The Republican journal., 1888-05-03
Maine Matters.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STA,
NEWS OF THE COLLEGES.

CDIdtC Ivy DdN lulS year Oil June d. uC TN
ercses will be held in the chapel at 1.30 p. NJ.
and will consist of the following program, in
terspersed with music: Prayer, W. 4. CroX
ford; poem, E. l.. Morey; oration, Hugo Clark
The class will then adjourn to the south side OF
Coburn Hall, where the exercises will be CON
tinued: Presentations, G. p. Gould; planting
the ivy; charge to the curator, &. A. Diling
ham. Pres; singing the ivy ode, class of 80
A banquet will be held at the Bangor House
in the evening, J. II. Rackltfe presiding as toast
master The committee of arrangements are
Hugh Clark, +. F. Heath, G. b. Swan.
Prof. Allen +. Rogers, of the Department OF
Modern Languages at the Maine State College
has been granted nine months leave of alb
sence by the Trustees, and will sail for Europe
about the middle of June. He will remain
abroad the whole time, living for the most part
in Germany, France and Italy, although he eX.
poets to pass a month in England. Prof. Rog-
ers intends to live among the people, and study
their habits and customs very closely.
The Colby Sophomore prize defamation has
been postponed from April % to April 81. AT
a meeting of the Base Ball Association April
II, it was voted that the association should
hold am athletic exhibition at City Hail. the
proceeds of which to be devoted to the defray-
ing of expenses for the new suits for the nine.
The exhibition will be given in the early part
of May, under the management of the Athletic
Association.
A little change will he made in the military
of appointing officers for the ensuing year. On
May 1st, all officers will be reduced TO two
ranks. the seniors exempted from drill, and
new officers appointed.
There are eight clay lawn tennis courts at
Bowdon College and all hands play, from
President Hyde down to the meekest Fresh
man.
Bowdoin has left the Intercollegiate Athletic
Association. She is too far away and has too
mauy other irons in the fire.
NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH TIE THIRD PARTY.
AT the recent Methodist Conference in Port
land Mrs. }. Ellen Foster. the eminent western
temperance orator, made powerful speech
which produced profound impression. She
severely eNcoriated the high license agitation as
one of the great biunders of the age. As to
that Eetabe bunder the third party move.
lnent, She said:
As to the third party, il is not in the interest
of prohibition. (M anifest amaZement and cry
of "Iourc mistakenly The third party is
only one of those cXcrescenceS which appear as
Il proof OF the life and vigor of the movement
The heroic. patriotic spirit which leads some
people to identify themselves with the third
party is to be respected. Il respect the heart
but don't the hcat,' said Mrs. Foster. But
that is not the motive Of the third party. 1t is
the operation of party plan, aud is hindrance
to the getting of prohibition. The way to get
prohibition is to get it into the state law, and
God is to be praised for the blunder. When
the lesson is learned. something else will be
learned besides. High license and the third
party are the Scriptural hay and stubble which
shall be burned.
An attempt to censurc Mrs. Foster and to
discount her utteranceS, signally failed As
usual it was discovered that the great body of
the Conference was not in sympathy with the
thIrd-party agitation. and that Il very small
body of men We're able to make a deal of noise
and confusion.
TIE YOUNGEST SOLDIER.
Col. l. 5. Bangs writes to the editor of the
National Tribune Washington, ID. G., claiming
that Comrade Rev. A. {. White. formerly of
Watervie. was the Youngest soldier enlisted
in the Grand Army of the Republic during the
Rebellion. Mr.. White was born in Newark,
o.. Nov. Is, 1S!2 and says that at Camp
Buckingham. Dec II. 1851: capt. FORSYTH
(now Gen. Forsyth of theRegular Army, mus
tered me in as Drummer of Co. D.64th Ohio.
put on the payroll AS Is years of age to con-
form-So my father tells me-wth the law,
which required all volunteers to be at least Is
years old was, i'll fact. just nine years and
one month old lacking one day. served nine
months, and after the battle of Shiloh was TAX
en- sick and sent home. ! did not receive my
discharge until the l4th of March, 1SS2." Com
rade White is member of seth William Post,
Augusta, Me-. and, as might be supposed, is
would be, indeed, Il distinguished honor to any
comrade to have been the youngest soldier in
the Grand Army of the Republic. and can but
think Comrade Whites claim is first. If not,
where is the boy who was less than nine years
old when he entered the United States service
in any capacity"
CONCERNING CLANS.
