The Somerset reporter., 1885-09-02
STATE NEWS S.

The Biddcford Stove Foundry Is in operation
with afull crew.
Close time for putlidgc aud ~oudrock expires
next Tuesday.
canning factor, has been recently establish
TN in Franklin.
1t i, reported that Democratic paper will
soon be started in lloulton.
The Prohibitioni>ts will hold convention at
rrcsquc Isle next "Wednesday.
-Four thousand pairs Of pants are made
monthly at the pant factory i'll Deer Isle.
Seventy live hands are at present being en-
poycd in the tannery at Grand Lake Stream.
The work Of introducing Scbago water into
the Reform school building has been completed.
\ patent has been issued this week to +. \.
Buck, of Bangor, for boot calk for river driS-
crs.
The Lcmi,ton saw mill, average the shipment
OF three car loads Of lumber per day 10 Mas>a-
chu>etts.
A new evening papei is to be ISSUED in Lewis
ION. Ii will be called the DGii8 NrlCS, and it,
proprietor will be Mr.. Frank b. Pratt.
John ". Washburn, a Baptist minister who
formerly attended school in Water,ille, has
gone to Canada to escape prosecution for biga-
my in Lowell, Mass.
The iroostook Republican says they want a
National bank at Caribou, and subscriptions for
the necessary capital to start one mas started
with fair prospect.
On the sth 9th, and 10th of next month will
occur the great band muster at Lake Marano-
cook under the management of Collins y
| Chandler of Portland.
The Governor and Council considered the case
of Blaney, the httery murderer thursday al
ternoon, but postponed maj action on the mat.
ter until September 2lst.
| The last cannon ishcd up by the dredger, in
Bangor harbor has been presented by Captain
Fcnncll to Mayor Nealley, for the icity, and it
will be placed on the City Hall lot.
The rafting of logs in penobscot Boom will be
completed during the present month"; The logs
passing through the boom the present season
aggregate about 1870 600 900 feet.
| Mrs. Lillian Norton Cover has gone TO France
to see to the settlement Of the property Of her
husband, Frederic Allen Cover, supposed to
have been lost in the British Channel July 18th.
Tvi,rhcll Chamnlin 4 Co. Portland. are
crcct;ng a hnildinr 5tx00 two stories high one
half of which wilt bc uscd for packcnu salt. and
thr remainder for corn huskina and canning.
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n' v"ii W. 'ae din5 =,
md all other voters of Massachusetts who in
tcnd To support the Republican candidates"
A, no annrol onea,rr,ont If tho Sons of
, az W., n w. r., Gra''1 n;,;;nr - No,
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NJ Snrrier OF Abbott senior III the hrm Nj
turrier x sons, VINO run the excelsior mn, mas
n'u III. III " nay, ~ .s,I ,o,v VI
ta,. ,,a;,,l,, oa;,, ,',, -
"'"'! "els"' 'o''"e "i'o" tA'",
a. NJ. Spear, esq, OF fiallowell, has formed .
copartnership IN the practice OF law, with y. Is
Colson, esq of Gardiner and vail move to Gar
diner the hrSt OF september. Mr.. spear Is a
present Representative to Legislature from Hal
lowell.
A queer accident occurred at house in Bel
fast one day last week. Inc piastering OF th'
cellnS over oeo, ana Just the blShess OF th'
ped feii, the mass weighing 5oo pounds. na'
II occurred III 'he night the, the result 'hieh
nave oeeh serious
Judge Virgin, who presided at the Blaney
trial, has written a letter in which he fayors
communication Of sentence for Baney, and state
that if the Governor should ask him for an opin
ion on the case he should give him one II,
will probably be requested to furnish his views
me Executive council, although divided on TN
Blaney communications from appearances are op
poSed 10 elemehcy.
A house and barn and their contents, the prop
erty Of Rev. kinsman Atkinson of Berwick
were totally destroyed by fire. The cause of tn
fire peculiar one. About five o'clock in tn
morning Mr.. Atkinson undertook to burn cob
webs out Of the barn. The fire spread rapidly t.
the hay and woodwork, and the barn was totall,
destroyed with everything in it. Mr.. Atkinson