The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-08
STATE NEWS.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.

ARoosTooK COUNTY.
During the month of November there were
shipped from Fort Fairfield 21.000 bushels POI
toes, $50 tons starch, and 100000 shingles be-
sides butter, cheese, mutton and othor general
merchandise in large gu ntities. Potatoes are
now going forward at the rate of 1900 bushels
day. The freighting facilities are much i'm
proved since the widening OF the railroad.
The Pioneer learns that the Maine Central
surveying parties are progressing with their
work satisfactorily. The Pressure Isle party
have reached Masardis, having covered forty
miles. They found an easy route fl ON Pressure
Isle TO Ashland with one excepton,-tive
milAs below the latter town,-where there will
is they will follow the Aroostook valley to Ok
bow eight miles, thence south in the direction
of Patten, a town of considerable Importance,
living upon the east line of Penobseot county,
thirty-tive miles west of Houlton. The DIX
ter party are working their way towards Pat
ten, which they will reach in Two or three
weeks.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Scribners grst mill at Brunswick is running
sixteen hours out of twenty-four- The mill
turned out 5000 barrels of -four, 5000 bushels
of meal, 1000 bushels of OATS and 120 tons OF
cotton seed meal the present year. The pulp
mill has ground up 672 cords of spruce aud 672
cords of poplar wood during the last seven
years, giving total of 1,344 cords
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
A hearing will be given before the Governor
and Council, in the Council Chamber at Au-
gusta, on Thursday the 18th inst, on pc
titions for appointment of county constables
for the enforcement of the law relating to the
sale of intoxicating liquors. All interested
parties are invited to attend.
William ii. Durham, formerly of Augusta,
where he was employed at gas fitting for ten
years by George FL. Cross, was killed recently
by the falling of some heavy rocks, while at
work for the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, on the Columbia river, about 100
miles from Portland Two small rocks struck
him on the head, knocking him down, and a
| large rock weighing 800 pounds rolled on to
| his breast, crushing him to death instantly.
| He was about forty years OF age.
KNOX COUNTY.
| Snow, Farwell & Co. of Rockland to which
| Snow, Pearsons & Co. are the successors, have
| brought suit against Gen. Davis Tillson for all
| legged breach of contract with damages at $780,
| 600. The plaintiffs claim that the defendant
had contract to furnish stone from
| his quarries at Hurricane for the United
| States custom house at St. Louis, and they con-
| tracted to carry it at the rate of $3.50 per ton.
| Under this contract they carried some 5000
tons. Freights then declined very materially,
| SO much SO that the baance-about $4,000 tons
might have been shipped at IS cents per ton.
| sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
| The paper mill in Topsham is running day
| and night, except Sundays and legal holidays,
| and manufacture on an average, 800 super
| fetal feet per minute or 600 superficial
| feet in year, which would cover walk 4
| feet wide and 10022 miles long. Good bust
| ness considering there are but 20 hands en-
| ployed, all told. aThe paper mill consumes
| $500 tons of coal in year.