Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-09-06
TALK OF Tst sTATt.

Roy Pray. q blaeksmith's helper In the
sanford mills, attempted suicide by
shooting re,cntly. lie cannot recover.
The cause was despoudcncy.
The Haskell residence at Top.ham VAS
entered BY burglars recenily and robbed
Of slGS aud watch and clothing.
Eutrance Was made through . window.
Aroo.took Pionecr: Yesterday VAS
paw day on the Bangor 4 Aroostook
Railroad, the company payin. out s'S,-
Co, against sS0o last month. Next
month sloo,oo will be rlulrcd TO NEE,
the wage bill.
The annual field day % the Maine His
toricsl society Will he held 81 Norridge-
~ock AZ the slte 10 the ancient Indian
village, on saturday, September 10Th.
Papers are expected from President
Baxter. Isey. DIR. Cummings, Messrs.
Lodge, J. W. Hathaway and others.
Thomas Leonard gave his wife, sadie
Leonard, two stab. with = small knife
at Rockland Wednesday evening. The
two had had trouble before aud did not
live together. Mrs. Leonard lost con-
injured. Leonard WAS bound over Ia
the grand jury.
Maine people are up and dressed these
DAYS, aud have so much business on
hand they can hardly sleep nights. A
state election with rallies In almost
every town, two state fairs, and camp
meetings, soldiers reunions aud family
gatherings without number, will br the
programme for the next few weeks.
III. two notorious crooks Who under
many Aiia.e. have been Operating In
/ Franklin County, were captured 81 Wa.
tsryille late Wednesday night by Marshal
Bunker. Under the gulse of wealthy
wool buyers, they did the confidence
game very successfully, az many farm
er. around Pennington can testify.
Their, wa. some great trotiing at the
Eastern Maine fair at BANGOR last week.
The great Nelson trotted mile w.dnes-
day In 2:lJ 81. hi. heats by two
seconds the world. record for half-mile
track, s:lS 81, which Nelson himself
made on the Bangor track q year ago,
and which he tied ., Bethel only fe~
weeks since.
General Manager Psyson Tucker
wrote from North Conway Ia friends la
Portland that he Was able Ia read the
advertisements Ga the Boston Globe
NJ his summer cottage by the ~
lection of Mt. Washington search light.
lie pronounced the light great success
aud aid d. VAS able Ia see the hands on
hi. clock al his cottage.
In the garden on what IL known Ne
the old Bakeman farm on Cape Iosier.
la the town of Brook.,ille, stands = very
large and vigorous looking apple tree,
which Was brought FROM Holland and
planted there more than hundred years
ago by John Bakeman, the grandfather
Of the present proprietor and occupant
% the farm. Nothing about the tree In
dictates age ar decay.
State Pension Agent Purington has
had between twelve aud thirteen hundred
applications for pensions up To this date
the present year, which IL some ~ less
than at the same time last year. Of the
s., 900 appropriated by the Last legislA-
ture, Mr.. burlington thinks sJo,OD will
be sufficient. owing Ia the decrease
Ia demands upon the state, due q the
passage Of the dependent pension bill.
Lewiston Journal: Last week they
took 1000 fares on the new elect rio
railway from Rocklsnd Ia Camden. II
looks as II IL might pay few dollars at
that rate aud Mr.. Macomber displayed
his usual shrewdness In Its early estab-
lishment. This Il an Illustration of how
good opportunities are open and ready
To be grasped In Maine, as elsewhere.
The capitalists seeking Investments
should look at the home chances and u
L. getting 90 that most Of them are doing
10.
At q town meeting held In Burnham
on Monday, August I'D, the town voted
"a build new dam on their water power.
This will be q great advantage Ia the
company who are now engaged In build
Ing the mills for the manufacture OF
lumber on the east side Of the Island,
and also make good showing tn parties
Who may desire Ia look over the fine
water power with the view Of engaging
In the manufacture of wooden goosis.
The people there hope that definite steps
will soon he taken 10 that end.
The Pittsfeld Advertiser prints = pie
ture Of the immense new wooden mill "a
b. built In that yillage-JO feet long
aud To contain no less than 2s0 windows.
Before the passage ofthe Mckinley law,
the wooden business Was fiat, but u has
revived wonderfully. A such an enter
prise A. this great MILL would be- impos-
.ible but for our protective tariff, IL IL
no wonder that there is such IN aggrvs-
sive Republican sentiment In littsfield
and candidate johnson cut hls remarks
about free trade very short when speak
Ing In that town few days ago.
The entrance TO the Georges, River
along whose valley the new nllroad Il
10 b. built, IL about thirty miles 10 the
east Of the kennebec. Although it IL
one Of the smallest rivers, yet for the
distance of fourteen miles from lie
mouth u IL one of the wildcat and most
beautiful rivers In Maine. Il WAS the
first river In New England 10 receive
an English name ~ II shown 10 all the
earlier maps; . name given Il In honor |
Of lie nrst Engllsh dlscoverer, George
Weymouth. Il was even In the early
colonial tlmes noted for Ice stately forest |
trees, lie lime and granite quarries,
which for three centuries like the Ice
bergs from the glaciers Of the North,
have been annually detached from lts
hanks and aosted away In The shape Of
stately ships Of 900 TO 800 tons and
huge buildIngs Of granite and lime, to