Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-21

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the flood that didn't come,
Only $4,000 more for steel than for
wooden spans for the Gardiner bridge.
And then If the bridge is built next
winter it will help to keep the wolf from
some of the workingmon's doors.
| Had the rain continued 81 hours
longer.
The State of Maine Reed Club has
grown steadily from its inception and
hasn't given up its plans for going to ST.
Louis, Notwithstanding.
About 10 years ago there was a double
wedding at North Haven. The first child
born to one couple was girl and about
the same time boy was born to the other
family In that order five girls have been
born to the first family and five boys to
the other.
This story comes from Colts Island ::
VIM. H. Harding ran down to flock of
sea-ducks and brakes, and with gun the
stock of which he had just broken, he
discharged one barrel at the birds and
killed fourteen. He then discharged the
other barrel and killed one more.
The following Interesting incident is
On the 14th of April, 1914, it showed or
"a hours, and down in Cherry field where
he then was, there fell fourteen inches OF
snow on a level. The next morning he
started on the mail stage for Bucksport
There We're four of them and they had
two seated pung and four horses. For the
first seven miles they repeatedly got stuck
in the drifts, and had to shove the pung.
1t was very hot day and by noon the
snow was melting into streams and rivu-
let's. As they got over to ward Bucksport
they found that there had been a smaller
| fall of snow and the hot sun soon melted
what there was so that the last seven
miles into Bueksport was made on wheels
A Bangor man suffered the amputation
of both feet a few days ago. They were
frozen one night this winter while the
man was asleep in bed In the little tum-
BILE down howell where he was compelled
to live. 1t doesn't seem as if such condi-
tions of hardship need exist in any city
in this State. And yet Bangor is probably
no exception.
| Sebat Glossian, the Penobscot Indian
guide in attendance upon the Maine camp
in the New York sportsman show be-
came addicted to the souvenir craze All
might have gone well had not Sebat
confined himself to souvenirs of New York
intoxicants. AS it was he had to be sent
back to the happy hunting grounds in
the vicinity of Bangor,
| Ii is thought the Cedar Island campaign
will soon be over now that Maine has de-
cided to take hand in the campaign
The Boston Journals correspondent writes
that the high sheriff of York county has
concluded that all the nonsense about
patrols with shot guns and garrisons
armed with swivel guns and scrap iron
ought to stop. AS the New HAMPSHIRE
men are slow to act the Pine Tree State
has resolved to seize the island and hold
| it vi ct arms, and demand that the
United States courts shall determine
which Of the two states is entitled to
jurisdiction over the ridiculous little
patch of rock. The Maine authorities
will seize the island on the ground that
they desire to prevent bloodshed, the
island now being in charge of an armed
force, while other parties are planning to
take it by force. There is great excite
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old salts are shivering their timbers and
specializing on the chances for and against
civil war;
A UNIQUE PRESENT.