The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-27
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Brunswick's tax rate this year is $3.50 on
the thousand.
The Brunswick Telegraph says: ut
looks like an electric railroad for the village
of Brunswick"
A twelve-pound lobster is the wonder of
the week at Newcastle post Office. The
time seems to be approaching when any lob
ster will be wonder on the Maine coast.
In Nobleboro they look out for the minis
ter in the good old way. While the First
Baptist farmers were filling their own barns
with hay this year, they filled the parsonage
barn, too.
There are IS sardine factories in Eastport
capable Of packing 5000 cases day. For
this week their pack will not amount to
more than 5000 cases in all. Scarcity OF the
little herring is the cause of this small pack.
Forty pick pockets, crooks and confidence
men left Boston for the st. John Carnival.
1t seems to have been Providence that
switched off most of the guileless Maine
Press Association to Kineo.
The Eastern Maine Fair will be bigger and
better this year than ever before, they say;
and Mr.. j. p. Bass is confident that he is an
agriculturalist with deep enough pockets to
make this assertion the truth.
The Sons of Veterans are flourishing in
Maine. The report of Adjutant Harry r.
Brawn shows there are 81 camps with 1912
members in good standing, a gain Of two
camps and 115 members.
George F. Wadsworth, Esq, aged 81 years
of Eastport is the mischievous boy of Mrs.
Ruth Jewell, of Limington, who was one
hundrpd vaare old fha eaQond of laQf Ephrff.
ary, and is yet around the house smart and
happy.
The twenty-seventh anniversary of the
enlistment of the Twenty-Sixth Maine regi-
ment will be observed at Winterport Sept.
10th by a reunion. F. S. Wall of Vinal
haven is president of the association, and j.
w. Black of Searsport secretary.
John Albion Andrew, Massachusetts,
great war governor, was born in Windham,
Me. A recent visitor to Windham writes of
seeing the old Andrew homestead Situated
on the rise of land few rods east of the
railroad station" Gov. Andrew was born
there In 1918.
The Bangor Whig sees new advantage
in the peddlers' law. Its enforcement will
diminish the number of dogs, because, with
the decrease of peddlers, the housewife can
do without the watch dog. The tramp law
ought to help too, If there Is any truth in
this theory.
The executive council are divided in re-
gard to the pardon of Lorenzo Turner. One
was absent at the hearing and so does not
vote on the case, but of the other six three
are for granting pardon and three opposed
Thus there being tie, the Governor Is not
advised to pardon, and cannot under these
circumstances.
Norway is soon to have theatrical enter
tainment which will no doubt be well
patronized. DIR. Pike has written play on
the novel and dangerous plan of making well
known people of the town his principal
character. Local talent will produce the
play, which will do well If it does not start
out as comedy and end as tragedy.
Waldoboro farmers complain that their
grass is ruined by the "spit-hoppers," which
correspondent of the R0ckland Opinion
describes as follows; "a small hopping in
sect formed in the spit seen on the grass in
June. These insects as they grow suck the
looks as though tine fire had run through it."
1t may be said further that the ''spit hopper"
has a resemblance to the grasshopper.
Skowhegan has some citizens who are too
smart altogether. They want the village to
rent hydrants OF the water company so that
the company may be bankrupted, when, by
the foreclosure of the mortgage, the village
might possess the works at 90 per cent. of
their cost. The Somerset Reporter doesn't
think there are many such citizens, and
there are probably not. Skowhegan wouldn't
be growing so If there WERE
There is an over-production of lawyers in
Penobscot county, according to the Pitts
field Advertiser. A. b. Neville, ESQ.,, law
yer from Brownville, went to Newport
short time ago, looking for a better field Of
labor. On his arrival he found five other
lawyers anxiously waiting for practice, and
after consulting with some Of the leading
citizens, he took his departure on foot for
Pittsfield.
The Moose River road is still the highway
for many of the contented "Kanucks" who
are leaving Quebec for the better wages and
more plentiful living of Maine. two
wheeled cart or blackboard is the convey
ance. On the front seat sit the parents.
while fenced in behind are from four to
eight children, each without hat or shoes,
but contented with lump OF maple sugar
and en- 0at bread crust. AT the Moose River
custom house the turnout is inspected, and
if nothing contraband is found the party
proceeds on the payment Of 81.
An Augusta despatch says: IAN Augusta
grocery dealer recently sold his store and
stock of goods for $25OO and pocketing the
money took his departure for parts unknown.
This would have been all proper, but he left
a number Of unpaid bills behind, in cluding
| one of S700 due Portland firm for goods
| which he purchased. The creditors are now
| whistling for their money. Not only did he
| leave unpaid bills, but an attorney says
| that where bills were due him he took notes
| so they could not be trusteed. Lately the
| whole family has departed and Wednesday
an Augusta lawyer was in Bath looking for
one of them, who owed sums of money
in Augusta, and suddenly skipped" this
| week.
| In addition to the skirmishing with liquor
sellers, Bar Harbor is in State of excite
ment oyer dramatic war between the rival
owners of means of access to the top OF
Green Mountain. A pri vate company has
a carriage road to the top of the mountain
which is hurting the business of the Green
| Mountain Railway This road it seems,
| passes over land owned by the railway COM
| pany; so the latter put up a toll gate. The
| carriage road people with a large force went
and tore the gate down, and travel went on
over 1t to the detrment of the railroad s
business. Tuesday night the railroad com
pany sent a crew of ledgmen with dynamite
| to the top OF the mountain, and wednesday
morning they blew up all of the road on the
railroad company's limits. SO far the rail-
road seems to be ahead Of the buckboards.