The Somerset reporter., 1892-12-29
state News.

Bishop lleale, .aVs that there are >iN
thousand children in the Catholic schools
Of Maine.
y. Il. Turner | a started his shovel
handle factory at st. Adams, with DIV
or Welch Of Orono, Is foreman.
Edward Allen of Jouesport accident
ally shot himself in the leg Wednesday.
His leg Was amputated on Friday and
he died that night.
President Henry Lord, of the Bangor
Boar of Trade, has received an invita-
ton to attend the meeting of the Con-
necticut State Board AT Bridgeport in
January.
Some prominent railroad men predict
that Pavson Tucker, Esq, will be ap-
pointed general manager of the Boston
& Maine X. r., inside of three weeks.
On purely selfish grounds all Maine
hopes for nothing of the sort
The free delivery system, established
in Wateryille last week is Il little slow
in getting in running order, so the peo-
pie think. In the midst of such a rush
As holiday mail entails was certainly a
trying time to break in an entire force
of green letter carriers.
Following the precedent recently es-
tablishcd by Il Vermont Judge Judge
Cram of Biddeford Monday morning
suspended the sentence of aprisouer ana
gave him a chance to 90 to II Kelley in
stitute. Ex-Judge Hamilton, an en-
thusiastic Kelley graduate, took the
prisoner 10 North Conway.
About Sept. LIST, Oscar Peavey of
Charleston, Me, aged - years, left the
home of his sister, Mrs. Benz Mayo, in
Bangor, saving that he was going to
Boston for brief visit. He departed,
and since that time he has neither been
seen nor heard from. His relatives are
very much alarmed ut his continued
| absence.
Two men who We're passengers on the
| steamer Cumberland from Eastport last
week had some $50 pounds OF spruce
gum, the result of their united labors
| throughout the past season among the
spruce forests of Nova Scotia. As
spruce gum brings from so to 80 cents Il
pound, these men made a pretty good
season of work.
Hon. j. IL. Drummond. of Port land. l.
probably the leading Mason of New
England, If not of the United States.
He is a member in high station of the
dread and mystic 33d degree and has
passed through the highest honors that
can be awarded to an American Mason.
lie takes the most intense interest III all
matters pertaining to the fraternity.
True 7. Pierce, we'll known Maine
LAWYER. who allowed himself to be
tempted south in the midst of the great
craze II few years ago, is to return with
his family from Fort Payne to Rockland
and resume his practice. The wander
crs may he little slow about coming
home, but they will all get here in time.
They are bound to come and they won't
be likely to have such run OF southern
fever next time.
Camden people are very bitter over the
discovery that some miserable bastard
tried to burn one of the new buildings
there the other night but the fire went
out before the flames caught the ma II
structure, owing to the fact that every
thing about the place WAS wet. There
is no clue to the fiendish rascal but the
Herald says that if he could be found he
would stand slim chance of ever COM
hitting the act again, while the Rock
land Tribune plainly suggests lynching
Certainly after Camden's awful expert
ence in November. no action that would
be taken by the people in such case
would seem objectionable.