Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-17
State News
ANDRoscoGGIN

ASDRoscoGGIN.
man caught . piclsssl in Lake Auburn
which contained several salmon, that had
grown to the length of three inches. the Other
day. The fishermen think the salmon are &C
numerous that they will be more than 4 mea]
Tor the pickerel, and they will get some
salmon-fshing in few years.
ARoosTooK.
Twelve Swedes from over the sea. arrived
at Caribou last Tuesday evening. on their
way to New Sweden. New Sweden is grow.
ing rapidly
The Republican remarks: The present
mail facilities for this section need recon.
structing. II it were just and necessary that
1000 people should be subjected to the
delay arising from the present arrangement,
We would utter no protest. but we know tina,
the complaints of our people are we'll founded,
and We ask for redress of grievances in
this respect. Under the present system. our
mails are some % hours between Houlton
and Caribou The outside mail arrives
IN Houlton at about o'clock z. NJ. where
1t Is detained until eight o'clock the next morn
ing, arriving in c. at from to 10 o'clock
the next evening. This delay in Houlton is
unjust and unnecessary.
FRANKLIN
Austin & Sanborn. of Weld, will run their
spool factory night and day after the first of
January.
Trade appears tolerably brisk at Phillips.
Still it is nearly impossible to sell either beef,
oats or potatoes for cash. High priced goods
are what one must take in payment for such
produce. Dealers could buy the lighter kinds
OF beef cattle here at very low figures. Po-
tatoes and oats are fifty cents at barter pay
The Chronicle saws that few days since,
as a surveying party from Phillips was run
ming lines in Avon, two men fell and slid
one ten and the other about forty feet, almost
perpendicularly, from near the summit of
Old Blue. without serou. injury, the instru-
ments which they carried being used to ad-
vantage in breaking the force of the fall
PESOBscor.
The mills on the Penobscot are shipping
lumber TO Massachusetts.
The total receipts of the recent Grand
Army Fair will be not far from S327j.
Thousands Of cords Of wood are piled up
in the country and the owners are waiting
for shedding to haul il in.
A serious accident occurred at A. H. Mer-
rill's quarry in Brownville, on Tuesday after
noon. While the men were at work in the
sink, some of the northern side fell in and
Will NJ. Jones was taken up supposed to be
MORALLY injured. Amasa Stanhope had one
of his feet crushed. Hopes are now enter
tanned that Mr.. Jones will survive.
PIsCArAQUIs.
Diphtheria is prevailing to some extent in
Dover vicinity. The weather has been such
tor few weeks past as to invite this terrible
disease.
Arrangements have all been completed for
the starting up of a wooden factory at East
Dover. The citizens of that place have sub
scribed the necessary Slj00. and the papers
were drawn up and signed last week. 1t
will be ones set mill, will give employment
to some 10 or 20 persons.
YORK.
The Old Orchard Beach Water Co. has
been formed for the purpose of providing the
cottages and hotels at that place with pure
water. 1t is proposed to run pipe from
spring and pond some two miles from Old
Orchard to Pine Point and thence along the
beach to Ferry Village. York Co. The cap
ital of the company is $50, 900.
In fourteen years, four mills have been
built in Sanford. and the foundation for
fifth laid. The saw mill product of slaves
and shocks is largely shipped to Cuba and
the West Indies. Altogether. Sanford is a
smart growing village of 600 inhabitants.
The houses are good. Springvale, another
village in the same town, has some 100 in
habitants, and the business industries are
well represented. 1t is quite place for man.
ufacturing clothing. They have also Il cotton
mill. Two of the mills at Sanford are fitted
to run by steam.