The Portland daily press., 1890-03-14

in the state, and the amounts which they re-
ceive from the state through the school fund
and mill tax, aid for pensioners, free high
schools, etc. 1t will be demonstrated that in
ioSo tnere are 2I9 towns which receive from
the state more than they return In state tay
Forty-hye years ago the citizens of the
Town OF Anson agreed to disagree and a
part OF the town was Incorporated as North
Anson. len years later the two towns
o wele again united In one. Now the citizens
Oh tne southern part of the town are getting
Uneasy ~. and 1t Is said there is general feel.
again.
The great Poland Spring House is not en-
tlrely Silent and deserted this winter. The
old stable has been torn down and workmen
are building stable 120x50 feet, and car
rage mouse adjoining 1l5x40 feet Messrs.
hnckeT, the proprietors of the Polsnd Spring
nouse, are already overwhelmed with orders
Tor rooms for the coming season
The Shawmut pulp mill near Fairfield is
now turning out about six tons of pulp daily
ana the amount will soon be increased to
ten. This finds ready sale at Gardiner and
Brunswick paper mills. With ten ton
pulp mill in the village, another two miles
away at Benton, and this larger one at Shaw
mutt three miles up river, it seems as though
there could be no better location for a first
class paper mill than Fairfield.
The shipping of cedar posts from points on
the Bangor 81 Piscataquis has come to be
quite a business. Last year Mr.. A. j. Chase
of Sebec, sent away twenty-five carloads,
This year he will ship something like forty
carloads, while Mr.. Danforth of Lagrange,
will probably ship more than twice as many.
These posts are cut in all lengths from six
feet upwards, in variations of two feet.
They go to jobbers in Massachusetts, and
then are sent to different parts of the coun-
try.
Houlton is enjoying ~ an enforced Quiet
ude Just now, on account of snow block
ade. The Bangor Commercial saws there
seems to be. no serious danger of distress
among the farmers on this account, as there
Would pc under similar circumstances in the
West, because during the last week of Febru-
airy there was paid to them for potatoes
thirty thousand dollars. This money says
the Commercial does far more good than
lumber money does because it goes into the
hands OF permanent residents, instead of a
class OF floating workers who are here today
| and there tomorrow.
The tannery men in Eastern Maine will be
interested in the work of another bright
Yankee inventor who has patented process
by which there will be hereafter no end of
hemlock bark. The trees are to be peeled
standing by means of ladders, beginning at
the top of the trunk. AS the peeer descends
NC iolnofCc tilo udIk anu immediately covers
the trunk with preparation of rubber dis
solved in sulphuric acid. Thus protected
the tree not only will not die but repro
duces its bark within a year, as thick as be-
lore, and OF superior quality for tanning
purposes.
Evidence of somebody's firm belief in the
old superstition about boring hole in a
thrifty tree. placing therein a lock of ones
| hair and pairing of the nails and then care
fully plugging the hole, in the hope that as
| soon as the deposit became solid wood all
lear OF future headache and other ills would
be dispelled from the mind of him whose
| lock Of hair was contributed to the tree,
came to light In the town of Wells, one day
last week. While saving shingles from a
tree that recently stood near the Boston e.
| Maine station in that town, William Max
well came across Just such an exhibition of
| human deposit. The nails and dark brown
hair were firmly imbedded in the solid wood
being separated only when the machinery
| converted the wood into shingles The hair
and nails could be traced in four of the shin
giles cut from that particular part of the
tree. 1t is hoped that the bringing to light
of these emblems in SO rude manner has
not broken the charm.
Monday of last week soon after the after
noon session had commenced in school in
Parkman the teacher happened to cast his
| eye out of the window, and saw five deer in
the road only few rods from the school
house. He Immediately called the scholars
to see them. The large boys. excited for a
deer hunt, sought permission of the teacher
| to go out, ''for better view," of course. Soon
another deer appeared with cur close to his
heels. The dog after the deer, and the boy
after both dog and deer, were seen by the
teacher as they disappeared rapidly down
the road. They soon caught the deer-boys
and dog at the same time. The boys drove
the dog off and took the deer home A man
soon appeared who claimed the dog, aud said
he had followed his dog five miles to get him,
The teacher from the school house saw two
men cross the opening and 90 in the direc-
ton where his excited pupils had previously
disappeared. The boys saved the life of one
deer, and delayed for some time the pursuit
Of the remainder of the herd.