Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-30
LETTER FROM WALDOB0RU.


W.1ponopo'. Nc, June, 2'th, 1870.
To the Editor of the Journal.
I'VE have been having equatorial heat here
lfpr the past few days, in fact SO warm that one
would feel comfortable even in hot bath
IYct, sithough il is extremely warm here dur-
ling fine middle part of the day, owing to Its
close proximity to the broad Atlantic, it cools
off perceptibly towards evening, and in the
evening one is not uncomfortable with
heavy overcoat on. Along towards o'clock
in the afternoon of each day the wind almost
invariably pulls round to the southland and
then we get pretty stiff sea breeze, and by
this breeze and the tides vessels are enabled
to reach our wharves, for steam tugs are
something unknown on these waters.
1t is an odd place is this Waldoboro', or if
not odd in itself, odd in its queer sounding
German-Dutch names. One has but to glance
at sign here to be puzzled For instance
who would pronounce the name Winchenbach,
Wfnkerpar, But, so it is pronounced. II
one was asked to spell Coon, he or she would
smell il as I have written it; but that would
be grievous error, Kuhn is the correct way
And we find such names as Stahl, Hahn and
Genthner; with the silent you have the pro-
nounciation. But these names are nowhere
to some others. We can get up integral parts
of a bovine 'scritter" with surnames. Anat-
omically we have for him the following names :
Head. Horn, Sides, Schenks, Hofses, and
last but not least, UmbJhind; with little
stretch you can place the appendage And
then we have Sidensparker, Sidelinger, and
Mink. What bashful lover but sparks side
ways, and what bravado but would give one a
sidelinger if provoked?
Rows used to be common occurrence here
in DAVIS gone by, ''but times amt as they used
to was" and yet for all that we had skirmish
here the other day. am sorry to record 1t,
but the battle came off between two brothers,
men who we're old enough to do better, and
al, about a Ine-fence. They pounded and
pummeled each other to their hearts content.
One with black eye and sw ollen nose made
his appearance at a lawyers office, ana we
are perhaps not specializing when we say he
NAV have come off second best.
A wedding took place here short time
since. The boys, or outsiders, who hold forth
on such occasions, not believing in the worn
out custom of serenading with tin pans, tin
horns, kettles gongs, &C., &C., got out small
cannon and gave the happy couple salute Of
three guns. Tableau inside -fainting ladies
and startled gentlemen. This fun. however,
was put stop to by the presence of an inter-
ested party, and then all went merry as a
marriage bell.
Since the suppression Of the liquor traffic
by the authorities, drunken man is really a
rare sight, whilst heretofore three or four
drunken sots stretched out on the sidewalk in
drunken sleep, was common occurrence.
The Lodge of Good Templars, called the
Woodbury. Lodge in honor of temperance
reformer and speaker, is an excellent institu-
ton and has done and is doing much for the
cause. They have pretty little hall in one
of our largest blocks, and hold meetings
every Tuesday evening. 1t is Differed by