Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-13
Kittery will celebrate her l5oth anniver-

Kittery will celebrate her l5oth anniver-
sary.
Only about Is out Of 70 kilns are afire
as yet in Rockland.
Dennis Myrick who died recently AT
Troy, aged 30 years, had lived on the
same farm 65 years.
Portlands city rnysician says his work
has increased to such an extent that MS
salary should be more than $500.
One Lewiston lumber concern sr,ssg is getflng nsW
houses to be built next summer.
A schooner is now loading with lime at
Rockland, slowing it in bags. This IS the
first attempt to carry lime from that sec
ton in bags.
sagadahoc District Lodge Good Tenn
plars win hold the next quarterly session
with Merrymeeting Lodge, BoWdolnham'
Wednesday. April ii.
Mrs. Webber of Clinton. who was shot
by her husband early in the winter ana ana
in whose body are now embedded the
three bullets, has apparently resaiheo
her strength.
The engagement is announced of the
Rev. Daniel S. Kerr. pastor OF the @ East
Bucksport church. to Miss Addie Is. san
born, principal of the Whitman school,
Whitman, Mass.
There are now at the Matching house
at Cold Stream lake in Enfield. 100 AT
lantic salmon eggs to be distributed IN
the penobscot waters according to the
orders of the fish and game commission
ers.
Ex-Governor Robie. at the time of the
erection of the Gorham Normal % scnool
purpose. He has now given S2oVV auoi-
tional toward the erection of the new
normal school dormitory.
One of the peculiarities of the trans
continental freight business is seen III the
fact that while the freight from san
Francisco to Chicago is % cents per 100
lbs. and to Cincinnati so cents; TO Port
land tMe.) it is only ~ cents per lo0 lbs.
Col. r. E. Boothby. the new president
of the Portland board of trade is inter-
esting a large number of young men to
become members. He is succeeding very
well for he has already secured 100 new
members. When President Boothby was
elected the membership was about $50
Mr. McEgan of Patten. who was so Sc
riously hurt upon the head over year
ago. has not been able to do but two or
three days work since that time The
skull opens for a while each day. then
gradually closes again. HIS stomach re-
of food. Before his hurt he smoked near
ly all the time the thought of the pipe
now turns him sick.
The Spring Point Ledge lighthouse and
point Of interest to Portland residents
and visitors if for no other reason than
it's peculiarities. Peculiar from the. fact
that it is the only lighth9use in in. this vir u,
alone. The light was to have been fin
ished by March l. but from good author
ity it has been learned that an extension
of one months time has been asked by
the contractors and granted. SO, about
April l, the first rays from the light will
beam bengnly forth upon the harbor
waters.
The Biddeford Record reports several
cases of what is known as Riggs disease
of the gums. 1t seems according to den
lists. that it is no new disease though
I,r- hoo nf lot N M
ber of local cases. The teeth loosen un-
til they can be pulled without pain and
in fact there is no pain attendant except
that the gums become very sensitive and
sore Several cases in Saco are reported
in which people have lost anywhere from
two or three to eight or ten teeth which
were sound except for the diseased
gums. Local dentists say that If season.
ably treated the absorption or shrinkage
of the gum can be arrested and the teeth
rendered firm, but usually the trouble
has progressed too far before the dentist
is consulted. In such cases there is moth
ing to be done but remove the teeth.
The schooner Wyer G. Sargent, built in
Sedgwick, Me-, has had rather re-
markable career. She was abandoned at
sea March 81. 1891. in latitude 34.l2. long
itude 74.40 and has been cruising, on her
with the storms of the Atlantic for near
ly six years. she has drifted ashore on
the uninhabited island of Conception
one of the most dangerous of the Ba
hamas. and there will end her days. She
is shattered and covered with barnacles
Her cargo of lumber has long ago been
emptied into the sea through her cap
sizing. but her stout hull is sthl held to-
gether as firmly as the day on which she
was launched at Sedgwick. Maine. in
1881. Her courses about the Atlantic
were for months most accurately plotted
on the pilot charts issued by the hydro
graphic department at Washington. Her
drift was indeed more singular than that
of the famous old schooner w. l.. White.
which. although abandoned in the same
locality, drifted ashore ten months after
wards at the Hebrides islands. off the
gent in about three months from the
date of her abandonment reached the
center of the North Atlantic. Here she
drifted about in most peculiar manner
for some time until October II, 1892, when
she got into the Sargasse sea and expert
enced ship masters do not doubt that in
this sea she remained until carried out
of its influence by unusually fierce gales
this last winter