The Portland daily press., 1895-07-13

The total valuation of Camden as re
turned by the assessors for 1895 is 81, 662,
247, an increase of S22, S71 from last year
tax rates .016 number of polls 761, an in
erase of "a since last returns
VIM. R. Stubbs of New Vineyard
brought out to market one day last week
q spring lamb he raised that dressed "a
lbs He says he has another at home,
whose live weight is so lbs
A peculiar case is attracting the atten-
| tion of the residents of South Atkinson.
For twenty years Mrs. Jonathan Rowe
has been totally blind. One day this
week while sitting in her room she was
surprised to find that she could see her
hands and then the form of her husband
appeared to her. After looking over the
house for few moments her sight again
two and four in the afternoon her sight
| is perfect, but after that time she is
totally blind. Specialists have been study
| ing her case for few days and are puz-
zled at the popularity Of it
Judge Whitehouse has received an ap-
plication for the reduction of the $40, 600
bonds which now keep Mike Burns in Jail
for the attempted murder of Harry Hop
kins, and it is said that Harry himself
wishes to have it done. A hearing will be
held at an early date.
Two Bath girls, who wanted to sell the
blueberries they had picked and could not
ed. They soon had those berries trans
formed into pies and sold them like hot
cakes.
The Bangor Whig says: "The mills on
the Penobscot river are practically all
shut down because it is impossible to get
enough out of the manufactured product
to pay for the log and the cost of saving.
The removal of the lumber duty has
opened up market to the Canadian manu-
facturers and they have taken advantage
of this manifestation of Democratic
lunacy to such an extent that the market
is glutted The Democratic laborers who
are thrown out of work in what is usual
ly the busy season will experience some
difficulty in discovering the "bonanza"
tendencies of a Democratic tariff. -
After the Fourth lot of tar and bar
rels covered with poisonous substance
that had been left over on the franklin
Company's pasture at Lewiston from bon
fires, was overhauled by COWS and about
eight of them licked the stuff and have
since died and the city will probably have
to pay the bill.
The town officers of Norway have re-
ceived check of $500 from sMrs. Otis
Jones to be used for public library pur-
poses in lieu of the library building
Fl. G. Pratt, Esq. has appointed Mr.
II. A. Donald deputy town clerk of Fox
croft, for the present municipal year.
A. J. Sands one of South Sebec's en-
terprising farmers, has 1S acres under
cultivation, acres of hoed crops and 5
acres sowed. He has over acres of fine
beans in one field, acres of which are
yellow eyes and l acre of white beans
He used 1-2 tons of superphosphate this
season. He put peas into the market
June 2S, and now has new potatoes and
early vegetables. He has over so acres of
moving land
Messrs. Rabson and Gilman are soon to
remove the old gristmill and dam at the
mouth of mill brook on Lincoln street,
Foxcroft, and in their places erect new
improved structures The mill building
will be 50x2S feet, two stories high above
a basement story, and extending from the
line of the street ten feet towards the
river beyond the extreme end of the old
mill
The attention Of Maine famers is be-
ing called to the orange hawk weed which
is spreading so rapidly in the state that
unless constant watchfulness is exercised
it will overrun the state. All the other
bad weeds together, says one of our Ken
nebec farmers such as the Canada thistle
the plantain the wild mustard and the
carrot, are not so bad to fight as the
hawk weed. The way to do IS to root
it up, or else plough it under close.