The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-07-23
Maine Matters.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.

| NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.
THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS REPORT.
The annual report of the State Insurance
Commissioner Smith has been issued. The
Maine companies received in premiums last
year stock $133, ,O53 and paid in losses S259 ACT,
leaving a balance of $40 5o6-a gain over 1888 OF
S37,2l5. The Maine mutual insurance com
panies received in premiums and assessments,
S57 ,221, and paid for losses $27,723. At the
close of the year 1884 there were 81 fire, fire
marine, and marine insurance companies organ
lied under the laws of the State, and authoriZ-
ed to do business therein of which two were
stock marine, one mutual tire-narine and tWen-
ty-eight mutual fire insurance companies. The
Merchants Marine Company of Bangor diScon-
tlnued taking new risks, reinsuring its risks
with the Insurance Company of North Ameri
Ca. There were nineteen life, one guarantee,
one guarantee and causualty and three casualty
| insurance companies authorized to do business
IN this State. The securities of the Union Nut
ual Life Insurance Company have stood the de-
preston well, and since the annual reports
have shown an advance that aggregates a re-
spectacle percentage. The company won its
foreclosure suit against the Chicago university,
and its real estate was sold under the decree of
the court and bid in by the company for S215-
600. The company has no doubt of being able
to realize out of the property the full sum paid
with interest. Two assessment or cooperative
companies consisting of citizens of Maine have
year 1878 life policies were issued amount in
sured. 81 .S29 333; premiums received, $501,-
232 losses and claims incurred during the year,
$441 1915; losses and claims paid $40 0,439; taxes
paid on premiums, S2296; whole number of life
policies in force, II ,312; whole amount insured.
$l9,50S,170; amount insured by casualty com
panies, S7,lS0 ,SS3; premiums received, $14 ,SS9
losses incurred, $780, losses paid, $40 ,45S !;
taxes paid on premiums, Sis.
SALTING A MINE-A SALT STORY.
| met the chief engineer of bogus silver
mine the other day, says writer in the Brook
lyn Union. The thing had been exposed and
he had nothing to conceal, so he told me about
it. 1t was located in the prohibition State of
Maine. The projectors of the scheme made
directors of few men who We're known for
their honesty and uprightness in their respec-
tive communities, and then went in to show
up the glorles OF the mlne and sell stock. They
went at it in the most convincing way. They
were willing to show what there was in the
mine before anybody invested money. The
mine was in Il position where it commanded a
view of the surrounding country, and look
out was kept to warn the men at the mine
when visitors We're approaching. The EN-
ployes We're all selected and let into the secret.
Three or four tons of the best silver ore that
could be found had been used to salt the mine.
The men idled around the mine until the look
out sigualled the approach of Il party. Then
they would 90 down the shaft, set off Il blast,
When the smoke cleared away, the visitors
would be taken down the shaft and shown the
! store of wealth hidden there. The stock was
disposed of like hot cakes. The eat, however,
was let out of the bag after Il time. There
was an Investigation, the whole thing was
shown up, and the honest directors who had
been rOped into the scheme We're called design
ing villains by their neighbors, and the section
of Maine around the mine was terribly shaken
up for quite while.
THE SAVINGS BANKS.
The number of Savings Banks doing business
III this Stale Is the same Us last year. viz. tifty-
four. The amount of the deposits in the Savings
Banks on the first day of last November was
So ,9l3, ,S35. 49, and on the first day of May the
present year S}3 1896. lS2 81, the increase during
the six months was 81 ,0S2 81 .6S. This is the
largest increase made IN any SIX months since
the Jaw requiring >cmi-annual examinations
has been in operation, and is probably the
largest ever made since savings banks have eX-
lsted in this State. The aggregate of the ''re-
served fund.- is now 81 III ,96l .09, having in
creased S49329,12 since November lst 1854,
and increased during the year from May Isl,
1884, to May lSt 1850, SIl 1872 80. The result of
the first stml-annua examinations in 1884
showed that the II savings bank. had assets in
excess of actual liabilities aggregatiDg 40}0,-
HAD The first eXamnat ions of the present
year shows that this surplus has increased to
S4,099. 1896, which growth i substantially the
served fund during the year. There are held
ly the savings banks, bonds that have Suspend
ed payment of interest, the par value of which
| amounts to S46l 800. Included among these
are S2l2,000 of the CITY of Evansville. Indiana,
redemption bonds, and Sl50,JO0 of the list
mortgage bonds of the Portland 4 Ogdensburg
Railroad. The savings banks art i'll very sat
istactory condition. The trustees generally
manifest great interest in their management
| and although the dividends are necessarily
| al
ings are absolutely safe they offer no complaint
II the earnings are moderate.
