The Portland daily press., 1889-07-31


This morning cyclone struck Ellis Cor
ners, in Ulster county, destroying large
amount of property and injuring number
of persons.
STATE TOPICS OF oFINTEREsT.
Failure of the blueberry crop is cause of
sorrow in Columbia Falls and Cherryfeld.
DIR. G. a. Bailey and Mr.. f. 0. Beal, the
cattle commissioners. report that the State
College herd is free from tuberculosis.
The State College herd have been found to
be free from tuberculosis, and the officials of
the institution will breathe freely again.
A Boothbay fisherman says the fish that
delight the summer tourist, the mackerel,
COD, hake and haddock are scarce this year.
The good natured and willing Gunner is on
hand, however.
A Boston electrical expert says Bangor is
zone Of the most brilliantly Illuminated
places of which he has any knowledge in
this country" Bangor Is also fairly well
advertised of late.
By night, as we'll as by day, Maine must be
one of the Brightest spots on earth. Every
little village has its electric lights. There is
a prospect that the bears around Bethel may
be daZzled next.
little Bangor boy who was saying his
prayers the other night as shower was ap-
preaching, made this modest but practical
petition: please send us only plain rain
this time If it will do just as well.'
The horsemen are looking forward with
pleasure to race this fall somewhere in
Maine between Glenarm, Dictator Chief,
Nelson, Baby Dean, Lawrence and G. 5. p,
the Canton horse, owned by @. 5. Page.
A dove that insisted on staying until after
Sunday school, created sensation in church
at Hebron last Sunday. The young folks en-
joyed the visit, but some of the superstitious
older ones are reported as somewhat unset
tied" by the occurrence.
The new lobster law, which allows Holsters
over nine inches in length to be caught in
May and June, is bringing plenty to the east
coast fishermen. There are fishermen in
Steuben and Gouldsboro who have made
from $500 to $500 in three months of fishing
Messrs. Frank Jones, @. A. Sinclair, H. N.
Jose, Arthur Sewall, Payson Tucker and j.
III. Furber are driving through Aroostook,
along the proposed line of the Northern
Maine railway Such an aggregation OF
through the country for nothing.
An Iowa woman, Mrs. Henry Dutton,
caught in Tunk Pond, near Mt. Desert, Mon
day. huge lake trout, or togue, weighing
204 pounds and measuring So inches in length
and % in circumference. AS result, Bar
Harbor is crazy for fishing, and the Law and
Order League as source of interest is
eclipsed.
They are building the new lighthouse at
Lubec Narrows to stand. A big iron cylin-
der is foated to the proper spot by scow
built inside Of 1t, and rested on the bottom.
The scow is then removed and the cylinder
filled with concrete composed OF broken stone
and Portland cement. This gives a solid
foundation
George Leavitt, the Maine horseman,
brought into Maine some notable additions
| to the already large number of fine horses in
| this State. The names and prices of them
are: Senator Blackburn, time below 2.30,
| price $1,000; Early Bird, time below 2.27,
| price S45O0; Jenny, price $1,000; Fanny
| Swope, price $1,000; and colt ten days old.
| named Leavitt, price.not made public. Here
| at one time is an addition OF tr0tting stock
| worth $13,500.
| This incident is claimed by Oxford county
| A Sunday school teacher on a recent occasion
| told her pupils that when they put their pen
nies into the contribution box she wanted
each one to repeat Bible verse suitable to
the occasion. ..1i The first boy dropped in ia 2
i
| giver." The next boy dropped his cent into
| the box saying, HE that giveth to the poor
lendeth to the Lord" The third and young
est boy dropped his penny saying. "a fool
and his money are soon parted"
| The southeast corner of Maine is some
times called the jumping off place; but
| law, order and education have flourished
| there about as long as in some other parts OF
the State that consider themselves older.
| The academies at South Berwick and Frye
| burg, the former Incorporated in 1871 and the
| latter in 1892, are probably the Oldest acade-
mics in Maine; but not by great length of
time. Washington Academy at East Ma
| chias was Incorporated March Z, 1892, and Is
now in highly fiourishing condition.
| Hon. Hannibal Hamln, on his return from
the court of Spain, brought back, besides
| some very entertaining anecdotes, few
| cions of various Spanish fruit trees. Three
| varieties of pear cions Mr.. Hamlin gave to
| Jarvis @. Marble, Esq, OF Paris Hill, and
they were grated into Mr.. Marbles fine or
chards. These varieties Mr.. Marble has
named the Hamlin, the Paris and the Mar
BILE. The Hamlin pear has come into bear
ing this year for the first time, and is the first
of the three to fruit. The fruit is small, and
| grows in clumps or clusters and in great
| quantities. The Oxford Democrat has sam
| pied it, and reports it "like its distinguished
| namesake, of sterling quality"
The people of North Lubec are doing all
| in their power to make the summer encamp-
ment Of the Young Mems Christian Associa-