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Show Hie Price for lee. The greatest excitement over the ice prospect seems to be on the Penobscot 4 New York man in Bangor ha bought nearly 15,000 tons, paying 82 per ton for gammer delivery, the highest price paid for years at so early a date. Every ice house will be filled and largo crews are to rush business. Three Bango", men are preparing to cut and stack six or seven thousand tons on the steamboat wharf, and Jtr. A. H. Babcock will fill his coal sheds. One dealer has just refused an offer of $3 a ton for 5,000 tons, and several sev-eral dealers are almost millionaires in anticipation according to reports. Keep cool, gentlemen, keep coolI-Lewiston Joarrud. |