The Republican journal., 1883-07-26

The annual Encampment of the Volunteer
Militia for the year 1888, will be held at Au-
gusta, for four days, commencing Tuesday,
August 21st. General Orders, No. 20, have
been issued from the Adjutant Generals office,
to that effect
The Houlton Opera House approaches COM
pletion. In capacity, style and convenience it
will rank among the best buildings of the kind
in New England.
The G. A. r. are making every endeayor to
have very successful reunion at Maranocook
August 10Th. An invitation has been extended
to the Sons of Veterans and Ladies' relief Corps
to Join them and take part in the programme.
Senator Frye has consented TO be present and
address the boys. The object of the meeting is
purely social.
The Mayo Wooden Mill at Foxcroft, which
has been shut down for a short time, has
again been started up. Sixty hands are en-
ployed. A large force of men will at once
begin the work of building an addition to the
mill 40xS0 feet. When this work is completed
the capacity of the mill will be doubled. Six
sets of wooden machines are now used, and
these will be increased to twelve.
The kennebec journal says: Large numbers
of Canadian French are employed in the hay
field by farmers in this vicinity. They are
paid from $1.1,5 to 1925 day and board.
Farmers say that it would be difficult to find
enough workmen for haying were it not for
these French. The Bangor Commercial SAYS
Haymakers command from $500 to $2.75 per
day and the result is a scarcity of men for other
kinds of business.
Mr.. Ephraim Packard, of West Hampden,
raised the present season on one-fourth acre of
land 10 bushels of peas that he sold in Bangor
for $50 The cost of producing the crop was
as follows: Flowing and narrowing, planting,
hoeing, picking and marketing, $25; giving a
net profit of $50 on the crop of peas. About
the middle of June he planted beans between
the rows of peas which are looking finely and
give promise of a large crop.
Representative Reed, of Maine, who is spend
ing the summer in London, has been invited to
dine with Gladstone, with the Lord Mayor of
! London and other dgnitares.
\ temporary suspension of work in the
Waukeag shaft of the Sullivan mine, has been
deemed necessary to enable the company to
put in place Diamond Drill for expediing
underground work.
The solicitor of Widber & Bacon, Portland
lumber dealers. whose failure was announced
Saturday morning, state the liabilities not over
thirty thousand. nominal assets twenty thou
sand; cash assets much less.
1t is thought Dennis kearney may intlict
Portland with his presence, as he is to make a
tour of New England cities.
Farmers occasionally complain that the hay
crop is two large. They say that the heavy
crop III the aggregate is worth no more than
the crop in years when tile product is small, as
prices are so much lower. kennebec journal.
The apple crop in NasSalboro is total fail
ure. Some orchards of one hundred trees have
not a bushel of apples on them. The trees bios
somed freely. 1t is supposed that the wet
weather in June affected the blossoms so that
apples did not set.
Martin Milmore the sculptor, is dead He
was a son of Erin and came to this country
when five years old. Although only 40 years
of age, he had acquired Il national reputation
Two of his well-known works are erected in
Maine-the statue of General Berry at Rock
land and Colby lniversity's Weeping Lion, "
at Watervile.