Courier Gazette : April 20, 1897
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Rockland Gazette The l argest Rockland Tribune Circulation Union Times In Eastern Maine Consolidated March 17, 1897 T he Courier-Gazette. TWICE-A-WEEK . TUESDAY AND SATURDAY. Rockland Maine Tuesday April 20 1897 Two Dollars a Year Vol. 52. No. 21 on 5'h Mav, 1746, launched on 18th July, WITH ROD ANO DUN ON THE GOVERNOR HISTORICAL SKETCH ADJUTANT GENERAL WHO? IN A CORNER OF THE LIBRARY. 1748, and fitted as a Guard Ship. She ap pears to have been employed as a Guard Ship Tho Wreck of tbe F.i i r II hI i Frigate Somer Interview With (lov. Powers on the Situa N otes o f Forest and Stream From tl»e B ook A New Yorker Claims to Have Interviewed andon Hom e Service until 1774, except dur Little, Brown & Co. have just published Our Distinguished Chief. set Near Ancient Provincetown. tio n — H ere’s H oping (len. Cllley Oet a It. Captain Mahan’s “ Life of Nelson.” RED of a i/ocal Sportsman. ing the time she was under repairs at Chatham, Last week Archie Smalley, Ihe one-armed The New York Sun’s Portland correspon About one mile westward from the Peaked apparently between 1768 and 1770. The Bangor Commercial of Wednesday Apollo Mailt off, the Russian p^et, died re hunter, bad some fun with the honkers. H e dence recently contained the following breezy H ill Life Saving Station, Provincetown, Mass , She left England in October, 1774, for the contained an interesting letter from Houlton, cently at St. Petersburg at the age of 77. H e saw a flock of 23 in Broad Cove, and having account of an alleged interview with Gov. buried beneath the sands, liea the wreck of North American Station. She returned to in which was set forth the following timely started as a painter, but weak eyes forced him ROUGH a float disguised to look like a cake of ice, Powers. It is well written but we guess a few the English Frigate Somerset. A stone England in 1776 and appears to have been interview with Gov. Powers on the question into literature. he got within shooting distance of the ducks, pinches of salt ought to go along with i t : bound mark has been placed near the spot, fitted again as a Guard Ship. She left Eng of who is to be the next adjutant general of Thomas Nelson Page, whose pen has not fired at them and got two. W ith another shot hut the wreck lies buried some twenty feet in land in March, 1777, and was lost on Cape M aine: been much in evidence of late, is now en at two of the birds he got one. The week be the sand. Cod on the td or 3d of November, 1778. gaged upon a new novel of considerable “ I am inclined to think you lometiraea fore he wounded one which he did not secure. This vessel has a history intimately I am, sir, “ W e ll,” said Gov. Powers, as he scratched length. HANDS choose odd characters for governor down connected with Provincetown. Authentic away, signing his name to letters in his rough A boy c-m e upon the bird afterwards and Your obedient servant, Itch in g , scaly, bleeding palms, shapeless nails, here.” The speaker was a aleck and thrifty- In May, Dr. Fritz Hummel's work on records give the information that she was a E v a n M acgregor. and ready chirography, “ I suppose the next and painful linger ends, pimples, blackheads, shot it. looking New York business man who was “Ancient Hebrew Tradi'ton” will be pub Arthur Sunderland heard a flock of geese third rate frigate, built in Chatham dock regular job I have on my hands is to ap oily, mothy skin,dry, thin, and falling hair, Itch passing a few hours between trains at one of lished simultaneously in the United States, in the early morning of the 13th and jumped yards, England, and launched July 18, 1748, point an adjutant general. I don’t know yet ing, scaly scalps, all yield quickly to warm baths HIS MEMORY HONORED- England, and Germanv. D r. Hummel con Portland’s hotels. and carried sixty-four guns, thirty-two, eigh who I shall appoint and even if I did know w ith C u t ic u r a So a p, and gentle anointings c ut o f bed to behold a large flock flying very troverts the method employed by the higher w ith C u t ic u r a (ointment;, the great skin cure. “ How so?” I asked. teen, and twelve pounders. In 1774 she left I don’t think I should tell anyone,” and the low. critics of the Old Testament. H e attacks the “ W ell, I ’ll tell you a little story,” said the England for the North American Station, re