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TOPICS OF THE TURF.
LORD MARMION RUNS A FAST
RACE AT OAKLAND.
Other Winners Were Rebel Jack,
Prompto, Buckwa and Garland
Barr-At New Orleans.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-Rebel
Jack, Prompto, Lord Marnlion, Buck
wa and Garland Barr We're the horses
that the bookmakers paid off on al
the Oakland track to-day. The long
est plice laid against any of the win
ners was to > on Lord Marmion
This youngster did nothing but leave
a very fair field in the rear, running
the five and a half furlongs in the
very fast time of 1:0612. The track
was again very fast, and more than
an average crowd witnessed the sport.
Results:
Six furlongs, Rebel Jack (Conley),
to ;, won; Dr. Marks (H- MARTINI, 5 to
/, second: Socialist Piggott). 3 to l,
third Time-i:14la. Mainbar, Tenri-
ca, Fallen Princess, Eppinger. Zapata,
The Dipper, Espirando and Snipsey also
ran
Five and a half furlongs, Prompto
(H. MARTINI, to 1. won: Aluminium
CWoods), 6 to /, second; Va!encienne
(Conley), s to l. third. Time-1:0S
Outlay. Magnus, Muscalado. Melvin
Burnham, Mordecai. Flanders. Uncle
True and Her,nosa also ran
Five and a half furlcngs, Lord Mar
mion (Thorpe), TO :, won; Attain
ment CBrown), 6 to l, second; Yule
(Jonas), 8 TO 1, third. Time-1: 061a.
Novia, Spunwel. Highland Ball and
Official also rail-.
Mile and a sixteenth, BucIwa CIV.
Martini. : to 10. wen; Grady (Piggott)
S to |. second: Suff1e (II. Martini, 6 to
l. third. Tiue-1:47ia. Alvero. Flash
light. Maruu!se and Widow Jones also
ran.
gott). : to .. won: Yankee Doodle CH.
MARTINI. 4 to ), second; Lone Princess
(Gray). Is to /. third. Time-1 :26:4
Sutton. Santuzza and Aquinas also ran.
RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 21.-Sumna-
ries: Seven and half furlongs, Sister
Stella won, Brighton second, Little
Ocean third. Time-1:39.
Five furiongs, octave won. Scrivener
second. Caddie c. third. Time-1 :0334
Six and a half furlongs, ]. A Grey
won, Gath second. Judge Steadman
third. Time-1:22.
One mile, selling Lobengula won,
Tranoy second, Ardath third. Time
1:45
Six furlongs, selling, Minnie Murphy
won. Alice C. second, Nikita third. Time
-1:1SA.
TROTTERS' ASSOCIATION.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 21.-The first
meeting of the new Board of Directors
of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse
Breeders Association was held to-day.
Director Cohen was instructed to draw
up articles of incorporation.
The election of officers resulted in
Professor e. p. Heald being chosen
President, G.. E. Knight First Vice
President and A. G. Burnett Second
Vice Ere sident. f. w. Kelley, the pres
ent Secretary, was reelected to the
same position by a unanimous vote.
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boriously. Physicians We're summoned,
who removed him to st. Luke's Hos
pital. 1t was announced at noon that
he will probably recover.
Young Huck, 1t is said, was sent to
Colorado some months ago by his
father on an allowance Of 81 900 a
year. He lived at Canyon City for a
time, but came to Denver seven weeks
ago to take the Keely cure for the
liquor habit. His associates here said
he was respondent because of his faith
er's failure to write to him. Before
taking the morphine he wrote a note
to the Coroner asking him to notify
his father.
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JUDGMENT OF NoNSUIT.
Dtngman Loses His Suit Against
the A. and S. j. r. r.. Company.

STOCKTON, Dec, 21.-A Judgment of
Tlonsuit was entered in the case OF j.,
w. Dingman against the Alameda and
San Joaquin Railroad Company, the
owners of the Corral Hollow coal mines.
Dinsman sued for $4,000 damages
for injuries received. and blamed the
company because the engine on which
he was working had no platform in
front of the pilot
Judge Budd held with the attorney
for the company that Dingman was not
entitled to recover on account of con-
tributory negligence.
The testimony showed that Dingman
was cared for by the company's ply
sicians free of expense, and was en-
ployed in the service of the company
a long time after his mishap.
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Federation OF Labor.

