Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-30
State News.
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ASDRoscoGGIN.
One of the most successful farmers of
Lewiston is Mr.. Strout. the well-kno~n butter
maker. Last year he kept seven cows and
made l, $50 pounds of butter This year he
has kept six cows and has made l.525 pounds
Of butter At the present time he has only
three cows; they make 80 pounds of butter
. week, and he sells it easily at thirty cents
per pound.
Mrs. James Dingley of Auburn. is failing
rapidly and is not expected to survive many
DAYS.
Rev. Mr.. Perry of Auburn, in his last
summers walks found 400 varieties of wild
flowers and pla,ts in the vicinity Of Lewis
ton.
The December civil term of the Auburn
Municipal Court opened Tuesday morning.
ARoosTOOk.
The Commercial saws that Messrs. F. Shaw
& Bros. have recently completed their hem
lock bark extract mill in Sherman This is
the second mill of the kind built in this
country. The mill is $50 #. by 4S #. and
furnishes employment for fourteen men. The
mill is of sufficient capacity to work 5000
cords of bark per year. The company expect
to work about 5000 cords. This gives em-
plovment to quite number of men in sum
mer, pealing bark. and will make an i'm
portant addition to business, winters, In
hauling the same to the mill. Already the
bark teams are coming in from all directions.
George Edwards, the fasting prisoner in
Houlton Jail, s'still lives although he has
swallowed nothing except water since Nov.
3Oth. on which day he took very small
quantity of chicken broth. He has been
visited several times during the past week
bv DIR. Walker, who reports every little
change in his phvical condition. He still
adhears to his first proposition, viz: suicide
by starvation.
CUMBERLAND.
Saturday, Mr. Bean of Gorham. let horse
and carriage to two young men. On the way
to Portland they stopped to inquire their way
at house when the horse started and ran.
The team has been traced to Cape Elizabeth
but cannot be found.
The Maine Beet Sugar Company are re-
moving the machinery from their building to
New York. 1t is impossible to get beets
enough raised in Maine to run the factory in
Portland.
Spruce lumber is now quoted at SIG per
thousand at Portland.
There came from Canada. Friday, over
the Grand Trunk railway to Portland, for
shipment to Europe, six cheese, the average
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two pounds.
Mr.. A. F. Richardson, principal of the
High school at Bridgton, has Just purchased
Of Benz Pike, Son & Co., New York, a fine
astronomical telescope for the use of his
school, The size is five feet focal length
With an object glass four inches in diameter
The school is well furnished with philosoph
zeal apparatus at the expense of the district
A piano, library, and an extensive geological
cabinet for the high school was purchased
with the proceeds of school entertainments
HANCOCK.
Messrs. j. & r. Holmes, lumber dealer:
of Ellsworth, have shipped to New York the
present season. million slaves, $50 thou
sand pairs of turned heads, 500 thousand feel
long lumber, and 200 thousand shingles.
DIR. Alpheus F. Page, a prominent citizen
of Bucksport11je ed Tuesday at one o'clock, a. m
from hip disease; his age was fifty-five years
Flags in Bucksport were flying at half mas
Tuesday out of respect to the deceased.
LINCOLN.
There lives in Pemaquid, little two years
old daughter of Capt. Eugene Sproul, who
has five grand mothers living, two on hel
fathers side and three on her mothers as
follows Mrs. Hannay CoOmbs, "a years old
her daughter, Mrs. Richard Fossett; grand
daughter. Mrs. Marshall Wells great-grand.
daughter. Mrs. Susie Sproul; great-great
grand daughter, Miss. Mildred Sproul. Or
her fathers side; her grandmother, Mrs
Mary Thurston; great-grand-mother, Mrs
John Sproul, in her ninetv-frst year. She
has only one grandfather, Mr.. Richard Eos
sett.- Village Herald.
PENOBsCor.
10 -, H.
Crosby's yard Bangor, for Capt. Pendleton
now of the schooner VIM. Flint. She will
be between three and four hundred tons, ant
a fine vessel in all respects.
The boot and shoe dealers of Bangor have
unanimously agreed to close their places Of
business at six p. NJ, during the months Of
January. February and March. 1881. Satur
days excepted
Tuesday afternoon, Dec. %. about o'clock
a bright little fellow named Harry Donnelly
between six and seven years of age, was
sliding backw ards on sled, in the rear OF
the house, holding in his hand a pointed in.
strument about two feet long and called in
foundries event wire;' in attempting tc
make his sled go a little faster. the boy ir
some way dropped the wire, in such q man
ner that the point pierced the lower part o.
his back on the right side and came out or
the right side of the abdomen, the wire pass
ing entirely through the body. The wire
which was quite rusty, was extracted by the
plucky boy himself. The two openings Of
the wound were found to be eleven inche.
apart. 1t was reported Tuesday night that the
boy was comparatively comfortable, though
he was not expected to survive the injury
Bangor Wing.
J. Winslow Jones proposes to erect corr
canning shop the coming year at Hiram
Bridge, provided three hundred acres of corr
can be obtained. Upwards of 200 acres are
already contracted.
A. & p. B. Young of Hiram, are intending
to cut and put into the Saco this winter. g..
500, 900 feet of hemlock and spruce timber
with two crews, one on the Hiram and Den
mark lot and the other at Fryeburg.
The tallest hog story that we have heard
this season, is that OF Mr.. Samuel Keene. Of
East Hebron, who brought a 300-ponnder in
to market at Lewiston, Tuesday forenoon
Mr.. Keene got up early enough to kill the
pig, dress it, and drive twelve miles to mar
ket, arriving at nine clock the same morn
ing-arriving before the porker got cold.
J. B. Fellows of Fryeburg. has just com.
pleted a good steam saw and grist mill. and
will, in a few days, have all the machinery
in and ready for work. He manufactures a
large amount of bobbins from white birch
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