Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-08

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science building at Bowdoin college,
and were being shown the wonders Of
the X-ray and microscope by Prof.
Robinson. One lady was given the
microscope and allowed to look through
the body of the other.
''Why!" she cried. with O gasp of
establishment, Il didn't know the ribs
extended up and down."
And then the kind professor had to
explain that the steel ribs Of corsets as
well as the Gaseous ribs of the body are
disclosed by the merciless X-ray.
|, Bangor is planning on holding ap-
propriate ceremonies on the laying Of
the corner stone of the Maine festival
building. which will occur within a few
| weeks. Director Chapman favors the
sending of delegates to that city from
all Maine towns which have chOruses:
these persons will take part in the
ceremonies and will. In the evening, at
,, tend a great public rehearsal of the
Maine Festival Chorus of Bangor In
City Hall.
1t is said Names happiest family is
that of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Dickey,
well-to-d do farming people, in the happy
land of Canaan. Mr.. and Mrs. Dickey
have had 10 children at single births in
| their Is years Of married life and the
mother is now only 30 years old. All
the children are'well and thriving, nice
ly behaved, bright and self reliant
youngsters that promise to be a credit
to the State whose chief crop is it's men
and women. That's the kind of family
Maine raised in the good old times.
In recent issue of the Bangor Com
mercia1 Holman F. Day tells in his
most graphic vein the story of Names
first and only lynching, the hanging of
James Cullen in the forest between
Mapleton and Pressure Isle, some 20
years ago. 1t is a CHASTITY tale, that
one must shudder to read. The lynch
ing is a unique and dramatic chapter
in Maine history, and there were ele-
ments that pleaded justification for the
AroOstook farmers and lumbermen who
We're stirred to SO sudden fury. Cullen
was powerful giant who butchered,
in a lumber camp, two sleeping officers
who had warrant for his arrest for
petty thieving. An AK was his
weapon and after this most cold
blooded murder he burned the bodies.
He attempted the lives of others and
even threatened his wife and baby
when he reached home. and after being
arrested by posse he had no words of
regret or remorse. That night while
hoinu fa1 n n praSnua
Isle Jail he was taken from the officers
by party of masked men and hanged
to a maple tree beside the road. No
attempt was made to punish the lynch
ers, and their identity has been kept
pretty well concealed. The chief actors
of the affair are still living in that COM
munity. This was the last lynching ~
occur in New England. Shortly after
the affair Prof Bateman, now the well
known Populist leader, dug up the head
of Cullen and used the skull in his
lectures on phrenology.
"A feature of Fort Fairfield's celebra-
ton was the use of the old cannon
which was stolen long years ago from
Forte Kent by somd ADVENTUROUS Fort
SItiZSilS. NE%tuJ clloi 10 were
made to recover the cannon, and even
to this day it is kept carefully hidden
and only brought out for use on special
occasions.
At an entertainment given in Lin
coin county town a Goldfish was offered
to the homeliest man present, but a
i;
expressed that the affair would result
in a division of the town so the prize
was awarded to man from another
town.
eral tendency to Fix up about our own
city this spring and summer, which is
commendable, certainly. With the
work of the carpenters and the touch
| ing up of buildings by the painters. the
city has improved in appearance not a
little.
Aesthetic Portlanders complain that
the Goddess of Liberty on the monu-
ment in Monument square has an I'M
| washed appearance that is very I'M
becoming, and call loudly on the au-
thorties to give her bath.
Brunswick Telegram: The New York
Tribune, which made some general re-
marks about small colleges. rises %
| explain that Bowdoin wasn't included
| in the class mentioned which We're
| designated as colleges in name only
| The explanation was uncalled for.
Bowdoin is just as big as she wants to
be, and is already picking and choosing
in her entrance examinations, cleaning
class of rs yearly out of some 200 APP
plicants.
How easily Bangors street railway
| controversy was settled when all the
parties really set out to do it!
The Wilton Sentinel makes the SEN
sble remark that though Maine has
| much water power running to waste
and great areas undeveloped, it has al
so vast amount of brain power run
| ming to waste and that our chief need,
| in common with the whole world, is the