NASHVILLE CTenn.), Dec. 21-The
American Federation Of Labor ended
its seventh annual session to-day.
Thomas A. Kidd of Chicago was elected
a fraternal delegate to the Canadian
Labor Congress. The convention spent
most of the morning in executive ses-
sion considering the report Of the griev-
ance committee. After the matter con-
tainej in the report of the committee
had been disposed of the convention
adjourned
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YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.
Three Boys Charged With Theft at
Los Angeles,

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.-On Monday
night, week ago yesterday, the store
of Mr.. Starbuck was burglarized the
thieves taking tobacco, cigars, knives
perfumery and other articles, and hiding
them in the basement of the Friends
Church. Last night officers succeeded in
arresting three boys charged with the
crime. Their names are Norman Weed,
John Weed and Horace Smith. Norman
Weed was on parole from the Reform
School. He Is only Is years of age.
His brother, John, is II and the Smith
youth is 20.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-Attorney
Louis p Boardman to-day announced
what the basis of the appeal to the
Governor would be in the case of Theo-
dore Durrant The attorneys for the
condemned man realize the serious pre-
dicament in which they find themselves,
and While it is very apparent that they
themselves have little hope, they will
use every endeavor to prOlong their
clients life.
The Governor will be asked to grant
a communication of the death sentence
to life Imprisonment, and the principal
grounds upon which the appeal is TO
be made will be a review of the CO.
relations of the Blanche Lamont case
with that of Minnie Williams. In 9TH
er words, according to MIR. Boardman,
the Governor will be asked to request
the District Attorney TO bring the Min
ME Williams case to trial, and the at
torney thinks that a trial of that caSs
viii show the real murdererS and result
in the acquittal of Durrant.
Mr.. BOardman said the arrangements
for presenting the appeal to Governor
Budd would be made in few days.
but it had not been decided whether
Mrs. Durrant should make a personal
appeal or not.
Another surprise came in the Dur
rant case this afternoon, when the at
tOrneyS for the condemned man filed
a notice with the District Attorney that
they would, on next Tuesday, go before
Judge Bahrs again and ask for a change
of venue from the recent order of SEN
tence, on the ground that Bahrs was
prejudiced, and that he had denied
Durrant his rights of citizenship.
George Collins, the well-known au-
thority on constitutional law. has been
called in for consultation in relation
to some Federal question that Dur
rants attorneys propose springing in
a few days.
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Two Railway Engineers Killed.

CHICAGO. Dec. 21.-J s. Hodson and
L. B. Horton, both of Chicago, and both
engineers. We're killed in a collision on
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail-
road at Cayuga, Ind. this afternoon
Fireman j. K. Horton had both legs
broken. and II. w. Kellogg. an air
brake inspector. had his head badly cut.
a passenger train ran through an open
switch and crashed into the rear end
OF freight train. Both engineers were
on the passenger locomotive.
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French Duty on Cottonseed Oil.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.-General
Horace Porter. Embassador of the
United States to France, in an informal
communication to this Government, ex-
presses qualification at the result of
his negotiations with the French Gov
ernment relative to the duty on cotton
seed oil. A proposition was made to
levy upon that oil what would have
to a prohibitfve duty, but af-
ter some discussion it was defeated in
the Chamber Of Deputies.
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ALTOONA RAILWAY WRECK.
The Accident Much More Serious
Than at First Reported,

ALTOONA Pa), Dec. 21-As a re-
suit CT last nights freight wreck
which was caused by a runaway train
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, three
men lost their lives, and damages OF
S75. 900 was done rolling stock.
Dead-S. Kuster, Hagerstown. Ind.
Charles J. Numer, brakeman; S. c. Cor
bin, brakeman
Numer could be heard talking just
after the wreck occurred. but could
not be reached before death.
Three locomotives, four passenger
coaches and fifty-eight loaded freight
cars were wrecked. Besides this the
loss and damage to merchandise, with
whicn the cars Were loaded. is heavy.
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Baseball Player Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2f.-William
Brown, known to all lovers of baseball
throughout the United States as Big
RiIl'' Brown, is dead. About two years
ago Brown, who was once a perfect
specimen of physical manhood. became
afflicted with lung trouble. he sought
relief in the Hawaiian Islands, South
ern California and Arizona, but in vain
and yesterday the end came at his
home in this city. Deceased was 81
years Of age.
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Murdered by Robbers.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21-At o'clock this
evening Jacob Weinard. aged 60 living
on North Boardway. was found dead in
his kitchen by his wife. who had spent
the afternoon visiting. He had been
gagged with a handkerchief. bound and
checked to death by twisting a towel
around his neck like a garrote. The
house had been ransacked from top to
harf0nn
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Foul Play Suspected.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-The body
of Jose Marie Suaues. late property man
of the Italian Opera Company. was
found floating in the bay to-day. The
pockets of his clothes were turned inside
out. and $50 in gold, known to have
been in his possession when he disap-
peared on December 9th, was gone. The
dead mans friends fear that he was the
victim of foul Diay
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
A Young Chicagoan Takes Nor
phine at Denver.

