Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-18

Twenty-eight drummers struck Bath
one day last week.
The disease known as pink eye" is
quite prevalent in Calais.
Auburn is said to contain more cows
than any other town in the State.
have organized a reading club and will
study astronomy and the Constitution of
the United States.
The number of deaths in Brownfield for
the year of 1896 is eighteen. Six of the
deceased were over SO years of age and
five over 20. There were "a births and Is
marriages during the year.
In one Penobscot town the pastor
has gone into the pulp mill seeking his
livelihood and there is no one to sup
ply the village pulpit and preach in
half a dozen surrounding towns.
The health of the two blind brothers at
the Lewiston almshouse has shown signs
of failing this winter, and it is reasonable
to think the city physician says, that
their remarkable constitutions are no
longer able to continue in the good health
that has always characterized them. The
teresting romance. could they be written,
for it would he the story of the life in the
aims house for the last fifty years.
Judge Strout says that Holt is one
Of the greatest puzzles in human
makeup he ever ran across. He says
that Hollis peculiar attitude was in his
mind all through the trial. Holt, he
says. has eyed each witness closely
and has evidently been intent in all
things pertaining to the trial, but not
for single moment has he ever noted
the least change in expression on the
mans face. So whichever way the tes-
timony was coming, either for or
against him, the expression was always
the same.
On a vessel approaching the White
Head station. the sound of the whistle is
picked up at a distance of many miles;
AS the vessel draws nearer. the sound
grows louder and more distinct until IL
certain point is reached which varies al
different times and under. different condi-
lions of wind and weather But when
that point is reached the whistle cannot
he heard at all. though the listener is
several miles nearer to it. When the
silent zone has been traversed. the sound
Is again picked up clear and distinct.
During the past year, officers of the
Coast Survey and Light House Establish
ment service have given the matter con-
siderable attention. and have conducted
frequent experiments to determine just
what are the limits of the space in which
When the limits have been accurately
defined. they will probably be indicated
on charts.
Two years ago party of city people
occupied camp. in the town of Weld
for several weeks and while there
bought eggs. butter. milk and berries
of farmers wife. amounting to a
considerable sum. This woman, after
her customers had returned to their
city home, went to the store where she
bought crockery and other articles she
was sadly in need of for her house
The store-keepers with the same
money bought lumber for the camp
of millman. who in turn paid it to
poor men with families. whom he hired
to cut more lumber in the woods. This
was not prearranged plan. but was
incidentally mentioned around the gro
Gerry stove as the men congregated
there to white nail kegs and talk
over the affairs of the town.
DR.. c. w. Cooper. the Northampton.
Mass. physician who jumped overheard
and was drowned from the steamship
Columbia while returning from a Eu-
ropean trip, was Maine man. He was
born in Calais. in 1851. and was the son
of James S. and Abby I. Cooper. His
father was a prominent lawyer of Cal
ais. being a partner of the late Judge
Downes. The family Is well remem-
hered in Calais, though it moved to
Amherst. Mass, in 1866. Derangement
of the mind seems to be family dis
case AS recently as last year DR..
Cooper's mother died while insane and
his brother, James Cooper, is affected
with 1t. These family troubles weighed
on the doctors mind more than Is
known. He had lurking fear and
dread of the disease. 1t was this and
fatigue that induced him to take a
trip abroad. DR.. Cooper had accumu-
lated handsome property while in
northampton and was exceedingly
popular there in social and club circles.