Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-04

Al a donation party in behalf of Rev.
Elijah Kellogg of iIarpsweii a few evenings
since. that veteran and ever popular Maine
author received fifty pounds of salt pork
Great Scott. He should have received a
hundred gold dollars.
Aroostook county towns are to be well
represented in the Maine illustrated volume
which Mr. Geo. II Haynes is to issue for
the Worlds Fair Commission. iloulton,
Presque Isle, Caribou and Fort Fairfield
are to have two pages each.
A potato spec" is not necessarily
specked potato. The shrewdness of Hon.
I. II. Phair of Prcsque Isle has furnished
a good illustration of what potato spec
NAV be in the garden of Maine. Last year
h. contracted to take the produce of 1000
acres to be planted to potatoes this year at
last years prices. Such fancy figures are
now ruling for that same product that his
speculation is a handsome one and viii net
him very large profit.
Bangor Commercial At a shooting match
al Paris Hill one day last week the net
results were 252 squirrels, II woodpeckers,
l2 rabbits and blue jay. which ought not
to have been killed and 80 partri 'ges,
skunks, ) woodcock. a hedgehog and a fox.
for which there may possibly have been an
excuse for shooting. And still our esteemed
Lewiston contemporary is delighted with
such affairs as that. Happily the sentiment
of conscientious people is against them and
the humane organizations OF the State will
ask the Legislature to take proper reeogni-
ton of the sentiment at the coming session.
Gardiner Home Journal The State
Board of Health, in its annual report rather
discourage eoporal punishment 10 schools.
II SAYS that the rod had better he left at
the homes or boarding places of the teach
ers. rather than in the s"hOolroon, and
punishment deferred for few hours Pun
ishmrnt by boxing the ears should he pro-
hbitcd and keeping in at recess is declared
Objectionable as we'll AS standing in the
floor more than "A moderate time. state
documents As a general thing are not of
much interest to school children, but We
imagine they will agree with this report
most cordially.
Rev. !. T. &. Nichols of Saco has pre-
sented the York Institute with a package
of state bank counterfeit notes, face value
about So They are very old and priced
accordingly.
The PASSPORT Sentinel saws that some
excellent catches of fine large goldfish are
being made on the formerly well-kpown
fishing grounds. off Princes Cove. at the
southern part of the town. each day Tn
I'll recently these grounds had been aban-
dnned but it wouli seem from the indica-
Al. .h it,-
coming back TO their former haunts, where
tw enty or more years since, they were TO be
found in large numbers.
only s2n3, saws the Wing. remain 10 be
contributed to wipe out the debt on the
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing in Bangor. The last few dollars fire.
nuently comes in the slowest in matter of
this kind. but we believe this balance will
be subscribed before Saturday night. No
day goes by without something being con-
tributed.
Belfast Journal: SATURDAY afternoon
Game Warden Geo. w. Frisbee found
among the freight on the Boston steamboat
wharf, box marked Harry A. White,
Boston. Mass" which contained six psr-
tridges, one hornets nest and a deer hat.
As the birds were evidently intended for
| illegal shipment ont of the State, and the
hornets nest wasn't loaded, George seized
the lot He says the owner can have the
hat by proving property and paving the
fines on the birds.
| Some idea of the growth of IIoulton,
SAYS the Aroostook Times, MAY be obtained
| from the fact that where the rifle club bad