Daily Kennebec journal., 1876-05-09

Zoral ann State Nems.
Rev Mr.. Adams, the pastor of the Metno.
dist church in this city, is very much liked.
Col. j. Manchester Haynes is expected to arrive
home to day, from his European trip.
The right hand of fellowship was given to one
person at the Baptist church last Sunday.
At the Winthrop street universalist church on
Sunday, six persons were baptized, and these
with oLc other were received into the church.
A man in this city yesterday, having on thick
woollen mtens, was driving team to plow. The
boy who was holding the pow was baiefooted.
Arrived yesterday, the three masled schooner
"Chas. Moore" Capt Russell, to load ice for Rich
mond, Va.
Eli Jones of China, the eminent Friend preach
er, is expected to sail from Queenstown. May 10th,
in the steamer China and will arrive in Boston
about the Goth. lie is in most excellent health.
There is considerable religious awakening in
the Congregational chulch in this city. -Four can
ddates were baptized and received into the church
last Sunday.
The business directory Of this city, published by
Mr.. Chas. II. Gatchell, has given the best of sas-
faction every subscriber pronouncng it to be the
cheapest and best advertising medium which they
ave ever invested in
Yesterdays Bangor Wing says:
Hon. A. G.. Wakefield of the Board of Trustees
speaks in high praise of an entertainment recently
given by the employees Of the Insane Hospital in
the new Chapel building, for the entertainment of
the mild class of patients.
Some twenty thousand dollars deposited
in the Waterville Savings Bank by citizens Of
North Vassalboro'. We understand that they
fuse to comply with the wishes Of a large number
of depositors, in taking out books, and in this
matter we have 70 doubt they are making a great
mistake.
Our readers will please to notice the change
in the advertisement of the Portland &
Worcester Line to New York and the centennial.
This is the only line running through f.om
Portland to Sound Steamers. Extraordinary fa-
cilities are offered to those who this line in
their trip to the Centennial Exhibition.
In visiting eating houses yesterday, the officers
found a spoonful or two of whiskey in a bottle
kept in the family cupboard in Mr.. Days place,
on State street. Mr.. Day has sold liquor at his
establishment, happy to bc informed, and
the liquor found in the bottle was put up on a ply
sician's prescription.
A gentleman living not a thousand miles from
Augusta, is in very low condition physically, and
will probably not survive many days. His atlec-
tonate wife, who has been her annual house
cleaning raid, in teariully speaking Of the ap-
proachirg dissolution of her dear husband tender
ly remarked to fricnd-"OA' iow shaY mss
Ain. eehsa come TO make soap this spfiag.'
In accordance with the invitation of the pastors
of several OF the churche, in this city, Gelcga-
ton from the Young Mems Christian Association
Of the State viii commence series Of union
meetings on Tuesday Of next week. The deega-
ton will be made up of those who have been
working with the churches in various parts Of the
State during the past winter, and whose labors
have been marked with such signal success.
We have been shown confederate ten dollar
note, by Mr.. j. w. Jones of this city, who
as he fought. Mr.. Jones purchased the note and
four like it, being in all fifty dollars in the city of
Richmond, Va, on the passage of our army
through that city after the surrender of Lee, for
a ten cent scrip A boy peddling the stuff in
market basket.
Mr.. John Worster of Belgrade met with sin
Rular accident yesterday morning He had driven
a cow yoked up with az OK, to neighbor's. when
large seven-foo Hereford bull came believing
towards him, and attacked the OK, throwing him
over. In bis descent the OK struck Mr. Worster,
throwing him to the ground; as he did so he
stepped on to his chest, injurng Mr.. Worster quite
badly. lie was taken home and cared for. The
extent of his injuries are not able to learn.
\ success unprecedented in the history Of the
orde- of Good Templars has attended the growth
of Belfast Lodge No. 80, of Belfast, which now
numbers rs members, among whom ere many
who were the hardest drinkers in the place, and
also a large share of the leading and prominent
business men of the city. The Secretary of the
Grand Lodge, Geo Z. Bracket is the presiding
officer of the Lodge which is the largest in the
United States.
Mr.. Reuben Mckinney, in his recent visit to