Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-09

End gunner while out with his dog one
night last week came up within ~
yards Of deerand had quite a 1op 10
prevent his dogschasing it. He shortiJ
after canped out under tree whers
his dog had freed what he supposed
was coon aDa he waited until day
light and foundthroc little coons up IN
the tree They were too small to Xiii
SO he did not trouble Them. 1t IS re-
ported that coon hunters will ma
plenty Of sport this fall.
count of what she believes was the nrst
campmeeting ever held in Maine. IL
was in the town of Paris ard began on
the first day Of September, 1876, CLOS
ing on the 7th day. The meeting was
held on the farm Of good Deacon Val
entine Of the Congregationalist church.
and 1t is probable that the young
people Of that church needed the words
of Parson Walker when he told them
it was good place for them to go for
recreation as well as spiritual pro0t.
The first hospital train bearing home
the sick men of the 1st Maine was
something new and set fashion that
other states soon followed. Covering
it the following is said by Harper's
Bazaar: "They do some things very
well in the State of Maine. There was
Maine regiment in the camp at
Chickamauga that suffered very seri-
ously from the change Of climate and
the perils of camp life. 1t had lost IA
men from camp fevers, had a large
proportion of it's members in the hos
ptal, and was losing one man day.
The surgeons said that the best chance
for the sick men was to take them
home. The government gave the in
valids 30-day furlough, and the State
of Maine hired big engine and seven
Pullman sleeping cars to bring them
home. One hundred and twenty Maine
boys sick with typhoid and malarai
fevers and other diseases, We're loaded
into that train and started North. Or
they went to Cincinnati, to Cleveland,
to Buffalo, Albany. Boston and on to
Portland, and the country of pine trees
and granite. Supplies. ordered by
telegraph, were furnished for them
"isiiCue iiOAiSS Va PlISCs SHiChS ny lLC
Red Cross. Delayed ten hours at
Cleveland by breakdown, their train
was sent to the lake-shore, where it
got The cool lake breeZes All those
sick soldiers got back to Maine alive
and most of them improved very de-
cidedly on the journey. A good job
that. we'll done. and an incident of the
war worth remembering
The Electrolytic Marine Salts Com
pany naturally hate to give up the
plant at Lubec, and the electrician
they have employed to test the value
of Parson Jernegan's machinery has
decided to run the dynamos three
weeks before examining the accumula-
tors. He says that too much expensive
machinery has been used at the plant
The whole scheme was run regardless
of expense and that was one of the
chief things that made the bait look so
attractive and promising.
Monday september II, awill be the
grandest day in the history of Ports
mouth and Kittery. The citizens have
arranged to give the GOO United States
marines, the heroes of Guantanamo,
now at the Portsmouth navy yard
grand public celebration in honor OF
their bravery. On the same day the
members of Company a. LIST New
Hampshire Volunteers and Battery K,
U. 5. A, Will be welcdiiied and a
parade of the men from the warships
Will also take place. Five bands of
music will furnish music and all the
visitors will have a chance to visit
camp Long, where are camped 1900
Spanish prisoners. Special trains will
be run from all important points and
the lowest rates ever offered will be
named.