Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-09

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Clothes line thieves are doing a thriving
business at Athens.
There is a good prospect for consider
able building in Bath this winter.
The big York corporation ut Saco has
stopped making ginghams for good and
ALL Tickle Dame Fashion is response
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Mrs. NJ. C. Parsons of Troy has Il
cherry tree that has l64 ripe cherries: ais
green cherries. buds and blossoms. 1t l.
very beautiful.
At an PASSPORT polling place, Tuesday
men whose combined ages aggregated 42i
years. the oldest being %, and the
youngest so.
An energetic old man is Mr. Caleb p.
Butler of Minot. who. on Tuesday. cleo
zion. day. rode six miles and voted a
straight Republican ticket. Mr.. Butler is
in his sd year and the oldest man in
Minot.
An epidemic is destroying a great many
of the coon cats in Center Montville.
Among the heaviest losers may be men,
toned Mrs. Volney Thompson who has
lost nine and Mrs. Clifton Morse, who
has lost seven.
The Portland Press recalls the old
millerite excitement of half a century ago
when many people stood ready for the
coming of the Lord with their grave
clothes prepared and their collins made.
One of them. Mr. Peter Mugford. was
said to sleep in his coffin every night.
Rumors of proposed steamboat lines
from Boston to eastern Maine have long
since lost their power to arouse even Il
murmer of surprise or of congratulation
in the coast towns. says the Ellsworth
New York and Bar Harbor has been re-
vived.
Some enthusiastic Phillips Republ-
cans celebrated flag day in novel
manner. They went up on Mt Blue
and in the evening made a rousing bon
fire on the summit. The fire could be
seen for miles around.
Albert W. Lyon. formerly of Skowhe-
gan and now only 21 years old, was
elected by the Republicans of the 18th
Suffolk District, Mass. Tuesday to
represent them in the state Legislature
there at its next session.
Bath Republicans must like peanuts
When the janitor came to clear up city
hall the morning after the election re-
turns were received there he shovelled
up bushel of shells thrown there by
the crowd the evening before.
AT a town meeting held at Stron1 re
Gently. ii was voted to raise $3.50 towards
buying a Racine chemical fire eXtm-
guisher provided that $3.50 should be raised
by the citizens of the village. The amount
has been subscribed and now Strong viii
have some protection against fire which
She has long been i'll need Of.
:Silas p Gammans of Belfast, was
chosen to membership at meeting of
fA,~t,,
Thursday The club is making prep
arations to observe the 49th annver-
aary of the discovery Of gold in Cali
fornia, which occurs Jan. "A, 1897.
Near Great pond. in the town of Frank
lin, is a granite ledge which shows the
effect of some great CONFUSION of the
eartf's surface In the ledge is creVice
two feet wide II feet deep and 20 feet in
length. The indentations on one side and
projections on the other side of this
crevice, show that the granite was once
Joined, but must have been rent apart by
some great earthquake or other violent
CONFUSION of nature.
Orono believed that it did a wise
thing when it voted at the last
town meeting to raise 5000 for the pur-
chasing of an iron fence to be placed
around the soldiers monument. Dur
ing the past week the fence has been
purchased and put in place and adds
much to the appearance of the lot
There is said to be no doubt of the sue
cess of the movement to form a Rebekah
degree lodge of Odd Fellows in Houlton.
A curious coincidence is that the number
of the Houlton Odd Fellows lodge is IS
and the number of the next Rebekah
lodge formed will be IS. If Houlton APP
plies first, it will secure, this number
Nearly all the wives and daughters of
ad beAi,
desire to join the new lodge and a thor
ough canvass will soon be made.
What came near being fatal accident
occurred at Belfast recently. certain
the boys so he brought down an old
horse pistol which he had at home and
put small chargeof powder in it. Wee"
first one the barber thought he could
scare SO he pulled out the pistol aimed it
just above Wees hat and fired. Some
one had loaded that pistol before with
powder and shot AS the aim had been
high the contents went over the boys
head and the only damage done was to
his windows. four OF which were broken
Wee if such a thing can be imagined
was pale and speeches. for some time.
AS result Of the election of McKin-
ley and Hobart, at least one new cot
tage will be built in Rangeley for use
the coming season. A gentleman who
passed portion of the season here told
Mr.. John r. Marble of the Rangeley
Lakes Hotel Company, that in case Nc
Kinley was elected, he wished him to
to build cottage on the hotel grounds
for him. If Bryan was elected. he had
no use for one. Mr.. Marble says they
probably will build two cottages in the
spring Work on the hotel enlargement
is being pushed.
Abel Chandler. Jr.. of Bethel has in his
possession a Sharp's rifle captured at
Harpers Ferry Virginia. in the fall of
1862 when our Union army fought and
drove the rebels out and the Union army
Immediately took possession. The writer
then was connected with the 4th Maine
Battery. Light Artillery, 9th Corps. He
SAYS: II went into a rebel camp just
vacated. The coffee was steamng on a
fire. the camp fire was brightly burning
the plate and knife and fork, cup and
sauceri We're on the little table in one
corner Of the camp, bread was on plate,