Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-02

We're satisfied and only stopped beating
| him because they feared that he would
| be killed then they stripped the clothes
| off the unconscious man and putting
! him in a punt towed him to Portland
! behind their boat When he had re-
| covered consciousness the conspira-
| tors tossed their victim an oar or pad
| die, and told him to row ashore.
Those Italians are well adapted to life
| in the Southern lynching belt for with
a little practice they could put negro
to death with the requisite amount OF
brutality.
Speaker Reed and family are settled
! for the summer at their pretty Grand
Beach cottage, near Old orchard. Now
ii is probable the great congressional
| leader will resume his bicycle riding
| to the supreme delight of the news
paper reporters and his neighbors at
| the beach. In previous summer since
Mr.. Reed has become wheeling en-
! thusiast he has had placed at intervals
along the beach near his cottage various
boxes. blocks of wood. etc, which have
been a mystery to the casual stroller
| there. But when he came out to ride
| their use was apparent, for he could
only mount his wheel by standing upon
one of them. When Mr. Reed fell off
or dismounted he would walk until he
came to one of these boxes or blocks
and there the laborious process of
mounting was gone through. Occa-
sionally the high tides disturbed them
but he always had them carefully re-
placed.
| In tone of exultant triumph the
Bath Independent announces that
Chauncy NJ. Depew recently sent a
box of choice candies to a young lady
| in that city. They had crossed the ocean
on the same steamer. and like the rest
of humanity he fell an easy victim To
the charms of the Bath bud
The ''chatterer" of the Winthrop
| Banner has evidently been in collision
with some fair scorcher In his last
/ talk he grumbles that the girl on the
| bike doesn't improve by familiarity
/ She should know that she is the ugliest
of animated bipeds." This is naughty,
! and of course he doesn't really mean it,
| Many a humble seashore home was
made happy last week. The coming Of
| the mackerel brought joy to all.
| Applications for pardon from the
| State prison will no doubt be more nu-
merous than ever now. The new
/ Thomaston brass band has begun to
/ practice.
| Portland is confidently planning on
having six governors there during the
New England fair Perhaps this will
result in the old saw being changed to-
and the governor of Maine said to the
! governor of Vermont" etc, or "the
| governor of New Hampshire said to the
4 governor of Rhode Island" etc North
and South Carolina must look to their
| iaurels.
Old Town is lonesome and temperate
with nearly all its Indian population
gone. The departure of the tribe is not
! permanent. 1t is only the usual sum
mer exodus to the summer resorts
! when the families do a thriving bust
ness in fancy baskets and curious hand
made articles of all kinds. The arrival
of the Maine Indians at the various
outing places all over New England, is
looked for as much as the arrival of
the wealthy cottager or hotel boarder.
Most resorts have a regular Indian
village. They arrive early and remain
1 through the season.
1t doesn't seem just right that the
great monument now being erected in
Illinois to Elijah F. Lovejoy, the i'm
mortal martyr to the anti-slavery
| cause, should he made of Vermont
granite. Lovejoy was Maine boy,
born and bred in Kennebec county. ed
ucated in her college, and made of the
stern stuff that composes her everlast-
ing hills. The shaft above his honored
grave should have been of Maine gran
lite. No state has better men or better
granite than ours.
The editor of the Wilton Seminal
discovers that life has dangers outside
the sanctum as well as in it. Hereafter
he will not be such redhot scorcher.
One evening last week he collided with
} team just as he was about to pass ii
at high rate of speed. The bicycle
struck the rear wheel of the wagon
throwing him under the wheel with
bicycle on top and winding him ur
around the rear axle of the wagon. He
held on to the wheel with a death gri,
and screamed to the driver to stop, in
the meantime holding on in such a
manner that the wheel could not turn
He was dragged two rods or more in
this shape, and it took several men tc
raise the wagon and untangle him from
his perlious position. His clothing was
torn into shreds, one rib was started
from the breast bone and he was terri.
bly, bruised and famed. He is thank.