Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-09-24
loral anu State Mems.

Local anu State Mems.
Slight frosts on Monday and Tuesday
nights, but no damage to vegetation.
Regular monthly meeting of the city coun-
Gil this afternoon.
The full board of Trustees of the Maine
Insane Hospital are to hold a three days ses-
sion in this city, beginning to-day.
Regular convocation of Jerusalem Il. A. c.
at Hallowell, this afternoon at two o'clock.
Work in all the degrees.
Quite a large number of our citizens are
improving the splendid we ather attending the
State Fair at Lewiston.
There are many sensible people who toll
patiently through the summer, choosing to
take their vacation in October, in the time of
the Oscar and yellow leaf"
Theodore Thomas will probably come this
way this season. His agent is making ar
engagements for his appearance in other parts
of the State.
Bryant and Osgood, the well known tenn
perance reformers, who are true to their pro-
LESSONS. have recently been speaking in Saco
and Biddeford.
Blasting at the granite lodges near this city,
where large force Of men are employed, can
be heard at intervals through the day. It is
just the right kind Of music, similar to that of
the anvil chorus or the sound of the carpen-
ter's hammer.
Judging from the large number Of young
ladies and gentlemen that may be seen daily
emerging from the entrance to the Dirigo
Commercial College in this city, Prof Watt
is being rewarded for his labors to bring his
school up to first class standard.
The locomotive of the accommodation train
ran off the track at the depot in this city, yes
terday morning about nine o'clock, while
backing up preparatory to starting for Gardi-
of only about fifteen minutes
Lincoln county will hold her 10Th annual
cattle show and fair at New Castle and Dam
ariscotta on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, Oct. 6th eth, and Sth. The officers Of
the society are doing their best to make the
fair an unusual success, and the promise is
that it will be so.
Mr.. Rollins, the proprietor Of the Evans
House in Gardiner, is in quest of faithful
and experienced lady TO take charge of that
part of the management of his house that
would naturally come under the supervision
of lady.
The ladies OF the Free Baptist Society have
arranged for an Antiquarian Supper in the
vestry of their church this evening. Ice
creams, cake and confectionery will also be
offered for sale. The public are invited
Supper will be served from 6 l.2 o'clock till
5. No admission fee.
Mr.. F. Lamson Scribner of Manchester has
collection Of plants at the State Fair. The
ferns, orchids and heaths are fully represen-
ted in the collection. There are no grasse 8
or sedges on exhibition, though we understand
Mr.. Scribner in his herbarium nearly all the
species of these two orders found in Maine
Gould & Cross present the Magee Stan
dard Parlor Stove and the Peerless Furnace
to the consideration of their friends and the
public, and those who desire to keep warm
during the approaching cold weather. The
Peerless furnace has stood the test Of
time. and we think has not its superior in the
market.
Some power, seen or unseen, is attracting
the hand organs hither The dulcet notes Of
double-ender smashed the September air
yesterday, while a little dirty faced tamborne
player circulated among the urchins on the
sidewalks, tempting them to squandyr for
music the pennies that had been intended for
permanent investment in candies.
Tiger Engine Company No. 4, of Haliow-
ell, Capt. X. Hodgdon, with forty men, ac-
companieG by the Hallowell Cornet Band, lief
on the half past ten o'clock train last evening
for Hyde Park. From thence they will go to
Boston, where they will be the guests of
Warren Hook and Ladder Company. They
will be accompanied by Capt. j. S. Snow
DIR. j. Q. A. Halves and others The boys
reception.
The North Carolina Jubilee Singers, that
appear at Granite Hall on Saturday evening
next, are composed of three ladies and five
gentlemen, persons of culture and refne
ment, two of whom are studying for the min
istry. Their rendering of the old plantation