Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-25


Send the tramps along to Brownville.
Two Young Brunswick lads were sent
out by parties interested in having the
cigarette law enforced and they succeeded
in buying cigarettes of six dealers in the
town. The dealers were prosecuted. This
is an example worthy to be followed in
other places in the State.
The town of Orneville tried queer ex-
pertinent, the queerest part of which was
that it was successful. The superintendent
of the town farm having skipped and the
town having an able bodied man and his
family to support, moved them onto the
farm of which they put him in charge
Thus far he has been able to support
his family.
There is an old proverb that won't come
true this year, which says: "When a
goose stands on ice Nov. II, he will stand
in need ON Christmas day"
And still they come-those holiday edi-
tions of our weekly exchanges-and there
there is such a bewildering array of them
that it is almost impossible to specify
any of their several and respective attrac-
tions. Among them we notice the
Damariscotta Herald and Record, the
Lincoln County News, The Rockland
Tribune, and the Fort Fairfield Beacon
all gay and galore; but we We're a little
surprised at the picture on the Beacon S
front cover, of Santa Claus riding into
Aroostook county in a pneumatic sulky.
A humorous correspondent at Blanchard
writes "Steve Patten sold a horse few
days ago to his brother John for three
pounds of pepper. John sold him to
Ed Packard for an old vest and Ed sold
him to A. d. Sturtevant for three bushels
of turnips' Blanchard ought to have
some one with humanity enough to sacri-
flee three bushels of turnips for the sake
of putting the old horse out of his misery.
1t is too late to make Clinton Christ
mas present of suitable fire apparatus.
Murder mania in Maine is one way of
accounting for the horrible series of muir
dcrs of which the killing of the Brown
vile hunters is the most recent.
The first through freight to Caribou
over the B. 81 A. r. R., was carload OF
horses that went through Saturday night.
Now won't business be lively in that
part of the State
1t is down on the programme for the
ID emocratic State committee to have a love
feast at Portland in the early part of Jan
uary. This recalls another love feast once
upon time at Portland and the succeed
ing mushroom growthiof the Plum Trust.
The people of Warren are bound to be
entertained this winter and a stock com
pany has been formed for that purpose.
| The last cold wave brought along the
glad tidings from Squirrel Island to the
effect that the new hotel there is up and
painted and is destined to be one of the
best on the coast.
Bowdoin College may well regard the
SoDU,OOu IuSt icttlNtti do % SiiIIStI Ifto-
ent. OF this, $3.50, 900 comes from the Gar
celon estate and 800, 900 from the Fayer-
weather estate. Old bowdoin's Christmas
stocking can't be too full of good things.
Camden has cat broker with lucra-
| tive business.
The burned shops of the Bath Iron
| Works are being rebuilt and there are
contracts that will fill the new shops with
workmen when completed.
| 1t is doubtful if the cut of logs on the
| Penobscot and on the West Branch are
more than half of last years cuts None
of the Democratic organs in the State are
suggesting remedy.
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