The Portland daily press., 1889-08-22

Inc sea Serpent seen In Lake Hebron,
MonsOn, tuns out to be an eel six feet long
and somewhat smaller than barrel in cir.
conference.
West Paris has held the pennant for the
Oldest pair Of twins in the country for hard
years old; but Dedham, Mass, comes to the
front with twins aged SO years. They are
Mrs. Sally Cole and Mrs. HepZibah Everett,
widows of Noah Cole and Nathan Everett.
They were born in Dedham in the year 1897.
Both are seen frequently on the streets of
Dedham.
=. Aroostook wants reciprocity in blueberries
Ten Llnneus young men, who started blue
berrying in Nacawis bog. over the line; but
as they passed under the windows of Domin-
them back on penalty of being seized"
The young men returned, although they
were by no means satisfied as to what stat
ute of what year of Victoria covered their
case.
Knox county is the most famous region in
Maine for its family reunions, and this is
the season for them. August 9th the Hew-
tits reunite at South Hope; the Hits met in
Warren Yesterday; the Longs and Smalleys
at Barter's Point yesterday; the Oxtons
meet at West Camden September Sd; the
Wentworths at Appleton September 18th
the Foglers at Warren August Goth f; the Sim
monses at Washington September 4tb, and
the Hoffeses at Warren this month.
The Gardiner Home Journal thinks it is a
poor plan for towns and cities to allow dis
counts for prompt payment of taxes, as it is
bard upon those who are unable to avail
themselves of the discount, and therefore
pay their own share of the taxes and also
what their more fortunate neighbors save by
hplnr ahlQ tn In Gardiner mn
discounts are allowed; but those who fail to
pay after certain date are charged interest
Thus, the Journal says, each enc pays his
share of the taxes, while the late man reim-
burses the city for the interest it pays on the
money it b0rrows to take the place of the
taxes uncollected.
The people of Maine have not forgotten
the marvellous story OF the Moose River ven
delta that affrighted Frenchmen bore into
Pennington town about four years ago.
"Bub" Bean, the Frenchmen said, was the
robber-baron who made the Moose River
road terrible to them. The story turned out
to be largely a Kanuck fable; but "Bub"
Bean got a wild reputation out of it. The
other day the editor of the Fairfield Journal
saw quiet looking man, with piercing black
eyes, step off the train at Fairfield. This
was dub" Bean; and he told the editor
that he was working steadily; and was en-
terror of all the townships on the Moose
River line.
When the late Professor Charles E. Ham
lin, OF Harvard, was at Waterville College,
he adopted into his family the young daugh-
ter OF Samuel Osborne, for so mauy years
now the faithful janitor at Colby. The
young c0lored miss grew to womanhood in
Professor Hamlin's family, receiving the
best education and culture that the schools
OF Cambridge and her place as Harvard
professors daughter could give her. Miss
Hamlin was fitted as a teacher, and since
Professor Hamlin's DEATH has had posi-
tion in the schools Of Washington, d. C.
Last Saturday evening, at Waterville, Miss
Hamlin was married to Mr.. Edward Connor,
at the the home of her father in Waterville.
DR.. q. ID. b. Pepper performing the cere-
mony.
The people of Houlton are in a divided
state of mind about the Northern Maine
railroad. Llewellyn Powers has been tell
Ing them that they will rue 1t IL they do not
receive the railroad cordially and help 1t
along, and points to the.case of Greenville,
whose people thorned the Canadian Pacific
until the officers of that road took revenge
Dy passing Greenville and locating their i'm
portant works at Brownville. But the Houl.
Ton Fioneer, which has fought the new rail.
road from the beginning, is not inundated
py lnis warning. The Pioneer says Houlton
put $1,000 into the New Brunswick rail-
slderation that the business men Of the town
nave received for 1t: The Pioneer says the
northern Maine will come to Houlton any
Way, because, as 1t is business that the new
road Is after, it cannot afford to ignore Houl-
ton.