Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-26
MAINE GOSSIP.
The FIRST robin OF the season has put
In an appearance at Portland,

The first robin OF the season has put
In an appearance at Portland
The secret Of the combination to the
safe OF Cumhe land county treasury
rested alone with Mr.. James NJ. Webb.
county treasurer, lately deceased. and
when he died 1t was impossible TO open
lt. After waiting several weeks, and
making diligent search in every book,
file and drawer in the Office to discover
the KEY, 1t has not been found and on
Wednesday last it was necessary to drill
through the door and open the safe.
John 8. Fernald is printing history
Of the town OF Llncolnville. which will
be pamphlet OF about forty pages
The author is the late Joseph Miller,
who lived at the Centre. Judge Miller
was man of considerable literary abil-
ity and wrote upon various subjects. At
one time he furnished the Belfast Age a
lumber OF chapters on Linz olnville, and
these with much unpublished manu-
script will make up the history. together
with the obituaries published in the
journal and Age at the time of his
death. The work OF publication is
under the immediate management OF
OF Lincolnville.
The Republican Journal OF Belfast
says 1t is the favorite boast of many
that there has been no Improvement in
temperance in Belfaet-that prohibition
does not prohibit. In lS2 Belfast mum
bered about 500 inhabitants. At that
time there were fifty-'our licensed re.
tail liquor dealers in town, beside dis
tillsry that was turning out weekly hun
dreds OF gallons Of New England rum.
II the same proportions should exist now
we would have los licensed retail
liquor dealers and two distilleries
There has been an Improvement.
In the breeding troughs at the Swan
Lake fish hatchery in Swanville are now
between three hundred thousand and
four hundred thousand trout eggs. The
embryo trout can be seen in the eggs
quite plainly under the glass used 1t is
thought the eggs will hatch out some
time the last Of March, Arrangements
will be made to keep the young fry In
hogshesd tubs until they attain sufli
cient growth to be turned into the lake
Mr.. VIII Cunningham has the super
intendenee of the hatchery and once q
week looks over the trays and sorts out
the dead eggs, which thus far are few in
number. A quantity Of eggs OF land
locked salmon will be received at the
hatchery this week from Fish Commits
sioner Stanley
Postmaster Brown says that the Bel
fast post office is now entitled to free
delivery under existing laws The reg
ulstions are that any town of 10000 in
habitants, or an office with sl0, 900 annual
revenue, IL entitled to free delivery. We
have the required revenue. as the re-
ceipts are now nearly $780, Geo per year
A reading room has been started at
Hampden Upper Corner. which will be
open to the puolic on Saturday evenings.
A five year old girl of Mr., and Mrs.
VIM. scott of Deer sic fell into the well
last Friday and came near being drowned
Mrs. Scott, missing the child. looked
into the well and saw her struggling in
the water. She, unaided, descended the
we'll, seven feet, on the rocks and caught
the child by the hair IS she was sinking
and brought it safely out. The usual
remedies were administered, and the
child seems none the worse for its mid
winter bath.
1t is said to be not the horse or electric
street railroad in one Of our Maine cities
now. but mule railroad" Well, there
10 IS much danger from one end Of s
mule at least, as from an ordinary deac
wire.