Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-10
MAINE GOSSIP.


Already the management of the Wiscas-
set & Quebec Railroad is making plans to
extend itself into the Moosehead lake re-
gions and to connect with the Canadian Pa
cifc. Let the good work 60 on.
The skeletons of large man and Child
were recently exhumed at East Belfast by a
man who was digging cellar on his farm.
Theories as to how they came there have
been more numerous and bothersome to
that neiQhborhood than both grasshoppers
and potato bugs.
The Pemaquid Improvement Association
has succeeded in getting enough OF the
old ruins of Fort VIM. Henry unearthed
to convince the most sceptical, that a struc-
ture of some importance once stood on the
half acre of land artifcially built up and
leveled off, in front of the Old Fort House
at Pemaquid Beach, Maine. The associa-
ton realizes fully the importance OF pre-
serving from the inroads of nature and the
curio fend, the valuable relics of the dim
past of ancient Pemaquid. They are now
! soliciting subscriptions to erect a monu-
ment.
Mrs. Irene Whitcomb of Brooks, is S4
years Of age, but few days ago after finish
ing four vests she had been working upon
Mrs. Whitcomb walked five miles to rela-
tives and spent the next day blueberrying.
We are informed that this unusual activity
was not due to patent medicine.
It's q little surprising that the secretary
of the Blaine board of health should feel
compelled to resign at not being able to en-
force sanitary conditions, but that's the re-
port.
1t is cheaper according to present freight
rates if one has freight to send from Port
landtwo-thirds of the way to San Francisco,
to send it through and then back to the
place.
Fortunately the great majority of our
summer residents even in hard times are
not in the straits pictured by the Port
land Transcript. At one of the island ho-
tells is box in the possession of the clerk,
which contains considerable amount of
jewelry left as security for board bills
which certain guests were unable to dis
charge. Included in the lot are gold brace
let's, large diamond (not genuine) ring,
watch chain and lady's gold watch. In one
case the husband went away, leaving the
wife without funds, and she pledged her
valuables. bicycle was among the col
lateral pledges, but its former owner called
one day and quietly rode off, and has not
yet returned it.
One of the largest, if not the largest
rainbow trout ever bred and raised in cap
tivity, died at the United States fish hatch
cry at Craig brook, East Orland, few days
since. The eggs from which it was Matched
were brought from California. Its weight
and dimensions were as follows Weight,
fifteen pounds, ten ounces; length, TIVE MY
seven and one-half inches depth, eight and
one-half inches; thickness, four and one
half inches; width of caudal fin, seven
inches. Its age was five years and four
months.
The following item Of news clipped from
the Somerset Reporter shows just whom the
tariff thinkers have been working to benefit
Belfast, Me-, Sept. 5, 1894.
Messrs. Bartlett & Cairns, Skowhegan, Me.
DEAR SIRs We cannot tell the exact
date when we shall have a cargo of salt
from Turks Island The dealers at the is
land have taken advantage of the removal
of the duty to advance the price there SO
that salt is considerably higher than hereto
fore. Whether they will be able to hold
the price up or not remains to be
seen. If they are, salt will probably stay
where it is. Yours very truly,
| .:t:.- The Swan & Sibley Co.