Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-29

Htse HtLIt rurdl slatlpus diouk soiut
OF the Maine railroads are increasing and
are a great convenience to the farmers
and other country people. The trains
will stop and take on people at the little
way stations when any one is seen on the
platform.
II will .oon be "sap molasses" time,
and what Jolly fun the country boys and
girls will have at ''sugaring off p"
The name of Chief Justice Fuller
having been mentioned in come ction
with the next presidential nomination
public attention has been again direct ed
to him and stories regarding his boyhood
are now in order. MEL, as he is called
by the people Of Old Town, lived in that
city as schoolboy, ten years. He was
a srudious boy and terror in spelling |
schools and in the lyceum where de |
bates were held "Mell' took part often |
against grown folks. and out OF one Of /
those discussions there grew quarrel |
between man now an ex-ludge, and the |
present chief Justice, that has never |
healed. The ex-iudge WAS young |
school teacher then and "Mell' was in |
the second class in the school |
In the lyceum one night the |
boy defeated the teacher in debate |
and got some applause. Full Of wrath
the teacher sneerlugly alluded to his OF
ponent as a TOW headed STRIPPING Of Il
boy" Fuller retorted by saying if his |
only fault consisted in being boy, he
| thought "some time he should be as big
a man as the teacher thought himself to
be and that would be great indeed - The
| tie cher slammed down his desk cover
| and went home. All that term he ignored
Fuller as a scholar When the ex-iudge
heard that Fuller hsd become CHER JUS
| tice of the United States, he wanted to
know what in blankanation the people
of this country were thinking about. It|
Fuller should receive the Democratic
| nomination for presidential honors. we
don't know but the old Judge would en-
| plode with wrath.
The Somerset Railroad is embarrassed
with a big business. 1t has so much
freight offered it has not ears enough to
handle it,
| Some of the lumberncn are beginning
to return home from the woods; others
| will return between the tenth and iif-
teenth of March and some others not
tunti April first. As rule the men will
|
| last. This is due to the fact that there
has been much more yardipg done this
wear. The quantity Of lumber yarded
increases every year as the difficulty to
| get lumber increases.
| There are 81 camps st the smelt ii shing
station near Bath, but the fish are scarce
and have ranged high in price all winter.
| DR.. G. A. Wheeler of Castinc has Sc
| cured from France, through Secretary
Blaine and Minister Reid, plan of the
| 'Old French Fort" which was built there
in 1913 All We gay and frisky young
eastern Maine towns have to take OIL ou
hats to Castine the ancient.
| A Belfast woman had 500 to inyest
the other day and going into bank for
advice finally decided that she would
| take a share of a rain stock the par
value OF which is 500 When told thai
it was doubtful if she could buy share
| short of $1,000, she was somewhat dis
concerted What's that" she indig
| nantly exclaimed task $1,000 for whit
is only worth 500. Guess don't want |
to deal with them folks and out she
went in a furry.
c. F. Newell, the Calais taxjdermist |
| has two moose hides, each OF which |
| when mounted, will stand ever six feet |
| high He has mounted in his shop the |
head Of an immense moose which meas
| ures one hundred inches from the wall |
| to the tip of the nose. five feet from tip |
| TO tip Of the horns and seven feet as usr
ally measured around the horns II was |
shot aear Fort Kent last October. He |
also has three year Did doe which ma
ture has provided with set OF horns
something quite unusual.
During the past week Bro. Collins of |
the Sta Herald has increased his ARGOS
took Railroad fund by 81 600 Its total
il now s3l .0G0 and it is gaining right
along ihe above ramed addition to
| the list represents forty six individual |
subscriptions in the towns of Smyrna.
Merrill, byer Brook and Houlton.
Seven ladies are among the subscribers. |
Among the improvements to be made
on the n ane Central when spring opens
is the rebuilding of the freight station
at VIM change which will be appre-
ciated very much by people doing bust
ness there The Maine Central aud the
Concord u Montreal have decided to
unite in the construction of modern
passenger station and train shed at
Fahyans in the spring The building
will be an ornament to the picturesque
spot in which it will be placed. General
Manager Tucker said yesterday that the
steamer Frank Jones will be launched
March 24th.
The old Harvard House at the foot of
swan Island was destroyed by fire Tues.
day. II was the oldest dwelling in the
town of Perkins, having been built BY
Robert Barker, father of Jacob Barker,
the well known tinancier. ia l772 It'll
was afterward bought from Mrs Barker,
Roberts widow, by Mr.. Harvard, who
gave it to his grandson, George Har-
ward, brother of the late Major Thomas
Harvard. and grandfather of Captain
Theobald its latest owner. The old
house was fairly well preserved, and in
one OF the parlors was wall paper that
had been hung when the dwelling was
built.
Maine is regularly furnishing lis daily s
sunshine for The New York Sun In its I
column Of sunbeams' in the issue OF /
February 2G;h, in which were nineteen |
items. .ightes n of them referred to
Maine happenings and events, all OF
which were bright. newsy, readable
items and most Of them were original I
with the JOURNAL or It's correspondents n
and reporters .
Have No Equal. 4,
ALIcock's PoRous PLAsrERs have al n
tanned 3 ofltsite feputs-ion llely upoa
their superlstive merits. They have many !,
veule-5s rivals, hut have never been r