Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-26

Lewiston negroes are altogether toe
handy with their razors.
Arthur Sewall launches a 5000 ton
four mast ship, today.
The blood washed warriors have
gone and the devil will reign undis-
turbed at Old Orchard, the rest of the
summer
| When that Turner merchant has an
other good time he will see that the
woman in the case does not have an
opportunity to rob him of s1S5
a young eagle has been captured in
| Aroostook which it is proposed to send
to the lst Maine at Chickamauga. Tho
regiment has quite menagerie on It's
hands.
Rev. Cecil Deanc's gospel gun boat
is the only war craft now cruising
along the Maine coast. 1t is looking
for his satanic majesty and is sure Of
victory when the battle comes of.
\ Brooks lawn boasts Of a Scotch
thistle standing six feet and six inches
in height. 1t has 1l5 buds and blos-
SONS and is a beautiful plant. Just
picture the result if thistle of this
breed should break away from cap
tivity and spread through the fields
and gardens.
y writer in the Phillips Phonograph
says he was astonished to learn that -
buildings have been erected in that
village in the past Is years. II shows
steady growth, to he sure. but pretty
Phillips deserves TO grow faster than
that. Still an average Of four new
buildings year would gladden. the
heart of most Maine villages
Mrs. Walker mother Of his excel
lency. the Governor and one Of the old
and most esteemed residents Of Pitts
field. celebrated her S5th birthday on
Thursday Of last week. OF her seven
children all were present except the
Governor, who was Numerically alb
sent. Those who spent The day with
their mother We're Gorham Powers.
judge of the Minnesota United States
circuit court. Amos Powers. of San
Francisco. Secva Powers. of Pittstield
taSslus Clay Powers. n lawyer in Bos-
ton and Don A. II. and Fred A. Powers
of Houlton. one brother and two sis
tiers are dead. AS all who know her
are aware, Mrs. Walker is a woman OF
unusual ability, having been a school
teacher and at present she is most in
tercsted in the progress of education.
Four of her sons were educated at
BoWdoin College. though the Governor
himself attended Colby
People in the towns along the line of
tho great trolley system soon to con-
meet Lewiston, Lisbon. Brunswick and
Bath. are wondering if the feed wire
to be run along the line win bring daa-
ger with il. This wire will carry an
electric current of 10000 volts That
amount of electricity is greater than is
carried by any wire in Maine. and is
attempted by few lines in any part OF
the world. At st. Louis. Lowell. Buff
falo. Niagara FAILS, and a few other
places in this country such current IS
being operated
A correspondent who is a PHILOSOPHER
as well as haymaker thus expresses
himself when we had nothing but
a scythe. a mandrake and a pitchfork
to do our haying with and were -
long gDnl1t if that before Ia 81 no
old scythc would warp and twist With
rheumatism and the rake teeth would
chatter With the cold. we would go
about it with the playfulncss of lambs
but now when every form of machinery
renders it a matter of only week Or
so. we approach it with a world of
dread, and when the progress of in
vention shall enable us to do it all IN
day, we shall probably give it up in
despair"
The Spanish war seems to be blowing
good luck to the Kittery. Portsmouth x
York Railroad Company, Mr.. l. c.
Libby of that line being responsible for
the statement that since the Spanish
prisoners have been at Kittery the
earnings of his road have gone up to
nearly $1,000 a day, the increase being
| caused by people who want to get a
glimpse of the prisoners. THE gov
| eminent is very strict about letting
| anyone on the island" says Mr. Libby
the cars and boats of our lines which
| pass there are not allowed to come to
standstill near, but they do run
mighty slow as they go along there
and give the passengers all the show
there is to get glimpse at the
| prisoners"
People who attended school so or
! more years ago remember the time
when most of the seminaries and
academies of Maine received delega-
| tions of Cuban boys, who had been
sent north to be educated 1t seems
| that the famous Cuban leader Garcia
was one of these students, he attend
ing Yarmouth academy, in company
with 20 or so of his compatriots. George
| Woods, LII. D., late chancellor of the
Western University of Pennsylvania
and formerly a teacher in North Var