Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-10

Kennebec river. in the afternoon il
the shape OF snip timber CARLOAD
had been laid down at the York stree
yard at Bath.
Tileston Wadlin, Esq. of Belfast
clerk of courts. for Waldo comfy. ha!
forwarded to the registrar of vital sta
| tistics the annual report of divorce.
decreed by the supreme judicial cour
FOR Waldo county for the year ending
| Dec. ii, 1899. The report shows Is di-
vorces decreed; at the January term
| :: at the April term 6; at the Sep
| TENDER term, 4; on complaint of The
husband, 8; on complaint of the wife
| Il. Causes of divorce We're as follows
| cruel and abusive treatment. Z: deser-
| ton, A.; gross and confirmed habits OF
intoxication. 4; failure to support 9
adultery, |. One man claimed deser-
ton for 10 years. One couple had beer
married sc years; one, 81 wears: one
70 years; one, "a years; one, 20 years;
one. II years; all the others less than
10 years.
met Portland boy this week who
has been on the road for some time
with show. playing the cornet in the
orchestra. He had to throw up his lob
and return home owing to one of the
most peculiar causes | ever heard of
lie had tooth pulled, and in extract
ing the mOlar the dentist fractured the
Jaw. In due time the wound healed
up and the musician considered him
self in shape to resume playing
When he tried to do so. however. he
was greatly surprised, and alarmed as
we'll. to find that when he blew his
wind passed out through his nose in
stead of into the instrument He
straightway consulted a surgeon and
an examination showed that when the
fracture closed up a small hole re-
manned that entered the nasal passa &c.
me doctor was of opinion that the
DEFECT could be remedied by q surgical
operation. but the patient concluded
not TO have it done right away. With
his occupation gone. unless he saw tit
70 accept engagements in dime
museums as freak cornetist who
could play solos with his nose. the VIC
tim If the peculiar disability decided
TO return to Portland.-Portland Ar
gus.
Mrs. Rufus Griswold Of Bangor has
presented the Boston public library A
valuable collection Of manuscript let
Inns left by her late husband. ana III it
the Boston Record says: This colec-
ton has the very highest value as COW
ering the period about 1S30-70. when
" hen the literary men Of America
maintained relations Of intimacy OF
which in our day We see little. Girls
void was the fire-brand in American
literary history. But not only was he
a perpetual disturber of the
literary peace, he is probably
entitled to he known as the
first cf the great literary editors.
Edgar Poe preceded him as editor Of
Graham's Magazine. which brought
cut the budding and blossomed genius
Of the dav. but it was as a creator of
compositions and a caustic reviewer
alone that Poe shone and made his
magazine popular, whereas GrisWold
not only stirred the guild continually
with his peculiar and feroCiously eX-
pressed views on current writing but
he drew t. his pages the representa-
tive men If the time. Hence this col
lection If letters shows some Very re-
markable names. We find Horace
Greeley writing about book Of Mar
garet Fuller's remarking with 4
phrase which We are likely to consider
our own: This is real stuff There
are 30 Of these Greeley letters There
are ten letters from Thomas
Chilvers. who contended that Poe stole
the metre Of The Raven from his
own earlier piece; and 10 letters from
Poe himself. several Of them referring
to the plagiarism of others. and one
of them notably accusing Longfellow
of having stolen the title, aIlegory and
whole idea of his The Beleaguere1
City from Poe's The Haunted Palace
Whittier is represented with % letters.
mainly in reference to contributions.
and there are two from Henry Clay"