The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-22

mills. remarkably low under the circum-
stances.
A crew of men arrived ut Gardiner on
the morning train from Portland, We'd
nesday, and will commence the work of
building the new telephone line from
this city to Camden, then to Bangor and
Bar Harbor.
DR.. Webb. of New York city, and Geo.
Alden, of Waterville, arrived in Dexter
Tuesday by special train in search of
horsefesh. They bought several of E.
W. Hill, who met them there. They had
IL in one car, which they have picked up
through the State.
A resident of Centre street, Bangor,
wants his neighbor, when he has any
more kittens to dispose of, to bring them
to him to kill, instead of coming around
to the back door after dark and leaving
them between the screen door and the
one leading out of doors.
The late Mrs. Matilda Wadleigh Dale's
will was filed for probate in Bangor
Tuesday. Numerous requests were made
to relatives in sums from 500 to 81, 600.
The homestead on Union street is be-
queathed to her niece, Mrs. Edward Z.
Waller.
According to reports the latest scheme
OF Z IL. Clergue, ESQ.,, who is connected
with SO many business enterprises, is one
that will benefit Old Town. He is talk
ing of utilizing the large rooms over the
pumping station for mill for the manu-
featuring OF felt. There is considerable
room N the building, and by an addition
it could easily be made sufficient for the
proposed industry
The Bath Times is talking up naval
brigade in Maine. The paper says: The
State showing the smallest mum Der of
enlisted men is Connecticut, with IS.
Maine should be able to do considerably
better than this. Bath would be likely
to furnish twenty-five or thirty men, and
Portland probably, nearer fifty, while
the other coast towns should make the
number up to a hundred at least.
The Dexter Machine and Tool Com
pany is closing up its affairs and has paid
its stockholders a dividend OF thirty
cents on the dollar. The company still
has on hand its outfit of machinery, and
large claim for damages against an
out-of-the-State dealer, arising from his
refusal to take lathes contracted for, on
account of the hard times.
S.W. Talbot, who supplies Gardiner
with ice, has roam horse that last sum-
mer supplied one of the routes. The other
day he was again put on the same route,
and went the whole of it without any
direction from the driver, stopping at
all the old customers houses It is
claimed that horses have no intelligence
or reasoning powers, but this one seems
to have at least pretty good memory.
Capt. f !. H. Tobey, now in Thomaston,
has valuable and interesting curiosity.
1t is South Carolina bank bill of s
shillings, dated April, IT'S, and is in an
excellent state OF preservation.
The worms are making sad havoc through
the orchards in the vicinity of Thomasten.
A very superior kind of alewives has been
taken in Winslow's stream this season. In
taste they are very much like salmon trout.
helBiddeford Journal says: A PRESIDENT
of the rural districts can but notice the
diminishing numbers of sinsectivorous and
song birds, the total disappearance of some
species, and the constantly increasing num-
bers of destructive insects. Though by law
these birds are protected, in some measure.
SO many are killed for specimens that many
more may be found in sitting rooms and
on ladies' hats than in the fields and groves.
With US ia. mers it is question of great I'M
portance whether our crops are to be pro-
tected by the fowls of the air, or by Paris
green and London purple