Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-29

girls were employed to run elevators in that
city. Portland paper replies At Eastman
Bros. & Bancrofts establishment in thi.
city there are five girls, about IA years of
age, who run the elevator there, each
week in turn. This has been the custom
for over year.
Waterville Sc 1tinel: A Waterville paper
speaks of frederick D. Mudd." Excuse
the inquiry, but does the ID stand for Den
mis-? Lewiston journal.
Mr.. Nudd wishes to state that neither
is his surname "Mud" nor his mid
die name Dennis but that he is on
earth and that the greatest pleasure he
could experience would be to pursue his
avocation of undertaken and furnish six
by two box for the journalists who have
been having sport with his honest cogno-
men.
Chief Justice Peters is loyal Yale grad
uate and always has his fund of incompar-
able humor on tap at Yale dinner. Last
week at the Vendome in Boston he kept
them in whirlwind of laughter throughout
his remarks. After testifying to his al
legiance to Yale the judge went on to say
his family owed some allegiance to Har-
ward because Hugh Peters, the old cuss
(laughter), was Congregational minister
and went to England to solicit funds for
Harvard. He was going to run out his blue
banner with crimson decorations. That
was fair. Harvard could never get to the
Yale centre. (Applause.) 1t was not
talf-back but way back. (Applause.) He
expected to see the debt to Princeton paid
back. 1t will be paid back. applause
The college is perennial, men are mortal, :"
he said. "Many Yale men are in Heaven.
When l go l shall call on Eli Yale the first
thing, unless etiquette prescribes that he
shall first call on me-" (Laughter.)
There is dry goods store clerk down in
Lincoln county that is giving his boarding
mistress lots of trouble. When he goes to
bed very tired he gets restless in his sleep
and frequently sits up in bed saying "Will
you take ten yards or the whole piece?"
and then tears the sheet from top to bottom.
1t is now thought that the men who were
murdered near the headquarters of the
Aroostook, several weeks ago, were Carl
bou men. Joseph Pelkey. Anthony St. Pc
ter and man named Boulier left that vii
lage, early last fall, for the woods and have
not been heard from since. They have
been in the woods previous seasons and
have always written home. This winter no
word from them has been received, al
though Pelkey promised a relative here
that he would write and would also send a
sum of money to keep an insurance policy
in force. As nothing has yet been heard,
directly or indirectly from these men, it is
feared by their relatives and friends that
they are the ones who " ere murdered.
The stage driver from Wellington to Har-
mony is plucky old fellow of 60, and dur
ing recent big storm strapped the mail bag
to his back and went over his 10 mile route
by noon and on foot.
Auburn Jail discharges 80 boarders this
week and the taxpayers are hoping their
places at table won't be filed.
The Boston & Maine in its hurry to econ
omize discharged more men than could be
spared and has just hired back 25 engineers
and fremen.
Israel Hill of Biddeford fancies he owns
the land on which the city building stands
and every little while ne goes cunning for
rent.
Mans Inhumanity to Himself.
The most inhuman outragcs, outrages which