The Portland daily press., 1889-07-25
STATE TOPICS oFINTEREsT.

time and the train by standard time.
Black Shan, the horse that won the 237
race the day that Nelson made his great
record, is a Maine horse, having been bred
by Charles Gaylord, of Skowhegan.
The wide world will be interested in the
news that Skowhegan. Me-. is ION the
climb" ION the climb" is the expression
used in the upper Kennebec to denote pros
perity.
The people who have laid out so much
money to develope st. Andrews as sum-
mer resort are intensely disguised with a
native" who has placed an odorous sardine
factory next their beautiful hotel.
Two Augusta women fought on Tuesday,
and one of them conquered by throwing
cayenne pepper into the face and eyes of her
foe. In the judgment of the police Judge the
pepper did the defeated woman five dollars
worth of damage
The State of Maine should have consti.
tutional amendment prohibiting the use of
such names as are borne by some villages.
Knox county, for instance, has a smart viii
lage called "RaZorville" and the town of
Dexter Is distinguished by PIRATES Cor
ner."
The Kennebec Journal remembers an old
Maine parson who was the soul of form and
~A""Jo hhoPOSeOu bhO SCitiuOdtC ChtCluily Dt-
fore performing marriage ceremony. One
day, when young man appeared before him
with MS pride to be married, the old parsOn
demanded, SHOW your prediciments!"
Mrs. ID. A. Payson, of Hope, has given to
the kockland Courier Gazette cannon ball
saved from one of the Revolutionary battles
by Capt. Samuel Pays0n, who afterwards
settled in Hope. Mrs. Payson is the widow
OF Capt Payson's youngest grandson.
A man who lives near Pumpkin Ridge,
Vinalhaven, always wears blue glasses. The
Rockland Courier-G Gazette says he went blue
berrying the other day and filled his pail
with what turned out to be unripe berries,
when ne looked at them without the glasses.
Hon. George E. Macomber is a very versa
tile man. He is mayor of the city of Angus
ia. one of the capitol commissioners, and
the man who forced Gilman, the East Co.
rlntn lncendiary, to confess. 1t was in his
capacity as an insurance agent, however
mat ne worked up the East Corinth case.
Captain John Collins, of Gloucester, with
crew of IA men is to sail for North Bay in
the schooner Eastern Queen, fitted out to
catch mackerel with the old fashioned hook
ana line rig. Capt. Collins is an old macker-
Ell fisherman, and the result of his expert
ment will be watched with interest by the
Maine fishermen.
A Gardiner Frenchman wears the medal
for meanness. Having escaped from Gar
diner policeman by swimming the Cobossee-
contee stream, the Frenchman was secreted
by some of his friends in their boarding
house. After they had gone to their work
the next day he got hammer and breaking
open their trunks stole over ninety dollars
and watch. He then departed for parts
unknown.
1t is expected that Col. H. G. Staples will
be the next president OF the Third Maine
Regiment Association, as the members In
the vicinity of Augusta are all in favor of
him. The regiment holds its reunion this
year at Bath on the 18th of September. The
people OF Bath are making preparations to
receive them; and a sail to POpham and
banquet there will be features of the
entertainment.
In some of the Maine school districts the
teachers board is bid off at Dutch auction,
the party bidding the lowest getting the con-
tract. This system results In cbeap hoard
ing; but not SO cheap quite as it used to be
10 times gone by. AT a school district meet
Ing In Vlnalhayen in 1910 it was voted to
board the mistress at Elisha Smiths at 75
cents week and the master during the win
ter at Joshua CaderwOOd's at Sc cents per
week."
The Waterville men who own the North
Carolina gold mine are very enthusiastic over
their property. Mr.. Cyrus w. Davis. of
Waterville says the mine is near Golden,
N. c., in the midst of gold country from
which $4,000 were taken last year. The
tests made on the land of the company shows
a varying richness of from cents to IL cents
per cubic yard for all earth handled.
Besides Mark and David Gallert. of Water
Vile, other Maine men interested are +. A.
Littefeld, of Alfred, j. Waterman, of
Bangor, s. Friedman, of Houlton and John
Ware, of Waterville.
Unobtrusive heroes are some of those "re-
turned missionaries" as they are called,who
come back here with faces permanently
Drowned by tropical suns and dreamy recol-
lectlons of old associations. One of them,
MRS. Charlotte b. Thomas, has recently been
N u Maine visiting the venerable Eli Jones, of
,1 ohe has spent thirty-nine years of
ner NE IN Burmah, having gone there at the
age Oh twenty:one Her husband gave his |
ne 10 the work. just returning to his native |
iand, some twenty years ago, to die. After |
MS death the bereaved widow returned alone |
TO the held OF service. She now returns to |
America on account of impaired health.
The late A. g. Lebroke, of Foxcroft was a |
fluent and at times eloquent speaker. In the !