Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-23

off good deal easier than they ex
pected. Steve Traverse who was hom'
on a furlough a week ago, received tbs
| heaviest fine, which was Sc out Of HI!
months pay. Nottingham, Reilly
and Ncvall will each receive 81 less il
their next months pay. These mer
mad not been home on a furlough be
fore, so that they were not subjected
to as heavy fine as Traverse 1t was
shown that not one of the four inten-
ded to desert, but merely wanted to &c
home for a good time before leaving
the State
One of the mon who run the guard
Tuesday evening of last week. was a
member of Portland company. He
started to go to Hailowell to a dance.
At Gardiner he fell. in with some fell
lows in civilians dress, who told him
they were members of the Augusta
company, and invited him to take a
uilHh from bDltle one OF them had.
he took a drink and the next thing he
knew he was in Biddeford, having been
put off the Pullman at the eastern sta
ton. 1t is thought the liquor was
drugged and that after the man be-
came unconscious the fellows robbed
him of what was left Of his bounty
money, SIS or $40, and placed him on
the train. He did not come to until
he had reached Biddeford
A well-known and well-posted lieu
tenant of the 1st Regiment. is of the
opinion that the Maine troops will sec
service in Cuba. He thinks they will
remain at Chickamauga until Septem-
Der ana then be ordered to some point
like Mobile or Tampa to remain two or
three months and then go to Cuba for
the winter. After the control Of the
island is taken out Of the hands of the
Spaniards. he said, large force Of
men Will be required to remain there
for a long time while the government
is being reconstructed 70 prevent the
natives from doing violence. He thinks
that the possibility of the Maine troops
being ordered to the Philippines is
very remote. lie said jf General Mer-
rift should need 4 larger force Of men
at any time 4 brigade commander
would be ordered to take his brigade
there. ana the Maine troops night he
a part Of this brigade or they might
not, just as it happened.
The camp vendors Of sundry articles
at Augusta, are more than amusing
They range from the patriotically-in
cliAcd fellow who offers buttons
badges. flags ana kindred cmhlems on
a little showcase of a board to tn mat
ter-of-fact Individual Who likes % deal
with soldiers rich enough to indulge in
pic three times a day. Much is said If
these pies. Some of the boys think
they are sufficiently wonderful spoci-
mems to rank With I'll" governmental
corn beef. though very liltle reliance is
placed upon the assertion thal both are
used for half-soling shoes. But these
are not the only things these itin-
Grant merchants offer. for their stock
comprises everything frCm the deadly
cigarette" ur. And, speaking of
carrying things. reminds one of the
poor boy who is detailed to fetch wa
tcr-"tai<ing water" his unfceling com
radcs call it. It makes his home peo-
pie oren their eyes to see this youth
who would faint if asked to bring up a
scuttlc of coal at home shaving thus.
They see it isn't all glory.-Portland
Express.
James A. Paris Of Portland. Co. l.,
LIST Maine Regiment, United States vol
untcers. did not meet his fate on the
bloody fields of Cuba Lihrc, as he had
hoped. nor did he win fame and promo
ton in the Businesses Of the Boomte-
boom mountains, in support Of Dewey
in the Philippines.
Instead Of the glorious military
career which he had marked out eor
himself on enlistment he fell into the
hands If the civil authorities Of Ran
EDf, on W ctHGSbdN HlSHl, anu - HOW Il
prisoner of peace III the Rastile de
Bangor on Hammond street, in one
of Capt Nickerson's best front cells
Paris who is colored. arrived in
Bangor, Wednesday morning on fur
Tough His time extended to o'clock.
Thursday morning. He had received
his bounty money and felt good. lie
wanted everybody else to feel good,
too.
After carccring about town with his
ladifrcns. he fell into the hands Of
Patrolman Finnigan. on Wednesday
night. and, grasping the soldier with Il
firm, cold hand, the policeman lugGed
him to City hall III the municipal am
buiarce.
Had Paris had the good sense of his
famous namesake of ancient history
Who spelled his name with a single X,
he might have been let off Thursday
morning in court. However. he plead
ed not guilty ana was at once locked
up again. to await the arrival Of the
night police at ) o'clock in the after
noon.
As Paris time expired at 9 o'clock,
Thursday morning, and as he has no
money to pay his prospective fine with,
his position may he described as some
what worse than had he gone to Cuba