Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-10

1t Is nopeu 10 get inc JAN " oihehol' iS"'y
for business during the present month.
Mr.. j. II. Leigh of Iallowell, is to build
another cottage at Squirrel Island.
Mr.. G. II. Terry of this city, is not only a
shoemaker but preacher. He deals with
the soleS Of man.
The fall term Of the Maine Wesleyan Sem
mary commences August 10Th, for a term of
thirteen weeks.
Hon. 2. M. Stubs, of Strong, has paid his
forty first annual subscription to the kenne-
bee Journal.
Mt. Vernon sends the following delegates
to the county convention: f. c, Fellows,
John Walton, Q. l.. Smith, Joseph Blake.
One drunk before the Municipal Court Sat
urday, James Smith. Swears he never will
get drunk again in Augusta.
The effects of the great rain on Saturday
morning were quite apparent at Dirigo, as we
learn from our correspondent. Considerable
low land was covered in the morning.
Mr.. Daniel Davis of Jefferson, now in his
9Gth year, has got the hay on his five acre lot,
doing the moving, raking and pitching HIM
self.
For the very excellent and comprehensive
reports of the State campmeeting, our readers
are indebted to Mr. +. II. Traitor, recently
A. Il
An intelligent democrat inquired at this Of
fee Saturday, if we could inform him "who
this ere Mister O'Berien is that has been NOM
mated aginst Jim Blaine?" We give it up.
Our Methodist friends at the camp meeting
had but one way Of baptism on Saturday, and
that was thoroughly by immersion. Iii gen.
orally believed that the Lord had something
to do with that baptism, too.
Asylum Lodge of Odd Fellows CT this city,
have decided to participate in the great cele-
bration at Portland, on the 18th inst. They
have invited the Gardiner lodge 10 join with
them, and the invitation has been accepted.
dTdHtA ldettr d. Silt W III NlSlL ihdkttn dti-
keag on the 18th, to constitute Pine Tree
Lodge, install the officers and dedicate their
new hall. The next day he will constitute
Lynde Lodge at Hermon, install officers and
dedicate hall.
The Rockland Gazette has put on dress
of new type, which has greatly improved the
typographical appearance of that enterprising
local paper. With the new type the proprie-
tors are able to present each week eonsid-
erably larger amount Of reading matter than
heretofore.
We have noticed several full grown idiots
who have recently jeopardized their lives, by
jumping on to the train at the crossing, foot
of Court street, instead of going TO the depot
and quietly getting aboard the cars before the
train started. These fellows will get their
names into the newspapers, one of these days,
but it may be after they unable TO read
anything but celestial print.
A correspondent at Gardiner SAYS that at
Two o'clock Saturday morning, rain hal not
commenced falling there. A correspondent
at Skowhegan writes that there was slight
shower there, but it cleared off Saturday.
forenoon. We think that everybody in this
vicinity has consciousness that it rained
some here.
At the Republican Caucus in Iiallowoll, held
on Saturday evening, the following delegates
to the County Convention were chosen:
J. r. Bodwell
James Atkins, Jr.,
j. ii. Lowell,
ii. S. Barton,
John Graves,
George S. Fuller.
The delegation favors the election of Hon.
Hannibal Hamlin for United States Senator.
The Androscoggin Pulp and Paper Com
pany, of Portland, have a large mill, nearly
completed, on the Sebasticook, in Benton,
a little below the saw mill of Messrs. Heath
& Crosby. lii intended for the man ufacture
Of binders board, from pulp made of poplar
and spruce combined. Heath & Crosby, who
are largely interested in the enterprise, sup
ply the material for the construction of the
mill.
The catalogue and circular of the Western
Normal School at Pennington, has been is
sued. There were 95 students at the fall
term, and 1876 at the spring term, which is
most excellent showing. The able Principal,
Mr., c. c. Rounds, has a competent corps of
assistant instructors, and with the facilities
afforded by the State, makes this a training
school for teachers that has but few equals.
The fall term is to begin on the 25th of August,
at which time large class is expected to
enter.
In its factory notes" the Wateryille Mail
says that the foundation wall at the east end
having been completed, a large force are at
work laying brick, and as the whole length of
the building rises to view we begin to see that
we are to have big thing in brick. The
timbers of the second floor at the west end
are in place, the brick work having been car