Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-09
cal estate boom is on at Damaris-

| A real estate boom Is on at Damaris-
Gotta.
Dover has two road machines at work
| this season.
| Newport citizens are enthusiastic sos
a public library.
A beard Of trade has been organized
at Damariscotta
Patten reports a lively business in
| the sale of house lots.
| The whole number of convicts now
at the State prison is 207.
The Butler reunion will be held in
West Franklin in August this year.
Bath reports ia births. 80 marriages.
and 14O deaths during the past year.
An addition costing about $4,000, is be-
| ing built to the State prison at Thom-
!! aston.
| The channel Of the Saco river is fill
| cssary.
But one soldiers grave was added to
! the list in the Skowhegan cemeteries
| the past year.
| Richard Mansfield. the actor. viii
spend the summer in Bluehill, having
rented the Slower cottage.
| Chapters Of the Society OF the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution will be organized
soon at Gouldsboro and sullivan.
The annual field day of the Maine
Commercial Travellers Association Will
be held July Mt Long Island, Portland
harbor.
Hon. r. f. Tinberlake Of Phillips
has purchased a fountain which he Will
present to that town 10 be placed on the
school grounds.
Prof. William II. Howell, professor
Of physiology at the Johns Hopkins
University. Baltimore, Nd, has leased
the Edmund cottage at Windemere,
Great Chebeague for the summer.
one Brewer house owner has made
three rules In reg;ara TO the letting Of
his tenements. They are: First, that
the family wanting the house must
have no children. second. that they
must be Christians: third, that they
must have no callers on Sunday.
Capt. Robinson Of the fourmasted
schooner Charles a. Campbell. has been
master Of a ship during the past G5
years. and now at the age Of 81 years.
h. is still at the helm. He says that
men he gets to be an old man he win
give up the sea and settle down on his
farm at Machiasport.
Car No of the United States fish
cries commission has just completed
the distribution. in Penobscot river and
its tributaries, Of 100000 sea salmon
fry. Of which 2.Oe0000 are OF the Quin-
net. or California. species of salmon.
while the other million are of the ma
tive Penobscot river variety All of
these fish were Matched in the United
States station at Craig's brook in Or
land. A car of the United States COM
mission brought the 100000 California
salmon eggs last fall from the Pacific
coast to the PenoDscot. A few ago
car No began the work of distribut
ing the fry along the Penobscot and its
tributaries. Ten trips were made
seven up the main river, one to Vance
boro, one TO Foxcroft on the Piscata-
Cuis one to Katahdin Iron Works,
Pleasant river. The 10000 of Penob-
scot fry were also taken along, and now
the work is completed and the car has
gone to Monmouth, Kennebec county.
with some salmon fry, and will take
from there tot of trout fry to Brat
tleboro, VT. The California salmon
grow to great size. frequently 60
pounds. and they will probably. thrive
in these waters.
AT recent meeting of the New Eng |
land Historical Society in Boston. Cap
tain Samuel Hill. a native of Machias, |
was the subject OF an interesting !
sketch. Although the captain proba |
ably received little education his man
useripts and journals were beautifully |
written, the spelling was absolutely |
correct and the style indicated much |
literary ability. His charts, drawn by |
himself. exhibited considerable prof. |
cheney with the pencil. His library |
contained 100 Volumes including the |
best literature of his day-the captain |
was born in 1777I--and the frequent an
rotations on fly leaves and margins |
show that these books had been closely |
and intelligently read. He took his
first voyage in command of a trading |
ship in 1902. to the northwest coast OF |
America. On his next voyage he res |
cued by skilful strategy. Samuel dew
EFT, the sole survivor of the Inflated |
ship Boston. that had been captured |
and burned seven years before by the |
.Nookta Indians. During the War of |
1s12 Captain Hill lost upwards of 81. 600
He made many voyages during his life |
time. to Chilli. Canton, the Sandwich |
Islands, etc. and accumulated a snug
fortune which he invested in real |
estate in Boston, his home on leaving
Maine He built ten brick houSaS all /
still standing in Boston. He was in
turn captain, supercargo, merchant,
diplomatist and financier. in spite of
the fact that he went to sea when only
IL years old. In those days folks who
got to the top We're built of the right |
kind of material.