Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-05-30
TALK or THE STATE.
export l. to have water works.

Newport IL to have water works.
There 1. a strike In the Lockwood
mill at water,ille, and 200 employees are
out. The strikers ask for an In crease OF
wages and a decrease Of fines.
One wholesaler Of beef says hat veal
Il poorer Ia quality than IL Was few
years ago, and attributes the cause To
the creameries so thickly scattered about
Maine, aud the consequent skim milk
feed Of calves.
Professor Robinson of Bowd0ln has
analysed lot Of Uno beer at the re
quest OF Lewiston officers, and declared
Il To be an intoxicant within the mean-
Ing Of the law. Several packages OF the
beer have been seized In Lewiston.
Il !. reported with much regret that
Mr.. Mayo, the successful manufacturer
Of woolens, has withdrawn his support
from the proposed new mill at Dover.
This will stop it, being built. The rea-
son given l. the ambiguous tariff policy
Of the party In power.
At q special town meeting In Bridg.
ton Il Was voted To exempt, for a period
of ten years, the lot. building, machln-
cry and capital employed by the tannery
which Il IL expected will be built very
soon; aud vote Of the same character
was carried In favor OF the proposed
milk condenslng factory.
The body Of hen Morrill, OF Gardiner,
son Of T.. W. Morrill, OF the Reporter
Journal, who has been missing since
May 9Th, was found In the Sands boom
two miles below South Gardiner We'd
nesdAy afternoon by man named Good
win. Coroner Kllbreth was summoned
but deemed an inquest unnecessary.
Since the failure to organize state
board at wateryille, the Insurance
agents have been busy arranging plan
to maintain uniforms rates In the state
and prevent rulnous competition which
N L. claimed would result u there was
no arrangement between them. The
plan Il to organize local boards which II
Il asserted are legal, high authority hay
Ing pronounced them 80.
The insane hospital farm has been
enlarged this spring by the purchase OF
100 acres Of land on the east side Of the
old lot, making the total acreage about
COO acres. This purchase was made
with q view OF raising sufficient
amount Of farm products tn supply the
needs Of the Institution without buying
outside. Il does not appear that In se-
curing additional acreage Il was with q
view to enlarging the hospital In the
future ON the cottage line.
A pair Of locked bucks horns Ia q
relic of the Maine woods highly priced.
Hon. 4. ~. Phsir of Presque lsle, has
been presented'with two bucks heads,
solidly fastened together by their horns.
They were found by hunters ON some OF
the tributaries Of Munsungen lake. In
the fight In which they we're probably
engaged, their horns had become locked
In such manner that they were unable
To get them loose. One had thrown the
other over large log, and had broken
his neck, but was unable to extricate
himself after his victory, and had died
of Starvation. They were thought TO
have been dead about i've days when
found.
The Peuobscot Indiana have establish
ed . village, which win form part OF
the chronological exhibit at the worlds
fair, and which In point OF local Interest
win be second TO none In that interesting
The Indians while In
Chicago will live In three tepees built OF
birch bark, matched on poles, which
meet 1t the top, forming . cone-shaped
tent. about 10 feet In diameter and II
feet hIsh. The interior u deconted
with deer, moose, caribou and bear
skins, aloug With many other trophies
Of the chass, such 90 tho mounted hesds
Of No. and othsr animals. They viii
tive exhibitions Of the pow-wow and
Ihs dances, which ars sall kept up "
~ tribe.