The Republican journal., 1888-12-27

the progress of the contagion. The yield of
the farm has been about equal OH an average to
that of former years. The last Legislature
| appropriated S25.0O0 for an additional build
ing. $21 900 of which has not been drawn
upon as the Trustees regarded this amount in
sufficient TO accomplish the work which the re-
| solve called for. The Legislature will be
obliged to make an appropriation of Sloo.o0o
| 10 enlarge the present hospital. or to erect a
new one at a cost of from five to ten times that
| amount, with the additional expense of a Sec
ond Board of Officers. The Trustees recon-
| mend the appointment of a State Board Of
| Luuacv and Charity The daily average num-
/ ber of patients was 5S0.,3, there being 152 al
| the beginning of the year and 5,S at the close.
| Dee. l. 1SSS-299 men and 30 women. There
were 81 deaths, % males and Is females.
ARAILRoAD CASE.
The case of Mrs. Florence f. Thompson V.
| Sehasticook Railroad Company. which was car
ried 10 the Law Court on exceptions has been
| decided i'll favor of the railroad by the follow
lng: Restript-it Is not ground OF eXeep-
| tion that admissible testimony was excluded at
one stage of the trial, if the witness from
/ whom the testimony was to he elected at an
other stage Of the trial afterwards testiies full
| " in relation to the matter inquired about. On
| the trial of complaint against Il railroad cor
| poration for damages caused to complanant's
land by the location Of their railroad over it, il
is correct to instruct the jury to take into con-
| sideratlon, in order to ascertain the value Of
| the land at the time of taking. any permanent
| injury occasioned by the rightfui location of
another railroad previously laid across the
same land. Any permanent and rightfu OBJ
| structon- on the land might impair its value.
while any wrongful or temporary occupation
might not Exceptions oNerrued.
A FAMILY REUNION.
The kcnnebec Journals correspondent in
Jefferson gives an account of an interesting
family reunion which recently took place at
The home Of Mr.. George Peaslee in that town.
and which is described as having been most
| happy family gathering. The occasion was
tile return Of Mr. Pea>lees two sons. who have
been in California for the past ten years. One
of these has been married since his stay in that
state. aud on his visit home brought with him
his wife and two sons. There We're present at
the reunion. beside the parents all their child
rcn. comprising one daughter. four sons. one
'iaughter-in-law, one son-in-aw. two aunt>.
two uncie>. one adopted grandson. one cousin.
and The Journals reporter. Four Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Pea>lee'> children are married the young
est son being Yet lin the market :lS the cor
respondent terms it. The time was spent in Il
pleasant. social way. the ''inner man being
refreshed by bountifu repa>t. for which
Mrs. +. is quite famous, and the day passed
most happily.
THE LATE KEN. SlIAs BAKER.
OF Rev. Sa> Baker. who died in >tandi>h
:.
the Bangor Wing has the following notice:
'Mr. Baker was born in Edgecomh. Me-. Sep
tember 1, 1907. He graduated at Bowdoin
College in lS2S; Andover Seminary in 1881 i'll
same class with Rev. Samuel Peavey, ID. d., of
Ellsworth, Rev. Edward F. Cutter. OF Belfast.
and other ministers of Maine. Prof. Park. Of
Andover Seminary, President Larrahee. of
Middehury College and President Stearns. Of
Amherst College, were also OF that class. Mr..
Baker was ordained pastor at Truro. Mass.
ni,,i,, IL,
ordained pastor. at Hampden. Me-. December
5, 1854 remaining to March !, 1898; acting pas
tor at kennebunkport. April ID, 1888. to April
10. 1910: al Standi>h. September, iS41. TO Sep
temher 1913; Buxton South church lS43 to
1915. when he removed te S:andi,lI in that
charge. where he died October 81.
ANNUAL. MEETINGS.
At the annual meeting of the Maine Central
Railroad Company in Portland. Dec. 18th, the
following officers We're elected: President,
Arthur scwal; Vice President anl General
Manager. Pay>on Tucker: Clerk, J. II. Drum
mond; Directors. Arthur Sewall, II. \. Jose,
George &. Lord, Richard OIney. Amos Paul.
Darius Alden. w. &. Davis. J. 5. Kicker.
Frank Jones. Thomas ". Hyde. :. {. Law
renee. Francis W. Hill. John Ware. Richard
Olney takes the place of Nathaniel j. Hradice,
deceased.
The stockholders of the Portland. Mr.. Dc>-
eIt Machias Steamship Co. held their annliisi
meeting in Portland last week. Arthur >ewal,
j. :. Kicker. Samuel {. Lawrence. William &.
