Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-12


one death. and but very few cases have
been reported from this cause In forty
| years. It Is among the foreign, mainly
German population who are addicted To
the reprebensible habit Of eating pork
only partially cooked, or entirely raw,
a. In case Of bacon, that the largest
| number Of deaths from this cause occur
there are no trichina in healthy Amer
can pigs.
MAINE GOSSIP.
There are now three noble Maine built
vessels af0at, of which the New ork
| sun Of Thursday says There are nov
three giant Yankee clipper ships afloat
| that beat any foreign craft moulded IN
wood. The last and smallest Of the
| trio, the Susquehanna, arrived here in
| ballast on Wednesday from Bath, where
| she was launched from the ship yard Of
| Arthur Sewell & Go on September Il
| The Susquehanna measures 21li tons.
ia 313 | 2 feet long, * feet beam, and
| % feet deep. Joseph Sewstl is her
skipper. Like her sister ships, the Rap
pahannock and the Shenandoah, she is
| named tIttF Nh AuntI II al lINtt- Filt
| will load with 1900 tons of general car
go for San Francisco. The shenandoah
| = the largest sailing vessel except the
| I've masted steel French ship France, In
| the world. She measures 325S tons.
| She is now on her way from San Fran
cisco to Hsvre The Rappahannock
measures 1854 tons She left Liverpool
for San Francisco on July -.
/
| Presque Isle Herald We are indebted
TO VIM. Watson OF this town for dish
o. strawberries, large and well ripened
| which he picked Ia his field on Tuesday,
| the Gth inst With ripe strawberries In
October there wouldn't seem TO be any
thing seriously at fault with Aroostook's
climate, this year, at any rate.
OF the hundred and thirteen corn can
ming factories in this State, forty-tWo re
| port . jta, 800 cans packed this fall, the
produce 10 most of them being larger
than that Of last year
The total of Bangor subscriptions to
| the Bangor & AroostoOk Railroad to
| Oct y il sl09 200 In sums of 500 to
| SO 000-the last named sum being the
subscription OF Messrs. Coe x Pingree
| The town Of Embden protests against
the adding OF sl1l 900 To its valuation
on account of the erection of the pulp
| mill. which the town exempts from tax
| alton and WAS Of benefit chiefly to Solou
The twenty third anniversary of the
Maine State SUNDAY School Association
| will be held in the Pine Street Methodist
Episcopal church, Portland, October
18th, ith aud 18th, 1891 An interest
| ing programme has been arranged The
| Maine Central will sell round trip tickets
| NJ one fare
Hiram s Maxim, the great Maine
genius who invented the Maxim gun,con
tributes an article to the October number
| of the Century Magazine on Aerial Nay
| igation. which the publishers illustrate
| hy dozen illustrations OF curious
contrivsnces and machines invented by
Mr.. Maxim.
George NJ Fadden of Bath has an old
| pine tree in which the bees have been 10
| Gated for several years and which. from
examination is estimated to contain some
$40 pounds Of honey.
The Old Town High School teachers
| are enterprsing. Its geology class went
| VI to Katahdiu iron Works he other day
| TO study Mother Earth as there remark
ably developed, Perhaps some graduate
of this school NAV yet be able to solve
the problem Of mining the iron in these
Maine hills at paying rate.
The site of the Maine state Prison at
| Thomaston was bought of ex Gov. King,
| 70 l2nDD nd tho hnttttDsr - ha
caves cost SIP 600 by contract. fhe site
consisted of ten acres. and extended
from Main street to Georges river. July
| IA, 1874 the prison had 81 convicts, II
OF whom came from Chsrlestown, Mass
The second to jonathan Cilley OF
Maine in the famous Graves Cilley duel
Of February u lS4S, appeared in De-.
troit the other day in the person of Gen
ersl George W. Jones Of Dubuque. la.
General Jones is now about eighty seven
years old He was colonel of militia in
the Blsck Hawk War, aud at one tine
ne represented as delegate in Con
gress the whole territory including
what is now Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa,
Minnesota, the Dakotas and all the
the country north of the states of Mis-
souri, and Colorado extending to the Pa
cific ocean; a larger district, says Gen.
ersl Jones, than was ever represented
before or since In the House by one man.
He was United States senator from
Ohio from lst9 to 1889
Bsth Times Senator Hale has backed
up his talk concerning the development
| Of Maine made so eloquently at the
Board OF Trade meeting in Bangor by
subscribing $1,000 to the stock of Bangor
and Aroostook Railroad That is very
nice thing to do. much better in fact
than sending it West.
| Az the Bath Iron Works, cruiser No. )
| is a tribe ahead of her sister in
structure advance. but the work on both
is going forward with satisfactory rapid
ity The painters are busy on her hulls
and standing by the bows one might
thiuk the craft nearly ready for the
water.
Extensive repairs have just been com
pleted on the Free Baptist church, Tops
ham. The gallery has been moved to 8
position beside the pulpit. the floor new
ly csrpeted, walls frescoed, the work
being under charge Of Mr.. Henry
Cochrsne of Monmouth, and the pulpit
oewly furnished, The vestry has also
been considerably fitted up
"Ifa woman will, she will" II she will
take DR.. Bulrs Cough Syrup for her cold,
she viii be cured.
Take good s3vics.-I have suffered With
bad headaches for years. and have tried
many remedies without obtaining relief
vas advised 10 give Salvation OIL Q trisl,
And il has entirely cured me
EDWARD BALrz Butcher
La FsyeSfe, Market baltimore Nd