The Portland daily press., 1894-04-14
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Mayor Wakefield of Bath writes to the
Times of that city to correct wrong
impression concerning the debt OF Bath
that is conveyed by the census. Ac-
cording to the census Baths per capita
debt is S154. 81. Mayor Wakefield says:
In 1890 the time of the census returns,
our debtswas 81, 433, $780, 90, all of which
was contracted piror to the five per cent.
constitutional limitation: To-Day our
debt is but $404, 2O0, or only ABOUT Sloo,
900 in excess of the constitutional limit.
At the rate which our DEBT is oelng
paid, it will be but few years and we
shall be within the limit. Our valua-
tion is in round numbers SIX mllllon
dollars. We have a population OF 1000,
which makes our debt per capita S44, u.
This makes our city compare 1aVoraoiy
with other cities of the State.
I hope the Press of the State which
has copied the Census Bureau bulletln
will copy so much of this communlca-
ii on as will set us right before the
public.
1t has been decided by the Presiding
Elder of the Methodist church to estab-
lish circuit composed of I-ocke's NILS,
Greenwood and Bryant's Pond, and send
a preacher TO Locke's Mills for the COM
ing year.
To get some idea of Mondays,
storm down east, the mail carrier be-
tween Passport and Pembroke had to
strap the mail bags to his back and
ride horseback part of the way.
PASSPORT habor is swarming with
schools of young pollock four TO SIX IN
ches in length.
The Moncton Transcript says: Mrs.
IN, IA Of
handling rooster eight or nine days
ago, was bitten by the bird on the palm
of the left hand. The bite was scarcely
discernible and consequently no atten-
ton was paid to it Three days ago
blood poisoning set in, and the unfortu-
nate woman expired Thursday,
Brunswick is to have system OF
sewers at cost of $4,000. A large
brass ferue factory has been started in
the town.
The Duplex Car Co. contemplates To-
eating at Pittsfeld. Next Monday the
citizens will hold meeting in regard to
it.
Maurice Clark will build a basket fac
tory at Oxford this spring.
Rumford is to have seven thousand
dollar school house and owe for it.
A woman in an adjoining town to He
bron told her husband and son to let hef
manage and they need not pay tax on
their dog. A little chap was boarding
there accustomed to suffering When
she saw the selectmen approaching she
started the boy off with the dog, telling
him to stay at a CERTAIN neighbor' one
hour, when they would be gone and not
tax the dog. When the question was
asked it was promptly answered in the
negative. However the men did not
take the usual route when they came to
the turn of the road. but went the road
the boy was told to take, and soon met
him returning with his dog. We wild
call the owner of said dog Billy Bunker
dog he had with him. He answered
-B-Bill -Bunker's. THE s-selectm-
men were com-coming and the old-old
wo wo-woman started me off so they
shouldn't t-t-t-ax him." The boy had
the seat of his pants new shingled that
day.
A certain young man in Mexico
snapped horses with man in Rumford
last week getting barrel of cider to
boot, which he took home and put in
his cellar The next morning when he
went to tap it he found it had all been
drawn out and spirited away during the
night
While tearing out the interior finish
of building in ,Eastport formerly used
as an old junk shop, Charles Moore made
valuable find, some twenty-five dollars
in cash. two ten and one five dollar
bills 1t is not known how the money
came to be hidden away IN such place.
The special town meeting held at Frye
burg resulted in defeat of the measure
10 hr1i1
lage They now talk of dividing the
town.
The Age says Augusta will in all
the erection of the finest Masonic Tenn
pie in Maine during the present season.
On Saturday April Warden Corliss
of Cherrytield seized "A deer skins which
| were slowed away in the hold of the
shooner Billow at Milbridgee, tagged to
f. Wright, 25 Hayward place Boston.
The warden arrested Capt. Alvah B.
Strout of the Billow for having the hides
| in his possession, and boy named
| Jerome Clark for transporting the hides
from Cherryfeld to Milbrfdge. 1t is
| said that the skins were shipped by IL.
II. Bowles of Cherryfield. Capt. strout
was allowed to proceed to Boston, as his
vessel was ali ready for sea and the wind
| fair, but on his return he will be prose
cuted.
One of Turner's leading farmers says
| that wages for farm help will be 10 per
cent lower than last year.
Think of it! Not vcant tenement
| in Houlton and the local papers bur-
/ dened with applications. for rents.
| J.D. Stanford, superintendent Eastern
| Division of the New England Telephone
Company, was in Norway Saturday look
| ing after the putting in of local tele-
! phon exchange for Norway and South
| Paris. They are thinking Of extending
| their line to Paris Hill.
Although no new hotel is to be built
| at SnuirreI Island. there is a prospect of