Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-15
state. News.
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There was a good snow fall at East Auburn.
Monday night.
Bark has been very scarce this season on
account of the lack of sleighing. and the tan
merry in Auburn. has been verv shost OF stock
Al times. Bark is highs per corl.
According to the Lewiston Journal. Mrs.
Joan Haskell OF Auburn is one al the hes
educated women in the state She Is we'll
' rsed in conchslogy, geology, oTnithngrar.ty,
astronomy botany, and classics. mviholosiss 5.
&c. &c She has accumulated Il library (
900 volumes. including many rare aud rain-
able works Mrs Haskell Is about 80 years
old, and has acquired her education since her
marriage. without the aid of teachers. She
was born in Cape Elizabeth.
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dee. l2. and no snow" saws the Pioneer
and adds: According 10 the St. John News,
there is plenty of snow in the woods on the
Upper ST. John and its branches, and the
lumbermen are now fairly at work. The
amount of lumber which will be cut on the
Upper ST. John this winter is estimated o.,
g. 500, 900 feet. This does not include the
operations on the Aroostook and the Tobique,
which are properly on the Upper St. John,
and which will swell the aggregate to not less
than 90, 900, 600 feet.
Houlton potato BUYERS complain Of 4
scarcity Of cars to transport potatoes to Bos-
ton where prices have taken a sudden rise in
consequence of a scarcity in the market.
CUMBERLAND.
The Bath Times says: A new printing es-
adjustment is to be located in Brunswick
shortly, by John Dixie OF this city. for the
publication of the Brunswick Herald, local
newspaper which he has been running few
months, but printed by f. Upton & Son OF
this city. II is his intention to have the es-
tablishme mt running by the first of January.
Eight deaths in Portland, last week.
KESNEBEc.
The .ixty-second annual catalogue of Col
by University is published. II shows total
of 1872 students in the college, 81 seniors, 81
juniors, SO sophomores and 80 freshmen. A
special arrangement has been made, whereby
students obliged to be absent teaching can
make up back work
Hubbard, Blake & Co.'S shop, at West
Waterville, is being rapidly rebuilt. The
same company are building large edge tool
shop at the upper end of the town. The other
axe and scythe shops are run day and night.
Merrill Clark of Chelsea, received severe
injuries Saturday. He was hauling wood
with pair of horses, and while coming
through his pasture his horses ran away and
threw him out. One shoulder was dislocated
and he received serious internal injuries.
KNOX.
The Rockiand Courier says 1t is estimated
among appropriations for harbors and public
works, that Rockland should have sos, 900,
for the improvement of the harbor. This
sum will give us very handsome break
water, which with it can be completed at an
early day. Our harbor has become place
of refuge for storm bound vessels, and all we
need is the breakwater to render it still
more desirable anchorage.
OXFORD.
The Democrat saws Rankns, Young & Co.,
Gilbert Hodson, Henry S. Raymond and
Chas. l.. Hodson all have commenced on
their respective jobs and are ready as soon as
snow will permit, to begin hauling from their
'-yards"to the river bank at Mexico. Rankins
Young & Co.. have purchased the 'Mott
farm" in Byron, and have built dam across
Swift river on the farm to ''iow back a head"
with which to aid in drawing logs when the
river is low.
James Wood Esq of the Lewiston Steam
Mill Co., has bought the A. Q. Reed mill
privilege with the land and buildings thereon.
sOinc az hCTts VI idill btlu- tbNtieu W tic
purchase where he makes headquarters for
his men and teams engaged in numbering on
the West Branch of Swift River. No loaded
teams can cross the Androscoggin below
Bethel, nor above Jay bridge, placing an en-
barge on hauling supplies for the present.
PENoBsCoT.
There have been between 2200 and 2300
arrivals at the port of Bangor during the past
season which have been officially boarded by
the L. s. Customs officer.
correspondent writes the Wing that
Messrs. Danforth & Cary, of Lagrange, have
Just finished threshing over 2000 bushels OF
oats, (ailowing 80 pounds to the bushelO for
Mr.. Banton of that town. The oats were
raised this year on AZ acres of "broken-up'
land, being a yield of AZ bushels per acre.
WASHINGTON.
Deer are plenty up the river in Mllbridge.
Thirty three were taken away at one time by
the steamer Lewiston.
Parties at Calais are talking of reviving
ship building.
The post-offiee at North Baileyville ha.
been discontinued