Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-01-07
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

Railway and the Kittery and Eliot Rail
way have been consolidated.
The state board of registration o
; medicine report that last year the,
examined Is persons and passed "a o
them.
i A recruiting party in charge of Lieut.
John r. Morris, U. S. NJ, is now il
Maine to enlist landsmen for the United
States warships.
The Countess Castellane, born Anna
Gould, has given $3.50 toward the fund
being raised at private school in Boston
for Foxcroft academy.
To succeed the late Samuel L. Neal as
judge of the Kittery Police Court
Charles C. Smith has been appointed
Mr.. Smith is "a years of age.
The most of the lower Kennebec has
been cleared, after long job with tugs,
of the rough freeze which it got after
the freshet, and the cold spell started a
good new freeze. The tugs are now
working on the Penobscot.
A damage suit on trial at Skowhegan
came to a sudden conclusion, as it de-
veloped that "a plaintiff and one of his
witnesses had been talking to two jurors.
Judge Powers fined them $50 and $40,
discharged the jurors, and continued the
case.
The Gail Borden Condensed Milk Co.
of New York have purchased the entire
property of the Maine Condensed Milk
Co., with factories at Newport, Maine,
and Whitefield, N. H., and will take
possession of the plants of the company
Jan. 8.
The fleet of Ross towboats has been
sold to Charles W. Morse of New York,
after having been in successful operation
on the Penobscot for fOrty-five years,
forty of which they have been in mo-
nopoly. The sale includes the steamers
Bismarck, Ralph Ross, Walter Ross and
Delta. No figures have been made as
to final purchase. The reported amount
is $4,000.
It looks as though Belfast's shoe fac
tory will be re-opened and operated by
Wright & Adde'S of Chelsea, Mass.
Their proposition is that they will buy
the machinery at fair valuation and
pay 81, 900 per year rental if the citizens
will loan them $4,000 at per cent in
terest. About two-thirds of the loan is
already pledged, and committee will
canvass among the business men for the
balance.
The annual statement of Hon. S. w.
10 fnfn ING M g
shows SIG, 520.50 was received during the
year, which beats all records against
S13, sos in 1900. The following shows
the receipts: Licenses to companies,
S4,230; 1850 agents, 81 l,036; 103 brOk-
ers, 1880; two special brokers, $40;
four examinations, $50; one statement,
1926; one charter, s26; miscellaneous,
$3.50. .
Frank H. Peavey, the millionaire own
er of grain elevators, who died at
Chicago Monday, Dec. 80, was a native
of Eastport. He was credited with be-
ing the largest owner of grain elevators
in the country, if not in the world. In
memory of his parents Mr.. Peavey gave
a beautiful public library building to the
city of Eastport some ten years since,
and has also made frequent donations
towards its support.
Marshall Shears was drowned in
Royal River at New Gloucester Satur- |
day night. Shears was a man about 60
years old, and so far as known had no
relatives, and had been at New Glou-
cester but short time. Early in the |
evening there was an outcry from the
direction of the river, and when the
neighbors rushed to the rescue they |
found that Shears had disappeared under |
the ice. AS quickly as possible hole |
was cut in the ice and the body was re-
covered.
JOHNS LETTER.
The Zadoc Long Library is proving to
be veritable mine of literary wealth,
and is being drawn upon quite freely but
not universally. We have dipped in
frequently and as we have had time. We
have struck nothing dull as yet. Irving,
Collins, Hugo and Cooper,
we're not subject to dull moments and if
they were they kept still about it and
did not afflict their readers. We have
lust completed Victor Hugo's NINETY
Three" What man for expression!
This is what he says of the sea: "The
sea never tells what it wants at the first
onset. Everything lies concealed in its
abyss, even trickery. One might almost
affirm that it had scheme. 1t advances
and recedes; it offers and refuses; it
,rranges for storm, and suddenly gives
M the intention, it promises an abyss,
and fails to keep its agreement; it threat.
ems the north and strikes the south. All
night long the corvette 'Claymore' labor
ed with the fog and feared the storm;
the sea had disappointed them in
savage sort of way. 1t had drawn
storm in outline, and filled in the picture
with a reef"
How fearfully realistic could Hugo be
at times. His description of the battle |
makes your hair crawl and your flesh
creep. Do you remember the three
children that were saved from the fire
when the tower was burned? "The |
children looked round. They were try |
ing to find out what it meant. When |
men feel terrified, children are simply |
curious; he who is open to surprise is
not easily alarmed; ignorance is closely
allied to intrepidity. Children have so
little claim on hell, that were they to
behold it, it would but excite their adj
miration." And do you remember how
they were saved and by whom? The
Marquis de Lantenac, the leader of the
Vendee, at the risk of his own life, and
yet they would guillotine him just the
same.
And do you remember that Gauvain,
the leader of the opposing force, set him
free and put himself in his place and was
guillotined by his own? We are so little
with that history that we
hardly know whether it be truth or
fiction. This is the way it ends: she
was laid upon the plank. The infamous
collar clasped that charming and noble
head. The executioner gently lifted his
hair, then pressed the spring; the
triangle detached itself, gliding first
then rapidly; frightful blow
was heard. At the same instant another
report sounded; the stroke of the axe
was answered by a pistol shot. Cein-
ourdain had just seized one of the
pistols that he wore in his belt; and as
Gauvain's head rolled into the basket,
Ceinourdain sent a bullet through his
own heart. A stream of blood gushed
from his mouth, and he fell dead. Thus
these twin souls, united in their tragic
death, rose together, shadow of the
one blending with the radiance of the
other"
The dark places of the earth are still