Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-02

board will be arranged for diving and the
bottom freshly grayeled.
Pressure Isle man discovered recently
on looking into his pig pen that it was emp
ty, the pig gone on vacation, and tn t
he had been punctually feeding the anims
for a week or so in its absence.
/. 1t is but just to say that there is no reason
to believe that prominent patent medicine
firms are interested in the P0pulistic tally
no orato1ical and musical excursion.
How very much like "bloated bond
holders" those Populistic speakers will look
in their rich and arstocratic tally-ho drawn
| by prancing steeds The late William X.
| Vanderbilt, WAS somewhat given that way
himself.
A tally no. brass band campaign,
is what the Populist candidate for Con-
gress from the third district has formu-
lated. 1t is not Who'll y original, being pat
termed after the circus advertising wagon
and the itinerant hucksters' methods for
quilting the people. 1t is understood that
the Populisic tally-ho will carry four must
clans and will scatter Popuistic literature
along the route. We would suggest that
while dispensing circulars advising the
good people along the route that as
a cure-all for every ill known to civil
government take Populistic pill, the man
ayers might lessen expenses by printing on
the ether side of their circulars a cure-all
for every bodily i'll. No doubt the patent
medicine firms would pay literally for such
advertising. One nostrum will prove as
efficacious as the other and "Bumpus'
blood bloom for bunions, consumption,
wind collie and cancer, will blend and diff
fuse excellently with a tract to the effect
that Populism and political millennium are
one and the same.
South Madison affords an excellent il
lustration Of vigorous old age and courage
unimpaired by years. An Old gentleman
81 wears old lost nearly everything by fire
A wear ago. He did have enough left to
build small house and get out lumber for
a little barn. Among the effects that went
through the fire was broad ak which the
old man retempered and proceeded to hew
out the frame for his barn. He has now
got The barn ready for this seasons crop of
hav. Some men would have gone to the
poor house and others would have committed
suicide if they had been overtaken by cir
cumStances like those which the South
Madison veteran uncomplainingly con-
quered.
Evidently the sheep raisers of Farming
ton believed the Democrats would take the
tariff off of wool for their flocks have de-
creased one-third in the past year. Gov.
j Cleaves brought out the fact in his recent
speech at Pennington that whereas there
were 5000 sheep in that town year ago,
the assessor, books show there are but
5000 today.
One well on Peaks Island has been sup
plying 200 cottages with water. In the in
terests of temperance and convenience it
is proposed to have another.
1t is noticed in Portland that cats raised
on Commercial street where the rats are of
prodigious size and ferocity, are never good
, for anything as rat catchers. 1t is thought
that as kittens they get the idea that they
are not match for rat.
The Bath enterprise says the grave of
Names first Governor, William King, at
, Maple Grove cemetery, is in disgraceful
state of neglect and discredit to Bath, AMI
proposes that the city see to it that the grave
be kept in proper condition.
While the Massachusetts commissioners
are fighting an almost hopeless battle for
the determination of the gypsy moth, and
| Maine is naturally congratulated that this
scourge has not reached here, it is true
| that we have pests enough to keep all con-
| nected Herewith very busy. Last week
Prof. Munson of the State College, visited
/ the orchard of c. s. Pope at Manchester,
to determine the kind of pest which severly
threatens that orchard. An unknown black
$ worm about an inch in length is feeding on
the foliage of the trees on the State
grounds. 1t is very numerous seeming to
contine its operations chiefly to the elm
= trees. small black bug or fly, which the
F.. professors have so far been unable at name,
is feeding on the trees IN Pressure Isle.
The company controlling Petit Menan
have plan to start Shetland pony farm
there They viii BULL fence across the
, narrow necks connecting the ppninsulsr
with the main land thereby getting big
, pasture land at small expense. There
will be 40 mares and two studs put on the
place to start with. These animals live
outside the whole year.
In one respect at least the village of
, Dexter is the most enterprising in the
State. Il has prevailed upon the boys not
i to celebrate the night before the Fourth.
l That's right, the Fourth is the day to be
celebrated and there's no good reason for
2 the noise of the night before.
} They are Deserved.
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