Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-05

which Sbawmut man was accustomed
to kindle his fire and replacing it with
water. The victim poured the whole gallon
upon the fire he would light and WASH t
blown into the next county when he
| touched match to it,
| Reporter Journal: The town of Farm
| ingdale for several years past was allowed
| a discount of ten per cent on taxes paid
before certain date, but this year it has
dropped the discount, and put on an in
| terest charge of IL per cent on all unpaid
at the given date. Twelve per cent is a
very convenient rate to reckon, but it is
trife high rate of interest to charge, al
| though it ought to make the taxpayers
| pay up promptly. Collector Burnham
collects the taxes more for amusement
than for the salary, and as he advances
the money for the unpaid taxes and set
| ties with the town in full each year, he
seems to be just the man for the place
| He is good hand a figures, and can prob
| ably figure out the interest on taxes at
one per cent month with accuracy and
| dispatch.
In Fairfield there are three sisters and
one brother living within sight of each
other, whose combined ages aggregate 31S
years. This fact in no way impairs their
good health and enjoyment of life They
are: Mrs. Connor, So; Mrs. Drew 81
Mrs Totman, rs; and Mr. G. +. Bryant,
| 76.
| A clam controversy is usually as hot as
clam bake. as those who attended the
legislative hearings respecting the Var
mouth clam flats can testify. And it ap-
pears that the war in town meeting at
Rogue Bluffs over the proposition to raise
the revenue from the clam flats of the
town was no exception. Heretofore the
town has received five cents for every
bushel dug upon the flats. Put this year
the price was raised to 25 cents.
W. H. Totman of N. Totman and Sons,
reports the champion haul of logs on the
waters of the Kennebec this season. One
pair of horses weighing 5000 lbs. hauled
a load scaling four and one-half thousand
over wagon sled road three and half
miles.
Fifteen hundred people in Lewiston
have signed the pledge under the exhorta-
tions of Lecturer Murphy. Who doubts
but what good many of the signers will
keep this pledge?
1t would seem that the agitation for
wide tires was bearing fruit. Rockport at
the last annual meeting voted to exempt
from taxation all vehicles with tires ex-
cceding five inches in width. The result
expected is that the heavily laden lime
wagons will not continue to ruin the
roads under this arrangement.
| AS Rochester man stepped up to pay
his box rent at the post office the other
day it was recalled that he had held that
| same box since 1859.
There is call for Maine apples. In
fact there has been for some months but
this call is one that implies good price.
And still the cry "good rents are
scarce" is heard in nearly every Maine
village. No need to fear yet while from
over booming Maine.
Biddeford and Saco are having the same
difficulty with their fire alarm system
that Augusta had with hers, they can't
hear the bell and must attach to st. am
whistle
1t is yet to appear that Judge Hale dur
ing all the years of his defalcations ever
entertained any financial scheme by which
he expected to reimburse those whose
money he was using.
The lumber manufacturers in the vicin-
ity of the Penobscot say that they can't
buy the logs at prices low enough to enable
them to profitablv put their manufactured
product in competition with other lumber
in the open market under the present tar
iff This difficulty is increased by the
fact that the price of logs is kept up
through the increasing demand of the
pulp manufacturers.
Portland wholesale grocers report trade
increasing. Coed.
Biddeford and Saco are discussing that
law passed by the Legislature providing
that subordinate municipal officers shall
| perform their duties under the control of
the mayor and aldermen. Mayer Foss Of
Saco would like to know whether the
chief engineer will continue to buy fire
hose as heretofore under the approval OF
the joint standing committee on fire de-
partment or under the direction of the
mayor and board of aldermen Mayor
Hamilton of Biddeford said that it seemed
to him that the new law deprives the
lower board in theory of all its executive
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