The Portland daily press., 1894-08-25

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ecks and eases the slat and violent
! working OF the pole on rough roads.
| Bert Collins, ten years old, was stand
| ing near the Aroostook river at Caribou,
! when .fishhawk darted into the water
| and dug his talons into a salmon. The
bird couldn't raise the fish. but man
| aged to tow it to bar in the shadows.
The boy took canoe, went to the bar,
! drove off the hawk and secured the sal
| mon, which weighed seven pounds.
Blueberries have been very plenty at
Mapleton. Probably nearly 1000 bushels
have been picked back of Haystack
| mountain. One day 81 teams came from
| there. each team containing from two to
a dozen people.
A young man by the name of McDon-
aid, employed at one of the hotels in
Gardiner, attempted suicide Thursday
about IL. 30 pm, by drinking half an
ounce of laudanum. Before doing SO he
wrote three letters, one addressed to the
proprietor of the hotel, a second one to
his sweetheart. and another to his moth
er. He will recover. Disappointment in
love was said to be the cause of the at
tempt. @
The August term of the Supreme
Court for Sagadahoc county will con-
vene at Bath Tuesday 1t is considered
probable that thestrial of Melvin Bessey,
for the murder Of his wife, will come
off some time during the week
Potato Hill, very well known emil
to bezknown by that plebian title. Here
after it will appear on maps and in
speech. of men as Mount Gideon For
three generations it has been the proper
ty of Gideons, and at the celebration this
week of the fortieth anniversary of the
marriage of it's present owner. Mr.. Gid
con K. Staples, it was rechrisend with
all due form and ceremony Mount Gid
con, in his honor.
The Pennington Chronicle says: "The
Oldest girl in America is..Margaret Plos-
ter She is SO years oil ], and bicycle rid
er of vim and nerve. She recently, chal-
lenged any woman of her age in the
world to ride a bicycle race with her for
a prize Bible.n
Al Augusta man has returned from
North Palermo, where, Sunday night
the lightning riddled the church roof,
smashedsthe organ, went through the
floor, connected with clothes line, fol-
lowed it to a barn, which it burned,
with two horses and hog. 1t did 9TH
er damage.
This is letter address received at the
Bath post Office:
Pm bound for Bath, in the State of
Maine,
The state which nurtured James G.,
Its rock-ribbed coast has worldwide
fame
Its woods are full Of choicest game.
Some folks from the Hub are visiting
there,
Pm safe in W. g. Kidder's care.
Louis E. Norton will read this letter,
We hope his health is decidedly betJer.n
Wednesday afternoon the Calais street
railway company ran the first car from
Calais to St. Stephen, by way of Mill
town. Thursday morning mem ers of
the city government Of Calais and the
town councils of Midtown and ST Steph-
en- were rendered complimentary ride
by the company.
A bright little Nolbeboro boy, who
regularly says his prayers ION going to
bed and usually includes his grandmoth-
in his petition, on one occasion, be-
ng grieved at something his grandmoth-
er had done, he omitted to mention her
IN his prayer. When his mother asked
him for the third time if he was not
going to pray for his grandmother, he re-
piled: No, she amt in itn
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