Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-19
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Burglars at kennebunkport secured
$50 In private house.
Burglars have been operating at Rich
mond. Thty blew one safe but secured
nothing OF kalue.
The timed Is drawing nigh when per-
son NAV ydnture into the woods without
running great risk Of being shot.
A kite shipped ice track on the Penob-
scot near Hangor is hope entertained
BIZ some oflthe Penobscot horscmen.
Six deer Feeding in meadow together
was the SIGHT which made the eyes of a
Prospect citizen glisten few mornings
since.
A young lnan by the name OF Charles
Young wsI arrested In Portland Tues
dav for breaking into stores at South
Bridgton AID White Rock.
Bangor temperance people are en-.
desvoring - obtain the support desired
for the temperance campaign which Mr..
Murphy Is 10 open there.
John Gatfly, boy Of IL years, living
M Holmes bay, was found dead with a
bullet hole through his temple and a re-
volyer clen(h In one hand.
The sext,In at Brooks has box CON
tanning III little snakes of all colors that
were found!in one nest at the graveyard.
They we're bf the size Of big angleworms
and upwards.
The expense Of maintaining free beds
AZ the Maine Eve and Ear Infirmary the
past wear Was s3,7i5.3O. There were
! iO32 ophthJlmic patients, 80 sursl pa
,ients and iB3 adjunct clinics.
As Morril, the man who shot Collins,
has not decided 10 give himself up, the
officers are beginning TO talk about the
unwelcomelta OF bringing him out o!
the woods before winter sets In.
Bangor OATS 225 pounds OF frankfurt
sausage daily. The three night lunch
carts take Il good part OF this amount
| but frankfutters are also boiled In the
homes OF 81 me of the best people.
The BidJefo Record has 5000
| libel suit bn its hands, and so has
prominent citizen OF Blddeford, who
published rI the Record signed com
municition calling another prominent
citizen a liar.
The bod OF Kenneth NJ. Taylor OF
Boston, drtwned In Moosehead Lake
October II, Twas recovered Friday even
Ing by the use Of grapnels. II was Ia
10 feet OF water. The body was for
warded TO boston.
Tuesday light at Perry, George Leigh
ton, while Running, thought he saw a
porcupine Oh the side Of the road. lie
fired aud sbbt Leslie Armstrong In one
leg, mskingl a painful and dangerou:
wound FROM which he died.
A bright little Maine girl whose father
Is a native df Penobscot County, wher
the heavy din poured down one day re,
Gently af,et the long drought, very
grayely reutrked that she guessed God
hsd gone toia party and left the faucet
open"
James wtbb of Bridgton was killed
by a csve-iI OF earth. He was under
taking 10 bury large boulder on hi:
farm. and Had dug hole nearly lsrg,
enough, whkn the earth gave way and
the weight Jf the boulder crushed dowr
upon him. IIe was instantly killed.
An instan te Of remarkably well pre-
served old aEc Is reported from Greer
Lake whereh log that had lain on tn,
bottom Of the lake for seventy-fivt
years was bought up ard found to be
as sound "a The day II was cut, so the
report stated.
The Bar llIarbor saloon keepers ar,
willing 10 shut up for the winter, but
being unablt 10 get any assurance that
they will belallowed to sell in the sum
mer season ire feeling utterly diseour'
aged. or ,ourse they consider the pro-
hibitory law farce and sham.
4 Gardintt man doesn't believe In hur.
ried second marriages. A fearful hus-
band brought Ia his wife's coffin plate
for framingJ The job was done, but the
fearful husbknd got married again soon
after the furlfral and never returned for
the souyenirlof bis first wife's demise.
Kennebec Journal Lets compare e..
timates. A Ehort time ago some would
be authori' estimated that $4,000 gun
ners were W he Maine woods. Now II
Is estimated That nearly 5000 deer will
be taken outihis season. How many OF
the hunters were successful, allowing
two deer TO dhchy
Members NJ the Mechanic Falls Board
OF Trade are in high spirits over their
success Ia securing concern 10 operate
the idle satisfactory In that town. The
concern alluded TO is Chase, Merritt 4
Co, Of Ma hboro, Mass. They make
mems good! and will employ all the
way from 20b TO 400 hands.
IL has beed discovered that the great
700 acre park at Petit Manan has been
raided by so irtsmrn (so-miscslled, and
that some. aid perhaps many of the 800
deer have bten killed. Four dead deer
we're found IN the park In one day re-
Gently. hojing that the hunters or
rather slauglLerers. because the deer are
almost tame, must have been frightened
of.
The big EXPLOSION at the Long Cove
quarry. ST. George. a few DAYS ago Is
said TO have DIST "A total Of $4,000. Two
men worked ;uearly year digging the
tunnels, the dxpert to fire Ii cost $1,000,
etc. About Boo, 900 tons Of rock we're
removed. This Il as much as has been
used from the quarry in Is years. A
careful examination of the work Of the
blast shows that the explosion was sue
cessful beyonh the most sanguine hopes
of the propri.|tors.
Ii would SEEM little strange IL the
new woman ,jhould reduce sportsman
ship TO the leIel VI physical endurance,
but that Ia Hhat a BroOklipe, Mass,
woman propcfes TO do. She Is recogniz-
ed as an expett hunter, but has never
been able To cbpture moose. In q few
weeks she viii start with guide on the
trail of a mooke with view of walking
the animal down. Miss Ripley will wear
boomers ami moccasins, with four
or five pairs OF stockings and will have
to travel right along, but after three
DAYS she and her guide can take Ii easier,
as by the third day the moses feet VIII
begin TO bleed aud he will be Obliged to
90 slower. they will travel until dark,
then camp on the trail of the moose,
then he up and on the move by daylight.
After three dnEs the moose Is obliged to
rest oftener aid Is easily tracked BY the
blood from hill feet. In the spots where
he has lain grfat pools VI blood are al
WAYS found. By the end Of five days
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