The Portland daily press., 1899-09-01
STATE GOSSIP.

There was lots Of disappointment at
York Harbor the other day. The report
had somehow gone forth that Presiden
Mckinley was there-the guest Of Thomas
Nelson Page. The Old York Transcript
says crowds came on the cars from tins
beach and village to catch n glimpse OF
the President aud at the arrival Of the
$50 train at York hsrbor on which 1t was
expected the President would come the
station was crowded with an expsctant
crowd which was greatly disappointed
when he failed TO appear. 1t is supposed
that the story started from President Me-
Kinley's visit to York, Pa.
Secretary Young of the State Board of
Health has not had any reports OF an un-
usual prevalence of infectious disease for
some time The general health OF the
State haa not been better for long time
and there Is not any Epidemic ut any
point in the State which 1t at all alarm
ing.
Says the Kennebec Journal: People at
the afternoon train for the west, yesterday
afternoon, saw Mrs. Martha Leighton. of
Chelsea, walking up and down the plat.
torn with a jacket in her hands, anxious
ly scanning the faces ofaladits. This
jacket had been lost few days ago and
Mrs. Leighton had walked all the way
from her home In Chelsea, TO return 1t TO
the owner.
Mrs. leighton Is one of the, smart old
In NJ NJ inf h..sn l..o, on
day, last week, she walked In from her
home which Is about five miles from the
station ana took the train for Riverside,
where she visited a friend who lives two
miles from the station. She walked there
also and on the return the next day
walked the same distance.
She met lady on the train who hau
lost her jacket in the station in this city,
and on her return TO Augusta Mrs. Leigh
ton hunted 1t up and took it home. Then
Tuesday, having been toll the owner
was 10 pass through the city on her way
home to Worcester. Mass she wal ked
the i've miles to the city. SIZE failed to
find the owner on the train, and left the
jacket with the station agent.
A well.known Augusta man is consid-
erabIy poorer than he was last Saturday
morning. but1quite lot richer in expert
ence. He has bought nuluherless cigars
for his friends in an endsavor TO keep the
matter quist, but as he has often before
beensworked they considered 1t too good n
joke to keep, and are all saluting him
with "Easy Mark" This young man
4x.a To- nfA a.
for sail down river, Saturday, and
stopped for dinner at one of the islands
After dinner he went to the clerk and
paid for the dinners. and gathering the
wraps started for the boat which was
about to leave. This clerk noticed that
peculiar twinkle in the corner of the eye,
as an experienced man always gives away
an easy thing. just as this young man
was about to leave the office the clerk
hailed him ard said. al have made mis-
take. The dinners are 70 cents and you
owe me as cents more" Now this good,
kind-hearted. young man, inexperienced
In the ways of the world, really thought
that the clerk did not know how much
the dinners Of his hotel were, and very
quietly handed over rs cents more 90
A story is now going the rounds about
the late John Potter, ESQ.,. of Augusta, a
former partner of the laB Chen II. Pills.
bury. He was 60 a degree an absent
minded Individual at times. 1t is toll of
dr.. Potter that he was called upon TO
defend Salvation Army officer who in
the early days OF SAWS alton Army work
was indicted for pounding the bass drum
on the business streets of August The
day of the trial came in the supreme
court. MIR. Potter was there occupied at
the time of the mans alignment with
some papers which he shifted back and
forth in an absent-minded manner. The
indictment was Tread and the respondent
pleaded not guilty. Abe court asked him
II he had any one to defend him, and
raising his eyes and both hands csiling-
ward, said: "Your honor. the Lord Jesus
Christ will defend me- At this instant
Mr.. Potter became conscious of what was
going on around him, sprung quickly to
his feet, saying hurriediy, Eyes, yes.
your honor, am to defend the respon-
dent" Notwithstanding the eminence OF
his prisoner counsel conviction was the
result.
The Maohias Union says that the plant
and all the property belonging to Che
King Brick Manufacturing Co. of Port.
land was sold at a trustees ana mortga.
gees sale at Columbia Falls, last week.
to Seth L. Cushman of Boston. Ths
property, which is valued at 50. 900, was
sold for 50, 100 and the terms were $1,000
down and the balance within ten days