Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-01-07

Portland Board of Trade that the
lighthouse board will approve special
bill introduced into Congress for such a
| light vessel at the entrance to Portland
harbor" So there is little. if any
doubt that the appropriation will be
granted.-Portland Press.
Sheltered by Eliot's enfolding hills
/ lives Miss Thirza Emery, one of the
! oldest persons in Maine, says the Lew
! ston Journal. She was born on March
! l.. 1898. She has seen the long line OF
| Presidents from Washington down, yet
she is surprisingly alert and far mora
/ active than many persons of half her
age. She reads and writes without the
aid of spectaclcs. and her memory is
/ remarkably retentive. She relates
many interesting "reminiscences of her
| girlhCod days.
Rock is being blasted from the ledge
in the rear of Evergreen cemetery,
/ Deering, a. the rate of 60 tons a day,
| This rock is carried to the stone crush
er ard ground up for macadamiz'
! ing purposes in the cemetery. Owe.
1000 feet of ground has been covered
| this fall. the roads being Is feet in
| width, This will be rolled in the early
spring 1t is claimed that by allowing
the rock to remain during the winter, :
becomes we'll settled down and as soon
as the frost is out, can he rolled to
better advantage.
/ The American Institute of lnstruc-
tion with its 300 odd members will not
convene at Bar Harbor the comins
I,l, h.lX
ing been reached by the board of
/ directors at a meeting in Boston, Sat
urday, at which were present Messrs
j. f. Bunker. c. f. Paine and J. W,
| Wheaton, representing a citizens com
mittee of Bar Harbor. appointed at Il
recent meeting. The committee reached
Bangor on their way home Monday
night, and We're by no means disap-
pointed. for they declared that they
had secured the promise of the conven~
tion for July, 1899. at Bar Harhor.
A division of the Christopher c. Web
her estate, Of which much has been
said, III the papers during the past five
years, is about to be made. Mr.. Web
ber died in Holland about 100 years ago
and left an estate which now amounts
TO about $45. 900, 600 which. according 20
the terms of the will. was To be divided
among the heirs of the third genera
ton. There are about $50 of these
heirs. two Of whom are Mrs. Wyer
Bradbury and Mrs. Lewis LongfelloW
| of Machias. The representatives sel.t
to Holland. by the parties Interested,
found the estate IN amount as above
but it is expected that a considerable
/,
when the division is made. Enough
however, will doubtless entail TO the
descendants in this country to give
them a comfortable competency fer
life The only difficulty which arises
in some instances. is TO obtain con-
tinuous records 10 prove relationship
connecting with the originator of tha
Will
The recent death from consumption
of Mrs. Alvira Higgins Cough of Bass
Harbor brings to sudden termination
the notorious divorce suit of Daniel f..
Cough vs.. Mrs. Cough, which was t"
have been tried in the Hancock su-
preme judicial. present term. 1t viii
DE remembered that Mr.. Cough is i
recently naturalized Chinaman. and thu
divorce was brought by him alleging
cruel and abusive treatment Mrs
Coughs defense was she had been Ike II
virtually prisoner by her husband fol
more than - Of her y years of married
life. Three of the sons Of the deceased
were on the side of the father. Mr.
Cough says that his domestic troubles
began when the neighbors interfered.
He denies that he wanted his wife 10
live in Chinese secluson. The Cough
matter entered village politics. split up
church entertainments and was an un-
ending pahulum supply for sewing cir
cles and lodge meetings. The King (
Daughters through Mrs. Evelyn Neal
took up the cudgel for Mrs. Cough
The ". G. T. t. and other local SO
cieties entered the lists The select
men look 4 hand. Lawyers reaped
fees, Th' il son Arno. the mother
pet. is reported one day TO have struck
his ia ther The boy spent some days in
the Bangor Jail There We're subse-
duent differences between father and
son Now the family troubles are 1t
an end. for soon after Mrs Coughs
death. Arno disappeared.
The historical associations that
|
! are peculiarly strong. said Miss
/ Frances L. Libby, one of the accom-
nished instructors at the institution,
I who has been visiting in Portland for
/ the past few days AT few schools,
and it is particularly manifest at tha
| June reunions, does there exist a more
/ intensified feeling for the alma mater,
! The antiquity. as Well as the long con-
/ tnued excellence Of the school, doub'
/ less keeps alive the sentiment. Tn
| number of students who have attended
! this school along the same line of CON
! sanquinity is something remarkable.
/ Direct lineal descendants Of those in
! the BrdGton Academy today used to
chew gum and throw spitballs back as
! far as lSoS. Why, there is one lady in
| the Schoolhouse. father and mother
/ grandfather and great grandfather
| trod along the same country road book
! in hand. If the school had existed
/ prior to that time probably greater
! grandS would have been included in tn.
! procession. No, the school has gradu-
ated no presidents. but a long list #
| brainN men-potential factors in the
/ professional and commercial world
nj Inv. In,