Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-05
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Belfast had a distinguished guest,
this week, in Colonel Henry E. Noyes
of the I'd U. s. Cavalry. He was born
there and passed his boyhood there,
but had not visited his native town in
"a years. He graduated from West
Point in 1851, and served through the
Civil War and since then in the regu-
| lar army. He served through the San
tiago campaign with honor, and ex-
poets to return to Cuba soon with his
regiment 1t is now at Huntsville,
Alabama.
The Bowdoin eleven didn't get cast
down by last Saturdays defeat. This
week it has been on an out OF the State
trip. and gave good trouncings to the
strong Exeter and Tufts elevens, on
Wednesday and Friday respectively.
Yale and Princeton needn't make so
much loud talk about each having a
parson on it's foot ball team. There
are others. For instance, the captain
and left end of the Haliowell eleven II:
Rev. r. F. Eddy, the Universalist
clergyman of the city, He was a Tufts
College player four years, and is a firm
believer in healthy wholesome, mus
cular Christianity. His team plays foot
ball in a way that is credit to the
game.
grSt-.
gus is Dragging about dog that
picked up it's masters hat that blew off
in a gale of wind and holding it care
fully in his teeth brought it to him.
That's nothing. Auburn has dog Of
such intelligence that he saw a gale Of
wind coming on Tuesday. November ],
1898, and, jumping up on his masters
shoulders held his hat on by his teeth
until the zephyr had passed. Then ne
brushed the dust off his masters Shout
der with his tail and jumped down to
go buy his master the evening paper
containing an account of his exploit.
And we have even wiser dogs than he.
Thomaston shipping had been pecu-
liarly unfortunate the past year. no
less than eight vessels having been
lost. The list includes: Nelson Bart
lett, Wiley wrecked in storm; Lizzie
Heyer Captain Delay, lost at sea-
nothing known; Jennie +. Wiley. Ben
ner. abandoned; Richard HILL Whit
more. run into by steamer and sunk:
Cyrus Chamberlain. Hart, burned in
Portland harbor: Cora Dunn, Harring-
ton, ashore on Cardenas; c. S. Glidden.
ran into sand bar off Bermuda; ship
Barring Bros Smalley burned at Kobu.
A kennebec county farmer who is
well-to-do and has accumulated all his
property by farming. remarked to the
Journal the other day: Some men
work their farms by the moon. but /
run mine to a certain extent by the adj
ministration. When Cleveland was
elected to his last term / sold all my
sheep as soon as ! was sure of his cleo |
ton. Down went the price and last
election l secured an option on 100 gopd |
sheep before l voted. Two days after
election l took them home and now
am offered more than twice the |
amount I paid for the same sheep"
There was considerable difference in
the percentage. of fire losses to pre-
miums in the different New England
states last year, according to the Off
cial statement, just made. In Maine
the percentage was ssh per cent, in
Connecticut 44A per cent, in Massa-
chusetts 59A, in Rhode Island 54A, in
New Hampshire 43a4 and in Vermont
1872 per cent. Maine last year paid
S13, ,49S as premiums for insurance,
while the losses paid back were only i
$7,627 $50. Statistics indicate that there |
is a wide margin for expenses and |
profits of fire insurance companies !
above premiums and losses-a large |
share of which is undoubtedly eaten up
by expenses. If some way could be de-
vised of lessening expenses, fire in
surance could be written at much |
lower rates.