DENVER, Dec. 2.-Henry F.. Huck,
the son of l.. c. Huck of the Huck
Mating Company of Chicago. and the
brother of Marshal Fields daughter
in-law, took morphine with suicidal in
tent here this morning. He was dis
covered sitting in chair breathing la
The record-union., 1897-12-22
The Corona Sails for Skaguay.

TACOMA, Dec. 21.-The steamer Cor
ona sailed to-day for Skaguay and Dyea
and way ports. She was compelled to
refuse freight and second-claSs passen-
gers because of lack of accommodations.
The Corona will carry to the north 2OO
passengers, so per cent. of whom are
prospective miners, and SUI tons or
general merchandise.
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British Bark Wrecked.

AUCKLAND On. ~, Dec. 21.-The
British bark Blairlogie, Captain Mac
kay, from Delagoa Bay for Portland,
Or. has been lost, with her cargo, off
the Island of Matahiva, in the Tuamotu
group. The members of her crew have
reached Papciti
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Santa Clara's Big Prune Yield.

SAN JOSE, Dec 21.-It is now be-
lieved the production OF prunes IN this
county will exceed the estimate of
fifty million pounds. Already 46,34S,-
900 pounds have been shipped out of
the county, and It is estimated that
those yet to be marketed will run the
total for the season to 100000 pounds.
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Delashmutt Held to Answer.

FRESNO, Dec. 21.-The examination
of William Delashmutt, the Gefaulting
Town Clerk of Selma, was held to-day
before Justice Tucker Of that place.
He was held to answer, and his bail
was fixed at $1,000. He was unable
to secure bondsmen, and was tonight
lodged in jail.
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Below Zero in Arizona.

PRESCOTT (Ariz.), Dec. 21. - The
first snowstorm of the season, which
commenced Sunday. has been followed
by a cold wave, and the mercury drop
ped to degrees below zero this morn
ing, being as low as ever recorded
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Barry Will Not be Prosecuted.

LONDON, Dec. 21.-Jimmy Barry of
Chicago. the bantam-w weight champion,
and the others arrested in connection
with the fight at the National Sporting
Club on December 9th last, which re-
suited in the death of Croot, We're re-
leased from custody to-day, the public
prosecutor refusing to take up the case
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WAS NO LYNCHING.
Citizens Have Scare. but the
Murderers Were Not Molested.

COLFAX CWash.>. Dec. 21.-The town
was greatly excited last night and every
body expected a lynching to take place.
The night before mob of sixty men
had gathered in an old slaughter house
two miles from town for the avowed
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Mendocino's New Sheriff.

UKIAH. Dec. 21.-The Board of SUI
pervisorS met this afternoon and de-
clared the Office of Sheriff and Tax
Collector vacant. j. H. Smith was ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy.
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Mrs. Ballington Booth Ill.

NEW YORK. Dec. 21.-Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth, who is in the Presbyterian
Hospital suffering with heart trouble.
was tonight said to be in a serious
condition.
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TO SAVE
DURRANT'S LIFE
Basis Of the Appeal Which is TO be
Made to Governor budd
Asking for a Communication Of the Death
Sentence to Life Imprisonment.

The Attorneys in the Case Spring
Another Surprise by Filing q
Notice With the District Attor-
ney That They VIII Gro Before
Judge EahTs aud Ask a Change
of Venue From the Recent Or
der OF Sentence.
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The work of bill collector is always
dun: it's seldom finished.
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Family Reading.

Too much care cannot be taken with read
ing matter admitted to the home circle.
The Republican journal., 1897-07-22
The Valuation of the State.
Will Probably Show an Increase About Equal to
that of Last Year, Or S1,5OO,0OO.

