Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-06-16
State News.
ANpROscoGGIN.

The Journal says: The cigar-maker in
Lewiston belonging to the cigar-makers'
union, struck Monday. in three or four shops
they demand an increase in wages OF one
dollar per thousand. They have been rcceiv-
ing So. 81 and $40 per thousand. for the sew
eral kinds The shops have few men at
work, who are not members of the union and
have good stock of cigars on hanl- They
refuse to accede TO the strikers demands
The Lewiston Assessors of Taxes nave
completed their footings. and fixed Lewiston's
taxes for the coming year. The va!uarinn of
the city is as follows: real estate. - 45o. .fs3
personal property. 81 .479. ~ total. 80 a30.-
i01. The whole number of polls i> 3 226
The rate of taxation will be 22i mills and the
total tax is S233, lI2 l5. The total appro-
priations are S22s, s35 2s alowing a surplus
of over 81 900.
AROoSTooK.
The Pioneer SAYS: The recent inventory
taken By the tax assessors of the town of
Houlton shows 404 houses, 66 stores and
shops. 40:, barns. saw-mils. 4 shingle mills
gr:st mills. plaster mills, wooden mill.
starch factories, / tannerv, bark extract
mandatory. foundry, cheese factories,
planning mills, carriage and paint shops,
III blacksmith shops, livery stables,
iotSiS- Ncstifts. y etfipDi-nOusts.
academy | court house. Jail. engine
houses. steam laundry. IL store houses. l
skating rink. 3 slaughter houses. printing
offices, and railroad depot Total, 966.
CUMBERLAND.
The Press saws F. o. Bailey & Co. have
sold lot on Congress street, next to Levi
Weymouth estate, containing 600 square
feet, to l.. NJ. Webb. for cents per foot; al
so lot on easterly corner OF Portland and Car
ter streets, containing 1000 square feet. to
Elias Thomas, for II cents a foot; and lot in
rear of homestead. containing 24.OO0 feet, to
Elias Thomas for p cents foot. For this
property 20 cents foot was refused year
ago at auction.
FRANKLIN.
The Lewiston Journal SAYS: Mr.. Plum
mers crew of river drivers were camped at
Jaw Bridge, the 18th. The Steam Mill Co.,
at Jay Bridge will swing their boom at once.
They have two hundred thousand feet of sap
ling pine in side boom in the main river at
Canton. The drive will be under charge of
Chas. Crafts.
TIE cheese factory at Dixfeld is receiving
upwards of one ton of milk daily. Not for
five years has the factory started up with so
good prospect as this year. 1t has run
down somewhat in the past, but it is once
more on its feet and is doing good business
this year.
The Democrat says that c. NJ. Daley of
So. Paris, proposes to enlarge his shoe fac
tory.
The Cannon Brothers at Sumner. have
got off large amount of hand rakes, most
of which were shipped to Portland,
PENoBsCor.
The Whg saws that Rossie Bradford. wife
of fireman Bradford of Lee, a young lady of
about % years, was found hung in the barn
on the morning of Saturday June l. She had
been for several years sick, bed-ridden wO-
man, and ill-health and di.pondency rather
than instantly seem to be the cailse of her
suicide. Mr.. Bradford her husband. went
to California, last spring, his tannery having
been burnt out last fall. She left two chill
dren, the youngest child of about a year
and half old.
WASHINGTON.
The Union says: Seven tons of quartz con-
tanning copper were shipped from the Gard
ner Lake Copper Mine, Col. French, Super
intendent. Quite large crew are at work,
including three or four old miners of expert
ence. The vein promises to be one Of more
than ordinary value.
YORK
There are to be two dailv papers at Old
Orchard, this season. The Biddeford Times
will issue an Old Orchard edition, at )
O'Clock, called the s'Sea She'll" The "Sea-
side Reporter" published last year, by w.
S. Noyes. will be published by Prescott of
the Union & journal. Mr.. b. will have his
beach and Biddeford offices connected by tel
ephone. and will send his latest news to the
compositors over the wires. There is some
talk, also, of starting a morning paper.
The Argus says that Sunday night horse,
carriage and harness were stolen from the
stable of Stephen Sawyer on the Buxton
road, Saco. The horse was quite valuable.
No trace of the thief has yet been found.