The Portland daily press., 1879-07-22
BATH.
A Big Shark-Kit Carson Gossip and
News

A Big Shark-Kit Carson-G Gossip and
News.
MONDAY, July q.
To gather the news is lots offun
So outsiders say.
When nothing is new under the sun
Criticizers gay?
After news about the street
Button holing whom you meet
Growls and curses thorn your beat
To get the news is so sweet!
Day after day.
Thrashings shooting and blackeyes
Pistols and coffee, sulphurous cries
From mansions doors to lowest styes
No wonder it's the local sghs
On his way.
White caps in the harbor
Eolus is Quitting.
| Police news is not.
More mud sunk in the channel this morning.
No wonder the pilots growl.
| The Samoset House at Mouse Island enter
tanned 70 guests at din er Sunday. The house
has 40 boarders and every room is engaged for
August.
Hotel arrivals-Sagadahoc 81; Shannon's Is.
Mr.. E. H. Henry leaves to-day for vaca-
tion trip to Martha's Vineyard.
| The yacht Breeze from Boston, Capt. III. F.
Whittier, was in port Saturday.
Kit Carson, with DR.. Redwing, is spending
a few days in town. Their appearance to-day
on the street in full Texan costume attracted
some attention. This noon at the Railroad
wharf Carson shot a potato from Redwing' S
head with rifle bullet. This evening "Kit'
gives free lecture in P. o. Square upon Gen.
Custer. Kit will shoot potatoes from Red
wings head after dark and attempts other
miraculous rifle acts. By the accidental
shooting of his brother Jack on the 22d of
January last in Eureka, Nevada, Carson is
heir of 100000 worth of stock in the Alpn e
Silver Mining Company of the Eureka con-
soil dated. He proposes to quit the show bust
ness and travel. Before leaving this city they
will visit the watering places in this vicinity.
AT the Eureka House, Popham yesterday
about 80 guests were at dinner. The house is
full and rooms are engaged through August.
Everybody speaks in the highest terms of the
manner in which Perkins Bros. & Stacy con-
duct their hotel.
The yacht Commodore, Capt. Lendall Frank,
left Bath Saturday with party of fifteen gem
tlemen. The yacht went ashore on Green
poiho dlu WstS lOMtu 10 TOp0am on SUNDAY DIV
the Creedmore. "Rothschild" went ashore at
Green point and the party sailed without find
ing him.
Gents furnishing goods and hosiery of the
best grades at Hills.
Though the excursion yesterday to Mouse
Island In the Sasanoa and Popham in the
Creedmore and other private sails an rides
were well patronized, the different ch urches
had large congregations day and evening
A Bath gentleman has valuable collection
nf nIItO novltC
were recently shown. Among the many
especially. noticeable were those Of Jefferson
Davis, Oliver Wendell Holiness ''Ike Parting
ton, j. G. Whittier, Major Robert Anderson,
George Francis Train Beside the auto
graphs were many manuscripts iand sentences
of and by noted men. There was of these
little political gem by Horace Mann and
Charles Summers well known, 'Not that
love the Union less but Freedom more''
The Della Collins will make an excursion
next Sabbath from Augusta to the Fort
Rowland & Hayden have fine window dis
play OF field, opera and marine glasses.
Among the Saturday departures down river
was that of the Maiden Gunner Club, Is mem
bers, for Five Islands.
w. ii. Mcclellan, wife and family, former Iy
residents of Bath, are at the Sagadahoc House.
where they have taken rooms through Aug
ust.
Tho oldest inhabitant cannot remember a
quleter sabbath than yesterday
Geo. Coffin & Bro. found in their pond at
Small Point, yesterday morning, "man
eater" shark 163 feet long, as large round as a
hogshead, and a water pail could easily be put
down his throat. The fish was killed by a
single shot and stretched out ON the beach,
where its remains may be seen. Its liver filled
barrel. Its lin was taken to this city, and
was on exhibition today at the fish market of
Benjamin Savage, Centre street.
meeting of the board of directors of the K
q l.. r. r. will be held in this city Tuesday af-
ternoon.
The Commercial House is centrally located
has good stable, is in good repair and will
make profitable public house if rightly man
aged. See advertisement in Bath column.
A carpenter name not ascertained, at W ork
on the new store at Woolwich ferry landing
fell Saturday from the frame and was seriously
injured in the back
Wesley M. E. church Sabbath School excur-
sion on the Sasanoa to Oak Grove and t. .e
islands Tuesday morning.