AUGUSTA, July 10. From the returns thus
far made by local assessors to the board of
State assessors, it appears that the in
crease of the valuation of property in the
State will probably be about as much this
year as last, in the vicinity of 1900 900.
The real estate is holding up well and if
there is any shrinkage it is on the line of
personal property,
such as have been made no collection of
matter has been attempted with view
of determining any increase or falling
off in special lines. But it can be as
sumed from general conditions reported
that the increase in valuation will be the
same as for 1896.
The taxing of bicycles is one that since
year ago, has become far more general. 1t
is a considerable sum that is derived from
this source, and it is the prevailing opinion
that its effect on road improvement is very
marked.
One feature of this is the removing
loose stones from the roads, which previ-
Gus to the general use of the bicycle,
were often disagreeable and nuisance in
every particular, but, becoming almost
prohibitive to bicycling, the pressure to-
ward improvement has been so gener-
al that communities have found it ad-
vantageous in many ways and not so very
expensive either to keep roads 'picked up,''
leaving better Impression upon the resi-
dents and tourists. OF a valuation taken
from IA towns in Kennebec county, there
are 215 wheels assessed in them valued at
$685., making an average assessed value $50
apiece,
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Echoes from Last Weeks Storm.

While no damage was done here by the
what interrupted. The NJ. & NJ. left Bucks
port Wednesday morning for Camden, as
usual, but only went as far as Fort Point
and returned to Bucksport in the afternoon.
The Penobscot did not leave Bangor for
Boston, until p. M, and after making her
landing at Northport Camp Ground she
came to anchor off the North Shore, but left
for Boston in the night.
The schooner Senator, Captain Freeman
Iutchings of Winterport, went ashore at .
p. M. Wednesday opposite Bucks ledge.
The Senator was passing down, with sever
al other vessels, in tow of tug Bismarck
and when off Bucks ledge the hawsers of
the second tier, in which We're the Senator,
The two last mentioned got their anchors
down in hurry, and held on, but the Sena-
tor went ashore on the sandy beach opposite
the ledge. She struck head on, and while
her jibboom went far back into the bushes
the land falls off so sharply there that
her stern was nearly under. She was heavily
loaded with hay, having high deck load,
and tackles were gotten out to keep her
from going over when the tide fell. 1t was
about two hours ebb when the vessel struck.
kept on with the rest of her tow. Thursday
morning the schooner was hauled off, with
out damage, and proceeded.
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News of the Oranges.

Frederick Ritchie Grange, Waldo, will
have their next meeting Aug. 7th.
Farmers Pride Grange, Lincolnville, will
entertain Pomona Grange at Mystic Grange
Hall, Belmont, Aug. 10th.
The strawberry festival at Seaside Grange
Hall last Thursday evening was largely at
tended and was an enjoyable occasion.
After the strawberries and cream were serv-
ed musical and literary entertainment was
given and the evening closed with a social
dance.
Silver Harvest Grange of Waldo has
adopted the following resolutions of respect:
Whereas, Our Great Master above has re-
moved by the hand of death from our fra
ternity another member, our worthy brother
Charles Wentworth, therefore
Resolved, That we, the members of Silver
Harvest Grange have by his death lost a
worthy and faithful member, one whose
memory we shall ever cherish.
Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved
wife our heartfelt sympathy; but for true
and abiding consolation we point her to
the Master above "who doeth all things
we'll"
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions
be sent to the family of the deceased brother,
that they be entered on the records of our
Grange, also sent to the Republican Journal
for publication.
GEORGE PAYsoN, Com.
MARY PAYsoN, on
EDA GURNEY, Res.
The Republican journal., 1897-07-22

WAsHINGTON WHIsPERINGs President
Mckinley has issued an order suspend
ing the operation of ex-president Cleve-
lands order consolidating the pen
sion agencies of the country and reducing
their number to 9 from 49,. Secretary
Long directed, July 18th, that a contract
be entered into with the firm of Harlan
& Hollinsworth for the construction of a
390ton torpedo boat, to cost 1926, 600. 1t
is expected similar contracts will be drawn
up for the construction of smaller vessels
proposed by the Gas Engine & Power
Company of New York, and Wolff & Sc
wicker of Portland, Ore. go. The Secretary
of War has gone to Spirit Lake, Ia, to at
tend a soldiers reunion, after which he
will 60 to Chicago to participate in the
Logan day ceremonies. 80. N office has been
given by the Hawaiian government that
no foreign built vessels will be admitted
to Hawaiian register, pending action on
the annexation treaty. Similar notice was
given in January, 1s93..... Myron H. Nc
Cord has been confirmed as Governor of
Arizona. The vote ON McCord's confirm
alton as Governor of Arizona was taken
Immediately after the Senate went into
executive session, Saturday, and without
further debate. The vote stood 20 to 18.
The Republican journal., 1897-07-22

