The Somerset reporter., 1896-03-26
STATE NEWS.

children, the youngest but babe are
left
Colonel +. E Boothby. The freight
tonnage of the Maine railroads las in
creased eight times over What 1t was %
years ago, and the passenger traffic has
increased three times in that time
Rockland was visited by s6o,0 900 fire
Friday. 1t was oeeasioned by leakage
in the roof of a lime kiln. Four lime
kilns belonging to the Perry plant were
burned, aud other damage done.
1t now appears there are at least, two
towns in this state that never had a
clergyman, a lawyer or Il doctor living
within their limits and have no post
Office The good old town of Verona
had no sooner received a good bit of
free advertising on this account than
the town of Marshtield, Washington
county puts in a similar claim to no
toriety.
During the first Il days IN March 3G3
cars of potatoes were shipped from
Aroostook county for Boston. Each
ear will hold about 500 bushels and in
those 3G3 cars there were over 10000
bushels of "tubersn The southern seed
demand is now practically over, and a
large proportion of the stock now in
farmers hands will no doubt be used
by the starch factories.
A Maine man, Willard f. Field of
Newport is reported to have had n
strange experience in Boston lie took
drink with friend, became uncon-
scious and when he recovered his senses
discover. that he had had taken from
him in the meantime, $4,000 worth of
bonds and notes and So in money He
says he was not intoxicated and was
not assaulted. The police are searching
for the friend.
The collecting of spruce gum and ship
ping it is quite an important industry
o. L. Reed, who lives near Rumford
Falls, expects to sell from five to six tons
of gum this winter.-Th Think of the
wasted energy which will be expended
in chewing" that amount For TWEEN
ty-fve years he has furnished gum to a
western firm that makes spruce gum
only and employs over Il hundred hands.
This is but one of the many firms to
whom Mr. Reed has shipped gum in five
hundred pound lots. Aroostook county
carries of the honors as to the quality
of gum furnished this winter.
Geor. f. Davis, drummer for IA
Wholesale liquor house in Boston, was
brought before Judge Fogg of the Bath
municipal court Wednesday afternoon
of last week, to answer To the charge of
obtaining orders for sale of Intoxicating
liquors in Bath. He pleaded guilty and
was fined $50 and costs This is the
first case of the kind ever brought into a
Bath police court Davis, not having
enough by $40 to pay his fine, sent to
Boston for that sum and ON Thursday
paid the fine imposed. He said that
Bath would be given wide birth by
hlm in the future.
Bangor Commercial: Bath is com
mencing to see the economic folly of
/ cooking one dollars worth of daintieS,
carrying them to the church vcstry and
selling them for 80 cents, all for sweet
Charity's sake, and thinking all the
while that you are making money.
Amateurs over there recently presented
an opera for a philanthropic object.
| Now their friends are trying to raise
money enough by subscription to pay
the expenses of the opera. the receipts
didn't do it. A local paper suggests an
entertainment for the benefit of those
who have wasted THEN substance on
charity offerings.
The rope belt arrangement at Gardi-
ner for the transmission of power from
the Richards mill to the Copsecook mill
is probably the biggest thing of its kind
in use at any industrial plant in Maine.
1t is over 800 feet between the shafts.
The rope used is "A inch diameter
MANILA, and as there are five strands of
it, its total length is over 5000 feet.
The rope comes from the water shaft in
the Richards mill t. the roof, from
there across and down to the stream to
a tower, and from there to the. Copse-
cook mill, where it helps drive the
man line of shafting. The rope is cap
able of transmitting POO horse power and
the mill will probably not have to use
steam power this summer.
Belfast Journal: Our Prospect cor
respondent sends us the following facts
concerning the youngest crew from
Prospect that ever sailed out of Penob-
scot river: "The vessel was the
schooner Francis Newton, mailing from
Bucksport, and the year was 1853. The
crew was rs follows: Capt Geo. w.
Dow, 20 years; mate A. J. Croker, is
years; cook, Schuyler c. Shute, years
VIM. J. Myers, II years; Ashley Carley,
1G years all from old Prospect. Then
there We're three young Swedes, aged
respectively, Is, II and Is years, Capt.
Dow had charge of the brig Webster
Kelley the year before, when he was
only -. This is the vessel previously