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

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Cyrus Leavitt of Turner has sold his hav
to 60 to Boston. II is-to be bailed. Fifty
tons Of hay At present prices will make quite
pretty sum- Mr.. Leavitt has brought his
farm up to its present state of efficiency BY
keeping swine
The peaceful citizens Of Greene we're
disturbed one night lately by most frightful
and prolonged bowling from the engine of
the night freight train. The wood sawyers
IN car on the side track we're suddenly
brought from their hu1ks and rushed, half
dressed, to the wood shed to find that fire
from their eugine had caught in some wood
and chips near by and partially destroyed the
frame work on which their engine stood
few buckets Of wafer stopped the progress of
the flames, which in few minutes longer
would have caused a warm time, as there
we're about 500 cords of dry wood in the she'd
The Lewiston Journal says; Bread really
means the s'staff of life" to the French
Canadians. II is the larger part of the daily
food Of most Of them. On Lincoln street
alone there are five bakeries. which make be-
tween three and four thousand loaves a week,
and they are not the dainty loaves which the
uptown bakers serve to their customers.
They are big, square, double loaves, that
contain between five and six good pounds
each. 1t takes but fifty of these loaves to
consume a barrel of flour. and some of the
French bakers make 600 loaves a week,
each.
CUMBERLAND.
The News saws that Marshall Jordan and
Albion kimball, of Harrison, have contract
ed to furnish 500, 900 feet of spool strips for
Portland parties. The timber is to be pro-
cured in Casco, Norway, Waterford. Sweden,
etc, and will be sawed at Casco. They con-
tinue doing a smart business in spool strips
and shook, and have four men employed At
Norway making shook.
For four weeks thirty-two oxen and steers
have been fed on ensilage made of corn cob.
and husks Of sweet corn, at J. W. Jones
Co.'S corn factory at Bridgton In eight DAYS
the eighteen oxen, it was found. had gained
an aggregate of l,065 pounds The greatest
gain of one pair was l20 pounds, and the next
highest pair, ! 10 pounds.
There is scarcity of water in Harrison,
and the mills and factories at the village are
nearly all run BY steam, and probably will
have to be, all winter.
A reduction of fifty cents day has caused
the lime burners of Rockland to again strike,
and last Monday morning they quit work in
body and refused to work for less than two
dollars day, claiming that as lime had not
declined to any extent. and provisions had
not fallen, wages should remain the same.
Most of the kilns have run down, some hav
ing large stock of lime on hand Others
needed repairs.
LINCOLN.
At Alma, the river is all open and there is
not enough frost in the ground to prevent
seine of the farmers from doing their winter
blowing.
The failure o: the porgie fishery has caused
quite an exodus from +. Boothbay. No less
than twenty families have moved away
within two years.
SAGADAHoC.
The Fort Popham Summer Resort Associa-
ton was recently formed under the laws of
this State for the purpose of improving the
property at Fort Popham and making it one
ofthe most popular summer resorts on the
coast. Over 81 900 of stock was taken on the
spot at the meeting of the Association in Bath
last Monday. The capital stock of the Asso-
citation is $50 900 and is sold in ten dollar
shares. none of which will be disposed of ex-
cept at par valre.
Smells are said to be very plenty in Win
negance creek, Phipsburg.
WAsHINGTON.
Iubec renorts tho noorest cron of potatoes
over known and that wheat has not been a
success.
Passports highest temperature in Nov,
according to the L. s. Signal Service obser
vations, was on the Sd and 4th, 81 degrees
tho lowest was ON the 2stb degrees. The
greatest velocity of wind was on the latter
date n w "a miles per hour.
The Sentinel savs:IA LARGE number of
Was,arr passoIs ,re still in This v;c;,;tv after