An Appropriate Act Which Recalls the governor shot his hand into his hair and I am told that there is a flight of snipes on. G raf Wcllhausen hypothesis. E. & J. 11. New Yorker. “ Sit down. A few weeks ago turning to London in 1776- Left England Loss of the Nathan F. Cobh. trailed the locks out into the air. “ I ’ll tell I happened to be at the Parker House in Young A Co. of New York will be the Ameri An Augusta paper states under the heading again in 1777 to take an active part in the Many of our readers w ill recall the wreck you though that my present notion is that I Boston, and while trying to kill time I fell can publishers. “Shouldn’t Have Gone Sunday,” that Erank war o f the Revolution; was present at the of the Nathan F . Cobb, which occurred Dec. shall not appoint anyone to the place until into conversation with a stranger in the public The Harpers have just published “ Saint Qtlcura Anne, while ducking on Cobossee stream, bombardment of Charlestown, being stationed 5, 1896, on Ormond beach, Florida. They after May 1, or until after I get back from lounging room of the hotel. The man had Eva,” by Amelia Pain; a novel by W. D. West Gardiner, Sunday, was probably fatally the third ship up the river in the line, and will also remember the gallant efforts of the New York. la aold throughouttha world. PoTTBB Dana ai»d Cbbm. attracted my attention becauae of his height Howells, “ The Landlord at Lion’s Head” ; a wounded by the accidental discharge of his covered the landing of the British troops, men of Ormond in rescuing the six sailors who “ But do you know there isn’t anything in Coar., Hole Prone., Beaton. and breadth, his swarthy complexion, straight new edition of Samuel Johnson's “ Alexander gun, the whole charge entering his right side. when the battle of Bunker H ill was fought. were discovered clinging to the wreck. the statutes to prevent Gen. Connor being and coarse black hair, and face strongly sug Pope,” edited by Kate Stephens; a new N o hopes o f his recovery. The poet Longfellow mentions the fact in one M any attempts were made before the life ension agent and adjutant general as well? gestive of Indian origin. H e was a six volume in the beautifully made series of books of his poems. Commanded by the notorious line was finally carried to the wreck, and in Rfot, of course, that there is any intention of footer, I judged, was long of arm and limb, by M ark Tw ain, “ How to Tell a Story, and My First and Last Coon Hunt.— We were Capt. Aurey, who took every means to an one of the«,e attempts the little boat rowed combining both offices in that manner. N< > and impressed me as easily eligible to the Other Essays” ; nnd “ Experiment in Educa- driving down Limerock street, four of us— noy the people of the defenceless coast, she by I I . F. Waterhouse of Portland. Me., and Gen. Connor has duly resigned ns adjutant awkward squad. It took but a minute or lion," a work on new methods of teaching myself, Fred Morang and two others. As we often made a rendezvous in Provincetown Thomas Fagen of Ormond was capsized, and general, his resignation to take effect when I two, however, for the discovery that he was a children, by Mary R. Alling-Aber. drew opposite the residence of Major Ulmer harbor and levied on tbe people for sup the former was drowned. see fit to appoint his successor. 1 shall not first-rate time killer and as full o f general in I saw something in one of the elms, about plies, and instead of paying for the same in All W inter the big vessel has been an hasten the matter unduly. It has been sug In reference to a lately published anec formation as a pecan is of meat. H e inter forty feet from the ground, to which I called money, would allow his chaplain to come object of interest to people driving upon gested that the new incumbent, whoever he dote of Campbell one is reminded of Walter ested me greatly with his pronounced views the attention of my companions, but as it lay ashore Sundays and preach to the people, Ormond beach, and has worked inshore un may be, would like to receive the appoint Scott’s story. “ When I repeated ‘ Hohenlm - upon public questions and his knowledge of curled up asleep none of us could make out giving that as an equivalent for the eggs, til it has been possible at low tide to go on ment prior to A ptil 25, in order that he may den’ to Leyden, he said, ‘Dash it, man, tell men and things.