Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-08

DAILY kENN
mits to the public treasury with alacrity. if
not with Oh erfulncss.
Tony Perry of Rockland had 4 game
rooster that, being q great fighter, was the
pride Of bis heart. 1t came to pass how
ever, that this rooster lost leg and to zee
MN hopping around on one leg. moved
ionys heart to pity ard his hands to max
ing wooden leg, which being attached the
the bird soon learned to use with great pro.
hcieacy. He is once more in the spit"
orandishing spur on either leg and ready
to defend his title of the .'champion one
legged rooster" of the world.
There seems to be a good deal of mis-
understanding over the reported Bath doua-
ton of 5000 to the Good Will farm.
More than two months sgo the announce
ment was made in the KENNEBEc Journal
and in several other papers of the State :
that q Sl5, 900 building had been presented
the Good Will Home Association. The
published in the Good Will Record. This
gift came from Bath. Last week
an item appeared in some of the
papers of the State to the effect that
the home had received an additional gift
from Bath of 500. 900. This is doubtless,
as we said several days ago a newspaper
fiction. Some exchange appears to have
resurrect the announcement of the gift
of building 10 the home several
months ago, and, in endeavoring
to make it do duty as a news item, created
a false impression in the public mind. If
second gift has been made to the home
from Bath Rev. Mr.. Hinckley has received
no notification of the fact. 1t seems
reasonable to presume, therefore, that
the Bath gift, announced several months
ago is the only one that has been made
from that city.
The Good Will Home Association has re-
ceived a check for $500 with which to
make the final payment on the so-called
"new purchase" i.e., the land on which
Prospect cottage, Foeg cottage and Chris.
tan Endeavor cottage stand, and upon
which the new school building is to be
erected. The people of Maine have been
very generous in aiding the Good Will
Home and have just reason to feel proud
of the noble work it is accomplishing.
In a recent interview with J. N. Taylor,
of the Boston Globe, Uncle Scion Chase
expressed the following opinion of Grover
Cleveland: "He is headstropg, and evil
IDENTIFY thinks himself better than his party,
but that's where he is purblind and weak
No man is above the people; he may fool
some into thinking so, but there isn't enough
of that kind of wool to 60 over the eyes of
all. He made an ass of himself on the
Hawaiian question, put both feet above the
uppers, into the muck, and only pulled
them out when the people rose above him."
Dog Officer Brown was made the victim
of rather neat practical joke the other
day.
He rang at the door of house and asked
the lady if she had dog. She said she
had.
"Where is he?"
''1n the house."
els he licensed?'
The lady smiled and said she did not
think he was. The officer went in and
looked around for the household pet.
"Where is he?" he inquired.
"There he is on the mantelpiece," said
the lady, pointing to an outrageous calico
pug back of the stove.
The officer concluded he was sold again,
and got out.
"While on his visit torFthis city," says the
Lewiston Journal, Governor Cleaves did
a very thoughtful thing: One of his old
friends, comrade in arms and member
Of his regiment, was ex-Mayor Horace C.
Little, of Lewiston, who now lies in his
pain and suffering in his room, in his
in College street. Soon
after his arrival in Lewiston, Mon
day night. Gov. Cleaves disap.
peared and did not return until $50.
There was much inquiry about him and no
one knew that he was, all that time, sitting
v it'll his old friend and comrade, ex-Mayor
Little, and giving him the hearty encour-
agement and good cheer of one friend to
another. The call was entirely une xpected
to Mr.. Little. He could not expect that a
man, on the eve of his denomination for
governor, amid scenes of stir and activity |
ing with rush and when waited on by dele
gates and delegations, would find time to
call upon friend. We commend
Governor Cleaves' manly thoughtful.
ness amid surroundings that were album
liant excuse for the neglect of any such
social amenities, to the attention of every
one who loves and admires the man who is
4 thoughtful. kind hearted man amid his |
own affairs and in the midst of his own sue |
,esses. The call did ex- Mayor Little .
world of good, as indeed it well might,
cheering him anew and lending him courage |
n his convalescence. This little incident
hat comes to us eurreptitiously is of kind
hat the people like to know I
The Republicans of the second and fourth |
districts have paid worthy
compliment to Representatives Dingley and
Boutelle in renominating them by acclama-
ion. They have done grand service for
heir constituents and for the country at
and are men of whom Maine |
las just reason to feel proud.
Republican Journal: The Eastern Ga
zette speaks of "Hon. F. M. Sampson of |
CARMEL as a candidate for State treasurer. |
The gentleman's name is Simpson: but he |