Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-10

SoleIilH thought on New Year reSOlu-
tons.
Along with the debate. Colby and
Bates are planning on basket ball
contest later on.
How busy are feminine fingers now
with the mysterious preparations for
the 25th.
All Maine mourns with Waterville in
the great loss 1t has just sustained
Belfasts experience in locking up I'M
ruly deer in the police station is some
thing unique in our game history.
Inc pen and not the rod is the instru-
ment for punishment of naughty bows
at Good VIII Farm. A caller lately no.
ticed a little fellow diligently working
out his penance which was to sit apart
from his fellows and write 300 times the
sentence: Il had better mind my own
business, and before the little chap
hao finished he had come to the con-
ciision that it was pretty good advice
to follow.
IL VIII De known for years as the
great storm-that of November 9th
1873. The horror of the loss of the
Portland has somewhat overshadowed
the great destruction of life and prop
efty elsewhere, except along shore
where many wife, mother, child or
sweetheart mourns as one who cannot
be comforted. Statistics are but dry
reading. but in this case they tell a
frlghtful story. OF Maine vessels alone
% nave been lost. many with a mart of
the crew, some with all on board. every
wreck being accompanied with suffer
lhg' ~ more have been badly damaged
eight having been in collisions, but all
yet above water. AZ others were ashore
at various places at last accounts and
u others are missing-all this damage
having occurred during the last two
weeks, and this not including the miss
ing steamer Pentagoet, now given I'D
as lost.
Portland Transcript: Without at
"AS cAPidiidtioil the IoilOWlnS
facts, capable of notification, are given.
A certain fortune teller was consulted
IN spirit of fun by several young lad
les. all OF the highest responsibility
ana intelligence. OF one it was stated
mat she was engaged to a young man
VINO was far away; that she would
never see him again, but he would come
Tor her soon and come in storm. The
young man died the past summer at
Chickamauga, and this Young lady m
"hom ne was engaged, persisted in the
wreck of the Portland.
Belfast Journal: The past week was
one on the saddest this community has
ever known. Sickness and sorrow
were IN many homes, and the death
ron of Sundays storm was appalling.
our own dead included the last male
representative but one of a family long
identified with the business interests
OF the city, and an official who had al :
ways smile and a pleasant word for
everyone, and who could not have had
an enemy in the world. Two former
residents of Belfast went down with
the ill-fated steamer Portland. Fovir
seafarers from one little island in tha
town OF lslesboro persisted in the rig
glng of their vessel on the Massachu-
setts coast. Searsport, Bucksport,
Wlnterport, Lincolnyille--indeed all
the nearby towns, We're bereft of loved
ones by the cruel storm, and COM
munities mourned with the bereaved.
Aside from the ties of kinship, which
are far reaching in our old towns ana
villages, there is a universal brother
hood that at such times as these binds
us as one family. jewellers in the
large cities know nothing of this senti-
ment. There people pass away as
snowfakes that fall in river. An un-
usual tragedy causes an exclamat ton.
and no more is heard of it. But here,
on the shores of Penobscot bay. a
shadow has rested on every face and
there is sympathy in every heart for
all who have been bereft.
A Portland gentleman, who proyi-
dentially got left by the steamer Port
land and came home by rail, has been
ever since sick abed from the nervous
ness consequent upon his realizationso of
his marrow escape.
Twenty-one years ago while Alber.