1t appears that from time TO time the question
arises in certain localities as to the legality of
digging CLANS on the shores adjoining riparian
owners. by our citizens. The digging of clans
for ones own consumption and that of his
family is one of the ancient and unalienable
rights, and our Statute laws recognize it, Chap.
40. See. u of the Revised Statutes, and any per-
son has Il right to dig for his own consumption
at any time and place, except in planted or
artificial beds. Also any fishermen may take
any where for bait for his own use, not exceed
inc seven bushels in the shell.
As Il principle the towns and not the adon-
ing land owners, own and control the clam
banks. fishing privileges, &c. No man owns
anything below high water mark. But this
principle does not carry with it the right of
other parties, to take mlIscle-bed, rockweed
or other valuable products of the shore, to the
injury of the riparian owner thereof, or to
build fish weirs thereon, neither of which is an
ancient right. Bucksport Clipper.
TIE BOYS IN BLUE.
Rev. Roscoe l.. Greene. who is to be pastor
of the Peoples Methodist Episcopal church of
in Bangor in 1913. At the opening of the war
he enlisted in Company 4, 14th Maine Volun-
teers as 4 drummer boy. He was educated at
Bridgton Academy, kcnt's Hill and Western
University. His wife was formerly Miss Ella
+. Wilson, of GOrham.
\ camp of Sons of Veterans, named IIann-
bal IIamlin, No. 16, was organized AT Ellsworth
April 23l with nineteen members, by G. IL.
Rice, of Bangor. John W. Malone was elected
Captain. Frank L. Gras, First Lieutenant,
and Harry W. Haynes, Second Lieutenant.
General Ellis Spear, of Washington. ID. c.,
will deliver the memorial grafton before William
Payson Post, &. A. r., of Warren.
THE MAINE LEAGUE WIEELMEN.
Elaborate preparations are being made in
Portland for the entertainment of the Maine
League Wheelmen May 3Oth, on the occasion
of the annual meeting of the Maine division of
the League. 1t is anticipated that over sixty
members of the League will be in Portland on
that day, and join the members of the Portland
Wheel Club in making the occasion the grand
est bicycle event ever held in Maine. League
members all over the State are expected to at
tend. as something of Importance to wheelmen
of the State is to be discussed. The Portland
Wheel Club will extend the courtesies of their
club-rOom to the visitors and tender them Il re-
ception.
IN GENERAL.
The Monson Slate says. that Fred Libby of
Wellington, Is years old, has taken a wife only
II years old.
DIR. John h. Walker, of Thomaston, one of
th' leading physicians of Knox county, is dead,
aged 6l.
Schooner W. A. Achorn, has arrived at
Rockland from Philadelphia, with 30 cars for
the Rocklanl Lime Rock Railroad.
Rev. }. II. Beal, Washington. will deliver
the Memorial Day oration before Appleton
Post, and l.. G. Bateman will address the Bel
fast Post &. A. II.
The Bluehill Copper Mining Company's real
estate at Bluehill has been sold at auction to
Capt. Daniel Dunn, for a New York syndicate.
Hon. George f. Weeks, eX-Mayor of Angus
ia, has been appointed by Governor Marble
local trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital,
in place of Joseph ii. Manley, Esq, resigned.
Elliot F. Shepard, of New York, who lately
bought the Mail and Express, will occupy Mrs.
Leeds cottage at Bar Harbor this summer.
Mr.. Shepard's wife is daughter of W. II.
Vanderbilt.
Fine specimens of marbleized slate have been
made by Superintendent Penny of the Monson
Maine Slate Company, from waste slate taken
from Monson dump. Mr. Penny is confident
that all the refuse slate of the Monson quarries
can be thus utilized.
The building committee of Oak Grove Semi
nary have awarded the contract for the steam
heating i'll the new seminary building, to For
est G. Marston of Skowhegan. Work is to COM
large stable being the first building to be erect
ed.
Aroostook County Pomona Grange met at
Memorial Hall, Fort Fairfield on April 2lst.
The potato shipping committee reported over
1900 barrels already shipped. The committee