Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-09
pailp kennebrr 5ournal.
state News.

The store of f. W. Wcbbrr. at West Dur
ham, was entered Tuesday night and about
hundred dollars worth of goods stolen.
The house Of Mr.. Allen Weeks was also en-
tered, but not anything of amount taken.
Joseph Pummer, a farmer of Durham, sue
ceeded the other night in capturing two burg
lars, who had made raid on his y itc', ra,p-
berry jam.
A little girl named Baxter. while gathering
chips in HOgan's ward, Bath. got under the
axe of one of the carpenters. aud received a
severe cash on the head, laying the skull bare
for nearly four inches.
Two hundred and siXty-thrcc vessels OF all
kinds, engaged in the coastwise trade. arrived
at the port of Bath during July. 1879; the
aggregate tonnage of which amounted to
is,i31 tons. The number of men employed
On the same vessels was 40. 4 large ma
iority of these vessels a few coal loaded and
many lighter passed up for Richmond Dres-
den, Gardiner. Pttston and Farmingdalc, to
load ice lumber or stone for southern ports.
Bath Times
The schooner Irene arrived in Portland
from Woods tIarbor, Wednesday. with Il
cargo of 600 boxes of canned HOLSTERS for
the Portland Packing Company. There are
twenty-four cans in box. each containing
canned HOLSTERS. These wcr, canned at
Woods Harbor and Clark's lIarbor
The appointment of Gen. W. II. Baldwin
of Cincinnati, Judge Advocate General of
the Grand Army of the Republic OF the Uni
ted States, is well meritcd compliment To
an able lawyer and gallant soldier. II is an
office which has been filled by some of the
ablest jursts, as well rs most distinguished
soldiers of the country. Gen Baldwin is
Maine man, born in New Sharon, and cdu-
Gated at Waterville in the class of ls55.-
Portland Adre,fiser.
This week the Auburn shoe factories have
shipped l,773 cases of goods. and have re-
ceived $500 pounds of leather The total
shipments exceed those of last week by lj6
cases, and those of the CORES ponding week
of last year by il6 cases. This is fair show
ing of what resumption is doing all along the
line. Every factory is rushed with work, and
making large shipments daily The fall
run has fairly started, and there can be no
room for doubling that this fall business
will be an unusually good one for the shops.
-LeWiSon yoH,Wdi
The Norway cheese factory appears tn have
at last been arranged upon a sound financial
basis, and is doing the work for our farmers
which it ought to have done from the start.
~ VIII ttct lHls StuSbH dbOuI one cent per
pound to make the cheese heretofore ii has
cost about three cents.-.Ner Religion.
The origin of the recent serious fire in
Houlton, has been. As usual. amatter of much
discussion and some controversy, hut is gen
orally believed TO have been caused nv smok-
ing in the Swanton stable, as a fishing party
had started out from there some fifteen min
ntes before the fire broke out.
Sugar beets are looking finely in Somerset
county. With nearly all of our farmers this
crop is an experiment this year. There are
some IS acres planted in thi, town and Nor
ridgewock, Fairfield and Arson each have
about the same quantity howhegaa Re-
porter.
The blueberry crop OF western Washington
county has for several year, amounted to
over 500, 600 each year. The frost in June
injured the crop thi, year Fastpot Seoti-
net