Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-01

old Orchard is wondering if the daily
Sea Shell will make it's appearance.
Its office and outfit were destroyed by
fire and the owner wants to sell the
good will.
The monitor Wyandotte will not
reach Bath for some time, but the bot
Ting up of the Spanish fleet and the
mining of the Kennebec give the ship
ping city a feeling of comparative Sc
curity.
The war is crowding out the political
excitement. this summer, though
short, sharp and decisive campaign
will be fought later. The only real
warm contest is over the shcrin's
berth in Cumberland where those in
favor of a DespcauXtic rule are trying
to give their opponents a Dressing
down.
BY a curious coincidence Lieut.. Gill
bert NJ. Elliott of Brunswick. assistant
surgeon of the Isl Maine. now wears
a. XIV N'liii' sNNN'i u VIZ a
there by his uncle Of the same name in
the Civil War. His uncle was a college
student in New York. who promptly
enlisted when the war broke out, won
! his way to the rank of colonel. and
| died at the head of his regiment. the
| 102d New York. while leading des-
! perate charge at Lookout mountain.
| The Waterville jokers are telling the
story of how Charlie Tom Lee, the
| Maine street Chinese magnate. went
into Sam MtchelTs tailor shop to get
broad cloth suit that the Mitchell
| Co. had built for MIN. Sam and Char
| lie always talk war when they get to-
| gether and SO on this occasion they got
| to reviewing the war situation. sam
! is a warm admrcr of Fitz Hugh Lee
| while Charlie is rather stuck on Ad
mnal Dewey. When sam had fitted the
coat he said as he smoothed out the
wrinkles:
THAT fits you, Lee"
And all that Charlie said was DO
| he?"
Letters are arriving from the boys
of the 14th L. s. Volunteer Infantry
giving the details of the long ride from
Augusta to Chickamauga. An Angus
Ia man received one. yesterday from
q member of Co. f, and though 1t had
nothing of much news importance. aside
| from what has appeared in the paper,
it was nevertheless full of Interesting
| small gossip. The whole trip was one
| long ovation, and this with the ever
changing scenes through which they
were speeding kept the boys in good
| spirits in spite of the tireSome eX-
periencc of the long confinement in
the cars. At Albany some pocket ped
dlers We're caught by Mayor Peterson
trying to sell liquor to the boys, and
were promptly driven away. At Phil
adelphia they We're given 4 chance to
move around the station in double
time to get limbered up and it was
welcome order. The first opportunity
for good wash was given at Cumber-
land, Md, at daybreak Sunday morn
ing. At Washington a musical darkey
was captured and he furnished fun for
the regiment in the various cars. AT
one point the Co. r boys captured a
small yellow dog, and impressed him
into the service as mascot. 1t was
weary but happy crowd Of Maine boys
that finally reached Chickamauga, all
well and ready for whatever service
war had in store.
Philadelphia Ledger: Reading the
repeated stories of mysterious vessels
seen in the North Atlantic, all war
ships. but always too far away to be
identified, one can begin to understand
the weird stories of ghosts. witches and
divers uncanny things which made life
miserable for the early settlers of New
| England, as related in the narratives
of Cotton Mather and other historians
These phantom ships have been COM
ing over the horizon, showing them
selves dimly through the fog and melt
ing away again for several weeks.