Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-31


There is said to be one.
Another chapter now comes in the
history of the Hathorn mansion in
Pittsfield whose mysterious fire early
last spring, was the cause a such a
sensation in that section. The build
ing is to be fitted up for stores and
offices.
Justice will so to the porgy fishermen
if the porgy fishermen won't come To
justice. The captains quarter deck is
not sacred from the service of a war
rant.
1--WE are expecting a glorious season
of meetings. says one of the Simpson
subscription boomers now exhorting the
people at Old Orchard to forsake their
mites and rainy-day bank accounts.
Guide Mathieson is in a fair way to
know more about the guide law.
Let those who are finding fault with
History of Maine and they will see that
for the months of June and July, 1868,
there We're not as hours of continuous
fair weather in the two months. That
was some time ago, to be sure, but ii
shows that there have been bad sea-
sons before.
1t will be remembered that the base
ball season of the four Maine colleges
closed with tie all around. Now
President Beal of the Eastern Maine
fair proposes a series of games between
the college teams as a fair attraction.
But the college boy is on his vacation
and looks at Intercollegiate base ball as
sport not a business matter.
Biddeford has new mystery and
cannot solve it. The city has received
eight carloads of drain and sewer pipe
which has all been laid. This is not
so remarkable but people cannot under
stand how a part of the appropriation
happens to be left.
There are times, once in a great while,
when it does not pay to linger too long
on the sweet good night" A Portland
young man whose girl lives in South
Portland has learned this and next
time Will break away a moment sooner.
He reached the wharf Just as the boat
was leaving. He jumped. but, alas he
landed in the bay, and the ardor of his
youthful affections was so dampened
that he talks now of getting a girl near
er home.
If Guide Mathieson persists in walk
ing on the track he is pretty sure to get
hurt when the engine comes along.
Rigby had to give up to the rain, this
week. but has made satisfactory ar
rangements with Jupiter Pluvius for
the week of the great and only New
England fair.
The air of Maine is charged with
railroad lightning this summer. and it
is pretty sure to strike in several places
before frost comes.
The big battleship Maine must have
been making use of its new silver
punch bowl. 1t went on a tear in New
York harbor, this week, and smashed
one of them. struck an excursion boat
and in general acted very naughty.
,t,.il- Of h.
| reported. 1t is relief to know that
reference is not made to the college
Widows" but. as the dispatch naively
states, to '26 young ladies of the Cabot
mill whose object in striking is for a
higher salary
Pennington is not a boom town, but
it continues to have a sure and steady
growth and just now it feels Pretty well
over that fact that during the summer
over $4,000 will be expended in new
| buildings, besides repairs and improve
ments on many of the older ones.
| What was the mysterious voice that
warned poor Leander Newman of West
Sullivan? He was working in the
quarry and suddenly felt premonition
| OF disaster He felt uneasy and told
his fellow workman that he thought he
would quit work before he got hurt
| They laughed at him, and he kept on
working. A few minutes later he was
struck dead by a falling derrick.
| Whip and Co,Yriar. Will,
our Democratic contemporaries are de-
nouncing the new tariff law the Bangor
Commercial publishes an interview
with Mr.. G. w. Maxfield, the promoter
of the Farmers Product Comnany in
which that gentleman enthusiastically
points out the great advantages con-
1erred upon this State by the new act
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