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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-14
Married.
ANDROsCOGGIN.

ANDROSCOGGIN.
Lewiston-Dec. 5. Charles Phillips and
Miss Dora Garland.
CUMBERLAND.
Deering-Dec. 2, Clinton c. Lovejov of
Bethel. and Miss Susie Pauline Kimball
of Deering; Dec. S. Charles A. Pride and
Miss Edna l.. Thayer.
Portland-Dec. 6. Herbert S. Hopkins
and Margaret Delaney. both Of Portland
Gray-Dec. s. John o. Berry and Grace
V. Barrows, both of Raymond.
HANCOCK.
Boston-Dec. ]. Miss Viola NJ. Dow of
Mount Desert. and John W. Grimths of
Boston.
Gouldsboro-Dec /, Miss Lettie Wiley
and Mr. Melville l.. Johnson.
KNOX
Rockland-Dec. 2. Cyrus Z. Foger and
Miss Fannie r. Tolman.
PENOBSCOT.
Corinna-Dec. 6. James Oliver of Cor
lnna, and Mrs. Gree Weller of Washing
ton, c. H.. Ohio.
Bangor-Dec. 9. Harry l.. Parker and
Miss Lena NJ. Lowell
Carmel-Nov. 10. Frank l.. Eldridge of
Carmel, and Miss Myra Maddocks of Dix
mont.
SOMERSET.
Hartland-Dec. /. George T. Osborne
and Miss Grace W. Fuller.
WALDO.
Winterport-Dec. 8. Samuel c. Pink
ham and Augusta. and Miss Clara p.
Haley OF Winterport.
fslesboro-Dec. 1. Arthur a. Decker and
Nellie Ladd, both of Islesboro.
WASHINGTON
Columbia Falls-Dec. >. Daniel w. Hart
ford and Miss Laura 3. Worces ter. both
of Columbia Falls.
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climate not necessarily unhealthy
often proves so to those unaccustomed to
1t. The acclimatng process seems I'M
usually slow in some constitutions.
There is. however, a medicinal means of
acclimating it of which residents or So
journers in unaccustomed or malarous
climates have not been slow TO avail
themselves. Hostetter's Stomach Ritters
Is a medicinal safeguard and acclimating
tonic. of standard reputation, which
and others whose tastes and pursuits en-
tail exposure, subsection to changes of
temperature. unusual or unwhoiesone
diet or water. and the fatigue attendant
upon long journeys by land or sea. con-
cur. in ,pronouncing it reliable. agreeable
and safe AS remedy for disorders Of the
liver stomach and bowels very prevalent
in malarious regions and the tropics, as
preventive of fever and agre. rhe1u,a-
tism ana kidney troubles. and as u re-
storative of vigor il is also held in the
highest estimation.
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Died.
CUMBERLAND.

Portland-Dcc. {. John Cavanaugh; Dee
I. Timothy Joseph. infant son of Timothy
and Ellen G. Kelley aged . days: Dee. l.
Bridget Costello. aged % years; Dec. g.
Emily wife of Rufus Z. Sargent aged
Is years: Dec. .. Mary H.. widow of Free
man 5. Clark; Dec. 9. Patrick j.. youngest
son of Patrick H. and Hannah Nc
ponough, aged years. months and 10
days.
Westbrook-Dec. 8, Emily. widow of
stephen Babb. aged 50 years. months
Brunswck-Dec :. Mrs. Mercy Hol-
brook, aged 80 years.
HANCOCK.
Amherst-Dec. ,. John T. Goodwin, aged
s. years.
North Sedgwick-Dec 6, David ]. Allen.
EIllsworth--Dec. G. Mary Greenan aged
II years. months and is days: Dec. =
Sarah f. Haynes. aged 81 years, 10
months and p days.
KNOX.
Rockland-Dec. G. Lyman King. aged 26
Rockport-Dec 3. Oliver A. Andrews,
formerly of Warren. aged SC years.
Union-Dec. s. Florence f.. wife of I. B.
Toleman, aged IS years and months
LINCOLN.
Boothbay Harbor-Dec 3. Mrs. Eliza A.
Cameron, aged IS years.
Waldoboro-Dec. 3, Byron NJ. Cashier,
aged 81 years.
OXFORD.
Norway-Dec. ., F. w. Hunt, aged 45
PENOBSCOT.
Bangor-Dec. ). Mrs. Lucy Downing
aged 80 years: Dec. s. James Mayviile
aged 50 years. 8 months and Is days
Brewer-Dec- l. Mrs. Jennie p. wife of
Fred c. Croker, 20 years, II months and
IS days.
SAGADAHOC.
Bath-Dec. g. Mrs. Isabella A. Field.
aged IS years: Dec. Z, Major Greenough.
aged So: Dec Z. Susie A., wife of Ernest
W. Mitchell, aged "A years and 10 months.
WALDO.
Boston-Dec. ), Leroy T. Durham of
Monroe. aged % years.
Waldo-Dec. $. Ralph, infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. James Hanson. aged weeks
Swanville-Dec. 4, John Murphy, aged
50 years.
Palermo-Dec. 4. Walter B. Norton.
aged % years.
WASHINGTON.
Calais--Dec !. George f. Curry. aged
50 years and months.
YORK.
Old Orchard-Dec. 4, Alfred Milliken
aged GO years.
saco-Dec- l. Mary T. Osborn. aged 40
years. ~
:. Biddeford-Dec. l. Mrs Laura A
Downes. aged 50 years.
South Berwick-Nov. 3. Helen r. .dauch
er OF Fred +. ana Gerirudc l.. sfhomn-
son, aged.1 months andsG days.
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Maine lntusivla, eueyv,.

