The Portland daily press., 1892-07-13

A big piece of plastering fell from the
ceiling of the council chamber in Lewis
toms new city building Monday night,
just after the councila had adjourned.
Some say the plasterilig was poor; 9TH
ers that that which fell was where ce-
ment had been used in making patch
during the erection Of the building.
Belfast, which is famous for institu-
tons peculiar to itself, has very novel
one in the shape of a Bellamy colony on
small scale. About q half dozen families
in a neighborhood have entered into an
agreement to live as one family. One of
the women is hired to do the cooking for
So week, while the others pay their pro-
portionate parts. Every available room in
the houses is rented and each individual
is busy with his or her own work, but
all congregate at meal time in one place,
The undertaking is looked upon with a
good deal of interest.
The locked out granite men around
Knox county are at present engaged in
haying, and they say they have all the
work they can attend to, and don't feel a
bit uneasy over the ultimatum that is
now announced to them by the Manufac-
turers' association. The men are all as
firm as they were the day they went.
Numerous episodes, in which scabs
figure, are constantly occurring and the
Rockland Opinion each week overflows
with accounts of them and stirring
words in support of the men. Mr.. Thomas
j. Lyons of Vinalhaven has been employ
ed by Labor Commissioner Matthews, as
special agent to investigate the present
trouble and the causes underlying it and
his report will appear next winter in the
commissioners annual publication. Mr..
Lyons is said to be one of the best
posted men on this subject down the
bay.
Capt. G. F. Newall, the Calais taxider-
mist, whose good work is SO well-known
has bought the schooner. Lapwing
and will take Prof F. L. Harvey, of the
Maine State College, on a collecting trip
of some thirty OF forty days. They will
sail this week and will collect fish and
other marine curosities for the college.
The Lapwing since her purchase by can
tain Newall has been thoroughly over
hauled and replanked. Prof Harvey is
one of the ablest authorities in the state
on all matters pertaining to natural his
tory and the two gentlemen are sure to
return with valuable, collection.
Thursday Alfred Romeo and Ned
Dainey, two guides, were at Wilson pond,
Piscataquis county, fishing. In the even
ing they were out in their canoe and saw
some large animals in the water. They
padded quite near and found they were
a COW moose and calf They succeeded
in capturing the calf and brought it to
Greenville Friday, where it attracted a
good deal of attention. The young
moose is supposed to be about eight
weeks old. They got him across the
pond quite easily by putting rope
around his neck and letting him swim
along by the canoe but on shore it was a
more difficult task.
A story comes from San Diego, CAL,
concerning the romantic marriage of a
couple from Androscoggin county. The
romance, SO far as the reporter of the San
Diego Sun, who tells the story, knows.
began in New York when Miss Gertie
Kicker and MI. jerome X. Washburn.
accompanied by a lady known as Mrs.
Snowden, went on board a steamer bound
for Panama At Panama the trio took
the steamer City of Sydney, bound for
California, and on the second day out
Mr.. Washburn had a long talk with Cap
tain Friele, who soon after invited the
passengers to wedding. The ceremony
that united Miss Kicker and Mr. Wash
burn was then performed by the captain.
and soon after the story spread among
the passengers that the couple had run
away and that they were from Poland.