The Portland daily press., 1895-02-06

Watervllle, FRIDAY evening.
At the business meeting of the Maine
Life Underwriters Association the fol
lowing officers were elected: President,
C.F. Uanlap; first vice president, f. II.
Hazelton; second vice president, James
Sinkerson; third vice president. L. ,.
Burns; secretary, TIE. Mcdonald; treas
urer George p. Dewey; executive COM
mittee, j. W Fitzpatrick, James Sinker-
son, J. H. Wright, W. H. Anderson, f. II.
Hazelton; legislative committee, ii. n.
Fairbanks, F. Fl. Hazelton, j. W. Fitzpat-
rick, rs. Burns. J. T. Stevens. W. d..
4 Last fall Madison man
named Welch, while : grupbing
around Father RasIes's monument
at Norridgewock, found curious ring.
1t had a wire-like circuit of gold, much
colored by exposure, and huge seal
bearing cross and the representation of
two women, kneeling on either side OF
the emblem. Catholic priests who have
seen the ring say it certainly must have
belonged to the martyr priest, as the en-
blem is such as only missionaries of the
early days were allowed to wear.
Mrs. Taylor of Bath had been sick sew
eral weeks, First she had the grippe,
then pneumonia. and all the time trouble
with her stomach. Her friends thought
she was going to die, but she declared
the spirit of her deceased husband as
surred her that she wasn't, and she re-
fused medicine. One day last week ex-
perienciDg tickling sensation in her
throat she coughed and threw up live
snake eight inches long and as big round
as a slate pencil.
Stonework 2 is being done on the exten-
sion of the Rumford Falls and Rangeley
Lakes railroad and the road will be COM
pleted to Mooselukmeguntic lake next
summer. The line is now 18 miles long
and runs from Rumford Falls to Hough-
toms.
Six handsome trout were caught at
Swan Lake on the opening day of the
season. But few fishermen nave tried
their luck, but they will be out in force
this week. 1t is reported that thet1 SO, 600
trout eggs at the Swan Lake hatchery
are in fine condition and the best of re-
su s will follow Never since the hatch
cry has been established have the eggs
looked more promising.
Probably the Oldest man that makes
business of going into the woods each
winter is Frank Wright of Hancock
st rect, Bangor. Last week he came
down from John Ross's camp. This
makes the fortieth season he has worked
in the woods for Mr.. Ross. Wright is IS
years old, and has passed sixty winters
thinning out Maine forests, and in that
time he has seen many changes N the
mode of lum bering. He feels as young
as a boy Of 16, and while in the office of
the Kineo House, on his way home last
week, he wanted to bet $40 he could turn
a handspring with any of them. Mr..
Wright thinks that bout five more Win
tiers in the woods will satisfy him.
Chief Nichols of Canada, recently de-
ceased, who was at one time ruler over
two OF the Canadian tribes of Indians,
left some property to which Lewis Mich
olas and Susan Andrew Tomah, of the
Penobscot tribe of Indians, are heirs.
Mrs. Tomah is the Oldest squaw ON the
island, being bewteen go and 100 years
of age.
The bar Harbor Record suggests that
the town of Eden, before it is too late,
purchase the few remaining points of
attraction in the vicinity of Bar Harbor,
and insure their being kept open to tour
lists. Among those for which it pleads
are the top of Green Mountain and the
carriage road thereto. the shores of Ea-
gle Lake, the Ovens, and the right of
way to them, and Otter Cliffs.