Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-05


says that on the evening in question
she was very nervous and went to the
window repeatedly to see If she could
see her husband returning. Finally
she went to bed and attempted to for
get her nervousness in slumber but
was unable to overcome the fears that
beset her. Finding that it was useless
to attempt to sleep, she got up ana
dressed herself and taking chair by
table commenced reading. She finally
became drowsy and fell into fitful
sleep which was accompanied by dreams
In one of these she thought she saw
man struggling +, his life in the water
and crying for help. Mrs. Whitcomb
awolle. bathed in cold perspiration. and
with the impression of the drowning
man so wildly fixed in her mind, that
she could stand it no longer, so putting
on her wraps She made her way to the
police station in the small hours Of the
night and here she first learned the
sad news of her husbands death.
The agricultural editor of the Port
land Express thus answers an inquiring
correspondent from Scarboro who
wants to know how to keep his neigh
boris hens out of his garden: Dear
Correspondents: Take a lot of small,
stiff cards, about 1x2, inches: write on
them: Please keep your darned old
hens at home" Tie short string to
each card. with grain of corn at the
other end of the string, and scatter
them where the hens congregate.
When the hungry biddy gobbles up the
grain that draws the prize, she follows
she comes to the card. Then you will
see her pull out for home, carrying in
her mouth your polite request.
Bath buds who venture out after
dark, are now said to he carrying
revolvers. This is not merely a fash
ionable fad, but is caused by an as
sault. one evening recently, upon
young couple who were minding their
own business upon the shady steps of
the Grammar school,
Seven Portland girls who organized
the legitimate business of the organi-
cation interfered with by any such in
cumbrances as needle and thread So
they have hired a seamstress to do the
work while they proceed at their meet
ings to devote their entire attention to
gossip.
The report now comes that the Blue
hill copper mines will be operated again
soon. Mining business seems To be
picking up all around.
Belfast is aroused to a state Of ecstatic
joy by the report that the Boston &
Bangor Steamboat Company is serious
ly considering the advisability of chang
ing the distributing point for eastern
travel and freight from Rockland to
Belfast 1t knows such a change would
be fine thing for Belfast business in
terests and might lead to that new
hotel; and il feels sure the passengers
who now get up at four o'clock at Rock
land to change boats would appreciate
the three hours extra sleep and the
escape from the cold wind and fog
characteristic of Rockland' 5 early morn
ing. Belfast would welcome the change
but Rockland thinks things are better
as they are.
It's funny how you meet people you
know in other big cities and distant
lands. A number of years ago Mayor
Davis of Deering. was leaning against
picket fence way down in Buenos
Ayres, South America, when he hap
pened to look across the street. and
there, sure as you're born. hanging on
the end of a stone wall. was Charles
McCarty of Westport. Me, the same
place where Mayor Davis was born.
They used to be together when they
were young and the meeting on the
other side of the equator was full Of
"reminiscences Bath Enterprise.-We
should like 10 have it explained why
these two good Maine men were lean
ing respectively against a picket fence
and a stone wall.
Bath boasts of many sons ana
daughters who have risen high in the
world. but its young lawyer now prac-
ticing law in New York city, whose
office is at the top of a 21-story build
ing on Broadway, has beaten them all.
Does $500 measure the value of a
gay drummer's affection? The courts
may be called upon for an answer.
Names great Congressional leader
can now drop the "Jr." from his name
Nelson Dingley is a good name to pre-