Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-09
State News.
.ANpROSCOGGIN.

Auburn has made a % wears contract with
the Aqueduct Company. The waters bid fair
to be calm in that city for the next half CEN
tury.
! The Journal saws: The past weeks ship
ment of shoes from the Auburn factories has
been the largest of the season. The number
of cases sent away is 2,65S. The receipts of
leather have necessarily been very heavy.
The prevailing complaint among manufac-
turers is they can't make the goods as fast as
they need them. The buyers are beginning
TO be in a hurry to have their orders filed,
especially orders from the Middle States in
| the region of the floods. Most of the orders
coming in now are accompanied by the in
qury of ''How soon can you ship?" The
goods that have been stocked up in prepara-
ton for this spring trade are fast melting
away before the heavy orders for immediate
shipment. The indications that this sea-
sons shipments will be 5000 cases over last
seasons.
ARoosrooK.
| The total customs receipts in the Houlton
district turing the past month were S914.O4.
There were POS horses entered for duty in
she Houlton district last year.
| The Republican says: G. W. Maxfeld of
Bangor has built an ice house near the Houl-
ton railway station in Houlton. and has %
men ard as many horses at work filling il
from the mill-pond. He intends to store 500
tons for shipment. The quality is excellent.
Since Dec lst, Solomon Mibury of Lin
| coin has hauled to the Shaw extract works at
Houlton 26D0 cords of hemlock bark Ii
came from Littleton and Linneus.
FRANKLIN.
The proprietors of the canning establish
ment are now taking contracts for corn 200
| tod nd I'll b,bl ha
The price offered this year is 3 IA cts. ger
can.
The merinO sheep breeders of Franklin
county propose to hold sheep show at Far
mington. Saturday. March 10th.
+. A. Butterfield. esq of East Wilton, has
Just returned from Vermont with choice lot
of merinos. selected from some of the best
focks of Middlebury, VT. Mr.. Butterield
has been very successful in sheep-raisHg.
HANCOCK.
The Commercial states that Eugene j.
Swan of Franklin, this winter has employed
30 hands in quarrying and cutting granite and
about 100 in numbering. He gives constant
employment to about 100 men. Mr.. Swan
this winter will haul about ID 900 logs, 200
cords of stave wood, 100000 shingles and
large quantity of laths, hard wood lumber.
lumber, etc. He owns about 1000 acres of
timber land, and has well equipped mill for
manufacturing lumber. He is a large ship
per of every variety of rough and manufac
tured lumber.
The Spring term of the Normal school at
Castine commenced Tuesday, March 9th.
The attendance is quite large.-Tues-
dav morning the steamer City of Rich
mond was fast in the ice at the mouth of the
river.-The fire department of Castine owns
what is probably the oldest fire engine in the
State. When it was built is not known, but
it WAS purchased in 1904, and bears on
plate the inscription, Stephen Thayer, Fecit.
Boston" 1t is rather rude eontrivance
compared with the engine of the present day.
All the water used had to be poured into the
tank by means of buckets otherwise the ac-
ton is similar to that of the modern engine.
If all the old Masons have been heard from
let us hear if there be any older engine than
this in the State.
The American says: A survey of a rail
road line from Brewer to Ellsworth and
Frenchman's Bay has been begun. Col.
Greene, who proposes to build the road if
possible, has this survey made to ascertain
the probable cost of construction. Immediate
ly upon the completion of the survey, an
effort will be made to secure the right of
way. Should the route prove feasible and
not too costly and the right of way reasonable
new survey will be made for purposes of
location.
SAGADAHOC.
The Times says: 1t is rum0red that the
Goss Iron Works at Bath will be opened wth
festivities. The plan of inviting one Of the
fraternities in the city to open it with decora-
tions, promenade concert, refreshments sale
Of souvenirs of the opening and other attrac-
tons, has been broached, but will very likely
fall short of being realized. The public open
ing Of such a building is very we'll, but can
equally well be dispensed with.
SOMERSET.
Miss Halle aughan of New Portland, met
with painful accident a few davs since.
She was cleaning pair of kid gloves with
benZine and had put them on and was hold
ing them over hot stove to dry, when they
caught fire and before they could be removed,
burned her hands very badly.
WALDO.
Charles Mckenney, of Monroe, brought to
Belfast recently the carcass of two wears
old thoroughbred Hereford heifer which
weighed $50 pounds. 1t is the fattest and
handsomest beef seen in the market for some
time. Mr.. Mckenney is a stock raiser and
says he can make the business pay in Maine.
He receives 800 for his calves when six
weeks old.
The Belfast Republican says: The bay is
now frozen over hard and fast the ice extend
ing beyond Owls Head. Capt Carter, of
schooner Penobscot, reports that when rescued
by the cutter Woodbury. off Rockland, Fri
day last, he went aloft and the ice extended
as far as he could see. The schooner Mary
Farrow, bound in, is in the ice of Saturday
Cove, unable to proceed. The Long Island
mails have been carried to and from the main
land on the ice for several days past. Unless
We soon have continued thaw, navigation at
this point will be effectually closed for some
time.