Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-06
NJ AINE 0OSSIP.

A prime objection to 1870 /. that it ends
In psught. Naturally every one wants the
year to end better than that.
Length Of days are surely increasing I'M
to Us With the progress of the new year.
HE sale Of rifles during the hunting sea
son of SO is said To have been immense
Herbert A. Davis, residing in Elliotsville
and having camps on Ship Pond or Lake
Ona~Ay and Iond Pond. q Young man
not yet of age, 10 reported to be one of the
best hunting guides, He 10 an excellent
cook. All through the fishing and hunting
season, his services, boats and camps are
In great demand
Mrs. Ann r. Greedy of Ellsworth writes
an open letter to Mrs. Georgia T. Porter. in
which the statement is made that no officer
Of the N. W G. T. U. has ever received q
salary for services rendered. Mrs. Greedy
says that the State president of the organi-
sAtiou, Mrs. l.. NJ. N Stevens. has even
paid from her o~n pocket her official postal
bills, averaging annually over one hundred
dollars, until this present year.
The greatest swindle, SAYS the Portland
Press. operating in the State of Maine. in
fact the greatest swipdie that has ever op-
Grated in the State OF Maine, 10 without
doubt the Louisiana Lottery Company.
which Is managed by the ex -Confederat
Generals Early and Beaursgari. Though
under the ban Of the laws Of this State aud
though denied the open use of the L uited
StAtes mails. the company from its head
quarters in New Orleans does = thriving
business in Maine.
1t 10 Of course difficult to obtain anything
Ike full statistics on . matter Of this kind.
but the Press thinks that the least possible
estimate would place the figures for this
State at tfty thousand doliars per month or
s,r hundred thousand dollars year
OF course. in order To DO this the bust
ness mus, have been thoroughly organized
in this State. and although the work has
been done quietly, il ms been done thor
oushly and nov saps the State annually Of
sum large enough to build up several
prosperous, industrial communities every
year, while 1t returns only an exceedingly
email fraction Of the vast Gum thus secured.
The protts Of this great lottery are elm
ply enormous. An agent Of . Western
paper has investigated its operations through
the New Orleans postofice alone and the
disclosures be makes are certainly startling
II receives on an average 6 GOO lessers q
day, and . fair estimate Of the amount of
money contained in them would be %, 500
per day, or es+,SS, 800 per year, No
wonder the managers Of this gigantic svin-
die are rolling in wealth. while BY glitter
ing bats they draw . swarm Of victims
from all over the State like dies to the
seductive surface of the sticky paper.
This 10 certainly t. rrible drain upon the
country. but since the State Of Louisiana
stands sponser for this great swindie through
tne Charter IL has granted it--thefe seems
70 De only one way to stop il. and that /,
for Uncle Sam 70 decline longer 10 prost
tute his mail service 70 the CARVING on Of
such reprehensible business.
The outlook 10 bright that work will be.
gin on the line Of the Northern Maine X.
h., - coon - the frost 10 out Of the ground
in the spring.
Caterpiilers are reported to have made
their appearance in several plsces In the
Stats. An indignant public should riss in
IL vrath and crush them whenever found, |
4 caserpillsr 10 no joke.