The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-29

The increase of new buildings in differ
ent parts of Lewiston, shows the town ls
not only growing rapidly, but also tnat
its growth is distributed in all sectlons
of the city.
This springs catch of salmon at Green
lake hos been somewhat smaller Ghah
those of recent years at this time. rms is
due, not to q scarcity of salmon, but TO
the countless nun beis of little smelts IN
the lake.
Nelson Sheaf of Norridgewcck informed
a reporter that when the burglar untereu
SO many houses in that town one night
recently his own home was one of the
many. MIR. Sheaf had in his wallet two
ten dollar bills in one part and two fifty
and three twenty dollar bills in Confeder-
ate money. In his haste the burglar took
the Confederate bills and overlooked the
good money.
II want to pay Que tribute to the
French American borrower" said a
Lewiston bank official. and that is that
he is sure pay. know of no other people
SO punctilious in paying interest on the
day it is due and none that when once he
starts in to push through a purchase on
borrowed capital is SO sure to scratch and
dig and pay off the mortgage. The
Frence Canadian is buying lots of
property and is gaining in wealth aud in
duence every day in this CITY,"
Miss Aunis o. Warren, who was en-
gagged in this McCausland assault case at
Sand Hill, Winslow, has come to her
senses. She says she never knew Nc
CauEeland until after his divorce from
his wife. That they were engaged but
though she-Miss Warren-and Mr.. Nc
Causland had set the wedding day. She
followed McCausland and wife on the
night of the assault she says, and Mo-
Causland assaulted her, his divorced wife
looking on.
The suit brought by the city of Au-
gusta against the inhabitants Of Skowhs-
gan, if carried into court, will be ole of
sensational developments and will be
contested to the end by this town. Suit
is brought to recover in d pauper case,
the charge being the we'll known Mrs.
Della K. Jewell who is now confined ut
the city farm at Augusta. Mrs. Jewell
has been twice married and as many time
divorced. Mrs. Jewell is good looking
woman, thirty years of age and terror
to selectInen and overseers of the poor, for
she makes all the trouble and expense
possible. She is confirmed morphine
eater.
Caterpillars are very pestilential this
year and some farmers are burning them
off their apple trees. Now. says Fair
field farmer who has tried it, If they Will
take their soap-suds, etc., window
l,rr 1cf, on, xx,ill l. off
much quicker and easier without damage
to the trees, than any other way. The
last touch of soap-suds on a caterpillar
will kill it as quick as CREASED lightning.
M. 6. Shaw, Of Bath, of the Kennebec
Log Driving company, says that there
are about IT'S men at work along the
Kennebec all told, looking after the logs,
and that, sometime this week, the logs
will all be clear from the Dead river. In
one of the streams which flows into the
Dead river, known as Alder stream,
there are some 1900, 600 feet of logs which
will be left along the shores
There is a prospect Of large crop of
apples at Hilldale. The trees, have bios
somed very full.
Lottie, the nine year old daughter of
Lewis Thompson of Unity, was badly
bitten last week by vicious dog. She
was returning from school when the dog
threw her down and badly laceratod her
about the head. DR.. Cook was called to
dress the wounds, which required num-
Der of stitches
Captain E. f. williams of Islesboro,
lost valuable ring "a years ago and sup
posed he lost it at Gilkey's Harbor in the
winter when hauling out boat. Last
week while planting his garden he was
scraping up the manure at the back of
his barn when he discovered something
be took to be an old brass ring, but on
picking it up he discovered the square
and compass inlaid with jet He said to
himself, that belongs to some Mason, and
was very much surprised on looking IN
the inside to find his name engraved
there in full.
j. F. Taylor of Westffeld. Aroostook
S,unty, writes his brother. J. A. Taylor
of New Sharon, that one of his neiRhbors
has eight sheep that have three lambs
apiece, or twenty four in all; and that he
has lambs of all colors-one red one black
and one half black and half white.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.