Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-08-20

considerable larger than the record for
| July of last year. There We're 5S OPEN
ings and 81 vessels with a tonnage of
14127
Among the arrivals at Boston this
week from Queenstown. Ireland, were
James and Thomas Mcclure, formerly
| of Biddeford, the two brothers who
We're tried for the murder of a man in
| Ireland year ago and who was ac-
| quilted of the charge. They are ex-
pected to return to Biddeford where
they have relatives.
That was rather warm reception
which lady received at the Newport
| station, recently. She was walking
down the platform when one of the
wheels of a loaded baggage truck broke
through the planking and the load top
| pied over burrying the lady beneath a
| mass of trunks and grips. She was
rescued as soon as possible and al
| though considerably bruised said she
was not seriously injured.
| Mr. Harry Miller Of Lewiston has re-
ceived letter from his daughter, who
with her mother is passing the summer
at st. Catalina Island on the California
coast She tells an interesting story of
going to sail along the shore in boat
with glass bottom, made so that
| those in the boat can see the wonders
of the depths, which there rival the
| beauty of the pearl beds of the Indian
ocean. She has sent her father many
| souvenirs and curios from the Califor-
| MIA coast
By the death of former husband in
Boston nearly two years ago, Mrs.
| Jason Lunt of Saco is to come into
possession of quite handsome prop
erty as soon as the legal process of set
tlement is completed. states the Bid
deford Journal. Mr.. Bergman, the de-
| ceased, left no will, and Mrs. Lunt and
| her daughter, now married and living
| in Lowell, are to share the estate, ag-
gregating somewhere near $5O,000 The
| final process before the probate court
will come in September.
| Patten Point, where once resounded
! the strokes of many hammers in the
hands of granite workers, is now de-
serted, the paving blocks left havin.,
been cleaned up. At one time not long
| ago there were 80 or more men EN-
ployed here in cutting paving blocks
! but the price of blocks fell from $35 20
SIS 1000 and hammers were laid aside.
1t is the opinion of some in the busi-
ness that the price of paving blocks
will never again be as good as it was
| And just think of the amount of good
| granite along our coast that might be
made useful, says the Rockland
| Courier Gazette.
Simeon skilli9gs, so years of age, of
| Portland, is one of the livelest old
! gentlemen in Maine. A few days ago
he got into his cunning float and rowed
out between Portland Head and
I'rundy's Reef in search of porpoise
He did notfhave to wait great while
before big fellow weighing 100 pounds
came to the surface and the old gentle
1 man promptly shot him. He then pro-
ceeded to get the porpoise into his float,
and did so without any trouble what
ever. 1t was quite feat for man
almost so years of age to row out to
Portland Head and shoot a porpoise
but it is safe to say that there are few
if any men of his age in the State who
could have hauled the big fish into the
| boat
| Capt. H. L.. Wood camp, Sons of
| Veterans, has been organized at
Dexter by Rev. Geo. E. Leighton,
lieutenant, colonel. Maine division, as
sisted by Forest Chase of Skowhegan.
acting as Q. MS. The officers of the
new camp are: A. l.. Sanford, captain:
E. r. Patterson, 1st lieutenant; E. c.
Farrar, I'd lieutenant; @. w. Swanton
chaplain: a. e. Swanton, 1st sergeant:
A. wv. Farrar, @. M. sergeant; s. w.
Crowther, sergeant guard; E. r. Libby
color sergeant; A. H. Farrar, principal
musician; M. T. Penley, corporal
guard; A. J. Kittredge, camp guard;
p. NJ. Rollins pc'et guard. A meeting
will be held each Monday evening at G.
| A. r. hall. The new organization
starts in under the most favorable
auspices. with a membership of Is.
| On the Androscoggin river at Lewis
ton is resort where the people sit in
the cool of the evening and talk. One
night recently two men sat there long
| after dark, telling stories. Suddenly
there was splash in the water and
thinking some one had fallen in. they
ran down to the water. An object like
the mead of sea serpent, about three
leet long appeared yard or two from
the shore. Suddenly it came toward
them, and one of them ran, while the
| other seized up brick and hurled it
] at the sea serpents head 1t sank.