Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-05-13


A. they chiEp and scolt aud iwitter, IraisinR
nests they've uevef seen,
Pralsing homes whose walls they'fe building
weaving logesong, in between.
Auburn Gazette; Bah ship. the Gov.
eFnoy Robe, hiss jusE beaten a rival EGG
hsh sailing vessel in II .0o0 mile race
from Csieatts. making the distance in "a
days sgtinss 81 for the English boat. This
10 AZ it should be. Governor Robbie always
bad faculty for getting there.
The sugar trust has decided that Port
land shall hereafter be regarded as q retin-
iDg point for sugar, ard hereafter the price
Of sugar to Portland wholesale merchants
will be the zane as it is 10 merchants in
Bottom, New York, Philadelphia and other
refinery points.
The Blddeford board Of trade is hurrah-
il z for the electric railroad sehe me- with a
viii, and urging the aldermen OF the city
to grant favorable terms TO the company.
The Black Diamond granite quarry
which was sold last season to the Manu-
fseturers' Granite Company Of New York,
is soon to be operated by improved equip
msnE. Steam drills will be used and a
stationary engine viii operate by means OF
an endless chain. railway four hundred
feet long for handling the granite and
refuse stone.
Perkins is one Of the smallest of the
Maine towns: but this cannot be because
all its good little boys die young. The
Richmond Bee, last week. remarks Elijah
Huxley Of Perkins, nine-one years old,
was seen prsncing up Main street, the other
m0rni0g, as lively as four year old.
Paul Hatch. another resident Of Perkins
is nine ty-eish; years old and has lived 10
tha. town ninety-one years
At Saturdays meeting OF the Maine His
toricsl Society in Portland, one of the pa
pers read contained al account Of one Of
those mysterious warnings" 10 which the
pee pie of those DAYS believed OGe hight
the wife of Capt. Fsrwell of Vsssslboro,
whose husband was AZ sea, locked up her
house, put her children to bed, aad WAS
about TO retire herself when she heard q
noise IS il some one bad opened the back
door. Then she heard football she dis
tine ly recognized as the ctptsins coming
up the back stairs. She flung open the
chamber door to greet her husband, who
she supposed had returned from bis trip.
but found no one there. Later il sranspired
that on that very night Capt FsrweIl's
vessel had been wrecked on the coast of
Africa and that the natives took the captain
out in boat snd murdered him by tying a
stone to his neck and drowning him.
The fist stesm-craft which ever nsvi-
gated the waters Of any Msine river was
the "Alphs," built on ths Sheepscos about
the year 1914, passing down the river by
steam TO Wiscssset. II 1915. after reeeiv-
ing new machinery she made the passage
from Wiscssset up the kenuebec 10 Au-
gusts and returned to Wiscssset, causing
great wonder and am smeut to the people
90 river and shore. Her builder was m
sthsn Morgan. a lawyer who died in
Portland in 1871, aged nineiy-three yesrs
He appeared to have been embarrassed for
iuIds as the Alpha was sold at auction for
debt aud turned into fishing vessel in
1913.
A bank book was brought into the FRS,
National Bank in Lewiston, last week upon
which the deposits were made in 1850. The
book had not been in the bank for thirty
one years They have not been depositinQ
very much within that hook Of late.
An Oxford county man weighing 800
pound, fell backwards down e fight of eel
lsr stairs, and is still doing business at the
old stand. Who says we are not as tough
as our foTefsthers wereg