Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-19

local ami State Nems.
First class hands have commanded three
dollars per day in the liaying field this year.
The last month has called forth grand dis
play of the prettiest toilets imaginable.
Our Daily has become popular on the early
train as elsewhere.
The new white skirts of white alpaca have
fittings bordered with black colors.
A large party of ladies, gentlemen and chill
dren left the city for Mouse Island, Boothbay
harbor, on Saturday morning.
If the warm weather continues the small
amount of ice remaining on the kennebec will
bring fabulous prices. ...
gentleman who has recently been car
red to the Insane Hospital, escaped Satur-
day and came across the river in boat. He
was carried back to the hospital
Several Augusta boys, now residing in Bos-
ton, are spending their annual vacation season
in this city. They anticipate trip to the salt
water before returning to Boston.
Sunday is acknowledged on all hands to
have been the hottest day of the season, and
yesterday was another ''hottest day of the
season."
Farmers generally in this vicinity will close
up the hay harvest this week. The crop can
be safely put down as one third smaller than
last year, but the hay is heavier and of supe-
rior quality; so that what has been lost i'll
bulk is made up in quality.
Alphonzo Dodge of Gardiner, who was
arrested in this city for obtaining goods under
false pretences, has been arraigned upon the
charge before the municipal court. He
waived examination and was bound over to
appear at the August term of the Supreme
Judicial Court.
large proportion of our citizens must be
either black -hearted or cherry in their dispo
stions by this time, for bushels of black
hearted cherries have been consumed here
within few days. The market was never
more glutted with them and they have sold
"at prices within the reach of ALL"
Our Gardiner correspondent informs us
that Mr.. J. L. Cheeseman sold yesterday a
large cargo of ice to go South The price
paid was fifteen dollars per ton on board The
same party takes another cargo at twenty
during the month of August. Parties from
Washington were at Gardiner yesterday ne
gotlating.
The Dexter Gazette has this heading to an
article: "a man attempts to leave the World
in Ripley" Did the man attempt to leave this
mundane sphere? and is Ripley the jumping
off place Or is the man agent for the New
York World and made an attempt to leave
copy of that corrupt sheet in the virtuous
town of Ripley?
The daily edition of the Kennebec journal,
we are glad to learn, has proved a successful
enterprise. 1t has been published about six
months and the Augusta people now wouldn't
know how to get along without it.-PorttdAd
Daily Advertiser.
We are gratifed at the cheering notices we
are receiving from the Press. We labor ear
nestly to deserve all they say of us.
Mr.. D. w. Vining has opened first class
eating house in Gardiner, which he intends TO
keep always supplied with the best the mar
ket affords The proprietor enters upon his
new undertaking with the intention of keeping
saloon every way worthy the patronage of
the public and of which the citizens of Gar
diner need not be ashamed.
Two hundred and fifty citizens of Wor-
cester, Mass, have chartered a steamer for
the purpose of visiting the eastern coast of
Maine and New Brunswick, to be gone about
ten days. They propose to make a run up
the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers, and will
furnish their own supplies for the occasion.
They will have cordial welcome to the Ken
nebec.
New ice companies will be formed noxt
winter, and the business of storing ice on the
Kennebec engaged in more extensively than
ever before. Talk about cotton being King
at the South! Ice is King on the Kennebec.
The harvest fields need no fencing; the crop
never blights or mildews; the drouth never
affects the business; but while Jack Frost
lives in his northern home, the crop is always