The Republican journal., 1883-08-23
IN GENERAL,

IN GENERAL.
Dexter i to nave a new trotting park
Ezra /. may be entered for the free-for-all
race at the State Fair
Base bail grounds will probably be laid out at
the Eastern Maine Fair grounds, Bangor.
Report from Washington county says there
will be light crop Of potatoes in that county this
year.
Potatoes in Piscataqu> are badly affected by
rust and some fields bid fair 10 prove a total
failure.
Capt. g. {. tioss of Bath. the great ship
builder, j. DOW building his one h,Indredth ana
seNcnty-nnth vessel.
The Nicker>on Cheese Factory. Houlton,
operated by Francis Barnes. esq. received over
5000 pounds of milk per day in the height of
feed.
The Watervle Sentinel has been sold to
Capt. ). ID. MaXtield of Dexter, who will AS
sumo control in few weeks.
There is statute in this State against per
sons carrying concealed weapons, though great
many seem perfectly oblivous of this fact
President Jackson Of the Maine Central says
that next July he will take passengers in BOs-
ton at i A. NJ and land them in Bar IIarbor The
same evening in time for supper.
senator Frye has purchased Il house lot on
Main street, Fryeburg, and will soon erect a
summer cottage there. He is descendant of
Gen. rye, the grantee of the town.
The lst-l0th29th Regiment Association has
been presented with an acre of land on Long
l>land Portland harbor, a. IL permanent camp
lng ground.
The question annually arises whether to say
Mt. Desert or Mt. DeseH. Even Harvard Col
lcge i divided on it. President Elliot saws
D'sert. and the professor of rhetoric says
Dc>er.
Portland City Council has passed a vote of
thanks to Payson Tucker esq. for the beautiful
granite monument erected by him to the found
er> OF that city. one Of Whom was his ancestor
Miss Lizzie Webb Cary. Il sister of Annie
Louis Cary, will appear next season as Il So
prano singer. She is said to have a fine mezzo-
soprano voice good and pleasing presence.
aud magnetic. winning manner.
Mr.. Hall Bureigh of the firm of Bodwel 4
Burlegh, has arrived at Quebec from England
with POO head Of thoroughbred cattle which he
has recently purchased there. The cattle were
landed at Quebec where they are quarantned
Mrs. Annie Louise Carey Raymond has volun-
letred to assist III the complimentary concert
to be given soon III Portland to her friend, Miss
Margaret Bryant.
The races on the fair grounds at South Paris
were trotted the 18th. The three minute class
was won by Jacob Pratt best time 2.35l. The
5.a9 class was won by Barney Tansey; best
time 2.36.
one of our toWnsmen who happened to be
within hearing distance of one of our rural
friends the other day, heard this remark escape
the I. f. as his eyes rested en- bunch of bananas
Gosh. never saw sassages strung up in that
shape, before somerset Reporter.
The Bodwel Granite Company are running
their polishing mills at Vinalhaven day and
night, employing about forty men. They seem
to be full of orders, and have the largest force
OF cutters working by the day that thew have
had for some years past.
Among the war relics taken to MaranOcOOk
were cup and saucer of white ware carried by
Mrs. i. ;. Faunce, used by her husband Capt
Faunce of the 18th Maine, during the war; The
Lewiston journal says they are of such size and
thickness as would require well-aimed cannon
ball to domolish. Granite couldn't be harder
AT kennebunkpOrt the land available for sea-
| side purposes has been bought up by the "Bos-
ton and kcnnebunkpOrt Sea Shore Company"
They own between 600 and 700 acres mostly
high land, well wooded and interspersed with
beaches, coyes, headlands and rocky points
1t has all been surveyed and laid out into lots
divided by streets and avenues. The Ocean Bluff
House is owned by this company and leased to
its present managers.
The annual meeting of the st. Croix cotton
mills was held at the new office of the Com
pany, in Calais last week. The report showed
that 10000 spindes were now in running order ;
that although this was the first year of running
the mill, IL fair profit has been made upon the
business of the last year. and that the outlook for
the coming year was of a very favorable ma
| ture. The mill has manufactured during the
| year ending June 30, 1888, about four and one
| quarter million yards of cloth. The present
capacity of the mill is 225,000 yards per week.
| Before 1916 little lumber had been cut on the
| Penobscot waters. In that year 1,O00, 900 feet
| or Whereabouts were cut. The grand total of
| the amount of long lumber manufactured and
sold at the port of Bangor from 1916 is approXi-
mately, SOP ,044, 91S feet.