Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-22

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Another dog poisoning craze In East
port.
The Machias Union is making a col
lection Of historical relics.
South Portland having bicycle fac
tory and electric cars wants navy
yard.
Film Hammers tried Rockland. Sat
| urday night, and couldn't work their
| scheme.
Ten out of 100 sermons in Bangor
are worth remembering says Eyange-
! list Moody.
Union now has fish hatchery under
the auspices of the Knox Fish Protectiv,
association.
Two new blacksmith shops assure the
Cooperites that they won't have to drive
eight miles to have their horses shod.
Ellsworth's high school has decided
by a vote of sixty-tive to twenty min.
that the condition of the country would
not be bettered by the election of Mr..
Bryan
The Maine newspaper friends of Mr.
George S. II. Mcdowell of the Lewiston
Sun. are very sorry to hear that Mr.
Mcdowell has been suffering for the pas
seven weeks from sciatic rheumatism.
which disables him about half the time.
There is rumor of new steamboat
line from Boston to Machiasport. The
company is Incorporated under the
Maine law. and is to be known as the
Eastern Maine Steamship Company.
]. F. Libby of Gorham. n. H.. who
was graduated at Bowdoin College in
the class of 50, is one of the principal
owners of manganese mine if
Georgia which is said to be very val
liable piece of property.
A Portland man got mad recent,
because his wife had spent four dol
lars on a new hat, and started dowI
town in a rage. slamming the door be.
hind him with such violence that he
broke 50 light of stained glass.
The Saco druggists are having al
unusual run on columbia root just
present. There are quite a number OF
tobacco users who are preparing Il
swear off in anticipation of the com
ing election and are using this root as
a cure of the habit.
AT meeting of the Garfield Camp Sons
of Veterans, Watervile. recently held. q
committee was appointed to make ar
engagements for four nights during the
next four months when the camp should
have camptircs. These nights are to be
Infantry night and Artillery night. On
each of the above named nights some
old soldiers from the several departments
will be present and give talks. 1t is very
evident that these will be very pleasan .
affairs as the whole camp is taking greai
interest in this very novel and instructive
manner of entertainment. Besides being
very interesting these meetings cannot
fail to be very instructive.
a Cumberland county farmer owns g
horse that hates dog of any sort most
cordially. A few days ago he espied
what he took to be one in the field and,
after his custom, started with ears laid
back and mouth open, to give him bat
tie. The animal wasn't SO large as a
good sized dog but he was better or
defensive work and in a moment after
the encounter the horse was rolling
around in the dirt trying to get rid of
a bad pain in his eyes. He won't tackle
another skunk if he knows it.
Sheriff Brown is the luckiest official in
Maine, for he holds within his bars and
CRATES enough material to give birth to a
full-blown entertainment bureau Ish-
mael. the Hindoo juggler. was once alone
IN his glory. but now he is abetted by a
part of pathetic Uncle Tom in Mrs.
Stoves play as staged by the cheap Stet-
son company recently in this city. This
latter gentleman is in for three months:
he stole diamonds in Dover and com,
mitted the fault of getting caught at it
= e was very poor actor but his taste
for precious stones was finely developed.
remarks the Bangor Commercial
1t is related for fact that a South
Paris man was recently sent at about
seven o'clock in the evening to call a
doctor for another man who was in
need OF medical attendance. Upon ar
irving at the doctors office the man of
medleine was absent and the messen-
ger sat down in a comfortable chair To
await his return. About three hours
later another messenger was sent ont
10 look up the first one, and he found
h'ih soundiy sleeping in the chair in