Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-21

OF the State phAfDaceuticAl Aaacciasa0n-
! that prohibition ipjsyes businees There
never was ; greater delusioa. When
the head Of household spends portion
Of his money for liquor, be has less left
for the food and cioshibg and other ne.
cessfsfes and comforts for his family and
/ legitimate business sufEerz Just 30 much
| When . iaboring man who receives two
dollars day, spends fifty cents Of that
for liquor. Legitimate business suffers
accordingly The drinking population
of the United States spends fifteen hun
dred millions of dollars In liquors each
! year. There is one liquor saloon to
every 107 voters east of the Mississippi.
| and one 10 every q voters west Of the
Mississippi; and 80, 600 saloons in these
states and territories Of the Union waste
enough hard substance 10 feed, elo.he
and pay the house rent Of every family
ia the United States. How much do
these help ''business:'
/ The recent sale of one piece Of land at
an out-of- the-way point on MI. Desert
Island IL said to have started the whole
place into activity. Several new Gotta
ges are going UP and the place Is now
heraIded Is one Of the coming summer
resorts.
Bath Times The Peoples Party Of
Maine muster Is men for State Con
ventlon. That IL encouragement enough
for them TO make noise enough for 49,
600.
The first meeting for the season OF the
Portland congregational Club will be
November President Hyde OF Bow
doIn will be the speaker Of the evening
Maehias Republican: Fine large and
fat mackerei were very plenty at Lubee
the first Of the week. For two days tine
catch was so large that sufficient help
could not be procured TO take care OF IL
In one Of the factories a family, consist
ing Of father. three sons and one daugh
ter. Ia employed, the weekly earnings OF
which amount to eighty dollars.
Mir. John Furnish has bought the Con
gregational vestry and lot on school
street, Brunswick in behalf Of the Pejep
scot Historical Society, In the hooe that
the members will secure it for the pur
pose Of meetings, and for the exhibition
Of its historical collections.
Maine gold is still panning out. The
/ argus OI SAYS - "NiN
shown Yesterday by n. Winslow ,Esq.,
two little bottles of gold from the Byron
| gold diggings in this State They are
not very large, but represent value of
about $500. They will be on exhibition
| in j. A. Merrill 4 Co g window for few
days until they are sent TO the mint"
The wandering wreck Of thu schooner
| Wyer G. Sargent of SedgWlek, has
again been seen at sea. letter from
| Capt. Rowland OF the whaling bark
| Canton of New Bedford, dated neat
Flores. states that on Aug. u in latitude
81 deg 20 m. n. longitude Al deg. W.,
fhe boarded the vessel, which was on an
| even keel. decks awash, and hull in good
| condition. The Wyer G.. Sargent was
dismasted and abandoned last spring
while on a voyage from Mexican port
to New York, She has cargo of ma
hogany worth so 900 under her matches
and has on that account been frequently
sought for by wreckers, but without
success.
A Maine man is said TO have invented
a device for preventing electric cars that
have stopped while ascending steep
grade from running down grades before
| the breaks are applied.
J W Hamilton, Past Grand Chief
| Templar, is lecturing and organizing in
Aroostook county. Mr.. Hamilton or.
ganized two new lodges last week and
| addressed a large public meeting at
| SMYRNA Mills, last Saturday evening
| 18th lodge meeting was held at the
close of the public meeting. Crystal
| Water Lodge In Smyrna has been organ
lied two years and has about eighty
members and is doing good work. A
juvenile temple has been organized and
| is in fine condition
The Aroostook Condensed Milk Com
pany's factory at Newport is nearing
completion and is a magnificent brick
structure forty feet wide and one hun
dred and fifty feet in length. The chin
| ney is completed and looms up eighty
feet skyward Several capitalists have
lately purchased blocks Of this com
pany's stock. Hon. Elias Milliken Of
this city, Messrs. F. o. Buzzell of Ban
gor, |. C. Libby of Burnham, A r. Mer
riIl OF Waterville f w. Shaw of New
port, c f, Mitchell of Bangor. and J.
7. Murch OF Newport, have each recent
~
capital is seeking home investments
An electric road to the city OF West
brook is now an assured thing. The
Portland Railroad Company has petit
toned the selectmen of Deering for
permission 10 extend their tracks In that
town and hearing will be held at the
Town House, Wednesday, Nov. II. AS
soon as permission is obtained the con-
tracts for building the road will be placed
and the construction of the rolling stock
commenced. The cars will be iutlt in
Portland, the rails and motors will be
obtained this winter, and as soon as the
frost Is out of the ground in the spring
the work Of LAYING the rails will be COM
menced and completed in short time.
Literary Notes.
+. Marion Crawford will write the
leading serial story for the Atlantic next
year.
Harper for November will contain the
third and concluding instalment of the
letters of Dickens to Wilkie Collins.
A paper on the Home and Haunts OF
Lowell" has been written by Frank B.
Sanborn for the New England Magazine
1t will appear in the November number
Justin winsors book on christopher
Columbus, and How He Received and
Impaired the Spirit of Discovery" will
be issued this week by foughton, Mifllin
4 Co, Boston.
A memorial of Charles Kingsley in
the form of a stained glass window will
be erected in the church at Holne. viii
| lage on the borders of Dartmore, in
which he was born.