Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-30
state News.


/ ARoosTooK.
/ There is a force of sixty men at work
blasting rocks in Wissatroquoit stream.
Sherman, and clearing it ont for driving pur-
poses. They charge a dozen rocks al a time.
| The reports are distinctly heard the distance
of twenty miles, and follow each other in
quick succession. resembling distant cannon
aiding. 1t is estimated that there are e1o.-
0O0. 900 feet of lumber to be driven out of
the stream, and that it will take ten wears
to cut it.
| CUMBERLAND.
| At the Scarboro and Cape Elizaherh fair is
| exhibited grass from the land reclaimed hy
dykes in Scarboro. 1t is six feet high, and
cuts TO tons to the acre.
Joseph Parker of Freeport planted the
stone of peach he was eating, a few years ago.
and this year he gets three bushels of delic
| ious peaches from the tree.
| HANCOCK
| Rev. Chas. 2. Lombard has offered his
| resignation as pastor of the Unitarian church
in Ellsworth, TO take effect the 3oth instant
Mr.. and Mrs. Lombard. during their stay of
| three years in Ellsworth, have made hosts
of friends, and their departure will be very
generally regretted. Ellsworth american.
Each year lime is shipped more and more
by rail. and less by water. from Rockland.
| The Cobb Lime Co. last week sent % car
loads BY rail.
The grand jury from Knox county has in
dicted Charles Smith tor numbering his baby
| and mother-in-law. and the boys Richards
and Grose for killing Willie Cain at Rock
port.
OyEnPn
S. A. Thurlow, A. NJ, formerly principal
of Goulds Academy, Bethel, and for several
years principal of the Free High School has
just been elected principal of the High
School at louisville, Penn.
At the Canton pulp mill there are 100000
lbs. of pulp made week. of which $4,000 is
bleached and sent to Massachusetts. The
remainder is used at Mechanic Falls. About
100 men are employed.
PIsCArAQuIs.
At the Katahdn Iron Works the charcoal
is produced on or near the premises in large
round-topped brick kilns, holding from forty
to fifty cords of wood. each. Fourteen
thousand cords of wood are used annually for
charcoal, besides one thousand cords for the
roasting kiln and other purposes. The fire
is kept burning in the furnace continually
through the year, and every four hours in
the twenty -four, the moulten iron is drawn
out and run into pigs" The quantity pro-
duced averages one hundred tons per week.
and sells in New York. and other places, at
the present time, for thirty eight to forty-two
dollars per ton. That now Produced is
chiefly used for car wheels. 1t possesses a
quality for hardening at the surface, while it
remains softer and very tough within. This
makes it especially desirable for car wheels
and for other purposes where both strength
and a great degree of surface hardness are
required.
SAGADAHOC.
Samuel S. Gannett of Bath, an under
graduate of Bowdoin College, is acting as
chief engineer of survey from canal
across the peninsula between Chesapeake
Bay and the Atlantic, at salary of $50 per
month.
Two cylinders for dry crushing have been
placed in the feldspar mill at Topsham,
greatly increasing the capacity of the works.
The ground feldspar is sent by rail, in bulk.
to the potteres at Trenton, n. J.
VIM Rogers. Bath. launched his 59th yes
sci on the 22d, being ship Charmer, 1881
tons. The frame of this ship was cut in Vir-
ginia not over eight months ago. large
crew of workmen made short work of it.
SOMERSET.
Inc Town OF EmDuer OHerS 20 cents on Il
dollar in payment of the railroad bonds, but
the holders are not willing to accept it.
Col. Mitchell has decided to hold the
Somerset county muster at Pittsfeld, Oct.
llth, 18th and 18th. 1t is expected that the
Piscataquis Battalion will be present and the
Canaan Brass Band will be present to en-
liven the occasion with fine music, and other
bands are expected The ground selected by
Col Mitchell is the beautiful field bounded
on the east by the Sebasticook river, and on
the north by the M. C. Railroad.
WALDO.
DR.. VIM. o. Poor died at his residence in
Belfast, on the 9th inst, of hemorrhage of
the lungs. DR.. Poor was an old and highly
esteemed citizen and a prominent member of
the Masonic Fraternity, being Past Senior
Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Maine.
His age was ~ years.
|Nr,or1kn Hono