The Portland daily press., 1894-06-21
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

SlAIE fOPICS OE IN EKES1.
The false. bridge has been placed under
the whole of the west span of the Ticonic
bridge at Waterville, and it is understood
that the old iron bridge will be taken
out next Sunday.
The new French paper LIE Courier, of
Watervllle. will appear without fail on
Friday of this week. Geo. v. Campbell
will be the editor
The freight train which arrived in
Waterville at 80 a. M, Monday, ran
into a drove of cows near the Messelons-
kee bridge. One COW, belonging to W.
afterward killed. One or two OF the
others were injured and will probably
be killed.
ThesBay Point Co., organized at Rock
land for the. purpose Of conducting a
filed certificate. Capital stock $50, 900,
OF which nothing is paid in. AZ.
Crockett of Rockland is president and
treasurer.
Word has been received that Dahlgren
Post No.2, g r., of Boston, expects
to visit Gardiner and Togus some time
in July or August. There will be from
rs to 100 mem bers of the post. with
their ladies and band of "a pieces. 1t
is the intention to have big scamp
fire" in connection with Heath Post.
During the shower of Monday night
the house of Engineer Holt at Fairfield
was struck. The bolt entered the chin
ney and followed to room where Mr..
Holt was sleeping in bed. Here the fluid
loft hQ oh md inn fO ha hod
setting fire to the pillow beneath Mr..
Hollis head. 1t followed around the
frame of the bed and took out one of
the springs then passed out through
the floor. Strange to say. Mr.. Holt was
not injured more than receiving a
thorough shaking up.
| People who are not given to romancing
declare that countless white perch about
| an inch and half long came down in
| the heavy shower atsBangor.
| The catch of alewives this year at
Machias is only about fifty per cent. of
| last year; demand for the fish has been
| good.
| Tuesday was the day for the Calais
| Yacht Club race and clambake at Des
| Mots. Some sixteen yachts had entered
for the race and had the day proved fav-
| orable the contest would have been one
of much interest, but as it was the wind
| only came up in puffs and a drifting
| match was the result in which the
| Blanche was declared winner.
| A Nearer My God to Theep cigarette
is the latest A very appropriate name
| George W. Bean and his son Will. of
| Auburn, were in Portland a few days
| ago and took sail in their new yacht.
They report that she is dandy.
There is said to be new kind of fly
| which is causing much misery to horses
| and cattle in some parts of Maine. 1t
| is a black and red insect. The Biddeford
Times says, one farmer went out to his
pasture and found COW and heifer
dead, caused by running from the dread
ed bites of these flies. Another gentle-
man was work. ng in field with his oxen
and kept brushing off the flies Suddenly
one of the oxen stopped and refused to
move. Upon examination it was found
| that a bunch of flies had congregated
| through the skin. When they were
brushed off the blood came out in a
steady stream. The pests also bother
horses.
| One day last week doe and fawn ap-
peared in the road above the fair ground
at Dixfeld. and being frightened by a
team took fight in opposite directions,
| the fewn running into the yard of A. j.
| Smith. His little boy, capturing it with
out any difficulty, took it into the house
where it has since been an object of at
| traction. 1t is mere baby, not over
| two or three weeks old at the most. The
f1ro n iCn r;
ever, and seems to especially enjoy the
| society OF two small kittens
Two years ago Al Young and Fred
Abbott caught an old big bear in their
| trap at Byron. The bear got loose by
| climbing spruce tree and tearing it's
| leg out. The other day evidently that
same old bear went to the same old
scratching the tree, leaving his tracks
behind him. Ii Bruin is not careful he
| may get his foot in that trap again, but
| not get it out.
Arthur Collins of Union was sunstruck
last Sunday while out in the pasture al
| ter checkerberries.
| The Gloucester fishing schooner Matte
T.Kemp, Captain Neil MoPhee, went
ashore IN the fog about 3 O'Clock Tues
day morning, on a ledge called the
Thumper, off Bakers Island, near Mount
Desert. The vessel was looking tor bait
among the islands when she struck.
Her crew were taken off by the Gran
berry Isle life-saving crew. The schoon-
er sunk.
| The six-years-old son of Charles Kirk
was saved from terrible death Tuesday
evening by William Sullivan,a boy of Is.
Young Kirk was playing on the rail-
road track near the toll bridge in Ban
gor, and was unaware of the rapid ap-
proach of the evening train from the
east until the locomotive was close up
on him. Then, in his haste to escape,
he fell, and would certainly have been
killed but for the bravery Of Sullivan,
who dragged him clear of the rails when