Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-12

Commissioner ear arrived in the city
yesterday morning and during the day
some rev piping was cut IN. Tuesday
the car went 70 Green lake where large
number Of young salmon will be taken
aboard and carried TO Vermont The
fish viii be placed In different waters IN
that stste The car has just returned
from California. where quantity Of fish
charge Of the car and he Is accompanied
by Superintendent ]. F. Ellis who looks
after the cars of the Fish Commission
cow at Leadvilie, Col. and the other In
Mississippi.
Biddefofd youngsters are forever and
eternally hunting up plans Of mischief.
The latest was when two Of them placed
eggs inc companion'z hat- chopped il on
his head and pulled 1t down hard Sub
sequentiy these same boys interviewed
the Judge.
Saeo has whistiing girl who defies
that old saw about ''whistlfng girls and
Growing hens and the fate which Is
popularity supposed TO befaIl them She
goes along the street whistling Justify.
and seems TO have a scorn Of public
opinion which IA not especially COM
mendable.
The city Of Bangor has unique scheme
for Fastening the work OF putting out
ffres which also might be adopted by
| other towns to good advantage. In more
remote portions OF the city there are three
hose companies They run with drag
rope, but whoever hooks on to this with
a horse is allowed one dollar from the
city treasury. Therefore when fire
| breaks out, one may see truekneu with
a pair Of forward wheels, hackmen and
expressmen driving furiously towards
the houses Of the hand hose to secure s
chance To hitch on The result ID that
| III nearly all cases Of day alarms. three
/ bose carriages and the hook and ladder
| BiAke the run BY horse power In the
night the hand hose liz propelled by men
What healthy State Maine is TO live
| in. During the past week eight golden
Wedding anniversaries we're celebrated in
ifferent towns; while without doubt
more than as many such anniversaries
occurred that same week which the paper
Say In Maine, young man,
| The severe drought all over Maine has
caused business 10 be dull--which show 9
how important rains are to the success
of trade as well as fair weather.
] A banking Journal devotes consider
able space TO review Of the business
OF Maine Savings Banks, in its recent
| issue The savings banks of the State
are shown to have held at the close OF
1880. s47, ISL, l6G 30, and that the total
numbers Of depositors on that date was
/ lao, 52l, an increase since 1880 of 65 0iS.
As savings banks are sensitive and aceu-
rate indicators of the general condition
| of business and the habits of the com
munity. surely the people of Maine are
to be congratulated on the enormous de
posts their institutions for savings are
row carrying, and upon the growth OF
the Sc banks of the State which have in,
creased their total of deposits by S26,.
| so3, 035.9s during the past decade.
| The small boy and the gun are still
getting together occasionally-always
to the manning or death of the small
boy
Four miles above Gilead, In Oxford
county, is a place called Niger Tom
Opening, which gained its name in this
wise: 1t is said during our late war of
the rebellion a certain negro living in
Tennessee escaped from his master.
went north. finally passed up the Grand
Trunk to Gilead and to keep from being
detected went up Wild river and cleared
up farm. Soon after the close of the
war he returned South and is now the
owner of splendid farm. This negro's
name was Tom, hence Niger Tom Open
ing.