Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-02
STATE HOUSE.
Population for 1895 Estimated 10 Be
About 10000.
Programmes for farmers Institutes 10 Be
Held in Aroustook.

MAJOR y. j. House, VINO mas Deen assist
| ing Labor Commissioner Matthews in
compiling figures to show the population
OF the State of Maine has just completed
| his work, and estimates that there is for
| 1895 population of 736, 600, as compared
with 722, 600 for 1894. This is a gain of
more than IA, coo over 1894, and $4,000
over $780,
These figures are estimated from polls,
as reported by the town assessors. A poll
is not merely voter, as some think, but
any male resident, 2l years old or over.
In 1880, the census showed a population
of Gas, 936. The polls, that year, numbered
| 100, 500. The ratio of these is 4.0il. 1t
| is on the basis of calculation that this
population is estimated One instance
alone, however, has not determined this
ratio, for in 1880 it was again computed,
with that ratio as a basis of reckoning,
and results Tailed with actual census to
| within 200. Thus, unless the women,
youths and children have greatly decreased
| in numbers in proportion to the number
of polls, which does not seem at all likely,
the estimation of 4 OIL inhabitants to
every l poll is very conservative one,
in undoubtedly not at all exaggerated.
In view of the fact that the Western
emigration has of late decreased, and that
many have come into Maine from the
provinces, the gain of IA, 200 is not sur
prising.
Secretary of Agriculture B. W. McKeen
has returned from the Institutes recently
held in Waldo county, and reports that
they were most successful and largely at
tended, showing lively interest in the
most advanced methods of scientific agri-
culture. The institutes in Waldo county
were held at West Winterport, North
Searsport and Belfast.
On the Pullman, this morning, Sccre-
tary McKccn and Charles E. Wheeler, the
member from Franklin county started for
Aroostook county, We're they will be
joined by Professor Gowell of the Maine
State College. Institutes will be held at
the following places, next week: Ash
land, Monday Napoleon, Tuesday; Carl
bou, Wednesday; Island Falls, Thursday;
Amity, Friday. All kinds of farming will
be Observation-Disclosures stock folders, farm
fertilizers, poultry raising, etc.
Secretary McKcen is in receipt of let.
ter from J. W. Dudley of Castle Hill,
usually keen interest is being manifested
in Aroostook over the coming Institutes,
and that the attendance will undoubtedly
be larger than ever before.
Advices have also been received that
paper on Good Roads, by j. W. True of
East Gloucester, president of the Maine
Pathological Society, will be read at some
of the institutes.
Bank Examiner f. f. Timberlakc re
turned, Friday afternoon, from a tour of
inspection of banks in Dexter Dover,
Sllowhegan and Waterville.
Night Waterman Henry Breen during
his long experience on the Augusta police
force, met with many incidnets calculated
to surprise tho ordinary individual, but
he feels that he never until the other day
really knew what it is to be thoroughly
| surprised. He was out cunning. His
double barrelcd shot gun had been loaded
by his SON He was sitting on the edge of
ravine when he discharged the piece.
There was n tremendous recoil, which
dazcd him somewhat and when his vision
became clear again he bchcd in one hand,
gun, but the stock was missing and he
| turned in time to see it tumbling down
the incline of the ravne. Both barrels
had been discharged. The stock had been
broken off ut the grip. The locks of the
gun hu did not find. The shattered breeuh
and the barrels he will keep us souvenirs,
for his lame shoulder has nearly ceased to
remind him of the narrow escape he had.
There was serious accident on the
Camden road near the Bay Point station,
Rockland, Thursday night. DR.. +. H.
Wheeler of this city, was driving Camden
ward in a closed carriage. and Mrs. Dud
ley Jameson in an opposite direction, both
moving at q brisk pace. 1t was very dark
and the carriages came in collision,
throwing both out. DR.. Wheeler suffered
a bruise on the forehead and Mrs Jameson
had several ribs fractured. Boston Globe
DR.. Ernest Wheeler is well known in
this city, aud his many friends will regret
the accident
There will be a teachers and workers
devotional service at the first Baptist
church Sunday morning at $50.