The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-25
STATE NEWS
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

The price of unimproved wild land in ARGOS.
took county varies from one to Ave dollars an
acre. In Island Falls, 26 miles southwest Of
Houlton. there is, or was recently, no less than
600 acres of excellent land for sale at ST. 80 per
acre, cash down, or nearly so. The town of
Washburne contains 700 acres of very good
land and offers it 10 settlers at 81 80 Per acre .
In Limestone there is some good land, less tina n
ten miles from q railroad station, that can be
bought for 81 per acre.
Our correspondent at Sherman's Mills writes
We are having what We term cold backward
spring, yet when the snow is gone the frost will
b. nearly out of the ground and the soil will
be ready to work. Grass shows quite green
where the snow is gone in wet land. Sherman
is undergoing something of a change in the
farming line. The starch factory has made
demand for potatoes and consequently the
farmers have much more ground suitable for
wheat (for wheat follows potatoes the best of
any CROP and we find wheat taking the place
of oats very generally. 1 copied from the cen.
sus inventory of the selectmen few of the
products of last year in Sherman. find of
wheat, 3O07 bushels, oats 1893 bushels, corn
657 bushels, potatoes, 1884 bushels, apples
1905 bushels. hay 1872 tons, butter 15,446 lbs.
Sherman has the making Gas they say of q
good farming town. During the few years Of
sO.called good times prior to 1873 the farmers
FISHERMAN were largely engaged 10 strppisg
their farms of all the marketable lumber they
might possess; and sold hay and oats, bought
their bread, yes, bought everything almost
which they consumed. Since that time they
have been gradually driven to depend on their
soil for their bread, and now good part OF the
farmers raise their own bread aud meal; and
think have no desire for those glorious days of
high prices for which some seem to be longing.
The farmers of Maine are more independent
today than ever before since the war, and with
firm hand at the financial wheel of govern
ment we look for prosperity and increasing
comfort on the farm.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
1t is reported that large amount of stock of
the "Waukeag Silver Mining Company" of
Jay Gould. 1t is also rumored that the
"Waukesg' and the Sullivan Silver Mini pg
Company are to be consolidated.
WALDO COUNTY.
Capt Josiah G. Staples of Stockton commit.
ted suicide on Friday last by hanging himself
in his barn. He was 81 years of age and not
married.
Richmond Heagan of Stockton. son of Capt.
John Heagan, was quite seriously wounded in
the knee, by the accidental discharge of gun
in the hands of two other boys, on Saturday
afternoon last. The three boys we're out gun
ming with one gun; one was In the act of firing,
when the other approached him, and bringing
it down, when it was discharged, striking
young Heagon in the knee.
Sanford Howard has been bound over at
Belfast for an indecent assault on q little girl
but four and q half years of age.
Rev. Mr.. Crowninshied has accepted the
call of the Unitarian church and society 10
Belfast and hopes to begin his labors the first
of June.
w. Mellen Higgins of Thorndike, at Belfast
Jail for assaultiDg his mother.in-law, has been
examined by two Belfast physicians and pre-
nounced insane. The examination was ordered
BY the Governor, and the insane man will be
taken to Augusta.