The Portland daily press., 1880-07-27
BRUNSWICK LOCALS.

MONDAY, July 26.
A husband advertised his wife in the Tee-
graph as having left his bed and board. She
retaliated by advertising that the bed was her
property and that all the worldly goods he pos
sessed was a table and four chairs.
J. w. Forsaith, ESQ.,. is on the street again,
having been confined to his house a week from
the surgical operation of having an eye ex-
tracted at the Maine State Hospital.
Major Nathaniel Dunning died at Durham
last week, aged SO years. Major d. was a ma
tive and long resident of this town. While
residing here he filled several town and mill
tary offices, and was esteemed worthy citi-
zen. He belonged to long-lived family, his
father having lived to be 93 years of age, and
his brother, Col. J. A. Dunn ing, died last
winter, aged "a.
Two and half inches of rain has fallen
here since the 18th inst, and all kinds of veg
citation is looking finely.
The bridge committee have concluded to
build new, straight iron bridge across the
river at the foot of Main street, if it can be
done without paying land damages.
The hoisting of the name of the box factory
attracted q crowd in front of the building Sat
urday. The name Dunlap Block" is cut ON a
granite block about Is feet in length, and the
letters gilded with gold leaf and placed on the
side fronting Main street. The dimensions of
the building are l5S144 feet. three stories in
in size to the story blow and is well lighted by
windows in the roof. The front of the lower
the remainder of the building occupied by the
Dennison Co. for the manufacture of various
kinds of pasteboard boxes, and will afford en-
ployment for three hundred hands. The
structure was erected by the Messrs. Philbrook
OF Lisbon, OF brick and is substantial and
imposing block and an ornament to Main
street. The walls are already up and the roof
on. The contract was to complete the build
ing in ninety days, and will be fulfilled within
the specified time.
The dull weather during the latter part of
last week caused lots of hard work by our
farmers Sunday in curing their hay, but it
was no excuse for thousand other people 60
ing blueberrying on that day.
The impression abroad is that Brunswick is
dull, quiet place, but such is not the fact.
There has been more building here within the
past five years than in any other town of equal
size in the State, and our mechanics have
found steady employment aud good wages
during the building season. At the present
time there are more than one hundred me-
chanics from other towus finding steady en-
ployment in this village.
Commercial TRAVELLERS for wholesale houses
say that they sell more goods and make less
bad debts in this place than in any other town
Of equal population in the State.
The census shows that 1900 Canadians have
located in the village within the last decade,
most of whom find employment in the cotton
factory.
A case of diphtheria at the hotel at Cundy's
harbor caused all the guests to leave the
house.
The Whitten and Stone privileges at the
south end of the upper falls have been sold to
the Cabot Manufacturing Co. They now have
entire control of the upper falls, which is one of
the best and largest water powers in the State.