Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-22
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There have just been liberated in
Tunk pond 1900 salmon.
The large travel over the B. & A. CON
tlhues to hold up although the sportsmen
have nearly all left the woods.
There is such growing demand for
canned yelloweyed beans that one firm
IN the State is to commence packing
them.
-Four black foxes from Alaska have
peeh released on Heron Island with u
view to breeding a colony of the valuable
animals there.
Inc new mill of the Linn Woolen Com
pany at Hartland is nearly completed.
ana is said to be the finest wooden build
ing OF the kind in New England.
1ood progress was made on the Shore
railroad last week. The sub-contractors
expect to finish their work considerably
ahead of time-limit. The heaviest part
OF the work is being done now between
"hltncyville and Columbia Falls. Work
DIT ihe Machias end of the Inc is finished.
John 6. Chadwick, contractor and
builder of Houlton, is pushing the work
on the addition to the Vaughan house
Caribou, and by Dec. LIST Landlord b. J.
smith will have plenty of room for his
GU SITS. The addition is 35x52 feet with
ManSard roof and il basement. making
practically four stories.
All kinds OF new occupations are
springing up every day, but the strangest
Is that found by Saco young man as a
professional skunk killer, and sosrwell has
he SIrrppHpI
nled IN that he now has bought full line
Oh traps with which to catch the skunks
and gun with which to kill them.
A company has bought small tract of
land one and One-half miles from Minot
village and for the last two months IA
small force of Italian workmen have been
quarrylng feldspar on it and the deposit
promises to be one of the richest in the
country. 1t is reported here that a force
OF % men will be put on in the spring to
develop and work the quarry
Gardiner claims couple little out of
the ordinary. The woman says she is IA
member of the English nobility, and that
she LETT her home to elope with coach
man, with whom she is now living there,
the husband having secured IA situation as
hostler on a stock farm. The woman is
refined and cultivated, speaks English,
French, Spanish and German 1uently.
The business transacted in Angora cats
in this city is indeed surprising One
dealer is about to ship cats to Texas,
Michigan, California and New Orleans.
This particular dealer has shipped during
the past ten months nearly 400 cats and
the number for the whole year will be
well up to half thousand. The prices
of the pussieS range from 50 to $40 accord
ing to the size and color The white and
maltese animals seem to be preferred by
the purchasers, says the Rockland Star
Along Penobscot bay and river more
than the usual amount of CLAIMS are dug
for sale this fall. An expert clam digger
will take out five and six bushels at one
tide and make easy work of it, apparently
But non-professional will have cold
fingers and a groaning backacha in taking
out two bushels in tide with the short
handled prong hoe that is so generally
used. The best CLAIMS are dug on very
low tides at Sears Island, but SearSport
has put an embargo on clam diggers who !
belong outside of the town 30 Cape
Jellson and Squaw Point in Stockton are
he favorite resorts for turning out CLANS |
now.
The Patten & Sherman Railroad, a new |
'eeder for the B. & A., five and one-half |
miles long, from Patten to point one |
md one-h half miles east of Sherman sta
.ion is now being graded. and if the
weather permits the rails will be laid |
his fall. Grading will be completed |
about Dec. l. AT present there are 1870 |
men at work under Foreman McPhail. |
The town of Patten voted SIS, 600 in aid |
# the road, and $4,000 has been raised by
private subscription. The town has
placed bonds for the amount of its sub
cription with the Eastern Trust *
Company of Bangor The bonds
un 90 years at 4 = and were noated at
,ar. The road is owned by the Burleighs,
he subscriptions above mentioned being
gifts, from the town and citizens of Pat,
en-, who were willing to pay that much
or the privilege of having rail communi-
alton with the outer world. A. A. Bur
eigh is president of the corporation The
tation at the junction with the b. q A.,
md the Y track at that place. will be
,uilt this fall and the railroad will be
n operation not later than next June