Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-07
MAINE GOSSIP.


MAINE GOSSIP.
Mrs safsh Li,Ds VI Ssp'es, lazy s2I
yssr. of age, vent from tast town to Port
and o. Thursday. IL vas her arsf ride on
h. care, beta railroad and horse. The
lady Is quite active for her years, and al
though she vas little timid about start
ing. Gas much pleased with the novel ex-
perience after the cars commenced going
DR.. G.. Brooks of Is Hast has wicked
parrot that will swear even When ladies art
psssiny the house. The other day & gen
tlsmao passing tried TO get Polly to talk
hat never a vord wonIi she say. The man
walked OF, shaking his fist at the bird and
aid, You are too d--n ugly 10 talk
rnen Polly got in her nae work, and called
the man all he had names imaginable IN
I'll he vas glad to beat hasty retreat
Midsummer carniysis are to be celsbrat-
ed ct several OF the Maine seashore resorts
A tramp with literary turn Of mind ar
rived In Bangor recently from kineo, on
hi. way 20 Bar Harbor. His only baggage
rsnsistsd of = small sstchel which con
t.iaed according to tn Bangor News. The
Confessions Of Jean Jacques Rosseau, the
~osds # Baiz&e. Dumas Clsvsriog Case,
F. copy OF Shakespeare and Homer's Illisd
Belfast comes we'll on TO being the polit-
icai centre of the e0mpaigu, this year
She produces Hon. W. 2. Thompson Dem
oeratlc candidate for Governor, Hon
Charles Baker Democratic candidate for
Congress, and Hoa. Seth l.. Miliiken the
present Congressman. The peculiar part
u il 10 that they all live On the same street.
Il 10 said that strangers in Camden are
inqalring why so many nice look
iog girls are forced to take blackboard
rides alone. Where are the Camden boys?
Eighteen new buildings have been erect
ed or arr In process of erection in the vii
/ &c Vt Mad son Bridge this season. The
boom is on, AMI the prospect is that from
so to 100 will he built before the snow
comes again. Real estate is on the rise
and everyone is hopeful.
The mean tempe nature for the month of
June was 81 % deg, being about four de-
grees lower than for the same month in
1889 and three degrees less than the aver
age temperature for June for thirty one
years past The wsrmest June during the
years named was that of 1867. when the
mean temperature was 68 81 deg, and the
coolest was in 1881. with a temperature of
80 CD deg. The highest temperature in
the past month was 80 deg. and the lowest
~ deg. There was rain on fifteen days.
the whole rain fall being unusually large
for q sum mer month,
The Portland Advertiser issued hand
somo double supplement Wednesday, in
honor of PortiAnd's distinguished visitors,
With excellent portraits of General Sher-
man. Gen. Y, A. Walker, Hon. Horstio
King. Governor Burleigh. Col. Horstio c.
King, and Adjutant General Sprsgue, to-
gether with Illustrations of the Soldiers
Monument and PortlAnd's public buildings.
II was q number sho wing enterprise and
capacity unon every page.
The papers are telling of an Aroostook
census ennmerstor who made the follow
ing return as TO psuperism in his town
There are no people in town who are
wholly supported by the town except one
old man who has been \ great worker aud
~e cali him boarder."
Itrequired nine County Commissioners
to locate a two mile road from Flanders
Mill to q point in Foxcroft village.
fhis short line penetrates three counties.
Penobscot, PiscAtsquis and Somerset, thus
making II necessary for the three Boards of
Commissioners to come together in joint
session to enable them to act.
Name girls don't wait for an offer to come
to them, they go right ahead aud fiud one
Ever since one or two Norridgewcck girls
we ct up to Wsltham. Mass to work in the
watch factory and got married, the Waltz
am people have had many applications for
work from that part of Maine; and there is
nov quite q colony of Norridge wock
young women In the city of watches. And
they are q credit to the town, too,
Il is pleasant to note that the issues be
tween the Hurricane Granite Company and
Booth Bros and their employees, the gran
lite cutters of Hurricane have nov been
settled. and work has been resumed This
10 the more gratifying as the settlement has
been made on fair and Just basis. salts.
factory 10 both parties and without, undue
friction or prolonged strike.
Portlsndsrs thought the sea serpent had
put into port to help them celebrate on the
Fourth, but it proved to be the Lesry raft
The Odd Fellows Of Aroostook Co. will
have q re- union at Presaue Isle. July 18TH
with an appropriate PROGRAM The Presqae
Isle Lodge and Olive Branch Encampmeut
~iu spare N pains 10 make the event 4
successful and plessan, one.
The indications are that those who like
mackerel will have good chance to indulge
their taste. A. there seems to be q better
prospects for them this year than last. In
fact large schools of fish are already re-
ported OF the shore, making 10 rapidly
Last Sunday big school struck in near the
coast and the natives went after them with
lines and nets. One man scooped in 1870
during the afternoon and during the nigh,
orosght in 200 pounds more. The Orr's
Island fishermen. too. seem TO be having =
| share of the COOL luck, A young man
there sighted school Sunday. and went
after them with = drag net. bringing In e42
worth in short time.
The small boy and his fire cracker Ego,
there In Portland on Friday. When it
vas over show windo~ had been demnl-
,shed, one huadre dollars worth OF IRE
works had been "seut of " furniture dam.
aged. 500 in the cash box of the store in
which tae accident occurred had beer
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