Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-20

PhgsAest 1aDSssah11fsy.
i A1Sis as<s .ss like spiral spring.
Il Thoash h. sass't a tr.sx 4 All,
lie had se~nf dxs nj the far.
| And had tried 10 s.~ II ALL"
! The ubsquifous reporter has IL that Bidds.
ford cIefgymea and women elbo~ed their
lwy about the depot platform 10 get a
glimpse Of eI-sluszer champion, John L.
Sullivan when he came theirs ct the man
dates Of Deputy Sheriff Harmon. What
| feast their eyes must have had,
| aAnson r. Morrill, was AZ gallant and
courageous man ~ ever led a political
party and whether that party was in ma
iosity or only foslorn hope, made little
difference TO him, says Judge ilerfy Car
Ter ia his political "reminiscences 10 the
Portland Expsess. The Judge evidently
knew what he vas talking about.
| Red Beach 10 the banner place on the dog
Law. All vino owned CANNES have either
killed their ours or bad their dogs licensed.
A good story 10 told Of Nathaniel Young
who died at Linneus. April 80, soon after
passing hts looeh birthday. On one oe-
cssion he waa In Bangor on business and
DESTROYS Of getting rid of the fellow he
vent into store, but the man followed him
in and kept close 10 him. On going out. and
being still followed, he stepped into
butchers shop and when the tough came in
Nat deman AIDED what he was following him
for the fellow giving him an insulting re-
ply NAT seized leg Of mutton lying on
counter and belaborsd the fellow soundiy
the tough took 10 his heels.
The Bangor Commercials correspondent
in Eiisw orth may be a Democrat but Is GER
lainly not believer in state banks. In a
very Interesting descriptive letter concern
ing the scenes in that locality ~ and so
years ago he says; II seem to see, while
penning these lines, the old man of ls47
standing in the doorway Of some village
po.toffice with package of those old state
bank bills or shot bag filed with silver dol
lars, half dollars, OF short quarters, waiting
for the arrival Of the stage driver to deliver
the wealth into his custody to be exchanged
at Bangor for Western money, or a
check on Suffolk Bank Of Boston. The
expenses Of the transaction, including the
stage drivers fee, amounted TO quite a little
sum, a number of dollars; more than
money order or check on any national
bank of today. Those were times that
tried business mems souls
The refreshing news from York county
il that Sullivan will be obliged to appear
in court and answer to the charges even If
il is necessary to get out exiradition papers
for him.
The sardine factories 10 the vicinity of
PASSPORT are not running owing to n scar
city of the fish used in packing. The East
port Sentinel says The compliance with
the law enacted at the last session of the
Legislature. compelling the eyiscerating of
the fish before they are baked or fried, de-
bars the Of any thus far taken; and
while this state Of al airs keeps close shu,
the factory doors, and makes the canning
season, by far too brief alrt ady, much
shorter. yet ii cannot be gainsaid that the
products must be improved by the same pro-
hibitive clause, and that it is wise meas
ure. 1t will he safe to predict that there
will be less sardnes in Passport before
there are more. as all indications now go to
verify"
Now that Portland has got lower gas rates
1t wants share of the large surplus or re-
serve fund which amounts to $500 900, the
city being the largest stakeholder in the gas
company. II doesn't, however, seem like
ly to get 1t. Within ten years the stock
holders have received regular annual divi-
denis of ten per cent. besides special divi-
dends amounting 10 l06 per cent, and
meanwhile the company has accumulated a
reserve fund" of $500, 900, its capital
stock being only s3+9. 900. All this money
has come out of the gas consuming public.
Passport is clamorng for recount of
the scholars of that city. The census was
taken on the mistaken idea that the new
Law fixing the age limits within which the
child should have the right to attend the
public school affected the law providing for
a census of school children.
The Republican Journal: Incidental to
the loss of the schooner Brave of Deer Isle
and all her crew, which our news columns
recorded last week, was n circumstance, sad
in itself and showing how trfiing varia
ton in lifes programme, as laid out, may
be irsught with unlocked for results. When
this vessel was loaded and ready to sail from
Deer Isle for her destination, the captain
found his crew to he one short of requi-
site number. He called at Green's Land
ing. but the men were all employed and he
was for time unsuccessful in his
search for a sailor. However, finally
he found young man, David Stinson, by
name. on the steamboat wharf, waiting for
the steamer, intending to go to Boston or
farther. TN his person he had about $500,
representing the savings of many months.
By persuasion and the offer of an extra
sum of money, the captain shipped this
man. who being of economical thought and
! 1 tbaf ha
and wages besides. SO his plans were
changed and although he had made but
one sea voyage before this time he took
his place as a temporary sailor aud started
TO face the world with his fortune in his
pocket In few hours time the vessel
was totally wrecked on the Massachusetts
coast. and of the crew not one was saved.
Mrs j. A. Rowe.a Bangor lady has since
: April. when she attained the advanced age
of ninety years and six months, made a
handsome patchwork quilt, which she is to
present TO Mr.. Ilinckley's Home for Boys.
Apparently the same man who obtained
} the liquor few days ago from the Bangor
druggists on forged order from Wood
, ford . ply stefan has been trying the same
programme in Bath, but down there he
tried to get a suit of clothes and failed
, He may have reformed from his liquor
habit.
Here sample of the Rockland Opinions
code of ethics taken from its editorial COM
ment on the report of extensive Snug
Cling along the Maine frontier: We do
not blame the people down on the border
for smuggling. Government has no right
to plumber them of their property. and they
are only asserting their own rights in viola
ting the Law by which this robbery is con-
summarized.
Foundations are going in at the Bath Iron
Works for a planning machine that will cost
} over $50, 900. Bath still FORCES ahead.
Eastport Sentinel The Chinese exclu-
/, sion set has proved dead failure at least
in one instance, in Esstport. but there is no
immediate cause for alarm through fear of
; an invasion by the Celestials, from this
|, quarter. In this city on Monday, Is inst,
born to the wife of Charles Chin, laundry
man. son, who thus early has the dis'inc-
ton thrust upon him. of being the first of
his race born in this county if not in this
| State.