Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-14
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local ann State Mems.
Rev. II. +. Wood is 10 open the lecture course
at North Vassalboro', the next week.
Mr. j. F. Bartlett, of this city, student in the
Theological school at Lewiston, expects to preach
in the Free Baptist church at Gardiner, to morrow.
Rev. c. T. Penney, pastor of the Free Baptist
church, has returned from the Centennial, and will
occupy his pulpit tomorrow.
One week from to-day, all the schools in the
Village district in this city, take vacation of two
weeks in order 10 allow time and opportunity for
teachers and others to visit the Centennial Quite
a number will embrace this opportunity.
Tomorrow will be "Autumn Sunday" at the
Winthrop Street Universalist church in this city.
The church will be finely decorated, and the scr
vices in the forenoon i'll be appropriate to the &C.
cason.
young fellow stopping at the Evans House in
Gardiner the other night, blew cut The gas on re-
firing. If the clerk hadn't been round and di.cov-
cred it, the young man would now be in glory,
says the Journal.
Huntington, Mason & Co., open this week avery
choice line of fine undertaking in medium and
heavy weights also large stock of the celehrat-
c1 SlranR buck gloves, which are warranted not
10 harden by weung.
Mr.. NJ. L. Stevens of Portland, will preach at
the First Baptist church in this city, to morrow
fore noon. The pastor of the church, Rev. Mr..
Tiden, will preach in Rev. Dr. Shailer's church in
Portland, on Sunday.
Yesterday forenoon, Mr. Frank Kinsman
jammed his right hand quite badly BY taking an
impression of it in his printing press. Only one
copy was printed, and that was illusta with
cuts. lie doesn't propose to enlarge the edition.
The Augusta Reform Club holds weekly meet
ings at the club room on every Sunday afternoon.
They are of a social aud very interesting cbarac-
acer. The next meeting W i'll be held tomorrow
afternoon at 8 o'clock. The public are cordially
invited to attend.
The bed,tead AMI door aud sash establishments
at the kennebec dam have plenty to do. Orders
have come in upon them thick and fast. so hat
instead Of orders for half dozen bedsteads and
about that number Of doors, they have now orders
for large quantities.
The directors of the Maine Poultry Association
have decided not to have an exhibition in January.
The expense attending such exhibition, the de-
preston in business, and the numerous exhibitions
this fall have led the directors to this conclusion.
Another year it is contc plated to have an exhibit
ton which will excel any heretofore held.
An old lady halted in front of the printing press
at Town Hall last week, says the Dexter Gazette,
and inquired ii it was "a new kind of sewing ma
chine they had been gettn' out" An old lady in
riding Ground the grounds" at the Centennial,
pointed to a cannon, and inquired of an Augusta
Miss, if that there uas the Corless eagine'"
Our people are to be afforded on Wednesday
evening Of next week, entertainment of rare
merit, being first class in every respect The bril-
liam, actor from the Globe Theatre, Boston, w. j.
LeMoyne, come. with splendid company, aud
one evening only will present two pieces frem
Dickens, "Dombey and Son" and "Ieep. VS. Mi
cawber'. LeMoyne appears as "Capn Cutie"
and "Uriah Heep.'
Yesterday as Daniel Clark, Esq merchant tall
OF in Richmond, was passing on Front street, in
that place, some Of the workmen engaged in erect
ing staging around building being repaired by
Mr.. Levi Marble, lost their hold Of the staging,
which fell striking Mr. Clark on the head knock
ing him senseless to the ground. DR.. Libby was
called, and on examination it proved not to be
serious as was feared and Mr.. Clark will soon be
able to attend to his business.
The cotton factories IN this city are running to
their fullest capacity and fail even then to man.
ufacture cloths rapidly enough to supply the de-
mand. As a carload of goods il sent on, the
hungry consumers meet it more than half way, to
gobble up its contents, excellent are the goods
manufactured at the factories here, beirg regard
ed first class. Good wages paid, and the
workmen are cheerful ard happy. A large
amount of cotton has just arrived, and the winter
supply will soon be put 10, that there shall be
no interruption through the winter.
Is it possible that it remained for citizen of
keunebec county, to invent machine to carry ont
the theory of perpetual motion 7 1t Is now stated
that John d. J mes, the proprietor of system of
perpetual motion, residing at South China, having
neatly perfected the machine, anticipates visiting
the Centennial exhibition with the result of his
year, of anxious experiment. An inventive gem
las ady hs, at the exhibition a clock which
he claims will run hundred years without wind.
ing. No one has been able to successfully dispute
his assertion thus far.
The Gardiner journal thus endorses the profess
sional work of DR.. Ednnister 10 that city:
DR.. Edminster is meeting with first rate success
in this city, having patients some of our very best
citizens. We have known of several very re-
markahlc cures by the doctor, and we have never
known Of a where his treatment has been
fairly ri, u, IN which tie patient has not been
benefited This is no "pai puff" for DR.. Edmins
ter does not know that IT is to be inserted. We
have been very chay 10 endor ing him editorialIy
until I've cnnld sneak f-nr, ON RE