The Portland daily press., 1889-08-05


My remains they buried here.
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According to the Eastport correspondent
of the Bangor News the Maine Central can
not go into any partnership to build rail-
road into Aro0st00k, because it has an agree
ment with the New Brunswick railroad not
to be Interested In any line that would COM
pete with the latter. But the Boston &
Maine is not party to this arrangement,
stock of the Maine Central is free to 90
ahead and help build the Aroostook line.
either directly or indirectly.
There is nine-year old bow in TTnner
Stlliwater who may be an Edison some dav.
lie had heard of the Electric lights and rail.
roads In Bangor and besought his pare;,ts
70 take him to the. wonders in vain. Tues.
Gay ms parents missed bin, and .ais father.
add started for Bangor. AZ nine o'cio cP
mat night the little fellow WINS found nnGar
Bangor electric light gazing az II Win
open eyes S,d ana mouth. He had walked the
IN Gonh lines between Saltwater ana Bangor
ne Frontier Guards of Eastport, instead
OF attending the State muster. are in camn
az nome on historic Redoubt Hill, where for
s.lncatlons were erected by the British dur
ing the years that they held Eastport during
the 1917 war. In 1856 the last militia en-
campment was made here; but fifty wears
ago, In the days of the old musters when the
string beans" and Independent companies
old oIiI Sras ou.. IL was the regular place. The
ago at those musters Is fired morning and
today. 'u'
Mr.. Webster taught In Fryeburg in 1902.
and was paid at the rate of $3.50 year. He
h,Saught there from January until September
Inc disposition which he made of the first
money ne earned by teaching and laborously
does credit to his nobility of character SIN
May OF 1909" he says in a letter written
many years after, II took my quarters
salary, mounted horse, went straight over
Of putting there the first earnings of NV
lie into my brothers hands for his college
expenses. Having enjoyed this sincere and
nlgn pleasure, l hied me. back again to my
SCHOOL ana my copying of deeds"
Dr. r. d. Bbber of Bath has come into
possession Of one Of the most perfect stone
chlsels ever found in Maine. 1t Is about four
inches long and delicately tapered like
small eanlk,ng iron, being about one and
and the concave surface is so smoothly fin.
ished that one might easily mistake it for the
work OF modern lapidary. The stem,
, Mnich \, Is nearly round and about half an
eN~h AZ NAnmCJCi, oiOWS bl6 COTTOSlO0 OF Inc
weather, but tho blade and edge are both
nicely preserved. 1t was discovered In
R,oughed field Of the burlington farm In
Woolwlch. Under a stump on the same
farm was also discovered what seemed to
hawk. '''''"-
Mr.. Eben Weston tells In the Somerset Re-
porter story that throws strong light on
tne social customs OF the early part of the
SKnwhn0an m or xnhO
OF speaking was by short sentences inter-
spersed with long pauses, had business
which compelled him to visit Gen. Ulmer, a
Bangor hero, who figured at the time the U.
.. frigate Adams was chased up the Penobs-
cot by British man-of-war in 1912. On the
old mans return to Skowhegan he gave with
great pride the account of his interview
with General Ulmer: Gen. Ulmer--clever
hgion-,bottle of brandy on the table took
some brandy together-talked religion-fne
man-Gen. Ulmer."'
During the war, the Sixth Maine Regi-
ment (the regiment wnom Gen. Hancock de-
gaded with another gallant regiment, the
Fifth Wisconsin. The regard in which the
veterans of the two regiments hold each
other is very warm. Several years ago the
union in Milwaukee, when they learned that
there was Sixth Maine man in the city, by
the name of Case. Ascertaining his where
aDouts, they at once sent a fine military band
TO escort him to the place Of meeting. or
course he went, and was greeted by the as
sembled Fifth Wisconsin Vets with nine as
nearly cheers as were ever given for any
BODY. This year the Wisconsin boys have
invited the Sixth Maine to join them in re-
union at the coming national encampment at
Milwaukee.
The town of Lee once had deacon who
was famous for holding his own in the trades
be made; but he was fairly eucred once by
simple minded fellow named Jacob, whom
ne hired to do farm work. The deacon had
bargalned that Jacob should have bread and
milk Tor supper every night buc took good
care that the milk was first carefully
SKINNED, the cream for the cream pot and
the skim milk for Jake. Jacob ate his bread
ana blue milk three evenings and not muir
muir. The next morning the deacon was
awakened by great commotion in the barn
yard. Looking out he saw Jacob hanging to
his best Jerseys tail with one hand, while
with the other he belabored her with a bean
pole as she fairly flew around the enclosure.
There, gol dang yon, said Jake, don't
you ever dare to give another drop of skim
milk as long as you live" The result was
satisfactory to Jacob.
In the Registry of Deeds Of Oxford county,
IL the old records have been preserved with
the care they should have had. in Volume /,
may be found page after page Of deeds re-
corded In the boyish hand Of Daniel Webster
Webster did this work while teaching Frye
burg Academy, and he tells In one of his
letters thirty years after how he came to do
i 1T SO happened that boarded at Frye
Durg with the gentleman, James Osgood,
Esq, who was register of deeds Of the then
newly created County of Oxford. He was
not clerical in and of himself, and his regis
tration was to be done by deputy. The fee
for recording. at full length, common deed,
IN large fair hand. and with care requisite
to avoid errors was two shillings and three
pence. Mr. Osgood proposed to me that
should do this writing, and that, Of the two
shlllings and three pence for each deed,
should have one shilling and six pence, and
ne should have the remaining nine pence.
greedily seized on so tempting an offer and
set 70 work. OF long winters evening /
could copy two deeds and that was half a
Soiiiar. -FOUR evenings In week earned two
boaaIs ana two dollars a week paid my
Hon. Joseph W. Patterson of Auonsta
mas ID ms possession the original map of the
was included in that town.. made b1 efoha
Jones, who Is known in history as "Blach
JONES'" and bearing date OF 1875. This nan
was made for the selectmen Of the town and
Is on scale Oh goo S r 0sc TO the inch This
first tier Of lots on each side Of the river is
laid out In 100 acre lots, part OF which ara
marked for settlement, and part held by
the proprietors. The second tier Of lots was
wholly reserved for the proprietors, and the
third for settlers and proprietors alternately
and so on. Among the large landholders
whose names are given on this map were: S.
Gardiner, b. Vaughan and j. Pitts. each
1900 acres; J. Bowman, 1900 acreas; James
Howard, 1880 acres. On the east side OF the
river was tract of land Of 1000 acres
marked ''yassall right" This was land In
which right was held by Florentine Vas
sail OF London, Eng. proprietor, a member
Of the Plymouth Company. John Jones,
tne surveyor who made this map, was a pro-
prletor In the Plymouth Company and came