The Canton tannery is doing a rush.
ing business. They employ about 40
men and handle about one hundred
and twenty-five dozen sheep skins d
day.
Joseph West Of Franklin, will soon
commence work at his quarry at At
lantic, which has been closed for sew
eral years. He has a job that will
last nearly a year and will give en-
ployment to quite a number.
Business will be rather more quiet at
Weld this winter than usual. There
will be some 1900 or 1900 cords of
spruce for pulp put in to be driven
down the lake next spring and about
the usual amount hauled into the
mills.
For number of years Parks Bros,
of Pittsfeld, have done an extensive
business in buying hoops. They say
that this is probably the last year that
they will have to deal in these articles
as galvanized steel is being used in
their place.
The farmers in Palmyra have con-
tracted to cut "a large amount of
spruce pulp wood the coming winter
for the Hollingsworth & Whitney Co..
Winslow. Some difficulty is being
experienced, however. in getting help
to cut the same, owing to the low
prices offered per cord for cutting it.
The smelt fishermen of Milbridge,
are working day and night now.
Smelling is a business in Milbridge,
and is about the only industry, ex-
cept clustering. A large number of
men engage in it and find it a profit
able business. There are a dozen or
more weirs down already, and others
are being constructed. Smells are
now being caught and shipped to
Western markets. New York usually
affords the best market for smelts.
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would go alone. rotating in whichever
direction the hand had whitfield.
When the catapult was finished Mr..
Hinton. before he had shot it, was con-
WINGED that it would never do. The arm
was to heavy. the hand too awkward.
and the whole thing too clumsy. His
first shot convinced him that there
We're other reasons why it would not
do. The ball went clean through Mr..
Wilkes forge, through two sashes, and
plunged into the canal outside. More
over, the falling apart of the hand
iostled the ball so that it was impos
siDIe to tell within ten feet where II
would strike.
So the catapult was set aside and Mr..
Hinton went back to his figures. This
was about last January. AS the result
of his work he decided that his under
taking was perfectly feasible, and he
decided to try for his next experiment
the most natural method of propul-
sion, powder. Then he had a cannon
built His idea was to learn how To
shoot the ball out of his cannon with
out injuring me ball and at proper
speed. and then to learn how to get the
curves. The cannon was "a inches long.
with bore % inches long. and 27s in
ches in diameter at the muzzie.
His experiments in learning how to
shoot the ball We're interesting. He
first had the powder play directly upon
the bali, but this, he found, tore the
hall to pieces To obviate this he had a
movable breech put in, and attached to
this breech was a tube about two feet
long, extending into the cannon. At
the end of this was an ordinary Rem
ington rife, lacking a barrel. the tube
answering for the barrel. In this rifle
he placed 3S-calibre cartridge loaded
with powder. The gas generated by the
powder would go through the tube and
eXpel the ball. This method was final
ly adapted to his purpose.
BY long series of experiments he
learned how to regulate the speed
of the ball so that he was soon able to
do straight shooting with great sue
cess. Then he began to work on the
curves. After several failures he got
Bradley and Aultman, the pitchers, to
pitch for him. AS a result of that, he
determined to initiate nature. He
made a false muzZle to slip on the
nuZZle of the gun. which he could
turn about at his pleasure. Then he
made two fingers. These were small
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-14

