Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-07-19
Local ann State Nems.

Local ann State NeWs.
Hon Benjamin Kingsbury, formerly editor of
the Eastern Argus, is in the State.
The rain tha, we had will no doubt secure the
grain crop Of Maine.
The late rain did some good though it was
hardly as much needed.
Raspberries are not SO PIE nty now, the dry
weather having dried them up
Dog days are a little ahead OF the calender this
year.
The Methodist people beginning to look
forward TO the annual campmeetings.
Bar Harbor is a bar well patron zed at this
season efthe year.
Nothing is much p'casarter than riding these
warm evenings.
IIen-roost thieves have begun to put in an ap-
pearance in this city.
Rev. G. w. Bckne of Portland, is TO spend
his summer vacation in California.
Apples are to be very plenty this year in
Maine.
Brush fires are raging in many places through
out the State.
Hay from this years crops now being brought
into the market
Annual Towering plants are said to resemble
whales. as they come up to blow.
The nay crops in Aroo.took county will far sur
pass that of last year, both in quality and quantity.
Entertainments are not so plenty among us
during this hot weather.
Many of the lumbermen Bangor way are only
running one gang now. on account of the scarcity
of orders.
Shoulder capes are getting to be so fashlona-
BILE that they quite overshadow all other top orna-
ments for street
yentriloauist was on the street Wednesday
evening, and showed his powers Of mimcry in
several stores.
A drunken man in Bangor recently was ready
to offer two dollars to the who could tell him
who he
Tue next annual meeting of the Maine Pharma-
ceutical Association, will be held in Portland,
July 23tt
A Ssco gentleman, with two horses and
moving machine, IS said to have earned $40 IN
ten days time.
Slated roofs said to be a prot,ct against
lightning and it Is said that lightning was never
known to strike one.
Lucy i.arcom, the poetess, will spend part Ell
the summer at Bethel al the farmhouse OF John
Russell
There were twenty five porgie steamers in the
bay near Belfast, at one time recently, besides
many sailing vessels engaged in the same work
Hon. +. NJ. Stillwell, Fish Commissioner, goes
to Augusta, Monday, to attend hearing in that
city in relation to the dam, says the Bangor Wing
The president of gree nbsck club in Bridgton
boasts tina, he has voted with every political par
ty that has been organized within the last twenty
five years.
Indian poke is said to Nil the potato bug.
Farmers steep it and sprinkle the vines win II
while warm. 1t also keeps curant and goose
berry bushes free from worms.
Miss Harriet |. Msdigan, daughter of Hon. j.
C. Madgau of Houon, recently graduated with
the highest honors at Ursuline convent, Quebec.
She received eleven prizes.
The Bowdoin College Summer School of Sci
ence began Monday morning with eleven stu
dents There is a prospect Of a few more in the
course of the week.
Just four hundred year, ago, says an exchange,
the ant of printing discovered, and yet there
are men trying to sell goods who seem to have
never heard OF printers ink
The boys plunged Into the river again yester-
day, after two days vacation from the refresh
ing water. They don't mind the cheated term
they rather enjoy it.
The great heat that has been prevailing OF late
in the Western cities, was to reach US yesterday
according to previous predictions; and the mercu'
nv in the thermometer did indeed rise to the nine
ties.
An exchange SAYS A Biddeford man. who
was going camping out, dropped memorandum
on the pavement, which a pssser-by picked up
Here is q copy "Ssleratus, hard tack, keg Of
lager Golden Rule, gin, rum Evening lines,
tobscco, matches and little Ratchet"
The editor of the Gardner Journal has been
sorely imposed upon. lie says: "lf when three la
dies are marching up street abreast, the outside
one should turn her paiasol when they meet
gentleman so as to not sb the point of it into his
eve. it would show more consideration on her
tsrt for the feelings of mankind
school district in Troy, in this State boosted
of the great number of births that had recently
occurred in ii, and challenged competition, dis
trict in Hope responds that can show different
if not better record Among "a families, having
over 40 legal voters, there have been only 10
births in years. At this rate, one would think
that Hope would soon die out.
The game of base ball between the Aug us'a
Reds and Atlantics of Portland which takes place
/, mi. city this afternoon should not be forgotten.