The Portland daily press., 1895-12-25


had no money. Thereupon the market
man seized the goose and all it's hxings
and dined off it himself.
| Among the recent business failures
The aniamls died SO rapidly the proprie-
tor had to kill off the survivors.
| If the river ever freezes up again in
| good shape, there is talk of keeping a
skating park near HallowelI, clear, and
having an opportunity of lots Of winter
| sport.
| Mr.. Perkins presented the Kennebec
Journal Monday with bunch of pansies
which he picked in his garden.
Cherryfeld reports: The drouth which
prevailed during the past season will
largely reduce the cut of logs on the Mar
raguagus river during the PRESENT win
| ter. According to present figures the
total force employed will be 1873 men and
80 horses.
| On big farm in the eastern part oil
Maine lives a man who has just celebrat-
ed his Goth birthday anniversary, but
/ VAiS Al e1Ai uAop 4ObS pllAo LIDS u6t6T U6GI
more than 80 miles away from the room
in which he was born. Neither has thi.
man ever seen train of cars, ridden il
a stage coach, or been on board steam
boat or eaten a meal at a hotel and never
swore an oath. The unique character
Is II. Thatcher leighton of Columbia
Washington county, who is known il
ed by the title of Uncle Thatcher. Toda,
his form is as straight as an arrow, b,
is as smart as q whip, and is in as full
possession of ali his faculties as he was a
Calais is SO exasperated at -her presen
mail facilities that her people would O
only be willing to return to the old tim,
stage coach, but actually yearn for it
A petition has been very generally signet
there asking the department. to hereafte
have the Calais mail forwarded iron
/ Vanceboro by stage, thus giving the Bor
der City an early morning and Sunda,
mail. Under the present arrangement
mail for Calais is 10 hours of the last 8
miles while the CITY receives no mail a
all from Saturday noon until Monda,
noon.
| Tt will be remembered that the captain
of the ferry boat has got lost severa
times in the fog on the liver, but the frs
l OetoO ONol AOPolCOu VI d Ildu Ou lOOU Q6U
ting lost while crossing the Kennebec OIL
the happened Saturday night durin,
the dense fog which preaviled all day
A man left the Brewer shore to 20 t,
Bangor, and went rs he supposed straigh
for the slip on the Bangor side, and on
can imagine his surprise when he foun,
that he had evidently gone almost acros
the river and back again.
One Of the interesting sights On a r n
g. 0. car out of Bangor the other nigh
was an elderly lady of matronly proper
tions, who sat costly on ono of the corne
seats knitting away on sizeable stock
ing leg with all her might and main
Her wraps were laid aside and she So
there as comfortable as if in he arm
chair at home with the cat on the tabl
and the hook-rug under her felt-slppere
feet.
Hay buyers in central Main are payin
So per ton more for hay this year tina
last-which means n million dollars t
our farmers
One towns record of Christmas tire
shipments gives clue to the extent O
this industry in Maine At Dover,
cars, averaging $50 trees each, have bee
loaded for Philadelphia, leaving $2412
in that town and paying the Maine Ger
trail railroad $704 freight.
The Ellsworth American says: TIL
little boy of whom the nursery rhym
tells as ftBorn in the woods to be scare
at an OWL" may have had reason for hi
fright after ali. Judging by the novel Oh
perience of Luther S. Butler of East
broolr Last Tuesday Butler was at wor