Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-14
State News.
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sheep and lambs at their new slaughter house
in Houlton last "Wednesday. Two hdndreel
and fifty per day were dressed. cooled in
the refrigerstors. placed in patent re-
frigerator cars and sent to Boston. Five
hundred per dav are to be killed II will re-
quire tw o cars per day n carry the pro iuct
TO market. Ten new and elegant cars will
be used exclusively by the firm in transport
ing to market the product of this new and
important enterprise The pelts. as they are
taken of, are spread. sailed. rolled compact
and sent to Bangor. The blood and offal
goes through trap TO hogs in the basement.
The entrails are '.riddled' and prepared for
the sausage maker The heads are boiled TO
remove the meat which also goes TO the hogs.
and the bones sent to Portland, where they
will be ground and returned to the Aroos,ook
farmers 10 enrich the soil.
CUMBERLAND.
/ At the late New England Fair Gen Mat
tocks Of Portland, carried of all the first
prizes on Berkshire swine. Bronze Turkeys,
| Light Brahmas. Pekin Ducks; and also the
champion sweepstakes on Collie (Shepherd)
| dogs.
A Portland house will in a few days start
train of 10 cars, loaded with canned corn, for
Portland, Oregon. Ii will go through on ex-
press time and without breaking bulk. a
thing never accomplished heretofore. Gen.
eral Manager Tucker, of the Eastern Rail
road, will have the train photographed before
it starts.
The ship Samuel Skofield sailed April 10th
from Calcutta to New York, loaded with
general cargo, and no news has been heard
from her. She has been out Isl DAYS In a
former passage the vessel made the same
trip in about 100 days. Captain Edward
Forsaith of Brunswick, commands her and
he is accompanied by his wife and two chill
dren. Lyman Wiswell a brother of Mrs
Forsaith, is mate. The owners state. that
although they are anxious for the vessel to
be getting in return cargo, they do not as
yet have fears for her safety. and that Cap
tain POrsath is not the man TO get out of his
way in order that the vessel NAV be reported.
They think the delay is due to the season of
monsoons in the Bay of Bengal, which
might delay the vessel any where from 10 to
80 days.
The unearthing in the principal street of
Waterville, Me. in the year 1850,
of rem irkabe copper coin, is
made bv Mr.. w. II. Richardson
of the Portland Advertiser, the occs-
sion for learned and luminous paper on the
early settlement of Newfoundland, which ap-
pears in the Magazine of American History
for Sept. Though this coin bears no date.
and is described in none of the ordinary books
on coin, Mr.. Richardson determines it to
4have been struck by sir George Calvert. first
Lord Baltimore, for his colony in Newfound-
land, about the year 1928. thus being speci-
men of the earliest coinage tor any English
colony in America. The coin now in the
possession of Mr.. A. A. Plais,ed of Water
vile, is thus shown to be of great historic
interest.
The bricklayers commenced on the north
wall of the Gardiner shoe factory, Monday
morning. 1t will be of brick as high as the
first story on the north side only. The first
floor is laid, and part of the frame is up.
Monday forenoon as Capt. J. w. Berry of
Gardiner, stepped from his chase, on the
wharf where they are at work on the boat
house, his foot slipped and he fell, striking
on his left arm, and breaking it just below
the elbow.
While on her journey to Boston, Monday,
the Sd inst. on board the steamer Star of the
East. one Mrs. Maxwell of Everett. Mass,
mad one of her legs broken Just below the
knee. In company with sister, also
widow, they occupied one of the state rooms
of the steamer. The younger sister. who
occupied the lower berth, being taken sick
during the night Mrs. Maxwell attempted to
get out of the upper berth to assist her, and
in doing so slipped and fell to the floor with
the above result.
Four thousand six hundred men have been.
OF are at this time members of the Togus
Home, and it is a monument to the honor of
this great american Republic, and jjustiies the
boasting of our patriotic orators that our
government is the best on the earth in pro-
viding these splendid Homes for the brave
men who saved the Union.
Many of the farmers of Litchfield, haul
green corn to the Monmouth canning estab-
lishment. They get three cents for 81 ounces,
and have to wait till it is cut of-and then
have to haul the husks and cobs back. The
farmer gets but small portion of the retail
price of can of cortland in our opinion
ought to get five cents at least. A few cents
more to the producer would not very much
increase the tetail price of the corn, and
would materially increrse the profit of the
farmer. They cannot afford to raise it at
three cents.
SOMERSET.
Mr.. Shaw of Hartland. will be one of the
chief exhibitors at the State Fair this year.
He will take the best of his Cream Brook
stock and goody number OF his noted
horses.
The farm buildings of Mr.. Daniel Pease,
Cambridge, were destroyed by fire Tuesday
night. The buildings consisted of house, ell,
and three large barns with 80 tons of hay 100
bushels of wheat and 400 bushels of oats
Nearly all of the household furniture was
burned. The loss $500. No insurance.
The Kennebec Baptist Association is in
session with the Baptist Church, Skowhegan.
Tuesday afternoon, after organization, an
interesting opening sermon was preached by
Rev. E. Nugent, Of Norridgewock, the Mod
orator. A ladies' meeting was held, ad-
dressed by Mrs. A. Sargent Hunt of Augusta,
State Sec Women's Baptist Home Mission
Society. Tuesday evening Mrs. o. W. Gates
of Boston. addressed the ladies in the inter-
est of womens work in foreign mission fields.
An able sermon was preached by President
Pepper. d. D., of Colby University. Meet
ings are holding to-day. The evening ser
mon was preached by Rev. A. X. =. Small
| ID. d, of Portland.
| Mr.. Simeon Merrill, the corn Gamer is
now disbursing some 5000 in currency
every working day at the several factories
| in charge. This amounts to $4,000 per
week in currency. If the horny-handed
| farmer should take to boarding his change
| there would soon be terrible drouth of cur
/ rency in this vicinity