Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-11

several generations back, and was ''arriet
in the Revolution by an ancestor of anothc
generation, who, with six of his sons, par
ticipatcd in the war. Since the adoption o
the Declaration of Independence it has beer
fired every Fourth of July in celebration o
that event. There are probably few gun
in the country with so honorable and patri
otto record.
Seth Griffeu and large gang of Italian
laborers arrived at the Maine mule track a
Scarborough Friday and began the work o
construction The work will he rapid,
pushed and the track completed as quickly
| as possible.
| It has cost the town of Cambridge ovei
$1,000 to repair the damages to highway
caused by SUNDAYS beeting rain. The
Harmony selectmen figure up $500 thai
they will have to put out And so it zoe,
all over central Maine.
Harris II. Wilder. Phi j.. succeeds Pro
fessor pilsbury in the chair of biology ir
Smith College Prof Wilder was born il
Bangor, son of the late Scion Wilder
Prof Wilder graduated at Amherst Col
Iege and from there. after teaching in Chi
he received his degree and after his grad
nation gave lectures before the university
One nse has been discovered for the list
of new wooden buildings" for which
building permits are from time to time
granted by the board of aldermen. The
fire insurance men cut the lists ont and start
round the next day to see the prospective
b,,.l lac brf hos, yh, ~
their respective companies. Whether OF
not they secure much business is aquestiou
but it opens up a promising field for bust
hing.
Three small children, one a four-vear old
bow named Witham. and the other two girls
of . and | years respectively. were play
ing in a boat in the dock at Lewis, Chase &
whi,teu's wharf at South Portland, when
the hov fell overheard and went to tke
bottom, in about four feet of water Tive
little boys. aged II or 10 years each. were
PLAYING near by when the accident hap
pened One of the boys, named Mckenzie
Jumped in and eravely rescued the boy
Young Mckenzie had no sooner got the boy
ashore than the other boy hlurted out
Now. look at your clothes" But you
wouldn't let boy drown would your: re-
piled little Mckenzie. why not; it was
no relation of yours
Old Orchard has another paper, 1t Issued
its first number SATURDAY and will be known
by the breezy title of ''Dld Orchard Cy.
clone" Il is edited and managed by young
lady nineteen years old. daughter of DIR.
+. 4. Rnruham of Biddeford, The Buide.
ford Journal gives the following in regard
to thu publication Although the pub
fishing of newspaper by one so young
and inexperienced would seem TO pre-
sent many difficulties, Miss Burnhsm has
overcome all these AMI has already Sc
cured enough pledged advertising matter To
ensure the success of the paper fer the sea-
son. The paper will be published every
SATURDAY and viii be of social and lit
ersry character. Its entire contents, fromits
society notes Ia its short stories and editor
iai leaders, will be entirely the production
of its editor. who il graduate of Thornton
Academy this year. Its aim will he orig
inslity and freshness and its society gossip
will undoubtedly he feature As the
.sCyclone" is but weekly visitor there is
not so much danger of il blowing away the
ssSea She'll
beautiful astronomical phenomenon
occurs this Monday evening which will
be visible throughout, the eastern part of
| the United States. An occultation of the
planet Mars by the moon takes place under
| very favorable circumstances. The first
4 contact of the naoon's eastern limb with
| Mars occngs at IL hours ~ minutes, 18th
| meridian time. The last contact with the
1 moons western dark limb will occnr at Il
hours and =: minutes. same time. Dura-
ton one hour aHd two minutes. Al the
/ time Of this oeeultaiiun. Mars will be nearly
81 its least distance from the earth, OF ahou,
IS 600 COO miles in round numbers.