The Portland daily press., 1890-07-08
STATE TOPICS oFINrEREsT.

The.two vessels building In the shpyard city
which attract the greatest attention Just now
are the monster f0ur-masted ship In process
of construction by the Sewalls and a sailing
yacht 110 feet long, In which Mr.. VIM. Trot-
ter, young man Of large means and rowing
disposition, proposes to circumnavigate the
globe.
An Auburn storekeeper imposed upon the
credulity OF his fellow-townsmen In sur
prising manner the other day. He had the
good luck to catch a snipe. and placing 1t In
his show window labelled 1t "a Genuine
Australian Duck" So many people came to
see the duck that the police were obliged to
order 1t removed.
Superintendent Beattie, Of the Old Town
woolen mill, bought cap in Bangor recently
for his little SON, the cloth of which he Inn
mediately recognized as product Of his own
factory. The cloth was sold to New York
parties, who sold 1t to Philadelphia parties,
where 1t was manufactured into caps and
sold to Boston parties, from whom Bangor
parties bought and sold to Superintendent
Beattie some Of his own goods.
The excitement of the day in franklin
county centers around the gold and silver
diggings on Mt. Day. which are being carried
on upon the land Of Mr. Jerry B. Kn0wltOn
and Mr.. David Hunter by several old west
ern miners under the direction Of MessFS.
Joseph B. Dow and Nelson Gould. The
miners say that If such results were obtained
by diggings in the western country, the min
ing fever would run fierce and wild.
Love and ownership of fine horses is not
confined to men in this State Of ours. Miss
Alice NJ Ward, a popular school teacher Of
Carmel, has lately sold her Patchen colt,
DOnahue to Massachusetts, parties for $3.50.
Donahue Is fine r0ader, and bids fair 30 fill
the bill for gentlemen's driving horse. for
which he was purchased. Miss Ward has
hra ..Fah tu,k AL ko1 w..4..
ing Gf him until sold.
Lewiston young men do not seem to realize
the enOrmitv Of the offense of tampering
with the fire-alarm. They climbed into the
Free Baptist church where the fire alarm IL,
got up into the belfry, fastened rope to the
striker, and threw II out Of the window.
Then they proceeded to accomplish the very
easy task Of ringing the alarm. Box "a was
selected and the firemen turned out In an
swer to the call, but went no further than
the engine house as, OF course the engine
house gong did not strike.
Presque Isle teacher tried to sound the
learning OF the children In c9ntsnpyT"t, S ,bsm ~
history the other day. She asked tnein 70
write the names of five persons ol MnoIn vl
they had read. The task was to9 many many i9r
most Of them, but one yOunsstel ~ hauueu n.y. u III
his list. He was told to Ieau WashinStos ~ as
Bnffalo Bill. DE-. Boone Mrs. willard. In
answer to 4 onestion he further explained
that Dr Roone was a man who went out
West among the wlld lhuiahs'
Two Bangor young men were coming out
of a soloon fhe other day, which Is run under
the gnIse Of a restaurant, when they saw two
von5s ladies whose good opinion Of them
sseIves they desired 70 retain. One OF the
vonths showed great presence Of mind BY
1uIling out a toOthpick, at the same time re-
marking to his companion: "Well, we've
had dinner now what shall we do" go 10
dinnef said his thick-witted friend" The
Young ladies smiled, as the youths had pre-
viously done and the scheme failed ignomin-
iJusly.
Rev. L. M. Davies Of Saeo, some time ago
lost a valuable dog the gift Of DR.. A. X. z.
Meserve OF Portland. Several days ago, he
found a dog he believed to beshis, in poses
sion Of NAPOLEON LeGrand Biddef0rd dog
trainer. While Mr. Davies was taking the
necessary legal steps to recover the aqlmai,
1t was poisoned presumably by LeGrand.
The man was arrested and tried on charge
OF cruelty TO animals, the allegations being
that he cruelty confined all his dogs and mad
poisoned Mr.. Dayies's dog. No charge OF
stealing was brought against him, the decls-
ion of the Maine Supreme Court that dogs
are not domestic animals preventing.