Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-23
MAINE GOSSIP.

4 GI1I example BI Animal aSxAtiky
canes to as from ktssry. At the head Of
q cove 10 shss town lives = family named
Gobley, arnopg whom are numerous small
children. 4 few days ago the fivs-year-oid
BOY. Johanie, wss playing on an overturned
dory On the shore. The tide WAS at iss
highest point, and The boy fell OF into the
xs.er, q hich was about five feet deep 81
this poins- On the shore sat a dog
belonging to the family. The animal
is Iastg, good for-no,hin g-lookiDg sort
Of a purp, but was equal TO The oe-
easion. and 1Ashed into the water after
The bog. who had gore under. The hoy
~as too heavy, however, for the dog 10
drag ashore, and after q number OF pulls
left him and ran 10 the house. His howl
isgs brought the boys mother 10 the dosr,
and the log then started OF toward the
satar, expecting the woman to follow. She
did not do this, SO the Newfoundland rushed
back, grabbed her By the skirts and actually
dragged her across the road. She saw the
boy ia the water ard got him cur IN time to
save bis life. John:ie went 10 school as
usual that day, apparently noae the worse
for bis ducking. fbe dog is worth.s good
deal more money than he was before the
accident.
Make! enthusiasm Is being manifested
over the great coming event for young
Christian people. the celebration of the
eenth anniversary of the Christia An Endeav-
or movement 10 be held in Portland
Mains, Feb. 2, 3 snd Alb. Reports from
the various State Unions indicate shat large
numbers are to attend. and Portland, evid
eatiy, will be full of the representatives Of
the Christian ehivairy of the nineteenth
century" II certainly will be the lsrzes.
religious convocs,ion ever held in Maine.
1t IS hoped that lbere will be good deiega-
toas from each of tie 2J0 societies in our
own State. All who purpose 10 attend
should a. once engage places Of entertain
msEt by addressing Geo. f. Smith, 2ll
Commercial street Programmes can be
hal of C. f. Leach, % Exchange s.,
Por .land.
The Aroostook Pioneer says 'hst 81 ,700.-
900 has already been promised for the
Burieizh railroad in that county.
Some sense seems at last to have been
got into the heads of the managers of the
Boot and Shoe Workers International
L aion. Ia the matter of the kimball Bros,
kenuebunk. who discharged three men
from their shoe factory, members of the
UUion. for slack" work, which resulted
IN most of the operatives going out, it was
r. ferred to the Union when has conceded
to The firm the unqualified right to discharge
any person when they consider it for their
Interests TO DO so.
Perhaps il is not generally known that
Il lisbubert island located near the entrance
OF NsrragusgUs river was named in hOnOr
of Admiral Boistubert, who commanded
French flee. Mt the time of the French and
Indian War. But this statement is substan-
lated, however. says the Machias Repub-
lcgD. by records which contsia an additional
fac. that the admiral visited these waters
during the above mentioned period, where
he remained ore winter with his fleet. dur
ing which time several nf his crew died and
were buried upon the island.
A gentleman in Belfast has kept rec
ord of the weather for 80 years. He says
the mean temperature of the weather for
December Just passed was but IL Sc de-
grees above zero, which is is degrees cold
ar than the mean temperature for Deem
Der, 1883. and was the coolest December
IN the past 80 years, with the single exeep-
ton Of 1867. which was only fraction of
a degree colder than last December, One
extrt follows another. While Deem
Der. 1889, was The warmest December.
1890 was the colde-t with one exception.
The winter Of 1861 5 was very cold, ana
the present one seems to be duplicate of
that.
We congratulate Lewiston on occasion of
securing the appropriation in behalf Ct it's
new public building, the bill for which
Congressman Dingley has been so largely
instrumental il securing, and which already
bears the signature os President Harrison.
L provides tor an e pendlture of So 900.