Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-29

"A norway lau plCkeu d upper IuH OF
luscious field strawberries last week.
There are 1868 spindles now running
at full capacity in the Cabot cotton
MILL Brunswick. t
The town of Nobleboro is to build a
$4,000 school house at Damariscotta
Mills. the present fall. .e sf
Potatoes are very near the two dol
lar mark in the Fort Fairfield marker
for the past three days. $3.50 having
been the ruling price, and 81 .96 having
been paid.
David o. Foye and others in Bath
are interesting themselves in talking
up movement to secure some indus
try to utilize the Patten Car Works
last used as an oil cloth factory
At Thornton academy, nearly $685. sc
worth of new books have been recently
added to the library. Thornton claims
one of the best school libraries in the
State. There are 200 students enrolled
this year.
Herring have been rather scarce Of
late at Swans Island, which means lit
tie work at the sardine factory and a
great inconvenience to the lobster fish
erman who depend almost wholly on
herring for their bait.
There is a good library on Monhegan,
the gift of a summer visitor. The is
land people are privileged to take out
the books at the rate of one cent a
week; but the 'rusticators" pay five
cents for this privilege.
Portlands public library has been
greatly improved. The new stock room
if fire-prOof and it will accommodate
100000 volumes. The money for the
many improvements just completed
came from the Walker fund.
Prof. w. l.. Lowell of Freeport, has
been elected instructor in vocal and in
strumental music at Colby Academy
New London, N. H. Miss Bessie NJ
Jordan is to take charge of his pupils
in Freeport and will be the leader ol
Lovell's orchestra.
In the death of Miss Agnes E. Allen
of Pennington, Franklin county has
lost one of it's finest musicians, for She
had long ranked as one of the most ac-
complished pianists in the State. Miss
Allen had been under cultured musical
training all her life, for her father. the
late Charles A. Allen, was a veteran
teacher of music. and for many years
was in charge of that branch of study
in the Pennington Normal school.
At meeting Of the board of man
ayers of the Maine Society of the Sor.:
of the American Revolution. held at
Portland. Friday, Mr. John w. Perkins,
late of Portland, was transferred to tn :
New York Society. S. A. R. The fol-
lowing were elected members of the,
society: Samuel Clark Dillingham;,
Portland: Hiram Leander Pishon, Au-
gusta; Thomas Jayne Burrage, Port
land; Walter Gilman Page, Boston,
Mass; Nathan Reynolds. Canton.
Joseph D. Smith, an inmate of the
prison at Thomaston, died Thursday
morning of consumption. He was
serving life sentence for the murder
of a man named Joshlyne. and was SEN
fenced in Feb 1872. He has been sick
for two or three years and was con-
fined to the hospital for some time. Be
fore his illness he worked in the trim
and tailor shop and was good, quiet
convict. He applied several times for
a pardon, the last attempt being made
in the spring.
The business which the Grand Trunk
Railroad has built up in connection
with the Maine Steamship Company.
which gives this road it's New York
terminal is something immense and is
constantly increasing. Three times a
week special freight trains leave Port
land for Chicago at 5 o'clock in the
morning. These carry thousands of tors
ofthrough freight from New York to the
West, brought to Portland by the New
York boats and transferred from them
to the Grand Trunk. The average time
it takes a consignment of freight 20
reach Chicago from New York by this
plan is 72 hours which is as fast if not
faster than it can go by all rail lines
from New York and the prices are rs
low if not lower than they are by any
other line.
"A young Portland girl was found IN
the Union station at Portland. Monday
afternoon, in a semi-insensible condi
tion and taken to the temporary home
1t was afterwards learned who she was
and she was removed to her home. Thp
story the girl tells is rather peculiar
She had been employed at a hotel at
Kennebunkport and with a Biddeford
girl and another girl was on her way
home. The second Portland girl saw
nothing of the other two after they got
on to the train until they both alighted
at Old Orchard. The train Stopped
there several minutes and before il
started she got out to look for hel
friend. She found her half insensibl,
and helped her on to the train. Tht
girl claims that she was given knock
out drops by her Biddeford friend. who
relieved her of all her summer wages
which she had with her. The Other
girl says she knows the young woman
had the money when she got on to ths
train at Kennebunkport.
Last week three highwaymen at
tempted to hold up a milkman on hi.
way home from Bangor. He drew hi:
revolver and at that the men released
their grip on the horses and started
off, but Mr.. Storer heard them say
something about not giving up ant
lets go back So back they came
and seized the horses, attempting I,
unhook them. Mr.. Storer insinuate;
that he might possibly blow their head
off if they did not depart and after get
TING a look at the cleaning barrel q