Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-04-18

loral ann State NeMs.
The first Kenncbcc bass of the season may be
found at Wright & Co.'S. as we'll as fresh herring
The Goyernor and Council were engaged yes
tcrday on routine business Of no public impor-
tance.
Mrs. Oliver Goald of this city, who has spent
the winter in ono OF the Western States. has ar
rived home.
The products of the Waban Conservatives, for
which Joseph Piper & Son are agents, arc meeting
with a ready sale in this city.
Col. :. Manchester Haynes arrived home from
his European trip on Monday evening lie is in
excellent health, and had pleasant trip.
Mr.. William II. Foye of Chelsea, recently
killed and committed to 'the clods Of the valley"
avenerable and most valued dog, aged sixteen
years, which Mr.. Foye had reared from pup.
The people of Somerset county readily get one
dollar bushel for potatoes delivered at the sta
tons along the route of the Somerset Rsroad'
The building of the railroad has been great ben
eft to farmers.
A petition is in circulation among the citizens OF
Alfred asking the Governor to pardon Reuben
Day. who sentenced at the September term
of court, 1875, to thee years in the State Prison
for the crime Of adultery.
If The thief, who, on Monday night stole from
Mr.. Tobey's clothes line, nine stockings, will
make himself known. the one he left on the line
will be presented him, as odd stocking is Of no
use to person with two feet.
Warden Rice of the State Prison, was in the
city yesterday. The total number of convicts
committed to the Maine State Prison for the four
months ending April lst was 80, against 2S for the
same period in 1876
The examination for the West Point appoint
ment, held last Saturday at the college library in
Waterville, resulted in the appointment of Charles
Leonard Phillips Of Watervilie, member Of the
Junior class Of Colby.
The Wing says: The question is asked, "Did
solomon have the Electoral Commission in mind
when he wrote Give portion to seven and also
to eight, for thou knowest not what evil shall be
upon the earth ?"
Schoolcraft & Goes Mins,rels, twenty star ac-
tors, will on Tuesday evening next, appear al
Granite Hall, in q grand olio entertainment.
William Calder, the manager, was in
the city yesterday, making arrangements for the
appearance of the troupe
Mr.. William j. Reed, foreman of the pattern
shop in the Corlss Steam Engine Works, Provi-
d.uce, r. l., who died on Monday. in consequence
o. mistake of the druggist, who put up pre-
sliption with morphine instead of quinine, wa, 8
native of Fayette, in this county.
On Saturday last, Mr.. T. Horne Of this city,
WAS suddenly called to his parents home in Great
Falls, y. H., on account of the illness of his moth
er, who died on Sunday morning, at the age of 7s.
His father is also quite sick, and fears enter
iaed that he may not recover.
Dr. Lighthill, the well-known Ocust and Au-
rst, is to be at the Mansion House, on or about
the eth of May. to attend to diseases of the eye,
ear, throat and lungs. The cures that he has per-
formed in this immediate vicinity are simply won-
derful. That frightful but very common disease,
catarrh, yields at once under his treatment, and
deafness is either relived or permanently cured.
Two hundred and eleven dogs have thus fsr
been licensed in this city. OF course it will be
seen at once that there is an attempt on the part
of many to evade the law. This is act os in-
Justice to those who have taken pains to eonply
with its provisions, and the proper authorities
would be fully justified in administering the PEN
alties of the law in such cases.
On Monday afternoon, freight car loaded with
print cotton goods, on the way probably from the
Sprague works in this city, to the stamping mills,
caught fire in Topsham, and was run over to
Brunswick, and an attempt made to extnguish the
lire. \ portion of the goods were saved in a
damaged condition, but the car was destroyed
Mr.. Whittier, the evangelist, continues TO labor
at Damsriscotta with great success. The meet
inys are largely attended, and considerable inter-
e,t manifested. He remains another week. The
.acetings Sunday afternoon and evening we're
held at Lincoln Hall, there being no church large
enough in town to hold the multitude.
The admission to the grand allegory to be given
n this city, on Saturday and Monday evenings
next, has been changed to 25 cents, to enable all
10 90. This exhibition has been given in other
places with admission as high as one dollar, and
one dollar and half, and the school and citizens
generally greatly indebted 10 Mr.. Hagar, the
proprietor, for the liberal reduction in this in
s;Pnce.
An audience of about three hundred attended
the entertainment last evening, at Granite Hall.
for the benefit of the Connor Cadet. The plays
we're well put upon the boards and well enacted
by the young ladies and gentlemen. several Of the
leading parts b-ing taken with cons iderable skill,
eyincing talent in that direction of high character.
lIanagsn's Orchestra, which furnishes music wor-
thy any entertainment, performed some of their
best pieces. social dance closed the evening s
entertainment.