The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-31
Pennington Letter.
PENNINGTON, Dec. %. 1878.
NUMBERING.

LUMbEhlNGs
We now have SNOW enough for excellent
Shedding, and lumbering operations in the
northern part of this county will pow, no
doubs, be carried briskly forward. The proba-
blities are that the amount cut will fall con-
siderably below that of last year. Our heavi-
est local operator is A. Toothsker, Esq Of
Phillips: and we learn from the Photograph
that he will put in stock at Rangeley Lakes
this winter, as usual. He will employ ffem
culation $500 to $4,000 in cash, as Mr..
Toothaker always pays cash when the work is
done. No man, who has worked for this COM
pany, has ever failed to get his pay when due,
in the last % years that he has been engaged
Numbering. MI. roocnakos oonSona pIases-
present winter putting his teams farther down
the Lakes, where it will cost less to get the
lumber to market, hoping thereby to get bet
ter compensation for his labor.
ITEMS
After the late heavy freshet on Sandy river,
Mr.. L. A. Daggett of this town was examining
q portion of the intervale on his farm, which
had been considerably washed out, when he
noticed large fish, some two feet in length,
laying on the ground near by him. This mon
ster, of course, at once attracted his attention,
for seldom, if ever, nowadays is 80 large one
caught in our river. A closer inspection re-
vealed it to be genuine petrife6 salmon, one
Of the many which, long years ago, were to be
found in the river Next!
Here it isl Credited to the Phillips Phono-
graph: A curious Circumstance has come to
our notice, which, though old, loses none of its
interest. During the run of the ''bluebacks,'
at Range ley, in October last four well known
men in this region, namely, Messrs. L. G.
Whitman, G. r. Hardy, j. W. Haines and FL
w. Reed, were engaged in netting bluebaeks,
and caught queer fish for these waters
nothing more or less than regular, perfect,
ugly, big.mou thed, rawboned sculpin. One of
these gentlemen has followed the sea for years,
while two of the others were born aud brought
up by the sea shore, and are supposed to know
a sculpip from deformed blueback. Now,
how did this salt water bird come way up here
among the mountains, several thousand feet
above the level?
Our citizens are very much pleased with the
change lately made in the Post Office. Capt.
E. I, Merrill, our gentlemanly and obliging
Postmaster, is always on the alert to adopt
any change which will better accommodate the
public, and we are glad to note his efforts are
appreciated. The office is now located in q
roomy and handsome brick building, on Broad
way, and the interior working and waiting de-
partments have been enlarged and beautifed,
and will now bear comparison @ith offices in
much larger places.
Pennington lost about $4,000 By the last
freshet, By washing away of roads and small
bridges.
We have to thank Messrs. Fl. II. Richards
and D. M. Bonney for the first-class literary
| entertainment recently given here by Rev. 81.
| W. Beecher. We hear thu same gentlemen
are thinking of engaging Wendell Phillips to
| lecture here soon.
| PERSONAL.
| A pleasant social gathering of invited friends
| was held at the fine mansion of Hon. J. W.
| Fairbanks, on Christians evening. About $50
were present and good evening was the inevi-
table result
| The Chronicle has recently given its readers
sketch of life in Japan, written by +. E.
Whitney. native of this town, now Professor
r college at Yokohama. We hope to see
more of his writings from there.
Rev. Mr.. Eaton, pastor of the Baptist church,
is zealously working to build up his church
and society here, and we are pleased to note
his work q success.
The pulpit of the Congregational church is
being temporarily filled by Rev. Mr. Kassop,
an Andover student.
H. L. Whitcomb, EGG, is yet is very feeble
| health