Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-20


The fall term OF the Maue Me,le,An Semioary
and Female College began Monday, l2tn, with
,eiy large attendance.
The sum of $500 has been contributed towards
a Memorial church in Dexter, in memory OF the
briv. cashier Barron
The Branch Mil, Lodge of Good Templars
have procured a fr-t class orchestral organ,
for the use Of then hall.
The annual exh bilion of the Kenneboc County
A .ricutursl Society will be held at Readheld,
Oct. /, 2 aud g.
The Capital Guards went OIL yesterday noon to
the muster field happier than one would suppose
them to be for a company that Is to receive no
pay.
The new bathing costume at the seashore with
it, long cloak makes an attendant necessary
maid waits on the beach TO wrap the cloak around
her mistress.
Mr.. Otis NJ. Moore, formerly of this city, is TO
start a Job printing Office in Phillips, with me
pro-uect at some future time of beginning the
publication of local weekly ne spaper
On Sunday afternoon, during the heavy tenn
the house of Mr.. Clark, in East Augusta near Tue
soldiers Home ,spintering the tree ~ man! places
The last rain must have "wet down" AS the
farmers say. and undoubtedly the dronth is ofoA-
en-. 1t will bring up the pasture lands "ohuef'
fully aud bring relief TO the gardens aud COIN
fields.
The Dexter Gazette is truthful rs well AS
Il H.. ~
and "Dr"G W Lsdd, the democratic Eteenoach
combination candidate Tor Congress in the fOufth
district, AL office political tramp
The boat that the new beating club is TO rur-
chase will cost upwards of fifty dollars ana Is oil
GOOD make. The new club will consist OF nine
member. including the boatswain; and the crew
! IN he picked from able men. There Is no rea-
ION WHY boat club cannot flourish in the city
A correspondent writes that he attended the
organization of q gIeenhsck club IN 'heisea' al
Ses,le,' Mills last saturday. Just sers" J''neu
The club, and they were all elected to once
there were not members enough to "go round,
aid so three members of the CLUB were cho'eu 10
hold two uffi ccs each.
On Sunday afternoon, about o'clock As two
q
calling between Capitol and Mouse Islands,
,aual struck the boat tipping it over and sinking
Il One of the men, who could not swim, WAS
drowned; the other was rescued by capt Johh
Sidney after sinking twice. We dld not learn
the names.
A d.y or two siuce the Squd noticed 90 blum
in the rear OF the Squirrel Island grocety'a Drown
alderman, brown fsher~oman and then Two
BOYS, all bu. ed with black pipes The Old lady
on the whole, wa. the smohest of The lot. She
said the boys smoked because they liked 1t tha'
the old man smoked from sheer cussednes-, but
Il at she smoked for corus.
Notwithstanding the general business depfes-
sion, Mes.rs. Morgan Il DoIe, shoe manufacturers
of Richmond, still continue to do lar amount OIL
work. At present they employ nearly one nun
,ired and fifty hands who average one thousand
p,ir of shoes per day. The firm has every inclll-
~ for iucre asine its business and will do 50 when
ever there is greater demand for goods
The union Sabbath School picnic, comprising
,he schools in East Augusta Nassalboro, y" lnu-
.or. China Chelsea, Prtston aud Whitehe 49, VIII
hold It's annual festival in the Grove near the
soldiers, Home, Togus, on Friday, Aug. 3Oh, at
10 o'clock A. NJ. There will he the usual eNet-
.i... and music will be furnished by the Home
,tsud. Mr.. L. Il. Hanson is secretary OF the
Union.
Mr.. Charles S. Frost, graduate of Bates Coz
leye and of the last class OF the Theological
s,hool was examined aud ordained to the work
vi the gospel ministry at the BApt'st chu'ch III
81 Johusbuiy, VT. Aug. 10Th. The sermon was
81 Ann ia
IN, text in Romans | IA, 10, 10. Inc coriespon
Il. o,s speak highly of the ability and appropriate
OF the discourse.
The street washings were very extensive dur
ing The heavy rain OF sunday. The hillside streets
- mis- city are so hume that they are constant
nn,re of expense to tue city. If some system OF
drainage and grading could De devised that would
have the feature of peImaneucy about 1t, then we
Amt think our citizens would grumble about the
.,oense We will venture tue opinion that with
in the last tweny years it has cost three thousand
,,,iiar. TO grade Winthrop hill. formerly called
Jail hill"
The Gardiner Reporter has an article contain
ING a good deal of truth, stating that whle many
of the merchants in that city are standing behind
their counters waiting for customers who do not
seem inclined to come the streets OF Augusta are
blocked with teams and people, and the merchants
look smiling and happy. The writer thinks that
one eat hinder ance there is the want of public
.prit. and another the fact of the existence OF
toll bfidge. Augusta made its bridge free and
t,ns vets the benefit of good deal of trade that
wonld otherwise flow into Gardiner. A toll
br lge, is relic of bal barism, and should be abo-
ished.
N,rlh VassaiborO Locals.
Rev. MIR. Applebee, pastor of the Methodist
g men, Vas taken suddenly i'll last Sunday, after
hi meaching service at East Vassslboro' in the
TO enoon. DIR. Butler, pastor OF the Baptist
church, supplied his pulpit in the afternoon at this
place Mr.. Applebee is suffice to neuralgia
spells
Constable Soule Of this place, seized five gal
Ions OF liquor at Vssslboro' station last Saturday
afternoon.
skow he gan locals.
1I,e hell. aroused our people one night last