Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-08

to be without one
| Aroostook people appear to be hopeful
that the one hundred thousand dollars
essential to the building of the Northern
Maine Railroad, will eventually be secured,
although several towns have refused or neg
lected to contribute anything. The far
seeing men of the Garden county very
! clearly discern the immense advantage of
this road to the county and are working
with great energy TO secure It The Jour
nal is convinced that the officers of the
road are reliable men who mean business,
and that the work of construction will be
begun just as soon as the required guar
antee is finally pledged. Let the good
work be pushed forward.
The April shipments of ice from the
Kenuebec and Peuobscot rivers bid fair to
exceed the utmost estimates. There seems
to be little doubt but what transportation
will be found for all that has been put up.
Thirty Ave competitors for the Boston
Herald educational prizes are reported from
the Pine Tree State. We should be sur
prised in Iced, II one of these plums does
not come to Maine and. as the matter is TO
| be decided wholly on merit, il would not
astonish US any If both of them finally
lodged here.
A real estate boom Is reporte along the
| line of the Knox & Lincoln Railroad From
this it appears that the big syndicate offer
has been of value to the people of that sec
ton whether it is accepted or not.
Gna.k,nr nf ha prAvilapea u I
Journal thinks thst high prices may be ex-
pected, and saws: "lce men throughout
the country are Just about gathering them
selves together after their recent frantic
scramble for winters precious product
New that they know about how much ice
has been harvested. they are con-
sldering The matter of prices. At a
meeting in New York on Saturday it
vas decided that the prices for April be SIS
per ton to large consumers, and at the rate
of $50 per ton. or 81 per hundred weight.
to families No contracts are TO be made.
and the figures are only to rule in April
There may be further advance later
Local dealers have made no change in rates
as Yet. but they may be expected 10 at a. y
time. schooner arrived at this port last
week with deck load of lumber and 1856
tons of ice in her hold. The ice was sent
from St John on speculation. 1t VI. pur
chased by local companies The freig 1t
charges we're 81 per ton"
The coming season at Bar Hs' Dor bid
fair to be one of the most successful ones
in the history of tina. famous resort Mr..
Blaine and bis family will occupy their
beautiful cottage there during the summer
months. and it is not unlikely that a num-
Der Of other people prominent in Wash
inston circles will be found among the So
journers there.
Maine colts have grown rapidly enough
this year but the condition of the roads has
been such As to give them very little exer-
else. However that can De msde up very
largely this spring.
| Wss there ever 4 time when ii seemed so
hard for man to stay in doors at work as
upon beautiful day in early Springf IL
| there ever WAS i, must have been many days
before the sdvent of the present generation.
Air guns bid fair to vie With English
sparrows as public nuisances. A bullet
| from one of them went through the window
of a Portland restaurant the other DAY and
two men in the room narrowly escaped in
jury.
Special Treasury Agen. c. H. Litchman
10 in Maine investigating certain phases of
the lumber industry.
Bicdeford man who hustled shout and
gathered together q large crowd of fellow
citizens aud lantern TO asset in searching
the gutter for a Eve dollar gold piece which
he vas undsr the impression he had lost,
wss much chsgrined when the coin was
found to be bright new copper and the
gold piece vas found sAfely stored Away in
his pocket. He probably consoled himself
Win the reelection that "a penny saved 10 .
' penny earned"