Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-06
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"Growin' weather. !"

"Growin' weather"
We have not heard bucolic grumbie
about the weather for more thah
week. The farmer is too busy.
| Winthrop is said to have trepied
her accommodations for summer WIS.,
itors within q half dozen years Few
towns are so favored with GUNNER
attractions. and winthrop people nave
only begun to realize what 4 good
| thing they have.
/ There's too much of certain KIM Oh
patriotism at large in Eastport. IL Is
embodied in the individual who stole
several flags left out on the night oil
| Memorial day.
| Bangor Commercial: That was a
strange coincidence which brought eV-
cry gentleman who has occupied the
post of United States marshal in this
State since 1878 here in town on Iues-
day AS the Commercial stated on
Tuesday afternoon, all of them. begin
ming with Gen. Murray and ending with
| the present incumbent of the ONCE,
| Col John r. Donovan, were here ana
they held reunion of a somewhat I'M
| usual nature.
| Houlton has repented and invites the
circuses to come to town, also the
smart Alec" who tries to do" the
sharpers and succeeds in doing him
| self
The town of RipleySis not great in
population, having in 1890 but 12l polls.
| The voters appear. however. to make
up for lack of numbers in abundance
| of common sense, if we can judge from
the fact that this year they appro-
priated a considerable sum to pay the
expenses of throwing out rocks and
digging trenches to let water out of the
travel of the road.
Reporter Journal: It's the fellow that
IF you get it before l do, why all
right" that makes one very, very
| weary when he is on the bill collect
! ing tour.
Portland Express: The delegates
| from Maine to st. Louis, at their meet
| ing in Bangor the other night. resolved
that the vote of Maine should be east
first, last and every time for Hon.
Thomas b. Reed. The decision does
credit to the sound sense of the men
who are to represent us at that great
gathering, and will meet the unquali-
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Maine.
There are enough Populists in Maine,
ii appears, to wrangle when they get
together in convention. This does not
imply that they are as many in num-
Der as the sands of the sea, or as multi
tudinous as the political dreams that
haunt them. But who should expect
harmony in an organization composed
solely of those who did not get in other
parties what they thought belonged to
| them. but are determined to in this,
and those who are confident they have
discovered the panacea for earthly
| misery and are impatient unless the
world is willing to acknowledge the
| formula? This lends the charm of excite
ment and surely no one should be-
srudge the Maine Populist that much.
| The general deficiency bill was finally
agreed to by the House and Senate
| Thursday afternoon. The claim of the
Portland company for $50. 900, of w. p.
| Grant of Gardiner. for $4,000. of the
Richmond Locomotive works and other
| claims of this kind. were thrown out of
| the conference at the last moment.
| The French spoliation claims and the
| Southern war claims of course stay in
the bill. as they We're voted in by the
| House early in the consideration of the
! bill. but it is regarded as almost GER
| tain that the President will veto the
| bill. because of these claims" writes
the Washington correspondent Of the
| Portland Press. He adds: In such
an event the House will probably pass
an unobjectionable deficiency bill I'M
! der suspension of the rules. If the
Senate can then act promptly adjourn
ment will not be much delayed. 1t is
| thought that the day of adjournment
| will be about Wednesday OF next week
That trial of patricide Hurd need not
be long
| Places in want of normal school
will now don their best bib and tucker
| 1t hardly seems possible that per-
son living in civilized community
should leave three horses tied in the
stable without food or drink for 10
| days. Yet this is what a Rockland
man is said to have done How would
bread and water in solitary do for the
| offender?
PRESS COMMENTS,
No Dodsing.
portland Expressly
The Republican platform, adopted at
| al In I