Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-07

ABOUT 90 cases of smells are shipped
weekly from Lubcc to Boston.
The pulp mills at Great Works. Mon
lague and Rowland are said to furnish :
train load Of pulp day
The new schooner in the Washburr
yaFd, Ihomaston. will probably be read,
Tor launching Christmas.
While Judge Woodbury. of Bethel wa.
ieveling bank In his field recently he
came upon a nest of 1872 snakes, differine
IN size and color
more cases have been heard and dis
posed OF by reference in the supreme court
III oxford county, the past year than have
been tried by the jury
Five X. of p lodges with an aggregate
member ship of PA have recently been in
stleuted-at Ellsworth, Lincoln. Thomas
ton, Finalhaven and Frankfort and
lodges are nearly ready to institute al
Orono, Brewer and Newport, with several
other places on the string.
A well known Portland merchant has
recently had illustrated to him. in the
person of two commercial travellers. great
vlcissitudes of fortune Ono who called
TO solicit trade for a certain brand of
catsup was at one time one of the lead
ing merchants of Boston, and his resi-
dence when adversely came, sold under
the hammer for s73, 600 The other who
had line of cigars, had been twice elected
governor of one of the largest of the Mid
die Western states.
Fairfield has smart old lady who will
DE so years of age next March. She is
the mother of fifteen children. She has
done her own work until within two
years. In the meantime she has pieced
up and finished twelve log cabin quilts,
SO called eleven Of them having 1900
pieces in each, one having 1886 pieces,
besides four or five others, ordinary ones.
She is now in very good health. can knit
fine edging and knits her own stockings
and reads without glas ses.
Sheriff s. G. Norton of Waldo county.
has made up his annual report as Tailor
from Dec /, 1894 to Nov 30, 1895 in
elusive. The report shows the whole
number of commitments for the year TO
be 233, as follows: Drunkenness. 49,:
debtors and for non payment of fines, IA !;
liquor sellers, 3; tramps and Migrants, 23
OF the total number 1870 were committed
in December, 1894, against 1903 in the II
months since. The number in Jail now is
-, of whom nine are tramps or Migrants.
One year ago the number was As
Hon. j. W. Maxwell of Webster, is
referee in an interesting sweet corn case,
which concerns a well known citizen of
Androscoggin county and Portland
packing concern. They had hearing in
the town hall q short time ago which
occupied all day. The farmer planted
some corn for the corn factory. 1t did
not come very well and he told the
agent of the factory that he had some
corn which was just as good as the seed
furnished by the company. 1t was an
earlier variety and he thought if he
planted it then that the two lots would
mature together and be ready for picking
at the same time. The agent he SAYS in
Dictated that if he produced corn as good
as that grown from the seed furnished by
the company, it would be all right. So
the farmer went ahead and planted his
eight-row corn. 1t matured as expected.
and to the planter looked every bit as
good as the regular sweet factory corn
But they refused to take it at the factory,
saying that it wasn't as good for their
purposes as their own kind of corn.
Hence the suit and the referee hearing.