Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-11-02
state News.
ANpROsCOGGIN.

ANpRosCOGGiN.
In one wear ending Oct. l, $780,, one Au-
burn firm of shoe manufacturers, has shipped
shoes of their own manufacture to single nrm
in Boston, to the amount Of Sl0l, 900.
Sixteen cars day, is the rate at which cot
ton is coming into Lewiston now. About
eight carloads of cotton goods per day have
been forwarded the past week.
ARoosrooK.
The. potato crop this year is immense,
most farmers reporting 800 bushels per acre
as the average yield. Some oi the esculents
are so large that they have TO be extracted
with a stump litter. and the sides hewn on
before they can be got into the big doors OF
the starch factory. Great country for pota-
toes-4roosfook Republican.
There are now 22 starch factories IN full
| blast in Aroostook county. Each factory
uses from 1900 to 1000 of bushels day and
as they run about 90 days the total quantity
| of potatoes used will reach 5000. 900 bushels,
| for which they pay 20 cents bushels.
J. B. Ireland. of Caribou, has shipped to
New York crop of five thousand pounds OF
hops raised by him this wear.
CUMBERLAND.
| Another local paper called the West
brook Telephone is to b published in Sac
carapa.
| Cumberland Bar Association have recon-
mended that Daniel w. Scribner. should be
| removed from the bar, in accordance with
charges against him, for dishonest action in
the Morgan case.
| kETNEBEC.
| On Tuesday, Oct 2G;h.. Mr.. Steven Cobb,
of Searles Mills Pittston, while on one of the
great beams in his barn, slipped and fell to
| the barn floor, a distance of about fourteen
feet. breaking one of his ribs on his left side,
and receiving several other severe bruises.
| W. W. Goodwin. Esq, Of East Corinth,
has taken rooms in Hatch Block. West Wa
terville, where he has opened law office.
| PENOBsCor.
The law firm of Plasted & Smith, of Port
land. of which Governor-elect Paisted is the
senior member, are heavy loses by the failure
of Dresser Mcclellan & Co.. of Portland.
At recent meeting of the Trustees of the
Dexter Savings Bank a unanimous vote was
| passed to instruct Hon. Josiah Crosby, attor-
ney for the Bank, to use every possible
means to bring the Barron case to trial at the
earliest possible time.
| PIsCATAoUIs.
Rev. s. c. Whitcomb, of the F. B. church,
church of Dover have resigned. The latter
has accepted 4 call to preside over the Bap-
tist church at Ottumwa, Iowa.
SAGADAHoC.
Five thousand tons of coal have been ship
ped to Topsham the past season.
WALDO.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Rust editor of the Progress
sive Age. Belfast has been receiving treat
ment at the Maine General Hospital for sew
eral weeks past.
| WASHINGTON.
The damage done to wires in the vicinity
of Eastport by the storm Saturday, Oct. 30th,
is estimated at 5000.
| YORK.
| Mrs. Daniel Libby, of Biddeford while
attempting to cross the street. during the
procession in that city, Wednesday evening
the 9th, was thrown down by one of the
horses, and her hip dislocated.
In machine shop in Kennebunk is Gu
riosity in the shape of steel lathe chip only
| three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and
measuring forty-eight feet and three inches
in length.
| Carlos Heard, Esq. of Biddeford, took be-
tween fifty and sixty pounds of honey from
under the rafters of his house, the other day
large swami Of bees had been allowed to re-
main undisturbed under the eaving for some
years past. and this was the result of their
! labors.
dwelling house at Kittery. owned bv
Lydia D. Dudley, together with a portion Of
the contents, was burned Thursday, Oct. 2Sth.
Loss about $500; partially insured