Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-23
MAINE GOSSIP.

/ hAlNE UUsNIIs
| The laugh now is on Saeo lawyer
who lost Yesterday his Office key, anC
| with it on the same bunch the keys tC
hs safe and house. There is a spring
lock on his Office door and he tinall J
| concluded that he must have left il in hi.
oiiice and have come out and locked the
door. He accordingly borrowed long
ladder and crawled through the back
window OF his office. No keys were TO
be seen and after eogitating over the
| peculiar state OF Affairs he at last let
| himself out and there on the outside OF
the lock were hanging the keys.
| Everybody ia eastern Maine will be
| pleased to know that the affairs of the
late insolvent firm of N Dustin x Co.
Of Dexter, are being settled by Mr.. G
d Dustin. surviving partner, the amount
| which the creditors will rece We being
| within fraction Of cent of 30 per cent.
"A most satisfactory settlement. The
| payments are now being made.
Among the choice gifts recently made
| to the collections of the Maine lIistor-
ical Society are the original records OF
the town of Raymond from Mr.. Obadiah
G. Cook. and the flag presented to the
SLroa dwaier Light Infantry in 1905 from
| Mrs. A. \. Broad.
A few old toll bridges down East bear
| signs that perpetuate the memory of a
curious law. these signs proclaim that
all persons. save ''paupers Indians, and
| c!ergymeu. must pay toll in crossing
the bridge. The indulgence shown to
| paupers and clergymen is easily under
| stood from the practice elsewhere, but
why the Indians were exempted is not
o clear, unless, indeed, it was recog-
ntion of the alb Drignal right to the
freedom Of the region.
A fact that may no. be generally
| known is that two or three Auburn shoe
| factories are making and shipping goods
| 70 England representative Of one Of
these firms say that England is "A big
| field and one that will no doubt. pay Ia
work in the sale Of shoes If Auburn can
work upa shoe trade with England OF
other foreign countries, everybody will
Tt )icc. The shoe city cannot prosper
| without all Maine feeling the effects.
| Daniel Webster probably never would
| have lowered above every other states
| man in this country. as he did. had he
not taught Old Fryeburg Academy, &c.
| corded deeds for y cents apiece and
| fiFted with the beautiful gitls of thai
! historic old town This was to hin III
| inspiration. And Frank fierce might
never have been President, had he not
taught town school in the lockwood
| of Old oxford, where he learned on y
small scale the science of local govern
mfnt and the true inwardness of "squat-
ter sovereignty"
| The JOrENAL learns that Mr.. Lincoln
j Dodge has succeeded Mr.. Campbell in
| the well known law firm Of Stryker II
! Campbell, Minneapolis. MINI. The bu7i
ness will hereafter be conducted under
| the firm name of Stryker & Bodge. Mr.
| Dodge il graduate of BoWdoin COLLEGE
| In the class of 1855 He il n royai good
| fellow and host Of friends will be
| pleased to hear of the splendid an 'pices
under which he begins the practice OF
his profession.
This has been a great season for sport
in the hunting regions Of this State
One taxidermist in Bangor has received
| l. moose heads for mounting this sea
| son al Of them being unusually large
and fine. A fur buyer in Pennington
who returned few days ago from n pur-
chasing til o among the trappers of M8in"
! New Hampshire and Vermont, brought
mo e than q score OF bear skins, Il great
number Of fox skins, including very
! foe gray; 30 beaver, about rs many
sshor quantity of otter, sable coon and
cat SKINS, nVe or SIX hohu,' in'lh aht