Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-18
MAINE GOSSIP.
IN, for a little more snow,


The Associated Press dispatch relative
to the sudden death of Maine man in
Haverhil. Mass should have given the
name as Eleazer Kelley.
The gross receipts Of the Old Town
rost office for the quarter ending Dec.
81, 1891, we're the largest ever received
In the same space Of time, viz $50 OF
and when it is known that the business
OF each quarter of the year exceeded
that Of the corresponding quarter 10 any
previous year people will begin to real
ize that business in Old Town is on the
increase, During the past three years
the business of the office has been as fol
lows: 1883 s2,5sG %; 1880, 81 800 o. :;
lsaI, s.. 252 %.
Notice has been sent out from Wash.
ington that the passenger agents OF the
lines concentrating in Washington, met
Saturday last aed decided to make a half
fare rate for the & A Il eucampment
next September This will give the
Maine veterans one fare, making the
round trip cost them about sl2 or sl5
or even less il they start from points in
he western part of the State.
Lewiston journal, The dirt will fly
along Aroostook's direct line early next
spring.
A IGan from Crystal Aroostook coun
ty, who is visiting in Belfast says the
potatoes he raised last summer Melted
him but | : cents per bushel He longs
for the direct line with the easy outlet
which il viii bring the farmers.
The land of flowers exclaims q
Maine man who has become a Florida
orange farmer-"there are IN usands of
EN- in Maine where there's one in this
toasted state" SO he sorrowful Y writes
10 the Rockland Tribune,
Last gear was n great one in Maine
for the reduction of public indebtedness
Hancock county reduced its county debt
about 5000; and York cug of s. 80 81
from its outstanding debt.
Maine has not vet produced a bomb
crank. but some lunatic or other has
written a letter threatening to lay Orono
In ashes. Nobody is scared, so far as
heard ftom.
There is well directed sarcasm in
the remark of the AroOstook Pioneer
that the men in that county who fret
most because work on the new railroad
is delayed, are the fellows who haven't
subscribed dollar towards it.
An odd will was filed at the Probate
ofiHe in Auburn. Tuesday IL was that
- lli-ha bah of Minot, and was dated
in lSG5 but the maker of the will had
outiived all the witnesses to it and it had
to be proved from the handwriting of
the man Who drew it. 1t was the first
case on record of the Kind The maker,
Elisha Hail. was an old citizen of Minot
and served In the late war On enc oc
casion he was severely wounded in the
battle and when the men were gathering
up the wounded they came along 10 him.
examined him and were going to pass
him by. Take me along" he aatd
"Y on cant live was the reply. can
aud will, - he said. and so earnest was he
chat the men picked him up. hat was
twenty eight years ago. aud Elisha lived
not only to make his will bur to survive
all the witnesses of it. and that docu
ment too, n quarter of q century Not y
change had been made in the paper from
the day it was drawn.
The books of the Cumberland county
treasurer show saving to the taxpayers
of s27S9 for the year in the board of
prisoners at the county itil as compared
with previous yesrs
Bomba1se Rips-or Bomazeen Rips
on the kennebec between Norridgewock
aud Madison, where II is now proposed
10 build dam and erect a large pulp
and paper plant, get their name from
one of the Indian chiefs of the Abnaki
nation of Maine aborigines.
Bath bellies figured beautifully as
"iggers' at Mrs farley entertainment
in that city Thursday evening.
Aro5in visited Caribou on New Year
day.
| One of the Roekiand papers is response,
Bile for saying that Mrs Renner OF
Halifax. who IS now on a visit to her
daughter in tina. city, is the mother of
fifteen children and the grandmother of
fifly-two She was married at the early
/ age Of fifteen, and was left with the
/ fifteen children mentioned when she was
| but little over thirty years old, By her
| own efforts she was able tn rear them
all, and has lived to see them all we'll
| settled in lie.
A little girl came down Lisbon street,
Thursday morning,says the Journal fol-
| lowed BY q large dog Here, Jack" she
called. holding oat her hand. jack
| wagged his tai aud feiz d the little hand
in his large mouth and Irotted oft good
I naturpdly dragging the child. "etop.
! Jack she called, wreuchiug her hand
| away leaving her mitten In Jack mouth
1 He didn's stop bus trotted of home 20
that naughty dog" she said, now
must 20 home 20 mother will not be
worried whea he brings my mitten
home
An average OF 100 boxes of waters
manufactured in Portland, are sold on
Maine railroads. mon hlT. amounting TO
slScQ. The bows who sell these rolls on
the railroads average 4 profit of Sls a
week. making good living
/ The Portland Press says that ten years
ago an order from one of our carpet
dealers for 500 worth Of Chinese mat
| ting would have been considered large
Nos one for $1,000 is not unusual 1t is
used extensively for chambers and ia
summer cottages
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safety In the Midst Of Dspzsr.
Tbs " aid SEEN A coatrAdietIon-is 50, in fact,
20 the eye. Sut ~ peiiet &C has proved faS-i-
eiliiy. Tale the ease of the irtivdgsi who Gwells
| 10 = maiarious region robust ccrs.itu' ion Is
90 certain defence sRstrst the dreaded ehiiis,
What ,sg Recorded .e-sinaanT cover ring period
lit shot o. ball 8 century, proves thst Aostes
.ef's stomach Bifters Is precisely this. This
tinsnt does no. ltissit the field where tie edir
1 Ia. rrcxed is fiisscE In sinh 4 M rfns tan