Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-11-14

Let all remember the reform club festival at
their rooms this evening. Supper from five to
eight
The Howard Benevolent Society will meet at
the house of Mr. B. b. Parrottt, Winthrop street
this Wednesday afternoon.
On Thanksgiving day union services will be
held in the Methodist church. The sermon will
be preached by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Adams.
The person seen in Mr. Romans yard the other
night, with dark lantern, was policeman look.
ing after the fellow who had been proving about
the premises on that evening.
Call at Fowler, Hamlen & Smiths and buy a
pair Of those heavy ia Blankets, perfect goods,
at 80 so, better quality than they ever sold in
damaged goods at that price.
Sarah Jones, of tie Society of Friends, ad-
dressed the Sunday school at Belgrade hill, on
Sunday last and in the evening gave interest
ing lecture on Daniel" All seemed greatly
pleased and edited by both efforts.
Frank Pierce has added lately to the books in
his circulating library, making that popular ins,-
tution more valuable than ever. Mr.. Pierce is
mindful of the wants of the public, and adds
promptly all the readable books as they come out.
Delightful long evenings now to read in. What
is pleasanter than to sit beside a cheerful, crack
ling fire and lose oneself in the int resting pages
of some book paper, while without it may be
drear and cold The pleasures of home seem
stronger than even when we feel the approach of
bleak winter.
An exchange thinks that the world would be
fully well off if there was not a single minis
ter in it. Yet in the very number in which these
words are said, two columns of the paper are filled
up with an extract from sermon recently preach
ed! Some people are so contradictory in their
statements.
One of our amateur sportsmen spent couple
OF hours in soaring up partridge the other day,
and then spent two more hours in trying to find
aim again. At last he got Disguised with the
amusement and determining to wreak his ven
geance upon bird of some kind, let the whole
contents Of his gun into little chip bird, few
feet from him The sporsman's life is jolly
one.
The Reform Club building erected the past sea.
son by the club at North Belgrade, was dedicated
with appropriate services ON Thursday last Ad-
dresses were made by Rev. Mr.. Mann, Method ist
minister at West Waterville Albert Wnslow of
West Waterve, Mr.. Mace of Greeley's Mills, J.
l.. Heath, Esq. of Belgrade, and others. With
their new headquarters, the club will he better
prepared than ever for more efficient work.
As the time Of year is now at hand when we may
expect frequent cases of that dread disease diph-
iberia. it may be we'll to name a RENE dy which
the celebrated English physician, DIR. Field, al
ways found effective: Put spoonful of -four Of
birthstone into a wine glass of water; stir it with
the finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does
not readily amalgamate with the water, and when
well Mixed use as gargle. pr. f. used this in
all cases.
We chronicle the death of Mr. n. G.. Ware,
who after suffering for over five years with an in
defnable disease, with enforced confinement to
'he house, has found rest at last. Everyth ing
that kind friends and relatives could do to minis
ter to his comfort, has been done. He has borne
his suffering with great patience and resignation.
lie leaves wife and two children Mr.. Ware was
member of Bethlehem Lodge of NJ ssons. and will
be buried on Thursday with Masonic honors.
The police yesterday searched the Lang tene-
Hall block, with the expectation of finding intox-
icating liquors, as various persons of drinking
proclivities have from time to time been seen
going into and emerging from that building. But
nothing could be found but empty bottles. The fact
is, the occupants of liquor saloons now have big
pockets. and they carry the liquor around with
them, in comparative safety. The place is occu-
pied by Charles jenkins, Jack Sullivan, and one
Belger, recently from Bangor.
Rev. j. f. Wade of Trumansburg, Tompkns
county, New York, has been spending few weeks
with his son in Newport, in this State. having
come here for the benefit of his health. He finds
the climate Of Maine very invigorating, and With
in two months has preached thiry-six sermons
and delivered two temperance lectures. He Is
now preaching for season on Cushnoc Heights,
having preached in the chapel last Sunday to good
audiences. Mr.. Wade will preach 10 the chapel
every evening this week, and next Sunday morn
ing and evening. The public are invited to at
tend.
Granite Hall will be crowded tonight with an
interested audience, to see Buffalo Bill and his
grand combination. They have been received by
crowds, and their pilgrimage thus far through
Maine has been q complete ovation. In Portland,
Q week or more ago, Music Hall was crowded in
every part, and from the rising of the curtain to
the closing act, there one continuous storm
of applause. This was repeated at Bath and in
other places, and we advise those who wish a
good seat to it early to day. at the office Of
the Eastern Express Company. Buffalo Bill aud
his troupe will show themselves in town LAY,
previous to the performance.
Somebody has stolen mans leg in Bangor on
account of which quite an excitement has been
created in that city. One of the doctors says that
he safely locked the limb into his Office after the
ampuaton, but the next morning he found the
door had been forced in, and the leg carried off!
Now the question is who would have wanted to
carry off such q limb as this! A Bangor poet
has taken up the elegant subject. and sings as
follows:
"Twas a very cheap limb,
All the Doctors agree;
Unsound and diseased
From the heel to the knee.