and fifty workmen are now
a. Eran az
Pierce, Rowe & Co.
More building and improvement is going
forward in Brooks this fall than for a long
time before
HANCOCK.
The important event of the last week al
Bucksport has been the running of passen-
ger train on thu Bucksport road, the second
narrow gauge railroad in Maine The en-
tire rolling stock is new Engine, passenger
and baggage cars were made in Philadelphia.
All the freight cars were made in Camden,
Me. The passenger car is a beauty. 1t is
furnished with all modern Improvements,
runs with but little friction, almost no jar
ing, and delights all who take a trip therein.
The baggage, express and post office car
contains every convenience desired. The
engine "R. p. Buck" is about one-third the
usual weight, burns coal and does its work
in q satisfactory manner. 1t is expected the
road will be under contract for Ellsworth and
then on TO Calais.
CUMBERLAND.
Miss Susan A. King, native of Gorham,
who has made half million dollars or more
in real estate investments in New York, is
making vigorous canvass against Gov. Rob-
ins0n. Her opposition to Gov. Robinson is
simply based on his veto of the Woman's
School Bill in 1877, which asked that "any
woman at the age of 81 years and upward and
possessing the qualifications prescribed for
men, should be eligible to any Office under
the general or special school laws Of New
York State" This is the bill that Gov.
Robinson vetoed, on the plea that school
boards are not "w0man's sphere"
The Maine Beet Sugar Company have fifty
men at work on the right hand side of the
transfer station, at Portland trenchng some
ten acres of upland. This upland is of sandy
soil and the men are gridironing it with
trenches feet wide. 80 inches Deep and 100
feet long. The beets are delivered from the
cars right alongside of these pits, which are
then filed with them. The beets are heapcd
up thirty inches high above the surface, and
slanting toward the side OF the pits. and are
then covered to few inches in depth nth hay,
and six inches of soil. Before the freezing
weather comes the beets will be covered with
Is inches additional soil taken from the sides
of the trenches. which are thoroughly drained.
The trenches are also ventilated every fifteen
feet SO as to cast the moisture off from the
beets. The idea of these trenches is to keep
the beets cool and dry until needed. track,
connecting all the railroads running into
Portland, runs to the sugar-house from these
trenches. While these trenches are being
vxPon md tho hnats To-. 10,
quantities by wagons and vessels, and are
taken to the washing machines. The reports
from the country show that crop of bcets
at the rate of POO tons day will be provided
sufficient to run the factory 100 days, and
possibly three or four months Work COM
mence with the new machinery Saturday.
week ago Friday evening a number of
students, largely from the Junior class at
B0wd0in, began to disturb the Freshmen
when they were dispersed by certain men,
bers of the Faculty. In consequence,
two Juniors and one Senior, have been sus-
pended.
Friday Gov. Garcelon and Council visited
the State Reform School and inspected that
institution. There are 1873 boys in the school
and oil seemed happy and doing well.
KENNEBEc.
The farm buildings of Mr.. Eugene A.
Drummond, in Waterville, were burned
Thursday night. 1t is not known how the
fire originated, the family being aroused from
sleep and finding the house all on fire. A
few articles of furniture were saved, and the
stock in the barn was got out, but the most
Of the contents of house and barn, including
hay~aad other crops, were destroyed
MrsHenry Wentwor well remembered
Waterville boy, who has found employment
on RAILROADS and steamboats, in several ives
tern States, has returned from Wyoming Ter.
ritory, after an absence ofseven years.
Several families, numbering more than 90
individuals have left, or about to leave, the
vicinity of Winslow's Mills, for localities
west of Maine.
VIM. Kitchen of China aged II, whose
sight for many years needed the aid of spec
tacles, has recently had it so restored as to
read fine print unaided-a freak Of nature
which sometimes occurs.
PESoBscoT
Hon. ID. +. Davis our next Governor. ar
rived home from Ohio last Tuesday evening
and found little daughter added to his fam
lily.