Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-15
lumber are not adequately recorded IN
any of the Senate documents.


A Maine man here, who Is familiar
with the lumber schedule, said today:
1.-THE Dingley bill came to the Senate
with duty of $500 upon all sawed
lumber. including spruce, hemlock ana
pine. but hardly giving adequate duties
upon shorter kinds Of lumber, Including
laths which were put at 10 cents
| thousand, and also hewn timber, Which
| was put at one cent per cubic root. In
addition to these the Senate committee,
| in reporting the bill. cut down iurther
the duty on shingles, and struck out en-
tirely the House provision giving pro-
lection to fruit boxes, including orange
and lemon boxes, In the contest that
ended Monday, nearly all the talking
being from the Democrats ana Popu-
| lists, excepting short speeches. from
Senators Spooner and Thurston, ana a
brief explanation of the ST. John ana
ST. NCroix river provision by MI. Haze
| the additional duty was voted upon
hewn and sawed timber; laths were put
up to 25 cents. and shingles restored 70
| 80 cents: kindling wood and toothpicks
as in the House bill, and the duty was
restored upon orange and lemon boxes.
Every lumber interest in Maine was
thus well cared for, and when the Popu-
list, Senator Allen, moved to substitute
| for the amended schedule the provis-
ions of the Wilson tariff law relating to
lumber, his motion was defeated by 10
majority, the largest thus far given on
any schedule upon the tariff bill. Sew
eral Southern senators, representing
pine lumber, joined with the Republic
cans in making this last vote, and the
whole campaign has been so well man
aged that there was a complete union
of all interests in the final vote.
Some land that has been prepared
for seed will not be planted this year.
| Every days delay in the matter of
Here is a realistic picture, snap
shot of the breaking of a mighty jam
of logs at short bend in Pierce
stream: 1T was rough mass of
hundred thousand feet of lumber. great
logs crossed and interlocked. some
standing straight up. The front Of the
Jam had been worked down by the men.
i anu HOW tue htdu vi NttSi Ntss7 N'''''''o
from the dam at the pond. We can
hear it coming. With seething. gush-
ing roar, it strikes the jam. the up
stream end of which is tightly packed.
making a comparatively water-tight
dam. The mass groans, creaks, quiV-
ars, then a resounding crash-the Key
log somewhere in the snarl of lumber
has broken, and now it all goes rush
ing and crashing down the stream. The
rear end could not stop to go around
the bend, but was pushed high and dry
over the point of ledge. Logs sixty
feet long are forced end over end. Wei
may the men stand back and cheer on
such mighty work. The jam passed in
hve minutes, but for some time could
be heard the thunder of the logs as
they rushed over the rocks and falls
in the stream below
Mrs. Adde w. Buzzell Of Clinton,
wants it distinctly understood, we hear,
that she isn't in any hurry To- make
her sixth matrimonial venture, five hav-
ing already turned out badly. Those
"hoboes" she calls them. who have in
ferred from newspaper reports that she
is DESTROYS of remarrying and are pes
tering her with proposals, sent by mail
ana brought in person, are warned to
keep away.
A family arrived in Gardiner, recent
| ly, from over in Androscoggin county,
with their household goods. and on
arrival here the man didn't have the
| necessary funds to pay the freight on
| his goods. 1t is needless to add that
| the Gardiner overseers of the poor are
not paying the freight on Androscog-
gins paupers.
Portland Advertiser: At the close
of the Augusta centennial exercises
last evening. the presiding officer. Les
| lie C. Cornish, Esq, announced the
meeting adjourned to June 3, 1897. 1t
| is far cry, but it is possible that
there are infants in Augusta who will
| be living at the bi-centennial. Stats
tics show that the span of human life
| is lengthening. Centenarians are be-
| coming quite common. Look at the
man who presided at the afternoon eX-
| ercises, Hon. James w. Bradbury.
| Ninety-five years old and still hale of
body and mind. as evidenced by his very
| appropriate speech on taking the chair.
he bids fair to reach the hundred mark.
| This is the era of invention. discovery
and progress. Nobody knows what the
| future has in store in the exploration
| of the laws of health and the means of
prolonging life.
Portland Express: Augusta has
every right to be proud of her public
men, statesmen, judges and soldiers,
| the long roll of which was repeatedly
called yesterday. While they are Au-
gusta's in a sense. yet no single city
| can lay claim to the glory attaching to
| the names of Blaine. Lot nj. Morrill,. Reuel
| Williams. John l.. Stevens and a score
| of others now dead, or to the fame
brought to our State by the venerable
James w. Bradbury, Chief Justice Full
| Ter of the United States supreme court,
Judge William p. Whitehouse of our
own court, and many others. men whom
the Capital city has furnished for honor
| able station in all the walks of life.
| There seems to be difference of
| opinion respecting the cause of the
deaths in that Bluehill family The
doctors find the deaths to have been