Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-05-09
THE WEEK In MAINE.
the MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.


the MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Col. T.. &. Harrington has been sp-
pointed state Inspector Of rife practice.
Two men have been arrested, charged
with setting a fire at Wilton Sunday
night.
The Waldo County grand jury found
NJ indictments, two for assault with In
tent to Kill and the rest for liquor SELF
Ing.
As the result Of an assault at Fast
night dance in Scarboro, a. q. Pencil
Of Bar Mills lies In precarious coudi-
ton.
The company which has begun min
Ing operations In the town Of Perry,
seeking for coal, has put diamond
drill at work.
Napoleon Turcotte, the boy who was
stabbed by Joseph Lemsy In Blddeford,
died as the result Of the stabbing. Lemay
J. bound over to the Supreme Court.
An Augusta dispatch says that John
J.. Stevens, recently minister to Hawaii,
may be candidate for the Republican
nomination for Congress In the third
district.
The Saeo city council has passed an
order for the appoiatment Of special
committee to investigate the cost Of
stone crushers and steam rollers and
n. ....,At,as.. al .laa sAI
investigate the advisability Of purchas-
Ing them and constructing stone roads.
They have a young giant In Pulpit
Harbor. Grover Cleveland Babbidge IL
his euphonious name. lie Is the four
year-old sou Of Capt. X. q. Babbidge.
lie astonished the neighborhood recently
by lifting piece Of iron weighing ii
pounds with one hand three times In
succession. The boy weighs % pounds.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company
has paid into the state treasury SIS. 49,,
being the amount Of back taxes due the
state and interest thereon. The Grand
Trunk refused TO pay the tax In lisa,
and has paid no state tax since that
time. The case has been through the
state and national courts, and IL Just
settled and adjusted.
A Pittsfeld farmer on his way into
the village one day the latter part Of
last week drove under a tree at one
point Of the road In which half dozen
partridgcs remained calmly picking OF
buds, and within mile and q half of
the village three deer, a doe and two
fine yearlings, were observed In field
near the highway and very deliberately
made their way to piece Of woods near
by.
start q story to the effect that there are
people living up .jest beyant" Skowhe-
gan who never rode on the cars. This
authority tells Of man who on his re
turn one day late In the winter, from the
"yillage," Skowhegan, when asked how
the slelghlng was down to the "yillage,"
replied that twas middlin good but he
guessed twas bad below there as he saw
the cars come In on wheels.
Insurance Commissioner smith has
commenced proceedings against the
Company OF Geneva, y. v, under Chap
ter 10, section Is, Of the Revised Stat
utes, with q view to suspending the
right Of the company to do business In
Maine, he having been led to believe the
company TO be unsafe. lie will give the
company opportunity to show cause
why Il should not be restrained from
operating In the state.
The creditors Of the Atkinson House
Furnishing Co. have practically decided
TO effect q reorganization Of the CON-
pany with three classes Of stock: First,
preferred, principal and interest, q per
cent stock, to the amount Of S750,00O;
second, preferred non-cumulative 9 per
cent stock to the amount Of s750,0o0;
third, common stock to the amount Of
5000 or more. All creditors who
elect may receive 10 per cent In stock
OF the first and 80 per cent In stock Of
the second class. Creditors may elect to
receive, In lieu Of the above, 10 per cent
In cash, payable In 30 days after the
formation Of the company. The stock
holders may receive the common stock
OF the new company TO the amount at
par Of their present holdings Of the old
stock by contributing 10 per cent Of
such holdings In cAsh to the company.
when the reorganization IL completed,
Il is proposed to cut on some hlgl-sala-
ried officers and other extravagan ees,
and the opinion II held that the con-
ceru can then make some money.
Portland Press: About two months
ago, Mrs. Edwin G. Burlelgh Of the
Maine Worlds Fair committee, wrvte to
Mrs.. Caroline Dana Howe, aud made q
request through her, that the women's
Literary Union Of this city, should
furnish portralt Of LouKfellow to be
hung In the Maine building at Chicago.
Mrs. Howe remembered TO have seen q
portrait Of the post In the Thomas man
slou, and upon mentioning tho matter 10
Mas Charlotte Thomas, an ofYer Of the
portrait wss made and accepted. Il 10
an uninlshed portrait; that Il, although
the bad n perfect the shoulders we're
never completed. IL WAS the work Of
the artiss, Charlss O. Cole, formerly Of
ttls city. A nearly % can b ascertain
ID Il must have ben painted In 1910
when I0ngfsllow wss n ysars old and |
professor e Harvard. He washsrs q |
the time on . summer vacation. Ths |
picture has ben Insured f0r 600 md
ssnt % Gen. Mattocks at Chicago. On |
ths hack of ths picture b inscribsd: |
sThis picture vas presented % Charlotte |
J. Thooas, whsa Mn. Cole broke up |
heusshssplng n October, 1884, % b |
tspe By Niss Darling until called for"