The business prospects of Belfast
were never so bright The shoe fac
tory of Messrs. Critchell. Sihiey q Co.
is being worked TO an extra capacity to
keep up with orders. The new factory
of Legro & Spaulding now employs
about 100 persons and gradually eX-
tending. and lastly the Matthews Bros.
door. sash, blind and interior finish has
received an order for $50 doors. for a
town hall being erected near Boston.
The smaller industries are also receiv-
ing a healthy increase of business.
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he can hit small mark four out OF six
times. and send the ball over the plate
live out of six times, and this with the
clumsy experimental cannon now used.
When Mr. Hinton attained this end
the base ball men entered an obtec
ton. They said that the great defect
OF the gun was that the batsman had
no warning that the ball was coming.
To obviate this. Mr.. Hinton made the
tube through which the gas goes from
the rifle four feet long, so that there
would be an appreciable interval be-
tween the swapping of the trigger and
the discharge of the ball, and he is
now at work on an electrical appara-
tus to be put on the gun that will sig
nal before the discharge.
The experimental gun, of course. is
not meant for practical use, and an
other gun is almost finished which
will be used by the Princeton team for
the time being. This new gun con-
sists of a brass tube two feet long.
underneath it is the rifle. the powder
tube entering from below instead of
from above, thus leaving the top of
the gun proper clear for the sights
me man SHOOTING tiie gun places the
stock of the rifle under his arm, which
will bring the top of the gun on a level
with his eye, so that he can sight
easily. The weight of this gun will
be about ten pounds.
Some interesting experiments have
been made by which Mr.. Hinton has
determined the maximum speed of a
ball pitched by Bradley and Aultman,
the Princeton pitchers. He took a hip
chronoscope. a delicate instrument
used in psychological laboratories to
measure sensations. particularly per-
ception. 1t is clock which is stopped
by the breaking OF an electrical cur
rent and started again by making one.
He had a base ball wrapped in tinfoil,
and touching it were two little wires.
When the pitcher threw the ball the
connection between these wires was
broken. In the catcher's glove were
two copper plates connected also with
the chronOscope, and as soon as the
ball touches the glove the connection
was made again. He found it took the
full .599 Of a second to go a bit more
than sixty feet. or. in other words. il
went at velocity of sixty-eight miles
an hour. Mr.. Hinton has not yet ex-
perimented with his own curves. but
he is devising scheme to find out the
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there was long iron bar, the arm.
Arouud mis- bar was movable jacket
and fastened in the top of the jacket
was the hand This was composed of
three fingers in which the ball was
placed, A string was wrapped about
these arms, one end OF 1t belng fasten-
ed to the crossbow. When the bow
was shot the jacket was sent to the
end of the rod at a high velocity. AT
the same time this motion OF the jack
ct unwound the string and made the
arm reyolve at high speed. At the
end of the string the fingers would fail
apart by centrifugal force and the ball
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=. So Mr.. Gilman Brown of "a Mill St,
South Gardner. Mass. was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol-
lowing. Typhoid Malaria. and he spent
three hundred and seventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up:
saying: Your boy wont live month
lie tried DIR. Kings New Discovery and
lew bottles restored him to health and
enabled him to go to work a perfectly
well man. He says he owes his present
good health to use of DIR. Kings New
discovery, and knows it to be the best
IN the world for Lung trouble. Trial
!,ottieS Free nj Chas. X. Partridge $
Drug Store.
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deyiSing a scheme how to stop the
moving parts of the catapult so as to
produce quick but steady stoppage
without jostling the ball.
Mr.. Hinton does not expect that his
gun will ever take the place of hui
man pitcher, but if his catapult should
be a success, let rebellious Rusies be-
ware. They may lose their jobs.
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Born.
HANCOCK.

HANCOCK.
Ellsworth-Dec. g. TO the wife of Mr.
Henry Gould. son.
Southwest Harbor-to the wife of Mr.
Thomas Robinson. Il son: to the wife of
Mr. Harry. Brown. a daughter: to the
wife of Mr.. ROBBIE Norwood a son.
KNOX.
Rockland-Dec. l. to the wife of Mr.. f.
c. Bridges, a son.
OXFORD.
Paris-Dec. |. to the wife of Austin +.
Stearns son: Dec. 4, to the wife of a.
ID. Wing, Il daughter.
WALDO.
Belfast-Dec. ). to the wife of Capt
4Alzo NJ. Carter. Il daughter.
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Penobscot.
NEWPORT.