Davis. Frank Jones and W. +. Millikcn were
elected directors. The directors organized with
Arthur Sewall president; Pay>on Tucker. gen
eral manager: Geo. W. York, clerk and treas
urer. Routine business oniy:w transacted
TIE DIRECT FAX.
Unless Cleveland should interposc his veto.
an event which ought not to he probable.
measure of tardy justice will be paid to the 10y
al states by the restitution of the direct tax.
In August, lSGl when the national govern
ment WAS worried and hampered by treason
and hescl by stupcndous difficulties il imposed
direct tax upon the States and Territories for
the purpose OF raising money of which it was
Sorey in need. The loyal States paid their
proportions; some of the Southern States have
paid part and the remainder is still charged
against them. The bill passed Dee. 18th will
refund to the States the amounts paid in and
cancel the amounts not pad and still charged
against certain States. The amount returned
to Maine will be 100000. quite windfal.
Some other States will receive still larger sums.
THE CLIPPER FLYING sCCD.
Lying Oh her beam-end> in the mud of a
Nova Scotia port is the hull of the once beaut-
ful clipper Fiying Scud, Il vessel that has run
four hundred miles a day under canvas. and
made some of the shortest passages between
New ork and San Francisco. in the early days
of the gold fever. Condemned finally lis even
unit for deals, her top was burned where she
lay. for the metal in her tastenings. Bangor
Paper.
The FLYING Scud was built in Damari>cotta
by Metcaf Il Norris, in 1858. Her model is
now in possession of ii. W. Metcaf. On a
voyage from New York to Australia she sailed
400 miles Il day for Is consecutive days. one day
sailing 400 miles. Shall we ever build any more
ships here: Damariscotta Herald.
LATE NOMINATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR.
The Governor has made the following nom-
nations: Bank Examiner. George ID. Bisbee.
Bnckield; Notaries Public Ira G. HerSev,
IIoul!on. Eugene W. Whitehouse, Augusta, $.
L. Plummer, Detroit. Agent to prevent Cruel
ty, Charles A. Anderson, Westbrook. Trial
Justices, John Mower. Nassaboro; S. +.
Waterhouse. Detroit; James Meserve, Buxton.
Commissioner of Wrecks and Shipwrecked
Goods, George +. Mansfield. Jonesport. Fish
and Game Warden>, +. Pattengall, Pembroke:
William ii. McNally, Ashland. Trustee of the
Normal Schools, Stephen A. Lowell, Auburn.
Justices of the Peace and Quorum, Gideon An
drewS. lIermon; {. +. kittredye, Rockland;
Columbia Falls; Joseph II. Means. Saco;
George ii. Smith, Presque Isle; Eugene W.
Whitehou>e, Augusta.
THE PINE TREE CLUB.
The first reunion of the season of the Pine
Tree State Club will be held at Hotel Brunswick.
Boston, Dee. 2S. 1t will consist of ladies' re-
ceptiOn by the president and officers, a literary
and musical entertainment, to be followed by
collation.. President, Hon. John ID. Long, vice
presidents, Gen. Augustus Il. Martin. Rev. Mi
| not J. Savage, and Almon A. Strout. Esq, will
receive the members and the labies of their
families at p. NJ. The reception to be follow
ed by musical entertainment by the Lotus
Club, consisting mostly of Maine talent, and
| rectations from the works of Maine authors by
| Miss Fay Davis, formerly of Ioulton, Aroos-
| took county. y collation. will be served at the
| conclusion.
TIE GREAT GREAT GALE OF 1929.
Tuesday was the forty-ninth anniversary of
the great gale of 1929 when fourteen vessels out
| of fifteen that had sailed from the kennebec,
| were wrecked on Cape Cod and many lives lost.
For dozen years or more it has been the Gus
| tom of the shpwrecked survivors of the great
| gale, who were from Bath. to hold an annual
| reunion on the sixteenth of December At the
| last reunion there were three present. those as
| far as known being the only >hipwrecked snr-
| vivors. They are Captain John Wolston, Frank
| Roach and +. &. Parshley. They were in the
| brig Austin. Mr.. Wolston is now residing in
| Massachusetts. and Mr. Roach is at sea, so no
reunion was held. Bath Times.
POMOLOGISTS AND BEE-KEEPERS.
| The winter meeting of the Maine Pomologi-
cal Society will he held in Damariscotta, Feb.
| 12-14, in connection with the State Board of
| Agriculture. Arrangements are being made
| with some of the leading pomologists in the
| State and out, and others to be present and
| Inn nd nj rcd