The Portland daily press., 1889-08-09
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.


The crowd of guests at the Poland Spring
House is so great that Landlord Kicker
sleeps on the floor.
An Auburn man owns up TO the fact thar
that he was born and brought up In Andros-
coggin county, has travelled over the greater
part OF the United States and been to Eu-
rope, but never until this week has he been
in Turner and Livermore Falls.
II any pessimist thinks the deyIl Is hold
ing his own In Maine a few figures will
show that he isn't allowed TO do It without
the hardest kind Of fight. The Maine Mis-
sionary Society paid out for missionary
salary Of the missionary pastors was S66S.
The largest sum paid In any case by the So
ciety has been $500 to Rev. ID. K. French,
who supplied two churches the entire year.
Tuesday night the guests at the Poland
Spring Hotel were delighted with a splendid
display of fireworks conducted by a pyro-
technic from London, Eng. A portrait OF
Hiram Kicker was the last piece OF the eve
ming. A bit Of enterprise by the Rickers
was the engagement of man to take photo
graphs OF the display. The photographer
had cameras set In thiekets and on the lawn
and nearly everywhere else and made very
many exposures.
When the Maine Division, League of
American Wheelmen, was organized In Port
lduQ III Lue spIluB Ol LueT6 were only 70
riders in the State who belonged to the
league. Now the division membership Is
about 175. Portland has the largest number,
80, aud Biddef0rd comes next with 26
Houlton has u, Bangor 10, Saco s, Water
vile 6, Lewiston 6, Belfast 6, Fairfield 5,
Brunswick 4, Skowhegan 8, and several
other towns one or two each. DR.. Dow.
chief consul, thinks the fall meet should be
held in Portland and the races in Presump-
scot Park.
Uncle Bill Webster, who was Daniel Web
Ster'S favorite coachman, died recently In
the Soldiers Home at Togus, Me. Uncle
Bill was quite character, aud told some in
teresting stories Of his life with the great
| statesman in IA and 46. He used to take
| care OF Webster's horses and 90 cunning and
| fishing with him. He said Webster was a
| thorough fisherman. and would tramp all
day, whipping the streams about his home.
Uncle Bill was in the late war and brought
homo four bullets at different times. He
also claimed that he was the man who
grab bed Sherldan's horse when the General
reached the field of Cedar Creek in his ride
from Winchester.
Colonel Kendalps general order assuming
command Of the First Regiment has the
right ring to 1t. 81 earnestly call upon each
officer" he says, ito aid me in enforcing dis
cipline; to educate the enlisted man that his
name upon the roster of the militia Is an
honor, that 1t Is there for purpose, to help
his State to learn the rudiments OF war that
the militia must be either a success or a
failure, but with our combined efforts 1t can
be no other than success; that sObriety
must be maintained and prompt execution Of
all orders issued by superiors; that the peO-
| pie Of the State Ito whom we owe our ex-
istenee) many know that we are necessity
and that We return them an equivalent for
| their goodness"
The New YORK papers in their reports OF
| tha Ia Oiv atten-
| tion. The Tribune, speaking OF the third
/ heat says "Nelson was sent TO- make
| faster record. His driver did not drive him
to the half. which he reached Ia l'OSt. Then
| he sent the stallion along and ne opened a
| gap OF ten lengths, making the mile In 2l5.
| Had he been rated properly Nelson would
| have gone in 2,141 at least. Ihe sun says:
1T was generally COZ CONCEDED tnat Nelson
| see him reel off two heats In 2.15, and the
| handsome stallion has placed himself in the
| front rank by his last achievement. A few
| weeks ago Nelson trotted in 216A at Boston.
| in the third heat OF a race won by him In
Mystic Park, and his improving form en-
| titles him to consideration as the coming
| champion" The Times says that many out
siders made Nelson's time on the third heat,
2.14a, and the half in LOG.
Some greedy heirs in Franklin county
made great outcry in the Probate Court
Tuesday, over the cost of a tomb stone. The
outcry came over the settlement OF the ac-
count OF A. +. Smart of Vienna, as executor
of the estate Of Olive Wood of Chesteryille
The contested item on his account was the
expenditure of seyenty-fve dollars for a
monument for Mrs. Wood, her husband aud
his first wife. As Mrs. Woods entire estate
was valued at only about $500, this ex-
penditure was deemed by some of the heirs
to be exhorbitant and uncalled for. The
| heirs presented evidence to show that they
| had never approved or ordered this mOnu-
mnnt a short wit
| marble block for inscription and surmOunted
| by marble urn. The heirs deemed that a
| grave-stone with Inscriptions for the de-
| ceased husband and his two wives would
have been sufficient, owing to the low state
| son approved the expenditure and allowed
the account and the man will rest in peace
] beside his two wives.