a ROMANTIC STORY.
The following romantic account is related at
the soldiers National Home, Togus: 1t was in
1851 in the city of Lowell, Mass, that domestic
trouble caused the separation of husband and
wife. The husband disappeared, how or where,
no one knew. The wife was left with four chill
dren, three boys and one girl, from seven to
eleven years of age, TO care for. The older son
helped erunti his death the following year but
she managed to get along, gave the children a
common school education. and put the boys to
| trades. Years passed-the husband and father
still missing. The war broke out. the last of
the remaining sous enlisted i'll 1861, in the Sd n.
H. Volunteers, served four Years and came to
the home broken and disabled. Four wears he
had been searching for his father. found he had
enlisted; but his relatives on his fathers side
said that he had Il considerable sum of money
al HIS uiStiiii duu tut'N supposed Hlm muir
dered. He gave him up in despair. June 10Th,
VIM. Thomas, disabled soldier from the 3lst
Maine olunteerS was admitted to the Home.
but being quite i'll was taken once to the hos
plal. His siname was the same that Of a
former patient, and the nurse casually mention
ed it in his remarks. The patient desired to see
this man named George 5. Thomas AS he be-
lieved him to be his nephew, ,as he supposed his
| own son was killed on one of the great battle
fields of the war. The supposed nephew call
| ~
united father and son, separated for 81 years.
Perhaps there may be another chapter the
mother still lives and like other romances, this
may end happily, lkennebec journal
A vEKIrABLE CHILD WIFE.
What are we coming to? Here is man of
between forty and fifty years of age Joined in
holy wed0ck to a little girl of eleven years, ac-
cording to our Sebec correspondent. Both live
in Sebec. and the mans name is Steadman-;t
familiar name. by the way. IT seems that the
town clerk refused the certificate at first, hut
as the revised statutes place no limit on the age
of persons who wish to be married, provided
their parents consent. he was obliged to grant
a certificate.
Why Bro. Steadman wished to marry an
eleven-year old girl, why her parents We're will
ing that he should take her to Wife, are ques-
| tions that WE can not answer, and perhaps
| those WORTHLESS would say it is none of our bu>-
ness.
| But such marriage of ii mere child is re-
pugnant to the innate sense of deconcv that is
''born in most people. 1t seems positively
| cruel, even if Capitalization does not follow.
| A late humber of Puck had a large colored
cartoon on the growing tendency to young mar
| riages. As showing what will soon be neceS-
| sary Puck discloses the waiting room of Il Stit-
necked divine that is surrounded by sofas and
chidren's pIaythingS are pientfully scattered
about. A little boy and girl play with a rock
ing horse while waiting for the clergyman to
Join them in nuptial bonds.
In this case Bro. Steadman could trot his lit
tie girl on his knee. Dexter Gazette
AFTER THE ToGUs RUMsELLERs.
For some time past rumselers at Togus who
possessed United States licenses have been free
y selling liquor on the grounds of the National
Home, asserting that their license gave them Il
perfect right to do so on land under the iuriS-
dicton of the general government. Judge An
dreWs of the Augusta Municipal Court decided
that his court had no authority in the matter.
July 9th, however, United States Commission
er ChOate made a warrant against John Carson
for selling liquor on the national grounds at
Togus under Section 1891, Revised Statutes of
the United States, which says in substance that
any offence committed in any place ceded to
the United States which otlense is not prohb-
tied or punishment thereof is not specially pro-
vided for by the United States, such offence
shall be liable to ana receive the same punish
ant lny. Of .ha tatp !,