The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-17

he is To be anything else than plain Payson
Tucker, he should be Major General at
least.
There have been large number OF fatal
| accidents, shooting and cutting scrapes, and
| other calamities, the victims OF which have
failed to die. The Bath Times announces
| the latest event of the kind IL saws. John
Russell fatally shot Benedict Dewitt at Ban
gor. on account OF jealously. Dewitt Ia liv-
| ing at the present writing" Somebody will
| get killed yet, II these fatal shootings con-
/ tlnue.
There are two men In Biddef0rd who do
not appear to place a correct value on time,
Says paper In that city 1.-Two men, while
In a f0olhardy mood today, threw their
watches as far as they could throw them
| down the street. The time pieces couldn't be
/ worth much. but the man who picked up
| the pieces will probably get enough out OF
them TO pay him for his trouble" Such men
| should be carefully watched In the future.
| II they are left alone they may jump into the
river "while In fOOlhardy mood" and for
get to come out again.
The Kennebee journal say that we do not
know much about natural history, II we
call their plague Of flies, reported last week,
a shower OF winged ants Perhaps we do
not, but just before reading the item In the
journal we ran Into a comfortable little
million OF winged ants on the street. and az
the meagre description the Journal gave
applied to them as we'll as Ii did 10 NAV fiies
which were the insects that bothered
Augusta, we were misled. When the angling
editor OIL the journal came home he wrote
an intelligible description Of the insects and
we saw our error at once. Fishermen know
hay-nies from potato-bugs at the first glance.
The election in Knox county distributed
O1nces about evenly between the two parties.
II made the board Of county commissioners
Republican however, and tne hock!Tnu anu
Opinion sings this m0urntul SONG Ano
Opinion loses the county prIntins 10 que
of TIE results Of the election OF nonuay'
which makes the board Of County Commiss-
ioners Rennbllcan, We don't ike that work
of the Union Labor Warwlcks very well.
But are like B. Hsysid yssd bS didn't nesTa card
for himsaif hut his heart 'bled for the poor
African We can stand the loss we trust;
Int onr heart is sad when we think that the
oosntv is 10 be deprived OF the artistic and
SSooantjfnl lob work executed In such fine
Stnia in Knox county, only at the Opinion
nrintshop, And, by the way, we hope that
our friends who could not, see their way
will give US their orders for job work when
ever they can.
The following story. Of an experience OF
Governor Burleigh, during one Of his fishing
trips this summer, has Just come out The
governor was going through Bingham, and a
rumor to this effect had reached the cans Of
the country folks. or course they were
eager TO see the governor, and one man was
especially anxious to lay eyes on the chief
executive. He watched the teams that drove
into the Village, and finally noticed connie
Of strangers drive up from the SkOwhegan
road and one of these dismOunted at store
He could wait no longer; IL Burleigh was
coming he wanted to know 1t. Stepping up
to the stranger he asked, "Say Sir. YOU
aldn Y pass Governor Burleigh anywhere on
tue Ioa1r No, the man hadn't. CORY,
should like TO see him dreadful well. :" said
tne disappointed eountryman. swell, am
lhe governor" replied the tall, dark stran-
ger with smile. The Bingham man looked
at him, turned all eolOrs possible, and then
turned and walked away. He was eyiden1"
satisfied.