Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-07-23
THE WEEK IN MAINE.
THE MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BRIEFLY TOLD.
Fine racing at Rigby last week.
A war on liquor sellers is making
things interesting at Bar Harbor.
The county Of Cumberland Is hiring
money for three per cent this year.
There are liz prisoners 10 jail at Ban
gor, Notwithstanding the hot weather.
Poland Springs guests at this time
exceed In number those Of any previous
season.
A party of capitalists are talking Of
connecting Gorham aud Westbrook by
electric road.
George A. Sawyer's sardine factory at
Milbridge was burned Saturday. Small
insurance. Loss $4,000.
Harvey Dunning fell from the roof of
a barn he was repairing at Bath Friday,
receiving internal injuries, and he Is In q
critical condition.
As Arthur Abbott Of C0oper's Mills
was unloading with hay fork rafter
broke, striking him on the head, frsc-
turing his skull. He Is fatally injured.
The clergymen Of Bath are out In pub
lished statements charging Evangelist
+. w. O'Brien OF that city with adultery
and untruth. The affair makes quite
stir.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Manuel Of kenne-
bunkport celebrated their diamond we'd
ding last Tuesday, having been married
seventy-five years. He Is % and she 96
years OF age. Seven OF their ten
children are living.
j. J. Conant, who lives ut Harding's
station, a few miles from Bath, thought
he WAS taking EPSON salts the other
day, and instead got iodidc OF potassium.
His stomach was frightfully burned,
but he will recover.
The railroad commissioners have just
made their semi-annusl inspection OF the
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. The
road Is now all ballasted, and IL pro-
nounced one of the most solid aud sub
stantial railroads in New England.
A series Of burglaries which have been
perpetrated In the up-river towns above
Bangor were terminated by the capture
OF the burglars at Hancock Saturday.
They are Albert w. witham and Frank
4. Clapp, aged about Il. Clapp IL Is
said has done time before.
joey Durham, aged twenty, and
George II. Otis, thirty, escaped from the
Rocklsnd Jail Saturday night. Otis was
l.. hA
ton Of his sentence here. Ii Is thought
that a girl who came from Massachusetts,
with one OF the men assisted In the
escape.
The state assessors In their meetings
have been making special inquiry ss To
the number OF bicycles owned In each
town. with view TO their taxation. II
is estimated that there are not less than
l., 900 bicycles In the state which at a
valuation OF $40 each would be worth
S4S0. 200. Here Ia a large amount OF
property which the assessors feel should
| be taxed.
A Deering family recently had curl
Gus experience with bats. A hole under
the caves through which the uncanny
bats were seen coming and going was
stopped up and startling results fol-
/ lowed. The bats finding themselves
I imprisoned came out into the rooms OF
| the house aud infested every part OF IL.
/ At last accounts 200 had been killed and
the war Of determination was not ended.
Notwithstanding the talk concerning
a new trial Mrs. Getchell, herself, does
not appear TO have lost any OF the tran
guilty she has manifested since entering
/ kennebec Jail. She tells those who con-
verse with her that she does not really
expect new trial. The reason she
gives Is not a reason but that la which
so many place faith-superstition. She
says everything in life has been against
her and she does not expect 1t to change
now.
While Mr.. Batchelder's two children
were after the cows the other night at
Lang Plantation buck attacked them
and dislocated the hip OF the little girl.
| The children supposed the buck would
/ be kind as kitten. DIR. Currier OF
Rangeley set the dislocated hip. Mr..
/ Nile Of Dallas recently took some sheep
! To pasture, aud C. f.. Niles little boy
Jesse went TO 20 through the yard when
buck attacked him and hurt him quite
| badly. No bones were broken. The
same buck hurt two Of Mr.. Flagg's little
girls.
At hearing before referees in one Of
our Maine towns, one of the litigauts
WAS confronted with the weigh-bills OF
hay which had come from his farm and
he was called upon to explain the dispo-
sition OF each lot Of hay and in what
way he had received pay. As he came
TO one Of the bills he explained, 1--WE
had lot OF poor hay In which was con-
siderable W hiteweed, and so We got il
together and were going to burn II when
one OF the boys suggested that We give
/ il TO the minister, and because he got so
| big load he went and had IL weighed"
One Of the fish stories that Is now
being laughed over, Is of gentleman
who recently came for his first fishing
trip. For some time he had with his
guide been sitting quietly in the boat
when big trout came along and took
the bait. The guide noticed the fact
and said: "S,rike him. Strike him"
The fisherman, dropping his rod with a
wild look In his eye, said: "For Gods
sake what do you mean by telling me to
strike him? Who and what shall |
striker Since then he has learned that
TO strike fish IL 70 hook him.
A Lewiston riverman made great
find the other day In the shape OF tin
can with a copy Of paradise Lost
sealed up in il. Nobody could explain
how il came there or what il meant, until
IL VAS learned that in n town up the
Androscoggin lives an old tinsmith OF q
literary turn Of mind, who each year
soldiers up books in cans and throws
them into the river with the hope that
they will float out TO the people on the
islands, or be picked up by sailors, and
from their peculiar way of reaching
them will be read with curiosity and do
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