Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-25

on the SLED ana calleu 10 tHe Jug ~
get up" He got up. with a VEN
geance, the result being broken sled
a bruised boy and muchly-scared dog.
Pennington Independent: The Farm
ington farmer who slipped fat turkey
into his less fortunate neighbours pan
try window the night before Thanks
giving. was so well pleased with the
Joy his kind act resulted in, that he
is contemplating a similar act Tor
Christmas, and mayhap for New Years
also
LYMAN is reported to be inflicted
with an "injun devil''-Not bogy,
but a genuine beast of prey. Several
persons have seen it and the farmers
are much alarmed by it's depreciation
Swine and young calves have been
carried away.
A short time ago a party of young
men were fox hunting with a pair OF
hounds. Suddenly they heard a loud
cutlery from one of the dogs. Hurryins
to his aid, as speedily as possible, they
found him dead. He had been badly
mangled by some animal with very
powerful claws. A few days later,
well known Biddeford man was driving
through the same locality-late at night.
Suddenly there was a rustling among
the bushes. fringing the roadside. ami
a large animal sprang for the horse
head. He miscalculated the distance
and only succeeded in badly scratching
his flank. The frantic beast responded
with a burst of speed that soon placed
him beyond danger 1t was bright
moonlight, and the gentleman saw the
animal distinctly. He says it resembled
an immense cat with pointed ears AMI
the Canadian lynx, which is still oc-
casionally found in this vicinity.
About this time the nightly raids
commenced and this animal seems un
doubtedly the perpetrator. Several
parties have been organized for his ex
termination but have not yet been sue
cessful Meanwhile the locality is in
demoralized condition, young ladies are
afraid to venture forth after dark and
singing school and moonlight strolls
are at a discount The young men
have sworn vengeance and retribution
will surely overtake the disturber of
youthful pleasure.
Portland is said to be reaping har-
vest from the contest now waging be-
tween the Boston and Gloucester fish
dealers. Let the merry war go on.
Beginning this week, says the Senti-
mel, PASSPORT will be in touch with the
rest of the world but once in seven
days. Even then we are better pro-
vided for than the western part of the
county, where the steamboat communi-
cation is entirely cut off during the
winter after Dec. %, when the Frank
Jones makes her last trip from Ma
chias; after that date the only means
of transportation offered to the wes-
tern part of the county will be from
Franklin Roads in Hancock county, or
from PASSPORT and Lubec, to those east
of Machias. 1t is not to be wondered
at that the county in general should be
so enthusiastic over the early compile
ton of the railroad.
A youthful prodigy residing in East
port was asked by his teacher last
Sunday who was born on Christmas
day, and surprised her by answering,
without moments hesitation, George
Washington"
Two Franklin women had an expert
ence recently which they do not care to
repeat. They were awakened in the
middle of the night. A tramp who had
appropriated the shed extension for
lodging house, was trying to open the
door leading to the kitchen. The women
arose, lighted a lamp, and for the re-
mainder of the night kept wide-eyed
vigil. The tramp, when cravings of
hunger awoke him from his maps.
would try the door. 1t is safe to say
those women never saw more welcome
day-dawn.< +.5 -.
How do so many tramps manage to
live in our Maine winters" asks cor
respondent. 1t is evident that he is
not booked on this subject. The pro-
fessional tramp never lives. He exists.
The late departure of the wild geese
southwark has been noted in Maine as
we'll as in all the other New England
states. A late passage of a flock over
Connecticut led the Hartford Times to
remark: When the geese are seen go
ing north in the spring it is considered
one of the welcome signs that the win
ter is practically gone; and in the late
autumn, when their southwark flight is
seen in the last October days and early
in November, these feathered migrants
sweeping by at a height which mostly
browns their gurgling cries, and some-
times makes the birds themselves but
dimly visible in the gray-clouded sky,
are supposed to be fleeing from the
early but fast extending northern WIN
ter. Just what belated southwark mi
grafton this year may mean as to the
character of the season upon which we
have now entered does not appear to
be wholly clear. s IS
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