Mrs f. w. Sherburne and her mother
are spending few weeks in Boston. -
visit in New York this week.-Tbe drama
Uncle JOSH" will be presented by local
talent in Meridian hall Wednesday eve
ming, Dec. l5.-Tne merchants are getting
in fine supply of Christmas goods.-The
Methodists will have Christmas tree
entertainment in their church. Christmas
night.-Mr. f. r. Dow is going TO White
field, n. H., Saturday. He will remain
there a few weeks
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School Superintendent Brick of Belfast.
advocates the starting of a special school
wherein delinquent pupils may be placed
and special teaching be done along the
lines of their greatest needs There are
many young people out of school who he
thinks would go We're 1t not for being
classed with younger children. The pub
lie VIII be asked to subscribe that such
classes may be organized
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CALENDAR COMING EVENTS.


1leliglOMA.
At jefferson. Dec. 17.-Damariscotta
Baptist Quarterly Meeting.
At Blaine, Dec. S.-Aroostook Free
Baptist Quarterly Meeting.
Temperance.
At Thonaston, Dec. 16-Knox District
Lodge Good Templars.
At Hampden, Dec. 1S.--Penobscot Dis
trict Lodge Good Templars.
At Old Orchard. Feb. 17.-York Dis
trict Lodge Good Templars.
Grange.
At Augusta. Dec. 14-19.-Annual Meeting
Maine State Grange.
At Auburn. Jan. 6.-Androscoggin Po-
mona Grange.
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STATE NEWS.
Lincoln.
SOMERVILLE.

Alonzo Stillings of this place. while eX-
tinguishinG the lights in Summit hall, ac-
cidently fell and sustained severe frac
ture of the right leg. Mr.. Stillings will be
known in G. A. r. circles as a member of
Cos. e and d. 14th Regt. Maine Vols.
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A gentleman who was at Rowland re-
Gently states that the travel over the new
bridge is something remarkable. While
crossing the bridge he counted u teams
on the structure at one time, and it is
said that is is by no means an unusual
occurrence.
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THE PERFECTED GUN.


AIowdr Bsew
OF
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CROSS SECTION OF EXPERIMENTAL GUN.
aa-F'alse breech.
b--Baseball.
c-Powder tube from rifle.
dd-Screw rod governing false breech.
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lie hearing in Bangor about the 18th of
this month
The members of John F. Appleton
Post. No. 25 G.. A. r.. Pennington. have
for long time been talking of making
an effort to have soldiers monument
erected to perpetuate the memory of
their deceased comrades. Al the last
meeting of the post the final action
taken. AT that meeting committee
was appointed to solicit, receive, and
temporarily invest funds to be expended
in the erection of a soldiers monument
on the common in Pennington Centre
village. The post subscribed twenty
five dollars.
One day last week Arthur Hayman a
boy of IA years, SLATED too near the
broke. and the ice being thin broke
through and sank out Of sight. James
McCarty, a boy near his own age. but
Selling a ladder, FASTENED to his assist
ance. McCarty ran the ladder out over
the breaking ice to the place where the
boy rose last. then deliberately Owed to
the bottom OF the channel. where the boy
was lying; through great exertion Nc
Carly succeeded in bringing him TO the
surface. and by the help Of the ladder
brought him to the shore. where every
effort was made to resuscitate him. and
after vigorous exertion fer more than one
hour they succeeded.
The Bulietin-Journal of Indepen-
dence. Iowa, of Nov &c. contains an in
teresting allusion to the golden we'd
ding celebration OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Rooney on the 3oney farm. near Ma
sonville. iowa. The marriage of Mrs.
Roney TO AIR. Hugh Roney occurred
in Bangor so years ago. when she
was II and the groom was "A: during
the first year of the war, they moved
Smyrna times., 1896-10-28
She Sang Crouch's Song.

"The death Of poor Crouch, says an
English correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, brings to mind pathetic Incl
dent which occurred at one of Mile. I'll
items concerts in the opera house at
New York in 1876. The famous singer
as an encore, sang Kathleen Mavour-
neen, the only time she did SO while in
the United States. 1t excited a furore of
applause, and on Mile. Titiens' leaving
the stage she was informed that man
supposed to be a lunatic, was fighting
his way over the barriers from the pit
to the stage, determined to speak to the
singer The prima donna told the au-
thOrities to let him come to her. On en-
terlng the man burst into tears, sobbing
out, oh, Mile. Titiens l never before
heard my song as you have Just sung
ltP Your song, was the astonished re-
ply. why, you are not Crouch, surely?'
i am indeed, replied the composer,
even then an old man, and felt
must thank you myself. 1t was indeed
the unlucky Crouch, who had scraped
together the price of u pit seat, little
dreaming that his own now world IA
nous song would be the most rap.urous-
ly appiauded item of the night.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-28
SAND SUCKERS.
Old lTuIks That Are Prohtably Utilized
In a New Industry.

