Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

New York. which is the surplus from
the Harper Round Table fund after
paying for about 500 volumes, wlich
are 10 he the nucleus of the Round
Table library. The money is ID be in
vested and the interest used annually
for the library. :.
Warren's hall in Freeport has a drop
curtain which was painted by an I'M
known tramp When the hall was be-.
ing built tramp applied 10 the pro-
nrietor for something to eat anG TsSs
set 20 do some painting to pay for il
The owner wanted some fancy decorat :
ing done and the tramp was allowed
20 try his hand at it and succeeded So
well that his work was accepted and
now remains as testimony of the
skill of an unknown wandering genius.
Says the Saunterer in a recent Boston
Post: Reading of the attack of a bald
eagle on child within the limits of
ireater New York recalls an incident tha I
occurred last season at Cape Small. Me.
The Hon. Joseph Manley of Blaine fame
has mis- summer residence in this delight
full retreat The occupants of the ada +
cent cottage We're the owners of a small
white dog. a pure Boston terrier. An i'm
mense eagle probably driven by hunger
| INTO the proximity of habitatons one day
made desperate attempt to carry off the
canine. Circling for a time overhead it
made series of desperate swoops at
the dog ara was Only driven off by the
appearance of the cottagers."
II. J. Everett. an alleged painter. has
suddenly left Sangerville, ard some of the
people would like to know his where
aboGts. Everett came there last summer
in the fall and opened a saop in which
% paint wagons. etc. He hired teams
T. a nX.sayx -vv,l,
nice lit.le stock of clothing from differ
ent places and smoked ten cent cigars.
lie even ran in debt for the lock on the
paint shop He painted 4 sign in such Il
way that one would be obliged to stand
on his head in order to read it. Saturday
night Mr.. Everett set sail. The last thing
he did was to take the lock off the door
of the paint shop and sell it for a quarter.
A number of half-painted sleighs are
mute witnesses 10 his successes.
Deputy Sheriff Frank W. Lunt of
fremont who has been in Washington
county, to recover property stolen from
Northeast Harbor, returned. Saturday.
1t was on Sept. 5. that tine yacht
Snooze, the property of Prof. I. p. Hop
kinson of Cambridge. summer resi-
dent at Northeast Harbor was stolen
Inquiries were made but nothing salts
factory learned, and the matter was
given into the hands of Mr.. Lunt for
investigation. He found that the craft
has been taken to East Machias on
Sept. 3, and there sold to James Chase,
from whom the rascal afterward tried
to steal it. 1t Is thought by many that
it 10 the same sneak thief who stole
horse and carriage recently in Machias.
In SO far as can be learned this man
like the other travels under assumed
names, that of Martin Pendleton being
the one most often used. On COM
parison Of the different entries made
on hotel registers in that locality abou.
the time when these thefts We're COM
mitted, it is said that it is one and
the same. In each case the unknown
thief has escaped, and succeeded in
covering his tracks so well, that there
but little to work FROM