The Portland daily press., 1898-11-24
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST

STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST
The much talked of sardine syndicate
still hangs in the balance and no one can
say definitely whether it will succeeo "
fail For the past week. one OF tne WV
Mt Lubec looking over the field, ana ~ -
claimed that if the followers oouiu anal
a profit of $40, 900 the past SEASON eu9 nd
arrangements would be coIhple'o c.,;+a If
the money paid down at once; ~ spitS
the sue cessful season the saraile show
especially at Lubec seem unaple W So
~ ssss,yad nroft y fact which has coca.
stoned a great deal of surprise , 30
known that last year single factories ihauo
from Sl2, 1000 to SIS, 900 net gain.
With the summer boarders whlcn nave
become q feature of nearly every n;ter
in the State of Maine, Main1 n
notss a correspondening enanse IA man. ns
things The little stream enau "as s,;.nor
called Mud creek is now called MIlror
IrooE The hill that was called Foverty
ta;dra is now Mt. Caribou, and the farm
thst was once without name is called
Willow Hill farm OF Maple Grove Stoek
farm Over in eastern Waldo county there
is a mountain formerly called GUN
Misery" that has recently been nameu
sENouut Waldo by capitalists who have
onened a granite quarry there 1t received
its first name from the fact that many
years ago two young men perlsneu on -
in binding storm. Perhaps the moso
amusing incident in the attempt TO
change the name of any OF Maine ;
natural scenery relates to the changing u
tina name OF a sheet of water in this same
county. "Gooss Pond" it was called 1or
a hundred years, but at the west enu
there has recently grown up little sun
,ner resort and the Inhabitants tne,s VI
changed the name to SWAN Lake. Nom
everyb body at the west end for miles SPEAK
of IL as sfSwan Lake" but the inhabi-
tants of the east end say that their end is
yet ''Goose Pond"
The Bar Har5or Public Library CON
tains over 5000 volumes, 800 having been
added since June LIST. Last spring tne
library was re-catalogued under the
Dewey decimal system. During the four
summer months 1874 books were taken
from the library. This institution is
largely supported by the summer visitors
who use it freely during their soJourn IN
town.
The big lumber mills of the Ashland
Manufacturing company at Ashland were
shut down for the season last friday
after year or more OF almost contlhuous
operation. Last year the mills were run
all winter. but the cOnultAOu Va oAD iAaA
her market does not WARRANT the company
in keeping the saws going this winter
good stock of logs will be cut on Aroos-
tuok waters this winter for thu mills, and
saving be resumed in the spring.
These "a, have large capacity, having
turned OFT as much as io0, 0UU 1eet IN one
day. and ranging from that down TO 90,
coo feet. according TO the kind of lumber
bing sawed.
Daniel Murphy, junior, who was con-
yicted at the September term of court in
Aroostook county for the murder of his
father Daniel Murphy, senior, at mars
Hill last June, has not yet received MS
sentence The verdict, murder IN the
second degree, carries life sentence.
motion was made by his attorneys 60 tne
presiding Judge for a new trial, but was
refused 1t was claimed that the verdict
was not in accordance with the testimony
and should have been for mansiaughter.
That carries term Of years. A motion
has been filed in the Law court for new
1 ial and it may be year or go yet before
the matter is settled.
The noon train from ST. John to Ban
gor on Nc lday was made up OF Canadian
Pacific Railway passengers cars. Ihis
ARRANGEMENT viii be in force on alternate
DAYS, TWO trains being run, one OF Maine
Central and the other of Canadian PACING
cars. This is done in order to have
through cars between Bangor and St.
John and at the same time to thoroughly
clean the cars each day.
Treasurer S. W. Philbrick of the Ken
nebec Log Driving company, has recently
discovered some clever forgeries of the1l
time slips by which a Richmond trader
and another trader at Winslow, j. W
Bassett. have been defrauded out OF va
rious sums of money. Whoever did the
work WAS fairly well posted in the man
ue- in which the log driving company
transacted its business Tor the slips
varied in amounts as high as $50, are
properly filled out and signed. The
loss will not be borne by the log driving
company, as they will of course not honol
the slips, 20 that the men who bought
them will have to suffer the loss.
Henry Chesseman was found dead al
the foot of the stairs in hts Farmingdale
residence Sunday afternoon. by his
housekeeper. He had been slightly i'll
for several DAYS and it is supposed that
he had an attack of heart trouble while
discerning the stairs Henry Cheeseman
was the only son of James Z. Cheeseman,
the pioneer ice king of tbs Kennebec, and
since his fathers death had been living
with q housekesper at the family resi-
dence in Farmingdale. He was about %
years of age. For many years he was con-
neoted with the Knickerbocker Ice compa-
ny in the capacity of timekeeper and
a. ofo