Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-17

Phillips wants a band.


An Passport lady has a rose bush
bearing four shades Of handsome roses,
pink. white. and two colors between.
The barn Of E. L. NORM, located on
the Oak Hill road, Brunswick, was
burned at o'clock, Thursday morning.
Loss $500. The building contained Is
tons Of hay and farming tools. Cause
of fire supposed to be the work of
children with matches.
During the rush of the people to get
a sight of the races at Camp Benson,
Thursday, the wharf, which was heav
lily laden with enthusiasts, gave way.
There was great excitement for few
moments and the progress Of the race
was forgotten While men, women and
children were digging themselves from
the debris. One woman fell into the
lake and came near being drowned,
while another tainted and was carried
into the pavilion, where she was cared
for.
A special town meeting was held at
Sullivan, Thursday afternoon to see if
the residents would vote to raise money
for the purpose of laying water pipes
from the village to connect with the
Long Pond Water Company's plant at
Sorrento. The meeting was harmoni-
GUS and very enthusiastic. A number
of speeches were made, nearly all
favoring an appropriation. When the
matter was decided the vote stood lab
to in favor of the towns granting it's
credit for $1,000 The source of the wa
ter supply is Long lake, which is 240
feet above the tide level. Work will
begin at once.
A venerable relic Of ancient Pond
Town is the old Fuller house, long since
abandoned and now within the limits
of Manchester, about two miles up the
Readfield road from The Forks. 1t is
almost hidden from the highway by
grove that has sprung UP since the
fire went out on the hearth of the old
house. Here came Francis Fuller from
Barnstable, Cape Cod, about 140 years
ago and built a log cabin, which not
long after was abandoned for the frame
house, the shell of which survives.
Francis Fuller, who married Hannah
Cobb, was descended from Edward
Fuller of the Mayflower. They have
many descendants in Maine and else
where. Francis and Hannah rest to-
gether in an old grave yard a half mile
north of the old house.-Winthrop Ban
ner.
Mr.. E. T. Wing, Ligonia, South Port
land, has recently received an addition
to his valuable and extensive collec-
ton Of Indian relics and antiquities
from Prof. Warren X. Moorehead, cur
ator of archaeology, Ohio State Univer-
sity, who is now travelling in New
Mexico in search Of relics pertaining to
primitive man in that section. This adj
dition consists of a large and small ak
made of stone of the second stone age
and were probably used in war and in
their work of building. An awl made
OF bone and Is supposed to have been
used for the purpose of sewing hide;
metette or grinder, which was used for
grinding grain; one broken and one whole
pot and many fragments showing the
style of decoration, these probably hav-
ing been used for household purposes.
These relics were found in Chaco canon,
20 miles south of Pennington, New
Mexico, and are very valuable on ac-
count of their variety and the expense
incurred In procuring them.
In our company in the 18th Maine,
says Il LcWlSloil IlldIl, was d DOy Oh ~
years, who, had run away to join the
army. His father had always been
cruelty strict with him, and used then to
whip him with horse whip or pound
him with club every time the old man
got mad. The boy had Joined the regi-
ment, and had got ready to enlist when
his father showed up to stop him. He
was going to take him home with him,
and gave him thrashing right there
in camp, if l remember right. Father"
the boy said, I'm going to the front,
and II you carry me home I'll run
away and you'll never see me about
here again." SO the old man had to
let him go. We were out on the skir-
mish line in month, and the bullets
were coming zip, zip, zip. He stood
side wise loading his Springfield, when
along came a bullet and took off both
OF his eyebrows, clean. He turned
around to me mad as thunder and
said. the blood squirting out of his fore
head, by gosh. George, this begins to
seem like home and father"
A dispatch to the Boston Herald from
Bangor states that Mayor Beal esti-
mates the present population of Bangor
at not less than $4,000. and he says that
before the year 1900 the population will
considerably exceed 10000. AS the d.
rectory contains about 10000 names,
the mayors estimate of $4,000 popula-
ton is considered to be reasonable.
These estimates are in decided contrast
with the figures given by the last gov
eminent census. which Gin 1890 al
lowed Bangor a population of only
about $4,000, but it is known that the
census was wide of the mark, for in
some streets whole families were
omitted by the enumerators, some of
whom were either careless or incompe-
tent, or both. The records of the board
OF registration show that there are
about 500 voters in the city, and this
number. at the lowest ratio, would in
dicate population of 2S5OO 1t is pro-
posed to have a police census to deter
mine the exact population of the city.
During several years past there have
been erected, on an average, 10 new
houses, having more than 100 tene-
ments, and there are very few vacant
houses in the city today. About 100 new
houses are now in process of construc-