The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-07-12

Forty Italians arrived at South Gar
diner on the Kelnebec from Boston
Tuesday and started for the line of the
new railroad at Whitefield. Just AS they
had got started they met gang of eight
or ten of their countrymen coming IN
who had got disguised with their job
there and were on their way to take the
steamer back to Boston.
1T would be paying investment for
the State" said an Augusta city official
TO have a macadamized road through
Maine, say from Portland up the Kenne-
bee to Bangor to Bar Harbor perhaps
through to Eastport and in fact Though
the most prominent parts of the State.
1t would bring tourists here, bicy
could flock in and Names beautiful
scenery would attract thousands every
year. The steel for the first span Of the
new Maine Central bridge across tine
river at Waterville is now nearly all in
place and the work of removing the false
bridge will probably begin early this
week. Thus far not a single train has
been delayed by the work and all the
trains on the road nave run as usual.
A huge panther is said to be roaming
around the woods near Cherryfeld. II
Is alleged that the beast has been seen by
SOW al pOlSOnS, DuU uOUOUy Is reported
have got shot at him.
CIV. Hilton of Stark, has twelve Ok
ford down lambs which weighed 1865
pounds June 9th Mr., Hilton has the
finest flock of Oxford down sheep in the
State, and is constantly shipping choice
stock to nearly every State in the Union.
for ooNch how L
long hay may, be kept without danger OF
deterioration. Monday Kennebec
Journal man was shown some hay that
was cut on James Carville's farm in
Webster 30 years ago. In 1864 Carville
was offered by a Lewiston buyer $40 per
ton for the NOW. He rejected the offer
declaring that he would have $50 or moth
ing. He waited 80 years, and last week
MS administrator disposed of the hay at
public auction, for a considerable less
than one quarter of what it would have
brought in the sixties A Richmond
man declares that his horse eats the hay
with relish.
The Bath Times says: GAS usual at
this season of year, it is almost impossi-
BILE to find an egg in the market. A
man living near Wiscasset, who has three
hundred hens, was not able to secure
Se'oO VI OSSo ouLluS GWO Weeks. Line
price. however, has changed but little.
When one is fortunate enough to find
them they can be purchased from IS to
20 cents Dozen"
A wild animal supposed to be mink
entered the poultry house of William
Roberts at Northheld one night recently
and slaughtered thirty-one half grown
chickens.
Skowegan Monday voted $40, 900 in aid
OF the electric road from Skowhegan to
Norr1dgeWock, by 497 yeas to nays
The people celebrated the victory Mon
day night with fireworks and cannon.
A dispatch from Augusta saws: Gan
order from Sovereign to call out the
Knights of Labor in Maine could
amount to but little There is not much
lett OF the organization in this state.
Many of the lodges are defunct. like
the one which had an existence in Au-
gusta. Here the paraphernalia of the
order is held by Water street merchant
for the unpaid rent of hall which the
Knights of La Dor occupied. The annual
state conventions have been very slimly
attended, and of late years there has
been no interest manifested by the
hn1ghts, the old members nealy all
having fallen out" A.A. Beaton, ESQ.
Master Workman for the District OF
Maine, was seen at a late hour Tuesday
night by a reporter. Mr.. Beaton said
order to strike being issued. Mr.. Sow
ereign can only issues such an order by
the advice of the General Executi We
Board. | don't believe any such order
Will ever be issued. | do not care to
hazard a guess as to what the result of
such an order would be in Maine. We
have about 5000 mem bers None of them
belong to any railway union, and l fail
to see any reason whatever why such an
order should be sent or how it would
affect matters for them to 90 out on a
strike. They are all conservative men.
and will not strike unless they can he
shown good and sufficient reasons why
they should"
The yacht Alert. Captain Dimock. of
Portland, is in the harbor of RockIand.
champion refreshments eater has
been discovered in Thomaston. He ate
tWenty-three bananas and whole wat
ermelon and washed it down with half
dozen bottles of soda water.
The biggest mosquito story of the sea-
son comes from Maine man who says
that when he approached his summer
cottage, the other day, he noticed or
thought he did, that somebody had TAX
en- the liberty of painting his door over;
but before he had found words suitable
for the occasion his wrath turned to dis
may on discovering that the change of
color was due to the mosquitoes, who
were waiting for him to come and let
them in.
"You may have noticed that some of
the chimneys in the old residences in
this town do not stand perfectly plumb"
said a central Maine native, to party
of summer visitors The proposition
was assented to without debate, and the
native went on to explain. "WelI, that
is all due to the peculiar sort of plumb
line used by the man who was the first
brick mason in these parts. He was
man of original ideas and economical
his efforts as far as possible. He didn't
believe in bothering with what he
called unnecessary appliances. So when
ne was building chimney instead of
setting up the ordinary line weight to
true it by, he would just cock his head
over the corner of it, and spit down be-
side it, guiding his work by the way
the 0roD of spittle fall That r,ie,bt do