The Portland daily press., 1889-09-27

leigh mas Deen LOT years one OF tne most sue
cessful investors in timber lands in the
| State. he holds the lands, selling off per-
mits to lumbermen.
One of the buckboards used by President
Harrison Of Bar Barbor this summer has
been bought by L. Francis, Passamaquod-
dy Indian, and carried to the Indian settle
ment at Pleasant Point.
0ti FL. Welch, a Boston sportsman, acct
| dentally shot and slightly wounded his
| friend, jerome Clayton, In Springvale Tues
day night Welch mist0ok the noise made
| by Clayton for the rustic of a partridge.
When the South Aroostook Teachers As
ISOLATION meets at E0ulton October 1st and
2nd, there Is to be another onslaught on the
tough old district system. II the teachers
keep at 1t long enough, it will have to 60.
Mr.. VIM. Bartlett of Hallowell. who is now
| In his S3d gear, is probably the oldest STEM
| ographer in Maine. His son, Ellery Chan
| ming Bartlett who was the first shorthand
reporter In the Maine legislature, learned of
his father.
Speaking of the swift moving electric car
the Bangor Wing says the temptation TO 'let
her 60" at full speed is dangerously strong.
Or. McCurdy of Bangor. while driving Tues
day evening, was run into and narrowly es-
NoPSu SSiaouo ibJutys
A Maine woman goes South to take a re-
sponsible position. The widow of the late
Rev. Theodore 81. Murphy, who died at Gull
ford few months ago. has been appointed
preceptress of Rust University in Mississip-
pi. Ire president Of this Institution is Rev.
Q. Il. Libby, formerly connected with the
Methodist Episcopal Conference of Maine.
Two OF the Bucksport bankers have al
ready arrived, the Marblehead, Capt. Ray
mond Heath, with 600 quintals, and the g.
hsYSs with few ye IN E They re-
more than half their salt wet when the Mar
blehead and Lewis left. Some of the fisher.
men still on the Grand Banks sent word
that they were liable to stay until Noyem-
Der.
M. Emile Barber, the veteran dyer of Au-
gusta, revisited his old home at Rouen,
France, during his recent trip to the Paris
Exposition. The conservatism of the old
report Of the visit. Il Vent he he says, into
the old house where was born. and which
has up to within six years been in the pos
session Of the family for the past 400 or 500
years. The same room in which / slept
when boy was still there untouched and
even the bed itself was in the self same cor
ner."
The horse jockey made his appearance at
the Pembroke Fair and attempted to play a
rather scaly trick on the natives. He en-
tered horse under the name of Fred H.,
which horse proceed to to capture three
heats in the 2.40 race without much trouble.
The following day the same horse showed
up again, but hostler who had SCOT on to
him." in the current slang of the day, in
formed the judges that he was horse that
had been on the track under another name
for several years and had record of 224.
This led TO an investigation and 1t was
found that the horse had been disguised by
painting one of his legs. 1t is needless to
say that he was shut out
An enterprising Maine skipper proposes
| to carry the war on the mackerel into Afri-
| ca literally. He has heard that that fish are
| exceedingly plenty around Cape Town dur
ing the months of December, January and
February, and he proposes to go and see for
himself. The enterprising shippers name
is Captain Chase and his vessel is the Alice,
OF Sc tons burthen, which was built at Bath
| The vessel Is now being thoroughly over
hauled and fitted for her long service. When
ready for sea she will have two seines and
carry two seineboats. She will take but lit
tie ballast. Salt and other articles necessa-
~ for the voyage will be slowed In barrels.
She Will sail with crew of seven, all ex-
perienced fishermen, and men to handle the
seines will be shipped on the arrival of the
vessel at Cape Town.