The Somerset reporter., 1897-12-02
STATE AND GENERAL.


can imprisoned in Cuba, at the present
time. "A
The Pacific Cable 60. announce that
its proposed cable will connect San
Francisco with the Hawaiian islands.
The revenue cutter, Bear, sailed Fri
day, to the relief Of the whalers who
are frozen up in the Arctic ocean, north
Of Point Barrow, Alaska.
Turkeys troubles thicken. Now she
has an Albanian revolt on her hands
1t will be put down, Of course, but such
tasks are expensive, and Turkey has no
money 10 spare.
Railroad building goes steadily for
ward in Maine. The shore line is under
contract, while the Wiscasset and Que
bee and Somerset and Moosehead Lake
are pushing on for northern connections
with the great eanadian Pacific
The will Of the late Eustice f. FIT Of
Chelsea, Mass, has just been probated.
The will deyises public requests as fol.
lows: 5000 each to Brown and Colby
Universities $4,000 each to Wellesley,
Newton Theological Seminary Ameri.
can Baptist Home Mission Society.
Great Britain and ireland have turned
out "a, 622, 706 gallons of whiskey in
ls97, over 100000 gallons more than in
the previous year OF this -, 1876, 23s
gallons were consumed in the United
Kingdom and 100, Isl gallons exported
There are 100 distilleries at work in
Scotland, twenty-nine in Ireland, nine in
England and one in Wales.
Waterville Mail: There is a celebrat
ed dairy down in Rhode Island which
has become known as a sanitary dairy.
1t has secured this name because every
thing about it is conducted with a view
| to absolute cleanliness. 1t may take a
good while but some day all dairymen
are going to find out that the chief es-
sential to the production OF the best
milk and butter and cheese is this
quality of cleanliness. If this be disre-
garded all other attempts to obtain sat
isfactory dairy products will fail utterly.
Horace Stamford, a farmer on the
west shore of Pushaw pond, believes
that logging deer is being carried on in
some parts of the State. Monday morn
ing, Mr.. Stamford found a half dead
buck deer in his barn yard where it
was in among the cattle for protection
from something. 1t was found on ex-
animation that the animal had been
fired at by some hunter, its right horn
was torn off close to its head and the
left one was shattered as if pierced by a
rifle ball. The left ear was hanging
to its head only by small piece of skin,
and looked as if it had been cut by a
hunters knife, the hind quarters were
covered with blood, and showed very
strong evidence of dogs teeth.
Oxford county turns out large por-
ton of the spools on which the sewing
thread of the country is wound, says the
Northwestern Lumberman. The spools
are made of white birch. The industry
is also important in other counties of
western Maine. There are numerous
saw mills in that part of the State which
are kept busy all the year around saw
ing birch logs into strips four feet long
and from one to two inches square.
These rods are sent to the spool fac
tories, where they are worked into
spools by ingenious machinery. Shoe
peg factories are also an important
branch of Maine industries Maple is
largely used in the manufacture of shoe
pegs, but white birch is exclusively
used. Pegs are sold by the bushel and
are priced at wholesale from - cents to
81 bushel. Maine factories last year
sold more than S250,000 worth of shoe
pegs.