Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-20

A court Of Foresters was instituted
at Newport, Monday.
An unusual sight seen in Oxford
county recently was that Of drove OF
sheep containing 1900.
There Is a gentleman in Portland
who has four children. four brothers.
four sisters, four uncles and four aunts.
Foreign glass has been imported Dy
one Bangor firm to met the oen ar,
which couldn't be supplied from A"aeii
can factories.
A Westport teacher Of a domestic
turn Of mind distributed three silver
spoons and q napkin ring as prizes III
spelling.
A Bath man made one hundred ana
f1fty barrels OF cucumber pickles TINS
fall, raising the larger portion OF the
cucumbers in his own garden.
The skeleton OF bird. presumably
carrier pigeon. was found In Bangor
with a band about one leg bearing
this inscription. ''34, F. w. S. (s5.)'
The rumor grows that the Rigby park
management has offered the State fair
trustees $4,000 to give next years show
on their grounds, says the Lewiston
Journal.
Sailors are very scarce at the present
time and the supply does not begin to
answer the demand in Portland. AL
most every day the shipping commits
sioner is obliged to send to Boston Tor
men and in order to obtain them wages
ranging from $23 to $25 per month have
to be paid.
The elk at Riverton park, Portland,
are getting rather lively this, cold
weather and recently an over Jealous
amatuer photographer, who was in the
pen trying to get picture of them.
was obliged to beat a hasty retreat over
the fence much to the delight of the
spectators.
1--WE never had such unfavorable
weather for our business" said Bath
painter recently. Since the 26th of
last September crew of four men
have been trying to finish work on
residence in that city which with any
common weather could be done in ten
days and it is not completed yet.
A. H. Emery of Corinna, the we'll
known butcher, who handles SO many
sheep in the fall of the year for the
Boston markets states that from now
until the middle of December he shall
butcher and ship from his place 1900
sheep and lambs per week. These are
all purchased by Mr.. Emery or men in
his employ within a radius of about
20 miles.
A railroad, although now only 2S miles
in length running through the Wilds OF
Maine and into the very heart Art of her
interests of the upper AndrOscOggin.
This same line may in time BECOME still
more prominent and o yield ad s to b
line already built to Bemis, the Rumford
Falls and Rangeley Lakes Railroad will
then connect with the Canadian Pacing;
and bring Montreal and Boston some $50
miles nearer together by rail. If this
should be done. it would mean great
deal to the Twin cities. and Portland's
deep and navigable harbor would then
have an outlet for Still greater foreign
trade than she now has.-Lewiston Sun.
The closing to travel of the Bull
rock bridge by the Bath city council
threatens to bring about a lawsuit.
The town of Brunswick. on the shore
Of which one end of the, bridge rests.
claims by it's attorney that Bath, by
legislative act Of 1861, must keep the
bridge open and it is further claimed
that If the latter built a road to the
bridge from the county road in Bruins
wick, Bath would keep the bridge
open as long as Brunswick kept the
road, which is a State one, in repair
Telegraph.
A petition is being circulated among
the patrons of the Bangor Brewer fer
ry to be presented to the State Legis-
lature the coming winter. asking that
body to make a law regulating the
length of RATS of logs that may be
towed down the river here. 1t is fire.
quently the case during the summer
months that such long RATS are towed
down from the dam as to delay the
passage Of the ferry boat for some
minutes which is often very annoying
to the passengers and remedy for
the trouble is to be sought in the above