Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-08

Local anu State Nems.
Coal is retailing in Waldoboro' at Shopper
ton, gross weight.
milkman in this city drives thousand
ollar span of grey horses.
The milkmen now charge six cents quart
for milk, the water thrown in.
June butter is laid down for winter use at
IS cents pound
Three weeks more of school in the village
district before the long vacation.
It is expected that the steamer, being built
at Jefferson for the navigation of Damaris-
Gotta Pond, will be completed by July 4th.
The percentage of taxes this year, as as
certained by the Assessors, will be sl.9o per
500, and not $l.95, as stated in these columns
Saturday. Last year it was $500
Miss Hodgkins, the accomplished teacher
of music, is preparing the children other class
for grand operetta, to be given shortly at
Granite Hail.
A mixture of ground plaster and kerosene
A. hos hyO
any other bug-quicker nor a minute. Try
it.
One of the patients at the Insane Asylum,
Friday, gave birth to child. The mother is
doing we'll. Fortunately the child only lived
short time.
Mr.. Charles Brown is to remove his stock
of goods to the Lombard store, No. Bridges
Block, where he will locate permanently.
He will continue to keep full stock Of ladies'
and gents furnishing goods.
We are glad to notice that the Trustees of
the Cony Female Academy have erected
very handsome fence on their lot containing
their three story brick boarding house, corner
Bangor and Myrtle streets.
At the annual meeting of the Stockholders
of the Somerset Railroad, to be held at Nor
aidgewock on Wednesday, it will be decided
what action to take in regard to extending
the road from West Waterville to this city.
Slasher, the fine Knox Stallion, owned by
Gen. VIM. S. Tilton of the Soldiers Home,
trotted q full mile Friday afternoon in private,
at the Park of Geo. M. Robinson, in 2.37.
This was Slashers first appearance upon
the track this season.
The officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of Maine will institute Lodge at
Gardiner, on Wednesday evening next. Quite
a number will attend from the Lodge in this
city, taking the six o'clock afternoon accom-
mediation train, and returning by the Pullman,
a little past two the next morning. One fare
will be charged for the round trip. Sojourn-
ing brethren are invited to participate.
The reunion of the Bisbee family was held
at Sumner, on Friday. There was gather
ing of one hundred and thirty Ave of the de-
scendants of Charles Bisbee, who ninety years
ago came from Pembroke, and settled on the
farm where the reunion was held. A picnic
dinner was enjoyed, and speeches were made
by Ex- Gov. Perham, Hon. Geo. D. Bisbee,
DR.. Lapham and others.
Farmers in this region have be en- much de-
layed in their ordinary spring work by the FREE
quent rains, and cold, backward season. In
some cases land that was intended for grain,
has been sown with the intention of gathering
the yield for fodder, simply. But very little
corn has been planted. We are informed that
many farmers, cultivating low land, have
not as yet been able to get in any seed.
In the window of saloon upon Water
street is exhibited, among others, quart bot
tie with a very small neck, containing good
sized miniature saw buck, wood saw and axe,
all artis.ically made and well put together;
showing considerable amount ofwork within
small compass, and probably intended as
characteristic of the amount of work, or
destructiveness, to be depended upon among
the other wares.
The granite watering trough in Market
square has been repaired and connection made
with the main of the Augusta Water Compa-
ny, 80 that now man and beast may be sup
piled with pure spring water. The water is
kept constantly flowing. The work was we'll
superintended by Marshal Harrington. Now
let the city fathers give us two more such
drinking places, one near the Augusta House,
and the other near the railroad bridge cross
ing Water street. This will be great aid in
the suppression of rum and beer drinking.
On Friday night, when the Pullman train
from Bangor was passing the Court street
crossing, in this city, running at good rate
of speed, man jumped from one of the cars
and landed in the darkness among the old iron
and other rubbish lying there, which had been
thrown out from the railroad shops. The man
fell sprawling at full length upon the mass of
stuff; the engineer, thinking he was killed,
hauled up the train, and went back to inquire