Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-23

---EStHAN0E,
Few entertain any doubt Of Warden Har-
per-. rascaiity AT the Portland election when
he 10 said TO have distracted the ballots,
hat the man who saw him do il and on whose
testimony Harper vas indicted was at the
Worlds Fair Friday and was not on hand
at the trial Monday. This missing witness
10 ex-City Clsrk Russell aad bis my sterious
departure Is new phase Of the election
scandal. Harper may avoid punishment.
The attempt to prove thaf Peter Conley
found dead on the night OF May 1th. on the
Maine Central track at Lewiston was killed
before the train struck his body has failed,
though some Of the evidence appeared to
be Of dubious character aud there is still
some mystery surrounding the ease.
Rarely doe. one lr beside wbiskey keg
for 20 hours ~i.hou, a drop 70 cheer hi.
tagging spirits. A Yarmouth deputy sheriff
DID it with the result that a rumseiisr was
sent to Jail In An unoccupied bouse the
sheriff found the vhiskey and he sat down
Ia wait for the owner to come after 1t. The
vigil Of the afternoon. the night AMI nearly
all the next forenoon resulted IN the capture
vi titt NHt Ti' ~ ~" "fl' NJ
snce.
The orchard blooms are prolific and the
promise for the harvest Is said TO be excel
lent--s so Tar ~ blossoms may promise.
The last rain removed the greater part of
the snow on Mt, Washington. and now the
ice IL out of the lakes the sinds blow they
from what quarter they may, have lost
their chilling quality,
There IL one man IN Dexter who II glad
that he WAS smoking on certain occasion
a few days ago. lie was sitting in his hotel
smoking and the clerk WAS at the desk, The
latter in fumhling around discharged re-
volver that was in the desk and Just at that
instant the proprietor leaned forward to
spit into the cuspidor. The bullet struck
the back part Of the STOPPING mans hat and
whisked 1t OF his head. Had he been erect
the ball would have lodged in his head.
4 neat little volume of about 100 pages
ia soon to come from the press II ia the
history of the commission which erected
the monuments on tho battleii field Of Gettys-
burg
A brave woman battling poverty with the
persistency and unfaltering purpose that
such women possess always commands
sympathy. 4 few la -inco woman
came to Portland ON the boat from Boston.
She was carewort, but there was something
emineutIy respectable about her. She was
selling little bags of sugared Aagroot. She
said that she lived in Agswam, In western
Massachusetts. that her husband was i'll her
family in want. She had prepared the flag
root, wi,h the intention of peddling il in
Boston, but found that that il not allowed
there and therefore abe had come on to Port
land, to tramp YEARLY from office to store
and store To office. She said that her flag
root didn't seil very well. II was very nicely
prepared. There was something very pathetic
and brave III this almost hopeless business
enterprise. Had she sold all of her ilagroot
in lay she coull have made but q very few
dollars over her travelling expenses. Yet
something had to be done Her husband
was helpless. her children in need, and they
couldn't become paupers that was very
evident.
The Bangor High School boys intend to
take home good share of the trophies of
the VI. |, s. 4. \. meet Judging from the
'',o,'s "",e y, ''' 10y III '"e oo"ps' "
high school at the annual meet IN June.
In several OF the events hetter records were
made than those at the associations meet
last year.
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