The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1885-12-16
STATE NEWS.

d D. BradStreet, Esq, of Gardiner has
given $3.50 to maintain a free bed for one
year III the Maine General Hospital.
Mr.. Blaine is within about fifty pages
OF the end of his history, Twenty Years
III Congress.
According to carefully prepared table
Vi ice statistics for the Kennebec, $50 ,O00
tons of ice were shipped the past season.
and l39, 900 tons will be carried over.
The animal, apparently a cross between
cat and fox, which was recently cap
.iired near Iogus. the pelt being marketed
Ill augusta, has been given the name of
raccahousus by firm of Boston far deal.
erS.
Inc Maine Cent al Railroad Company
mas made settlement with the heirs of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Horace p. Goodwin
OF Clinton, who were killed by the Flying
Yankee last fall paying $1,000.
Mr.. Aaron L. Spencer of Bradley, has
been elected steward of the Maine State
College in place of Mr.. j. &. thomson of
pembroke, who has resigned
Among the estimates submitted to Con.
gress by the Secretary of the treasury.
tuesday, was one for $l5 900 for extern
sion of building at Belfast.
While crew Of men were digging at
the kiln premises OF Ames 4 Co., mass
OF earth and stones of many ton in weight
Tell, burying Capt Emerson Richards and
William Brown. They were digged out
as quickly as possible alive, but badly
hurt, Richards with broken thigh,
Brown with broken shoulder.
1t Is reported that Mrs. Frances l..
Mace of Bangor who is now in Calforn-
Ia, Is at work on an elaborate poem to be
published by one of the monthly maya
zines.
An Atkinson young lady made trial of
"mnd cure doctor recently, but with
no success. The woman came and staid
about week, found she could not help
the Young lady, and left. 1t seems her
way II treating was to sit back to ba' k
with the patient, and every lew minutes
to day, "Now you are better"
During the past year the Maine State
prison has done about its usual amount of
manufacturing in its two departments of
harness and carriage making, although it
has larger number than usual of carri-
ages and Sleighs on hand. Twelve hum
dred harnesses have been made.
The Secretary of the Treasury submit
ted the following estimates to Congress
for Maine For building "A light station to
guide through the dredgcd channel. Lu-
bee Narrows, $4,000; for rebuilding the
old tower at Moose Peak light station,
$4,000; for establishing Il light on Green
Island, near the entrance to Burnt Coat
harbor, $4,000; extension of building at
Belfast, $50, 900
From returns to the Department of Ag-
riculture, the amount of sweet corn pack
ed in Maine the past fall has been only
about half what it was two years ago, the
figures for the two years being as follows !:
For 1888, S,364 200 cans; 1885, ,O7S 200
cans. The amount packed by the several
companies this year was as follows: Port
land Packing Company, 1873 900 cans,
Durham & Morrill,, ,3l0, 200 cans; Wins
low Packing Company, 100000 cans; all
other factories, 100000 cans. The amount
of corn packed for wholesale firms in the
west upon which their labels have been
placed, has been fourfold that of any pre-
vious year. The average price paid farm
ers has been three cents for twenty-six
ounces. The quality of the corn packed
was never better than this year.