Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-03-06

bacneiof bot 20 ilesirous- Of changing his
Iconsition that he gos certificate Of gnol
moral character froun the Governor in the
hope that il woud assist hi.a in his uaatri-
mensai asiHrzfsoHs- He was a very eccen-
tie nsn- shaved his forehead TO give tise
effect Of a Webstesian brow and his hobby
vas TO have the peddier la~ repealed.
Whenever he rose 10 speak on the sabjeci
he sosiid turn 10 the clock anss remark
..Mr. Speaker. hare my eye on the time.
sir. He spoke long and often ai,o1. Eb-
erty. the liberty of the poor pedfiler. one
morning when he was 10 make his supreme
effort on fhs measure. ! got Dave Dunn 10
lake the chair ana introduced the following
a. m arfsensment, which was read by tn.
Speaker
so Liberty, Liberty, where art ,hoa
howns and echo answers, swhere'? The
petidier lar mass BE-. repealed. the people
10 declare. With upright head and shayen
brow Hector Of Troy How takes bis stand
/ having bis eve on time. Thai ended IKE
. Legislative career Of the gentleman from
Troy. This occurred back IN Isi2.
! II don't think continued the major
that there is now qaiis 80 much sociabiiity
between the legislators and the townspeepie
As there used to be. geuel Williams was .
royal entertainer. tine winter Methotis,
minister. Brother Barnhant rooned with
me. came home one night and be bad
Just returned from spending the evening at
the Williams residencs. The Obj gentle.
man spoke through his nose in a highly
pitched key. When | came into the room
he said, I've had glorious time, a gior-
ious time. SIR, and If ST. Paul had been
Democrat, as I've no doubt be wac. AMI
could have been there. he Ia had glorious
time too.
Then the major threw back has head and
laughed as he recalled the scene. They
used to keep open house in those times,
he added.
That Duel.
~ ou'ye heard" continued the major
of John Holmes of Thomaston: oi
course YOU have. He was character
How well recall the fun one night up in the
Old hotel. That was when there WIS talk Of j,
dlnel between Virgil ID. Paris and COD.
Jones. Paris. Holmes and myself hiA
been out late one night, and on getting
the hall and give Paris a little practice with
The duelling pi tolls. Well, HolnIas tool;
one of the pistols and Paris the other.
acted as one of the seconds and tol /
Holmes and Paris Just how 10 proceed
Then .e placed them back TO back and
told them to walk apart the required num-
her of PAGES. and at the word. whiri about
md fire. Holmes was always sure to have
H.4yiftrtg uFn al hs b.I nat ~.
get about an inch Of powder in his pistol,
At the word fire his pistol discharged with a
loud report and Pans dropped as though
shot. What laugh there was at his ex-
pense' II resulted in our not getting TO
bed TIL the following night. You see, we
rourt-martialed Paris and fined him bas-
kct OF champagne"
Maj. Dickey has always said he thought
if negotiations had been properly conducted
~ the settlement of the northeastern boun-
larry question, there might have been a sep
arate state peopled by French Arcadians.
No man living knows as much about that
settlement as Maj. Dckey and he is a mine
"t historical Information on the subject
tie says that Lord Ashburton objected to
the line proposed because il would divide
'hese hrcadians that his government most
hrutailv exied. Had they not been divided,
the majors vision of Arcadian statehood
might have been realized. But he says
Webster was no diplomat and England got
the best of | ncle sam. BY the way, Major
Dickey is the only living member of the
Legislative committee on this interesting
boundary anl one Of the six surviving mem
hers Of that Legislature, in which there
we're POI members and 100 of them not -
wears Old, the major among that number,
That committee used TO spend the summer
lays up in the old library room discussing
he ye1aiious boundary question.
His recollectIons are vivid concerning
that regiment which Col. Winder, after
wards keeper OF Libby prison. lei through
the wilderness to Fort Kent.
Did you ever stop To think Of the men
That oi'icercd that regiment lieut-Col.
Pierce was the brother of President Pierce,
then among the lieuteuants were those
Afterwards known to fame a. Gen Hancock
Gen. Mcclellan, Gen Burnside Gen. Pope
and Gen. Beauregnri. and they we're Won
arrful young men at that time, continued
the major. ''TheV enlisted quite a number
IF our youngr Arcailans, and took them to
the Seminole war. " here they distinguished
themselves. Those Arcadian bows made
ihy best of sohliers
,tnr shenll hear th, major toll ,h.. story
.,f tho ayfitiny scenes in the summer L,.r-
L,tpre of 1888 when some Of the Demo
crafts they had a majority of four h ing
away si,k the Whig. ,ri,.,. To oct cnrfai, OF
their measures through Whenaycr fhy
attemnt was made tn. lenorr,t, ,,nnII
leaye the hall Their lealer was the ,n,fn-
ber from W,nthron a tn,u of ,.,.rcrr,b
pbv.inue. an atblete. an orator gmI Hwit
prIeske bv name. A native Of tfaucc.
Finally. the Whigs had th. door. fats
tpnrd au1 stationed tue .loorkpcpers there
ia sto, anv or,. atterautirg 10 leave
tho tIausa 4, tn. siyn,l. with the mem
ber from Wintlirop As lpa,ler. the nemo-
crafts made 4 rush for the door. The door
teer,ar ;pterferel e,t WAS ,,ron,ntIy knocked
over bv tha laa,iar.
Thr nsyt a,v the member from Winthrnn
,,ns t,Id that he p,nst apolopile. lie asked
,,bat he was ,neeted to saw. and the. told
t,,n he ~ ust stnte to the House tha, he was
snrrv he knor.eJ the doorkeeper down.
a., .,o, mn and n,,lr ! brirht speerh. He
WIS .orrr. ,erv sorry, never So sorry in his
lf.. ,ri- her. y,,. tIe Iauub. bp was very