Old lIuIks That Are PrOftably Utilized
In New Industry.
AS the steamers pass along st. Clair
fats, between Lake Huron and Detroit
river, the passengers see numbers of old
hulks anchored off in shallow water and
invariably ask the steward or one of the
deck boys what they are there for. The
answer always is given in a gruff and
contemptuous tone, as if it were FOOLS
question:
They're sand suckers" "
"What's a sand sucker?'
"Old tubs that suck up sand."
''HOw do they suck up sand?"
Then the oracle looks at you and
grins. He doesn't quite know whether
yOu'r farmer yourself or are guying
aim, and it takes a great deal more
questioning to find out the fact that a
new industry has been found to utilize
ancient and leaky hulks that are not fit
to go to sea.
The bottom of Lake st. Clair and the
flats that surround il are covered with
beautiful white sand, and these boats
go out every morning, anchor in IA
vorable place near the channel, and
drop overheard large hose pipes Of can
vas or rubber, with iron tips, which
sink of their own weight. Then they
set the pumps going and suck up the
sand, which brings a good deal of water
with it, and is deposited in the bottom
of the boat The sand sinks, and the
water rises to the surface and returns to
the river through holes pierced for its
accommodation. Thus, before sunset
the matches are filled with pure, clear
sand at a nominal cost, which is un-
loaded on the docks at Detroit and sold
for building purposes.
In early days there was q community
of Frenchmen who made a business of
gathering this sand and hauling it to
the city, but they had to work very
hard because Of their ignorance Of hy-
draulics and their lack of boats They
pOled and rOwed up fatboats, which
they would fill by jumping overheard
i'll shallow water and shOveling in the
sand. They would work month with
the water up to their waists and not get
as large q cargo us a modern sand sucker,
operated by two men, can pick up in a
single day. Chicago Record.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-28
Chnrm of Tncnt Rook, .

1t is clear, then, that those are but
rude spirits who have no reverence for
all that pertains to book. What could
be cOarser and more barbarOus than the
demand that the quivering edges of
volume, with all the struggling fibers
that fiutter on the verge of life - should
be cut and hacked to dead ovenness and
stilted smCoihness? Such butchers would
trim the oak leaf, torture the lily and
prune the luXuriance Of the horse chest.
nut.
The plea of utility is the most barren
Cf all Is there any good thing i'll ma
tUrc that does not demand labor in the
search: Are we to grumble at the sting
of the bee or blind ourselves to its
glossy beauty i'll our haste to steal its
honey? 1t is but half of reading to mere
ly read. There is, so to speak, a court
snip as well as a marriage with our
authors text, a time for dalliance, for
indulgence, for emotion, for COY ap-
proach and wistful glance. And this to
the true reader is more than all the bare
commercial zest i'll grasping its heart
and putting its soul to usury, as if au-
thors but worked for us as slaves in the
mines to make us rich.
No moments are so delicious as those
in which the reader first approaches his
author, when the volume lies but half
revealed. The text is coy and saucy as
a nymph, now peering boldly at US from
the open leaf, now lurking half conceal
ed between the pages, now buried be-
yOnd our sight. There needs a swift
pursuit. With knife in hand we gently
lay her place of hiding bare, track her
to dusky grOttO, follow her through dis
NAL caves, and i'll the end she stands
caught, revealed, her ambush clean cut
off, and we steal to her embrace vic.
torious. That, after all, is a very real
pleasure. 1t is sweet to discover, mo-
ment by moment, the authors purpose,
not hasty to seize it, but dipping here
and there as one cuts the pages, lighting
on piquant saying that whets our ap.
petite, CHANGING on pretty phrase or a
noble sentence. London Star.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-28
A Newspaper Curiosity.

Thomas Smith, Jr., who keeps q Sec
ondhand furniture store at 22O Center
street, has in his possession an old
newspaper which is a real curiosity. It
is l26 years old and contains the first
cuts ever printed in newspaper. He
bought it at the receivers sale of the
estate Of Joseph Low Mason, who was
once police commissioner. The Curl
osity is inclosed in an unassuming
frame and covered by glass on both
sides, so as to permit its being read
without handling The heading isl
"Bostpn Gazette and Country Journal.
Monday, March II, 1870"
Of the two leading articles one treats
Of the Boston riots, and the other is an
appeal to all patriotic citizens to with
hold from purchasing goods of English
manufacture. The former is illustrated
with five rudely drawn coffins, which
are supposed to contain the bodies of the
first five heroes of American independ-
ence.
The paper is extremely valuable as a
relic, and it is said that the heirs of
Mr.. Mason have offered to buy it for
large sum. but Smith refuses to part
with it.--New York Tribune.