Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-22
MAINE BREvITIES.

| The Nealey Rifles have issued challenge
to the Cob ara Cadets 70 Compete in another
prize drlll.
S 5 Hersey of Auburn has been grated
patent On furnace he has been at vork
oh tor several months. Ii appears To be a
very practical improvement. 4 he furnaces
are being made at the Auburn foundry.
At one O'Clock this morning the mercury
in the Thermometer Lad fallen to ten lie gret >
above zero. lhs is good for the lumber
men. as 1t will freeze up the ssamps and
brooks in good shape for winter operations
-Bdagor Wing. Nor 2I.
Three new machines have inst been re-
ceived by the New England Company. Bath
to enable them to handle a large amount 1t
ornamental woodwork called for by the
three large SIT sners To be built IN that cit,
during the cOnng year. lhey are OF the
most improved type.
The Boston 4 Maine surveyors are max
ing survey for the erection of stort houses
and OIL tanks on the liae of the W,stru
Division IN the Out,kltts of Biddeford tor
the Portland Kerosene Oh Work. Large
tanks wi be put in TO supply dealers Le-
tween BidIeforI and Boston.
The Schooner Morris W. Chills arrived az
Bowling, Scotland, on Sunday, Nov. lsth ,fr, ID
Bangor. with n cargo of spoul wool Sh.
sailed October 21th, making an unusual
quick Iun.
Several business men of Gardiner, will
petition the legislature this winter for a n .r-
ter for an electric railroad tor the city, and
also one between Gardner ami Togus, anu
have given not CO To that effect.
Anchor Lodge, No 4. o. L. W of
Bangor, eelt bisie their seventh anpiver.srS
ON Thursday evening Nov 22 the me- NIB, 7,
TO bring their ladies' AMI loaf of take, es-
pecaliy the cake.
Sch, ouer Carrie F. Leslie, from SYDNEY.
c. b., at 81. John, reports Immens. quauti-
ues of .hingles fiOstiI in th. Bay OF Fun
dy, between the Wolves and Grand Meusn.
rhey have a Bangor mark on them a d al,
supposed 10 belong 10 the cargo OF Bangor
vessel driven out of her course and it is
feared she has been wrecked.
The Grand officers knights of Pythias iu-
stalled Star Lodge, No. IS, at Wi.cas-ct,
Wednesday evening, With forty charter men.
bers. ! thursday evening. Nov p. Trinity
Lodge, No. "a, sili be instiiated in Portla ri
with over l5U members.
The Portland d ard of Health have re-
ceiyed a communication from the Stat.
Board informing them OF the existeree u
small PIX IN the Canadian tarHs Of Crab,
and Sht ihngtou, which are only little way
from the American boundary The town.
aye On the line of the Central Vermont
railway.
The effort made last spring to prevent the
snugglins CT lumber from New Bfunsrick
to the States, ny All abuse of the special act
shich allows citizens of Maine TO cut log.
within the hounlsnes of thu Siate float the m
across the line, them in New Brun- Kick
and ship the lumber back free of duty, has
proved very successful 80 much so thai thu
Gus ON receipts have been greatly increased
along the border. The special agent ap-
pointed by the government has performed b..
hufies efficiently. although havI.g met With
strong opposition in some quarters. He has
discovere several parties enza. Ell in opera
aiions uldsr this special act. vho are not
citizens OF Maine AT all bat ratives of New
Brunswick. having n'vsr been nztur,lized.
thus they we're not entitled TO the benefits of
the act.