Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-18

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for SIC per ton oats, 60 cents per bushel and
corn At 81 20 per bushel- People have just
begun to pillow. The first pillow was seen
Wednesday, May. 10th. Some wheat will
| be so~n this week. The roads are getting
passable. Rain is much needed.
| The North Star says the acreage devoted
to tillage crops in Aroostook will this year
be larger than ever before. The good prices
realized last year for all products and the in
creased facilities fr marketing crops have
| stimulated farmers to greater effort
| Four barns, with their contents. were
| burned at Fort Fairfield, Sunday, two miles
| above the village. One was owned by Miles
| A. Barnes, two by Benz. Barnes, and one by
o. B. Keene. Aggregate loss, about $1,000.
No insurance. Cause unknown.
ANpRoscoG6IN.
Rev. o. d. Patch of Georgiaville. RI,
has accepted the call to the pastorate of Main
| streer F. B. church in Lewiston. He will be-
gin his work there the first Sunday in June.
The morning passenger train from Bruins
wick, Tuesday, had thrilling adventure at
crossing at the edge of wood, in the lower
part of Lewiston. The engineer spied an old
| man from Lisbon, driving an OK team loaded
| with wood and hay, bound for the crossing
There was no need of attempting to cross the
| track before the passage of the train. but the
old fellow piled the goad and persisted in
racing against the locomotive. Seeing what
must take place if the train was not stopped.
the engineer put on the air brake and the car
| brakeman rushed to his post Her Buck
| shouted the old man. dashing on to the cross
| ing right il the face of the engine The loco
| motive screamed ''down brakes and the
train came to standstill on the crossing not
six feet from the old mans team. People
don't have half enough respect for a train of
cars till they get under them, and then it's
too late, as a general thing.-Jouraai.
CUMBERLAND.
| Prof johnson of Bowdoin College thinks
| of going abroad after Commencement, to pass
a few years in close study of the languages
and literatures of Europe, to fit himself to
take the chair of modern languages in the
college.
| On Wednesday before Commencement
Day, in the afternoon, the building committee
will formally surrender Memorial Hall to the
college. The President will probably make
| the opening address, to be followed by
number of brief addresses from prominent
Alumni. On Wednesday evening of Com
mencement week will occur the celebration
of Longfellow's Day by the Alumni, in Me-
| mortal Hall. The opening address will be
delivered by Daniel Il. Goodwin, LII. D.,
President of the Episcopal Theological Semi
nary, Philadelphia. Dr. Goodwin form
erly a pupil of Longfellow, and afterwards
succeeded him in the chair of modern Ian
guages. During the commencement the
class of 1882 will hold its 50th reunion. This
class at graduation numbered 81. To-day II
are gone into the land of shadows. The
following ten survive: Benz. Fisk Barrett,
Cyrus Augustus Bartol. Samuel Beeman,
Ariel P. Chute, John Copp, Albert G. Dole
Daniel Raynes Goodwin, Edward Payson.
Horace Southgate, Henry G. Storer.-Argus.
prominent lawyer who is sometimes
absent minded went into the Portland post
Office Monday, stopped before one of the
young lady clerks, and pushing out six cents
| said, ''give me two three-cent cigars" The
gentleman did not notice anything wrong in
his request until the bystanders began to
laugh.-Adre,fiser.
At the closing meeting of the Natural His
tory Society at Portland. Monday, Mr.
Thomas F. Lamb presented fine specimens of
caucrinte, elGolite and biolite, which he him
self obtained at Litcbfeld.
HANCOCK.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
thus contrasts the present condition of Blue
hill with that of twenty years ago :-"Dur-
ing residence of more than seven wears the
place seemed to be at dead standstill
Scarcely building was built, and but very
few repaired during all those years. One
poor old hotel furnished stopping place for
the chance traveller, and occasionally YES
sci took away a load of wood or granite and
brought the merchandise for two or three
stores Now, new buildings are seen on
every hand, and old ones have been altered
and repaired Three large hotels scarcely
afford sufficient accommodations for the sum-
mer visitors for business or pleasure. An
extensive wharf has been built, accessible at
all times of the tide, at which steamboats, and
vessels arrive and deposit almost daily. A
market was then a thing unknown here,
while now there are two good ones in which
four or five men are necessary to do the bust
ness. The stores have increased in number
and in business three or four fold, and men,
who then could financially scarcely keep
their heads above water. are now men of
wealth. This impetus and all this increase
of business and prosperity has been the re-
suit of the discovery of copper in the then
worthless lodges. and their sale, and the
working of these mines. The granite bust
ness of the town affords employment for
some two hundred men.
OXFORD.
Frank Demeritt's house, ell and stable
were burned at West Peru, at o'clock Mon
day afternoon. little boy five years old
set pile of straw on fire to see the smoke.
All the furniture was saved. Insured for
$500.
SOMERSET.
The snow has wasted away so slowly in the
Dead River valley that there has not been alter
sufficient to run the logs. Lumbermen will
now have to depend rain freshets to get
their logs to market.
WAsHISGToN.
John futile, married man of Perry dropped
dead Sunday while driving his cows to
pasture.
Two thousand dozen eggs were shipped
from Machias by steamer Monday.
Officer Vose of Machias seized about 100
gallons of liquor at Jonesport. Thursday last;
contrabapd goods.