Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-23

constable terms .sbluff" collars. collars that
have fictitious number which on investi-
cation doesn't correspond with the regis
trar's books.
South Matinicus il to have postofice,
but must get name for it. The name of
the place doesn't meet the requirements Of
the department.
This Bangor constable is also in trouble
on account of the electric cars running over
his principal assistant, q big bull terrier.
that he used to send after any dog he saw
in the street without collar. The terrier
was 30 well trained he would catch the I'M
licensed canine and hold him until his mas
ter could come and get him.
Mr.. Humphreys of Brunswick, was sur
prised to find strange animal hobnobbing
with his cows the other evening when they
were driven to the barn yard. On going near
er it proved to be a large deer and on the ap-
proach of a man it cleared the fence with
ease and was soon lost to view in the bushes.
Bangor Commercial: "a gentleman who
has been in the lumber business in Bangor
for almost 20 years, says that he never saw
that branch of trade so quiet as at the pres
| ent time, and that there was virtually no
sale for that article" When Democratic
Congress gets the free lumber schedule into
| full effect.
Maine is said to have more low grade
iron ore than any other state in the Union.
Naturally the colossal experiments now
being made in New Jersey by Thomas
Edison in trying to sc lrate iron from the
crushed rock by magnetism is attracting
attention in this State. He says he is either
to make gigantic success or gigantic
failure. What Mr.. Edison is trying to do
is as simple as A B C. He proposes mere
ly to crush the mountain into fine powder.
take up all the iron and sort it out
with the magnets, and dump the surplus
sand over the mountain side. If Mr.. Edi-
son makes a success there he should es-
tablieh a plan at the Kstahdin Iron Works.
That thriving little city of Westbrook has
had enough of the tariff tinkering and no
greater practical blessing could she receive
than to have the Democratic Congress ad
journ without changing the tariff. Nine
hundred operatives who had not recovered
from last years shutdown, now find them
selves out of employment by the indefinite
shutdown of the Westbrook Manufacturing
Co. few days ago.
Thomaston Herald: Wolf skins are
worth more than sheep pelts.
In many parts of the State the buffalo
bug is sharing notoriety this season with
the potato bug. The latter engrosses the
attention of the husbandman and the other
of the housewife.
The Rockland Opinion remarks that the
flies are very late in arriving this year. 1t
declares that there are not enough to bother
the baliheaded man. The Opinion, how
ever. has found flies enough on Postmaster
Fuller to bother itself with. We haven't
heard that they bothered Postmaster Fuller.
At last some one has discovered a piece
of American property that will be improved
should free lumber become law. On the
cape side of Portland barbor is beaehed
schooner 81 years old that was built for the
East India trade. For this reason she be-
longs to class of schooners out of date and
isn't so constructed as to be proftsbly used in
carrying such freights as her owners might
get for her. Accordingly she is beached. 1t
is thoaght that with the free lumber clause
in effect the Canadians would come down
and buy up such old vessels with which to
rush their free lumber into our ports.
By order of the U. S. fish commission,
25 900 lake trout fry have recently been de-
posted in Green lake.
Today New Sweden celebrates the Oath
anniversary of the arrival of the first Swe-
dish pioneers into the land which for them
flowed with milk and honey as soon as their
industry and frugality had their opportuni
ty. They are entitled to celebrate the &C.