Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-30
NoeaI ann State .Nems.

NoeaI ann State .Nems.
Mr.. 3laine's eldest son, Walker Blaine, gradu-
ated at Yale last week.
The democrat. Of brunswick raised a flag for
Tildcn yesterday, fred guns and rang bells
The Augusta House was galy decorated yes
terday, with Hayes and Wheeler flags.
The attention of the members of the Reform
Club and Ladies Temperance Union" is called
to the advertisement OF excursion on the 4th.
The caterpillars, having finished their work of
destruction and devastation, are dying and drop
ping from the trees.
Farmers are late about their hoeing, on account |
of the wet weather, many net having hoed then
corn for the first time.
The Mansion House was alive yesterday with
Tilden flags. "Tilden and Reform" appeared on !
a flag, hung out ON Water street.
Leighton, Scruton & Co., in want OF young
man to learn the dry goods business Sec their
advertisement.
a prominent democrat on hearing the nomna-
ton of Tden, was heard to remark, 81 cant 60 |
for man whom no woman will have
Gov. Conner, attended by several members of |
his staff, has gone to Philadelphia to attend the
exercises at the Centennial on the Fourth.
A form of service for July ith has been set
forth by several Bishops the Episcopal church.
among them Bishop Nicely.
Several gallons of liquor intended to make the |
celebration last evening more spirited, were
seized at Ivory Hayes saloon, yesterday after
We understand that there is gradual i'm |
provement in the case of Mr. Daniel w. Gordon,
who was murderously assaulted by Bolton the |
other light. |
Col. G.. r. Swallow, Cashier of the First Ma
,onal Bank, of Trinidad, Colorado, has been |
spending few days in this city. Mr.. Swallow |
was accompanied by his wife.
The soldiers monument at Waterville is daily |
becoming "a thing of beauty" and is rapidly ap- |
preaching completion. The soldiers monument |
in Augusta is still in "embIyo."
Valuation OF Gardiner last year was S., 300 1888; |
this year 1876, valuation is S2,4si36S. Less than
last year, $40 go. Rate of taxes last year 10 mills
and fraction this year 81 mills.
After another tug is placed upon the route be- |
tween the two companies there will be ten tow |
boats on the Kennebec. Things so lively on |
the upper Kennebec that most likely the tugs will |
all have enough to do.
The republicans of Brunswic lex en- Wednesday |
evening cast to the bretzes a nice Hayes and |
Wheeler flag. There was great enthusiasm. Hon. |
c. Gilman called upon and made one of |
the best speeches of his life. |
Great preparations are making for ce LIBERATION J
Of the Centennial 4th at China village. The vari-
GU. Sabbath schools of Vassalboro and temper
organizations are to have picnic and an in
tellectual celebration at grove near North Nassal
boro.
We learn from the third annual report of the |
See ety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to animals
in Portland, that during the year $50 cases have
been investigated the Agent, Mr.. Sawyer, reports
that the Society have resulted in agreat reduction |
of cruelty and growing sympathy for animals
We are glad to know, for the sake OF the truth, |
that the despatch to the Boston Herald Of yeser-
day, from Augusta, was not sent by the regular |
correspondent of that paper 1t represented "un-
parslleled enthusiasm among the democrats, lib |
erals and independents over the nomination of Til
den.
Mr.. Scott Bowman, son of David Bowman Of |
Sidney, aged about % years died last Saturday, |
very suddenly, of diptheria. lie had been sick |
but few days, the disease assuming the most |
malignant type, and battling the skill Of the most
experienced physicians.
Mt. Vernon has at last decided 10 celebrate the |
glorious Fourth with fantasies in the morning,
ton and picnic dinner under the auspices of the Re-
form Club, tub race, foot race, bag race, &C. In |
the evening there will be a grand concert and |
dramatic entertainment by the band.
Having has commenced in moderate measure |
about the farm houses and in the smaller fields, |
but next week the farmers will strike into it in
earnest; after celebrating the Fourth in quiet |
manner, they will enter upon the hardest part of |
farm experience, and the most profitable, with |
great energy.
DR.. Harlow, Superintendent Of the Maine In |
sane Hospital, has returned from his trip to Phil /
alelphia, where he has been attending the meet |
ing of the Superintendent Of Insape Hospitals in |
that city, and also the Centennial exhibition. On |
his return, he made short visit to the old home |
stead in Vermont.
The Press Of yesterday says
The st. Louis nomination attracted singularly |
little attention last evening. One hoary headed |
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