Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-19
State News.
ANDRoscocerx.

ehief Templar Torsey of Winthrop has
appointed Charles Gent of Lewiston special
district deputy for Androscoeein district. Mr..
uent VIII visit all the lodges in the district.
Inc county commissioners have located
,eHy across the river between South West
Bend, Durham. and Lisbon, and the two
Towns are now building boat to put on.
ARoosrooK.
The two little girls who were so abused bx
James Bean and wife at Fit Fairfield. are I'M.
proving rapidly under the care of Mrs Baker
Bean and his wife are in Jail in Houlton.
awaiting the action of the grand iurv. which
will sit in September
The season at Fort Fairfield is cold and
very dry, with no rain since the 18th of
March. VI
The Rockland Courier Gazette has an in
teresting account of a visit by Capt. Robert
ohe ana MS two sons 10 the iceberg lately re-
ported on Matinicus. The article is very
| readable, and but for one sentence would he
widely copied, namely 1.-The whole thing is a
lie from alpha to omega No iceberg has
been seen at that point.
OXFORD.
Big drives of pulp timber are coming down
the Twenty Mile river at Buckfeld. said TO
Irish, and will be shipped BY rail TO Var
mouth over the Rumford Falls and Buck6eld
Railroad
remarkable case is reported from Car
mel boy nine years of age, by the name of
Daniel Murphy, has been for the past two
months a victim of fits. Medical assistance
was called and various remedies were tried.
Finally the boy began vomiting and the
strange array of articles which are said to
nave come from his stomach is very remark
able There were 81 pieces in all, and they
ranged from silver and copper coins to stones
OF large size together with one large piece of
white cloth The total weight of the colec-
ton is seven and one half ounces Wig.
Twelve hundred and fifteen connections
were made at the Bangor telephone exchange
on TUESDAY, of this week-One of their busy
days.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bath High School Cadets have been
invited TO do escort duty to the G. A. r., on
Memorial DAY.
A Boston firm, through its agent, Mr..
Elliott of Bowdoinham. has 10 men driving
out in the country engaging farmers to plant
cucumbers for picking purposes. Over 40
acres have already been secured
hc u HlNeFsdltst sOClcty Oh bOWuOlnndm
have engaged the Rev. J. NJ. Little of Bruins
wick, and will have preaching at the new
Town Hall, every Sunday.
HoE. j. ii. Drummond will deliver the adj
dress, Memorial Dag. before Thomas T.
Rideout Post G. A. r., Of Bowdoinham.
YORK.
The Press saws there is quite an interest
being awakened in temperance and religious
matters in Hollis. Mr.. .. X. Hanson of
Saccarappa, wideawake, reformed man.
has been holding meetings in Dearborns
Hall, and great good has resulted. Mr.. II.
is a member of the Saccarappa Temperance
Union. and, with other members of the Union,
has held meetings of late in several sections.
AT LARGE.
In the State news c0lusn. under the ap-
propriate heading of AT Large, the kenne-
bee Journal gives the open season for trout
and other fish. Despite the arts of the
angler a good manv trout persist in remain
ing at large, and they are generally the
largest of their kind--Beifast Journal
In corn raising Androscoggn county takes
the lead with an average of 81 bushels to the
acre: York comes next with 30 6 Kennebec.
81 =; Cumberland, 80 Z; Oxford, 80 G; Lin
coin, 30.S; Franklin, 30 ): Waldo. 2S.S;
Penobscot, 2s.5; Somerset %: Piscataqus.
%.
oxford county ranks first in area planted.
the number of acres in 1880 being 1899, with
yield of 1852 bushels. York county
comes next with less acreage-4553 acres,
but exceis in product. her crop being 1872
633 bushels. kennebec has the next highest
figures, 1864 acres. Welding l2l 1874 bushels.
Somerset follows with 34O4 acres and % 5t5
bushels. Cumberland shows better cultivation
with her 2S66 acres and 1853 bushels. Pc
nobscot follows with 2456 acres and Il, 49,
bushels. Androscoggin planted 2049 acres,
with a product of 1918 bushels: next is
Franklin, 1868 acres. 81, 1854 bushels Waldo,
1892 acres and -. 1876 bushels: Piseataguis,
1870 acres and 80, 402 bushels; and Lincoln.
1861 acres, 32. $50 bushels. All the counties
named planted over 1000 acres, the other
five. 500 and less, down to only 30 acres in
Aroostook. In most if not all that section
of the State, included within the limits of
the counties named above. corn can be raised
at protit