Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-15

jay Ell Bee has an Dxpsrisucs In Bar'
sor, aud tells about Malice Slate. !.

Easiors of lac KeaaeSee Journal:
Through the opsque mist that enveloped
this civ this morning before daylight the
des cending torrents were filtered in an IN
even and sxaspersting fashion. meeting the
unlucky pedestrian more than half way ~
he biaced up against the onslaughts OF
gus'y atmosphere that seemed to come
from all qisrers At once.
Add to the die.urbAn overhead the
utter iupessibilisy Of procuring pair Of
GAY 4 Parsons creepeYs ard YOU may
ina CINE the various rests taken At irregular
Intervals on the passage from the Western
Depot 10 the Bangor Exchange.
In some respects we were stih very foxtu-
nate, We ou.eone the electric cars in
their vain cideavor to make the passage
with the limited power svsilsbie at this
early hour, but We learn they have been
running very regulsrly-heipg "tlsd up" a
dsy or Two only-and the question naturally
arises what's the matter with Ausustaf
Certainly there is less snow here than wi h
you, but We hope our road men will not be
ou.done by their down east brethren.
1t rains. Water 10 the siests 10 any
where from sufficient to be uncomfortable
WHEN "sos daown in" to enough to swim in
if q man is q natatofial expert. We hoped
to be delivered from either exigency. but
were not We have this to comfort us.
however, where We ''sot" down "wunst''
others cot, recliaed or rolled over, Rugged
| the earth and used forcible language
''twics." Prophets hint at an ex ended
Jstuary thsw and downward movement
in ice, hut think you csu safely say that
| drap in temperature as well As persons is
| to be expected.
BANGOR, Jan. IL.
Twas at Brownville yesterday. In that
Town are billions of squares Of the bss:
slate on earth The Old Crocker Quarry
| on the east bank of Pleasant river has
been purchased BY u company with ample
capital and already the buildings tina, have
been unoccupied for q dozen years o.
more, and were fast becoming worthless,
have been thoroughly repaired and are
occupied by the company's employees. The
forty or fifty feet Of water has
been pumped out and merchantaole
slate of the old time fine quality is being made
Thirty hands are employed and more than
twice that number will be employed ia the
early spring, to be again doubled in the near
future, when, as in former years, the prod
uct Of the "Crocker" quarry will stand at
the head
Yesterday afternoon visited Henderson
on the Canadian Pacific Railroad which i,
growing steadily, its dozen or fifteen nes,
and substantial dwellings, two ho'els,
machine shop, etc. making a striking pict-
ure surrounded as they are by the
cinder shaded snow. Everything bespeaks
lots to do and good clear heads and able
hand, to do it. Existing circumstances
were not favorable TO pedestrisnism and
when the Katahdin Iron Works Railway
dropped us at Milo junction with the sweets
of a three hour watt for the up train to
Dover, employed the time thus given ne
in an agreeable evaporation of my lower
extremities before wood fire of very
fervent dimensions. for which the X. l. W.
X. CO. will accept my sincere thanks.
As predicted it's colder and "loggin"' will
not suffer materially although teams ali lay
by yesterday rather than ''punch up their
perfect roads add make them dangerous
when frozen. The three fee. of snow has
settled one -balf, and the swollen brooks OF
yesterday have subsidsd somewhat snd are
freezing along their edges in yellow isl fold.
and laps, contrasting with the shiny fields
of CLASSY crust, and sll indescribably beauti
full seen under the light of this gcrgeou.
winter sun. JAY Err BEE
| DOVER, Jan. IS.