FISH AND GAME. Hon. L. T. Carleton.
chairman of the inland fish and game
commission, was asked if there is anv
truth IN the reports that there has re-
Gently been big slaughter of game in the
Moosehead lake REGION. He said: "If
there has been the commissioners have
not been informed of the fact, and in that
region we have two of the most faithful
wardens on the Maine force. There has
been some killing of big game this season.
but not nearly as much as last wear
There is not such an open slaughter of
game now as formerly. If a deer or
moose is now killed in close time. the re-
mains are either carefully concealed by
burying or are burned. l do not credi.
the report that a number of deer and
moose have been killed by sportsmen
above kineo, and that dead animals have
been seen in large numbers. | do not
mean to say that the millennium has
been reached, and that no game is killed
in close time, butif there has been large
slaughter this season we have not vet
been informed of it, '.... The Canadian
fish commissioners have put three more
lots OF salmon into the river st. Croix at
Nanceboro. This makes 200, 900 thew
have put into the river at this place this
MONTH. The fishing schooner, Fannie
Hayden, Capt. Turner of Boothbay Har-
Dor, arrived at Portland Friday with a
catch of $4,000 pounds of haddock and
cod.....It is evident from the number of
moose in the woods about Moosehead
lake that there is little immediate danger
of that animal sharing the fate of the buf-
falo. AS for deer there is no counting
them, and now it is the farmers, not the
deer, that need protection. -. U. S. Fish
Commission schooner Grampus arrived at
Rockland from Gloucester, Mass, July
l4th, with 1000, 900 lobster fry from the
hatchery there, to be placed in the waters
along this coast.
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Burnham News via Boston.

BOSTON, July 16. A special to the Herald
from Belfast, says; The somewhat singular
circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs
Addie NJ. Bickford, wife of George W. Bick-
ford of Burnham, have excited much inter-
est in that town. Mr.. Bickford was in this
city to-day and consulted counsel in regard
to the matter and it is announced that a law
suit of an interesting nature is to come.
One night last week Mrs. Bickford, who was
apparently in her usual health, took dose
from bottle containing we'll known pro-
prletary medicine designed for nervous
troubles, and retired. In short time she
was seized with excruciating pains and died
after three hours OF intense suffering. None
OF the remedies applied appeared to relieve
her in the least. The physician who was call
ed made superficial examination of the
body and expressed the opinion that the wo-
mans death was caused by a heart trouble,
though he could not accurately determine.
After Mrs. Bickford's interment Mr. Bick-
ford happened to examine the bottle of med-
cine from which she drank the night of her
death, and discovered that it contained con-
siderable quantity of ground glass. AS re-
suit of this discovery he has engaged coun-
sci to bring suit against the company which
controls the remedy.
The body will be exhumed and an autopsy
made.
Mr.. Bickford was in Belfast last week, as
reported, and consulted a lawyer, but we do
not learn that an autopsy has been held or
any further steps taken in the matter.
The Republican journal., 1897-07-22
A Visit from a Porgy Steamer.

Porgles have been schooling in our bay
for some days, recalling the time, years ago,
when as many as thirty steamers have been
in sight, equipped with nets for capturing
this bony and oily denizen of the deep. Then
there was no law against seining in the
bays The porgy disappeared, and so did
the steamers. Now both have returned,
the one i'll accordance with some unknown
law OF piscatorial migration, the other in
violation OF Maine law. Friday morning
solitary porgy steamer was seen in the bay
and her movements were watched with in
terest. More or less authenticated reports
are to the effect that she run her seines sew
eral times and captured from 500 to 900
barrels of fish. Fish Warden Rankin drove
from this city to Northport in the afternoon
and with Game Warden George w. Frisbee,
who was at the South Shore, secured the
steam launch Guenevere and was getting
up steam to go after the poacher when she
departed with her lllgotten fare. The fish
ing steamer was the Mabel Bird of Newpor
H. L., and the seining law she is alleged to
have violated is as follows:
ocNp' o. AUSttLeF Win all pays, luIetS,
rivers and harbors east of the west shore of
Penobscot bay and river where any entrance
to the same or any part thereof from land to
land is not more than three nautical miles
in width, except that purse and drag seines
may be used for the purpose of taking smelts
IN these waters except in Bluehill bays,
under penalty not exceeding We hundred
dollars for each otfense for such unlawful
fishing, to be recovered in action of debt.
The officers say that they will prosecute
all violators of the fishing laws that are
found in these waters.
The steamer WIN. A. Wells of Bristol
came into the bay Monday evening and
several boats from the Camp Ground hover
ed around her. When asked as to their
business in the bay the captain of the steam
er said he "only came in for a harbor," and
after laying at the wharf until about o'clock
the next morning the craft steamed back
down the bay.