Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-12-01


WINTERS GREETING.
All hail A happy greeting to you all
With snOW we'll reign
While wild winds DER the land we II bring
To fercely shout, "Old Winters King
On earth again.
No sleighing M to the a'st dag Of Winter
The river has not vet fei to its natural siz
The hoys are getting tired of waiting for the
brooks and river to ieeze.
And still more interest in the heavens next year
four eclpses, and transit of Mercury.
great many twenty five and fifty cent coun-
terfeit pieces are in circulation now.
Singular-To see garden walk.-[Bath Times
Fully as singular-To see land slide.
Rev. Costello Weston will preach at the Win
throp Street Universalist church tomorrow.
Senator Blaine left on the noon train for Wash
ngton yesterday. Mrs. Blaine accompanies him.
"All ready for winter; plenty Of water in els
terms, wells and hayiug fields :; is the universal
verdict.
Mr.. Charles Milken has been very sick nearly
three weeks with inhammstory rheumatism. He
is now improving.
Rev Messrs. Ecob, Penney, Tilden, Curtis, Up
john, Curtis and Adams, will each occupy their
respective pulpits tomorrow
The goods that d. W. Pillsbury 4 Son sell at
their new store. unadul Grated, and they give
good weight. Their goods also fresh and
nice.
It has been going the rounds of the papers that
Chief Justice Appleton is the Oldest lawyer in Pc
nobscot. This is not Apheus Lyon is the
Oldest, and next to him, Hon. Charles Stetson.
If your wife seems less mindful Of you than
she did month ago, don't complaint; it is very
contagious and VIII lie it has its run nothing else
can receive attention. They call 1t POTTERY
Decoration
Osgood, for Reformer, is much prosecuted
man. The Gardiner journal says: -. X. o.
goods portrait has again been put in the paper
and looks bad poor Josh hardly hold his
head up
Nelson Herrick of Brookline, Representative
elect from the towns of Brookline, Sedg W lex and
Penobscot in Hancock county, died few days
since. Mr.. Herrck was merchant, and had held
various town Offices in Brookline.
During the spring like weather, wild geese have
been having conventions aud debating whether
to return to the lake regions fly southwark
One old goose in a certain fock, who had evident
~ been blibed cast his vote for the "Sod
South"
Day btors Thank'giring.-Little Bov-"I wish
'twould come every day"
Little Girl-"So do T."
Day after Tanksgi,ing.-Little BOY (ssdly)-
81 am glad it amt but once year."
Little Girl (ssdly)-"So am ~
The Gardiner journal saws: 81 W. Berry has
on exhibition in Blanchard & Reeds window, an
oil portrait of Mr.. Harmon's trotting stallion,
BLACK Pilot" 1t is an excellent likeness of him,
ADD very fine painting. Mr.. Berry excels in
horse portraits. aud th. one is the best he has ever
done
The manufacturers of lime in Knox county,
having burned and sold in the aggregate about
six hundred thousand barrels al average loss
of eight cents per barrel, closing the perform
for 1877, by counting their money to ascer-
tain exactly how much less they possess now than
when they "fred up last spring.
L. is the same Yankee Adams" who appears
al Granite Hall on Tuesday evening next, who
raised the risibes Of the people of this goodly
place something more than quarter Of a century
ago. How many people there are who will he
glad to the old fellow Tuesday night next.
1t will brighten the memories of the past
Recently, |. F. Thompson, Esq, of this city,
took six doves to China, and left them there, in
tending that should be their future home. They
were boxed up and put under the wagon seat.
The next day the doves returned to Mr.. rhomp-
sons distance of twenty miles, and felt quite
happy to think they had got home again.
A good temperance REVEALS in progress on the
Brunswick road in Gardiner. A Reform Club was
organized Friday evening by Messrs. Osgood and
Bufum, to be known the Libby Hill Reform
Club, and the following officers were chosen
Enos Edgcomb, Pres; F. W. Smith, Mrs. Hiram
Libby, Esos Ridley. Vice Presidents; w A.
Smith, Sec; II. W. Smith Teas. Much enthusi-
was manifested, and good work begun.
sLowhsgan Locals.
During the recent freshet the entire bulkhead
and water wheel of Willis Foundry vas swept
away. This is a consider able loss. the more so,
because they had recently repaired it and put 1t
IN good working order. No other material dam
age is reported. The factories closed operations
but half day.
A large number attended the Thanksgiving mas
querade ball 1t is lamentable fact that the peo-
PIE will pay more to exercise their feet than to
cultivate the other end
A light fall of snow Thursday nigh has rendered
the travelling, if possible still more impossible.
The traders are already putting in their holiday
goods.
Appointments by the Governor.
The Governor yesterday made the following
nominations to be acted upon by the Council at
the session commencing Dec 4th:
Timothy b. Hussey, North Berwick; Ira d.
Sturgs, Augusta; Nelson Howard, Lewiston,
Trustees Military and Naval Oryhan Asylum of
Bath.
John +. Vose, Dennysville, Tsxdermist.
l.. d. NJ. Sweet, Portland, j. p 4 G.. for the
State.
Albert Warwick, Portland, Notary Public.