The Republican journal., 1882-11-30
N GENERAL,

II j. reported that farmers in Somerset coun-
~. Maine. cleared 500 per acre on their sweet
corn crop this season.
Congressman Murch was elected one of The
secretaries of the federation labor congress in
session last week at Cleveland.
Now Is the time for shippers Of produce IN
the country to look out for the bogus prod
ucc commission houses that spring into exist
ence about this time,
\ lIoulton man on hi> way home from Phil
aielphia. WA, ~Windied out of SD in Portland.
by q confidence man. The man would not give
his name.
Buckwhcat fapiacks much abound in Aroo~-
took this year, Page and Aiadigan's mills at
Houltoa daily grind two hundred bushels of
that grain, says the Times.
The alarming extent to which smoking is
spreading among schoolboys in Lewiston is
exciting special attention. One Grammar school
teacher says that - per cent. OF Schooboys
over T. or - years old smoke cigarettes prob
ably without the knowledge Of their parents.
The kennebec journal SAYS Among the
singular things that sometimes happen. We
notice that of the burial of two brothers. on
the same day and n the same hour of the lay.
Rev. Zenas Thompson OF Deering and his
brother of Wilmington. Del were both con-
signed to the ground sunday at half past two :
DR., Cakes of Auburn. has Il Jersey COW
which has made him 80 bounds of butter since
April 10Th.
There is Il lively demand for the stock Of the
Sandy river railroad. 1t has recently advanced
from SO per share 10 S21.J0.
\ cargo Of beans imported from Germany.
IN sacks, has arrived in Lewiston. They
wholesale at 500 per bushc. 81 less than ma
tiyrS.
In the Supreme Court Of the United States
Nov. -, on motion Of Walker Blaine Oryille
ID. Baker of Augusta, Me-, was admitted to
practice
Captain Douglass a. Rile, of the L. 5. A..
retired. died at Brunswick. Me-. on the 18th
inst.
The RockIand Free Press saws Lvsander Nor
wood, of Union, raised 30 bushels of Beauty
of Hebron potatoes this year He prefers them
to Early Rose. They are smooth and nice
looking.
Reliable Judges estimate the amount of starch
manufactured in Aroostook county this season
at 1000 tons. At the estimated amount OF eight
pounds per bushe, the quantity of potatocs
used is 1000 900 bushels.
There are rumOrs of another railroad line
through this State. The Boston 4 Maine Rail
road has already laid double track from BoS-
ton to Exeter. and from Portland to Old
Orchard. The company will shortly ill up
this gap, giving them double track line from
Portland to Boston.
Eugene Hurd, the Harmony fratricide who
was sentenced for life in the State Prison, is at
work in the wood shop at present and the
W arden says his department. so far, is all he
could wish and the prisoner seems disposed to
accept the situation and do his best.
Lieut.. Danenhower lcctured in Portland
Wednesday evening % inst. His subject was
The Story Of the Jeanette in the Arctic
Seas. He paid handsome tribute to Herbert
W. Leach, of PeuObScot, one of the seamen of
the expedition. The substance of his remarks
about Mr.. Leach published in the journal
some months ago from an interview with Lieu
tenant ID.
The census office report on cotton manufac-
lures shows that Maine has n mills with a
capital Of SO, 1872 ,01S.
Watervlle has six apothecarics and fifteen
doctors.
large number of persons witnessed Thurs
day the operation of hauling the [. ;. steamer
Plymouth out of the water and upon the ways
in the ship house at kittery navy yard. The
moving power was entirely manned, COG work
men with capstan> successfully performing the
undertaking.
Slim Jim, a well known card sharper, died in
New York recently, having been accidentally
shot in street fight. He is said to have been
a native of Maine.
A hail storm and thunder and lightning
visited some portions of the State on Friday
last In Webster barn was struck and dam
aged and the hay set on fire.
Mr.. Arthur Retch a Boston architect, has
been in Ellsworth, Me-. looking over the
ground for new residence for Senator Hale.
The latter gentleman has recently purchased
some acres of land back of the town. where he
is thinking of laying out Il fine estate.
The BoOthbay Register understands Boston
Shipbuilder has been looking at the privilege on
McFarland's Point, with view of establishing
yard there.
A telephone line from Ellsworth to Bangor
via Bucksport, is in process of construction.
Several soldiers in the vicinity of Augusta
have recently received circulars from parties
in the West representing themselves as govern
ment agents, stating that for $25 100 acres of
fine land could be secured without complying
with the formality of the old law. This is a
trick gotten up by western sharpers to defraud
soldiers and parties having received such
papers should pay no attention whatever to
them, as the law in regard to western land
remains unchanged.