Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-08

Gil. That seething local maelstrom OF
local politics must have ceased to seeth.
What weather that was for country
rides the past few days.
| The Lewiston city clerk received a
| letter the other day, which contained
neither the date nor the address, in
quiring if Garfield was born in that
city. There are grown boys who ask
foolish questions.
! A man Of evil preferrfng darkness to
| light has been unlocking the arc lights
! in Portland streets. Just what his
| motive can be does not appear but he
goes about it very boldly.
Portland Express: At the police sta
ton one evening recently in the midst
| of the customary tumult and noise Of
the DRINKS boisterously clamoring in
the cells, the strains of violin fioated
out through the corridors and stilled
for a few moments the animal in the
| bodies of those unfortunates who were
temporarily lodging in the city's free
hotel. Double stops, arpeggios. har-
monies and chromatic runs rolled from
the violin of an unseen player showing
the touch of master. The player
himself was a ledger. mot quite right
they said, yet more than one stopped
and sighed a brief longing for some
thing better in life when those wonder
full strains reached their ears The
power of music IS as yet unexplained.
The Portland topper who in order to
lengthen his days followed his physi-
clans advice and went without his
whiskey one day concluded the doctor
was right. He said that day was the
longest he ever knew.
The Have Beens'' crossed bats with
the Never Were-1n-Its" at Bar Har-
Dor the other day after a vacation of
20 years. all in the interests of the pro-
posed hospital at that place. The game
was exciting abounded in phenomenal
attempts to win fame. attain victory
and deserve arnica if not applause, and
there were liberal doses of both. The
next time they play. however. will be
after the hospital is in condition to
receive patients.
The club women have no doubt Ban
gor is the Queen City this week.
There is interest in this which ap-
peared in the Portland Argus as a
Special from Sanford: A general ad-
vance in wages is to be made by the
Goodall Worsted Company and notices
to this effect have been posted on the
factory doors. This is one of the larg-
est manufacturing concerns in the
country and employs 700 hands. Since
the Dingley bill went into operation.
this concern has been running it's fac
tories night and day, employing two
separate crews. There is general rejoic-
ing among the operatives. 1t has also
been decided to continue the Saturday
half holiday system all the year round.
An exchange tells how a partridge
driven out of the woods by the cold
ness of the past night" flew through
the window of an Ellsworth house.
Must have been a cold October night
to drive partridge out of the woods.
Bangor Commercial: Not for many
years has Maine seen so many inter-
esting nuptial functions in the autumn,
as have characterized this season;
eastern Maine people, in particular,
have been engaged in this interesting
business with wonderful persistence,
and few days pass on which the news
papers do not find some happy affair
Of the kind to tell about.
j. F. Lord of South WATERFORD, plant
ed GIG hills of horticultural beans last
spring with southern white corn in the
hills for the beans to run on. The corn
grew to an average height of ten feet
and made two bulk loads for a pair of
horses; but the stalks are so big that
they have to be cut with an axe for the
COW to eat them.
Keep on
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