Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-21
local anu State Nems.

Local anu State Nems.
Anewspaper advertisement calls for plain
cook, able to dress little boy five years old.
The Free Baptist Society will hold social
festival at their vestry this evening. Admis-
sion free. Ice cream and other refreshments
will be on sale.
A careful estimate shows that the lines,
"The melancholy days are come-the saddest
of the year" will be quoted about $4,000
times during the next three week.
Miss Dix, the lady who has done SO much
to ameliorate the condition of the suffering, is
making Bath brief visit, and is the guest of
Mrs. c.. A. l.. Sampson.
There is to be large sale by auction of the
lot of second hand stoves at the State House.
Those who are getting ready for the winter
would do well to attend.
The stated convoc ton of jerusalem r. A
c., for work in all the degrees, takes place at
Masonic Hall in Hallowell, this afternoon at
l-2 o'clock.
On Monday during some experiments with
the small engine in the window of Messrs.
Fuller, Conner & Co., Sewing machine agents,
Water street, the boiler burst from over
pressure. No one was killed.
A monster block Of granite can be seen at
the stone shed of the Hallowell Granite Com
pany, which weighs twenty tons. 1t is to be
sent to Mr.. Millman of Boston, for a soldiers
monument
''Those who have tears to shed prepare to
shed them now" Onions were never more
plenty than at the present time. One man in
New Hampshire has raised onions enough on
less than an acre Of land to buy thousand
bushels of corn.
Our merchants have complained during the
summer that is now ended, of dull times, and
not without cause. But this is not extrasrdi-
nary Trade is always dull during the sum-
tons of revival in this early autumn time, and
with vgor that betokens a season of un-
wonted prosperity in all classes of business.
Our friend Hartford, who has just moved
into his enlarged and renovated house on Oak
street, where we trust he may enjoy many
years of domestic comfort. has not been neg
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choice fruits in his garden. From one little
pear tree he has just gathered two bushels of
ripened fruit. One small twg bore twenty
full grown pears.
John jenkins plead guilty in municipal
court yesterday, to the charge of selling in
|toxicating liquor. Fined $50 and costs ap-
pealed and found sureties in sum of 5000.
Geo. NJ. Howard plead not guilty of same Of
fence; found guilty, fined $50 and costs ap-
pealed and found suretes. II. N. Chad
bourne was found not guilty of single sale in
June last, but was adjudged guilty of sale
few days since; fined $50 and costs, from
which he appealed and found sureties.
The work of putting the steam-heating ap-
paratus into the State House, has been COM
pleted and it works like a charm Every
part of the building is heated now cheaper
and more effectually by the new process
there is little or no danger from fire, and the
convenience of the thing will compensate
| in one winter for the cost of making the
change. A new fue is now being built in the
chimney through which the draught is obtain
/ ed.
Our readers have noticed the dissolution of
the copartnership of Messrs. Richards & Hall,
These gentlemen have prospered in business,
but too close application to hard work has so
worn upon Mr.. Richards that he deems it jul
dicious to retire from active service for a
short time, and devote himself to the recu-
peration of his physical energies. Mr.. Hall
continues the business at the old stand. He