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


How the Name Of BI.in~ shall Live.
"oh hush the note Of SORROW No primitive minor
| stFsin
shall master close our music, The spell Of 'bat
| heart aud brain
And The Joy Of that gres, life fingers, the light
| of star. ugh face,
Grown dark itself, goth iot agr- now on and eio
And as long AS Columbia lsad+th the van Of the
| hosts 81 time
A. long sad strong Niagara shall pour hi radi-
/ act rhyme
Of whi,enes.. brightness and thunder to the won
| dersnR, eehoing plain
shall I've on the lips Of Freedom N" beloved
| name Of EIsins'
The verses at the head of this column are
the last in the poem Of Henry Austin, writ
ten for the Blaine memorial exercises at
Boston this week, an occasion in which
Name people took deep interest.
corpofa alton was organized in Portland
this week under the name of the Nitro A lka-
line Fibre Company with capital of 5000,
900 that may reyulutonizc the manufacture
Of wood pulp The process is covered by
letters patent.
Byron Hsyfori of Mibridge who was a
Juror At the last term of court at Calais
made use of a very novel method for atteni-
ing the court. Owing to the lack of railroad
facilities and to the bad condition of the
roads, Mr.. Hayford made the journey to
Calais by water, padding his canoe the en-
tire distance.
| The Rocklsnd optlmtsts are predicting \
building boom there this season.
| An expert with a DIAMOND drll is about
to commence operations on the territory "
ing between the st. Croix and Little Rivers
in the town of Perry near Eastpori
The company have bonded extensive tracts
in that vicinity for mining and quarry ing
purposes. The scern of present operations
is reef of freestone five miles in width.
and nine miles long, of excellent quality for
building purposes, and comparatively mex
hsustible. There are other deposits that
indicate coal below. and as long ago as 1859
Scotch mining expert named Hill sank y
shaft in the same vicinity to depth of
400 feet under the belief that he would
surely strike coal n, the depth of 800 fcct
The company sank large shaft 300 feet
and gave it up. Hill put the hole down an
other 100 feet and was taken sick and died
| The diamond drill will settle the coal ques-
ton, and the freestnne deposit is virtually
all in sight aud may be taken out To any
! amount
Asa Davis. the old Indian fyrryman at
oid Town, is ut his post this year as usual
notwithstanding his sickness of last winter
and the fact thar he IL over =, years of age
lie has handled the oars on that ferry for
over 20 years and can row boat to-day as
smart ~ any Young man.
/ The Fenohscot tribe of Indians who make
their home on lndian island. have been III
9ustrous during the past winter months ms
"a shown by the large stock Of Indian goods
such ss baskets, fancy goods. etc. piled in
the store rooms of the Indian agency. and
/ found in the homes of the Indian families
| This stock will he disposed of IN different
ways this summer.
! There will be reason to hope for elem
ency in the course that ex-Cashier Shaw of
l'atb proposes. viz To make full restitu-
lion to the bank of all MONEYS found mss
/ ing hy the bank examiner, and that too be-
fore his arr,ignment before the district
court in Portland.
We have n little natural curiosity ne To
the aye of the GREENWOOD correspondent
of the Oxford Democrat. who wrote the
| following Josh Billings once SAID that
the most difficult thing he ever tried to 10
| was to court two girls 1T the same time anil
preserve an average. The writer found
It equally difficult the other day, to listen
tu two stories, told by rs many ladies' a,
the same time. and keep the thread of both
narratives.
! And here is another correspondent from
/ Lowell who saws: I'VE intended 10 90 to
( the Worlds Fair hut shall not be able a.
W. hal to buy a pig, and those who buy
them this spring cannot indulge in the eX.
| psnsivc Injuries.
! The reports at the meetings of the Ma.
sonic grand bodies in Portland this week
all Indicate very prosperous year for that
order.
/ There's woman over in kezar Falls who
! l MT scared of plum trusts Judging from the
| fight she is making for the postoffice er
I there. W. II. Newbegin a cigar maker,
| started out IN be postnia stcr. the office pay
/ leg between four AMI five hundred dollars
| hut he has met with difficulties in the shape
| of the cad,dacv of Miss Mary 4. Edsecomb
the present assistant postmtstress, hut a
radical and uucomprnmising Democrat.
/ Those who assume To know, say that the
Only chance of defeating Miss Edgecomh il
/ to run some equally popular woman as an
opposing candidate,
! nnc Oil bee hunter of this State persists
| in declaring that bees like birds DO not like
solitude and keep near hsbita,ions and that
| II is a mistake to look for wild bees at
/ distance from cultivated regions.
| There Was a strange and affecting meeting
| of two occupants of adjacent cots at the
| Maine General Hospital at Portland recent
I ". They were brothers aud had not seen
each other for ~ years.
| What feeling must have arisen in the
/ breast of Joseph l.emey when in Alfred
| Jail he heard tina, the Turcottc boy was dead
and that l,e was the murderer. What
wor'l Cor the young boy, AMI he says he
cannot account for the impulse that caused
him to stab Tureotte ani that he didn't
realize what he was doing. The sadler,
then, is the reality now.
What with the Mssous and X. r's., at
Portland thus week the hotel keepers of
| that city are rcsping harvest. That was
y grand tournament of tn, X. P's.. at CITY
Hall "Wednesday evening.
While the eyes of the public looking for
fscts concerning immigration are usually
turned a-sl Castle Garden there is plenty
of food for though. right here in Maine.
DR.. NJ. |. Porter. whose duty ii is to pre-
vent the introduction of cholera and typhus
over the borier by rail SAYS that since the
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