Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-02-14


tltss entertainments.
Messrs. Hin & lioyt, grocers and PROVISION
dealers, have removed rom Williams Book 20
The new store opposite F. c. Aliens new block
near Market Square. They have fitted up tie
store in frs-cnss shape for their business, which
viii be conducted in their usual hou)rahl. and
pain.iaking manner Trade is working down
this way. slowly but surely. IT'S got to come.
The temperance meeting at the school lon.e in
district No. II, on Tuesday evening, was one of
gr at interest, aud those present iclt amply r.
paid for coming. DR.. Lancaster, member Of the
House from Wisca-set, spoke for the fast hat
hour in his usually svigorons -tl' lie MS
followed by Mr.. Mcfarland of Augusta, aud
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Rawson Of Waldoboro', member 'f
the third hraoch Ct the present legislature.
George Rignold's's Henry V. Combination drew
large and fr,t-class audience a. Grinie Hall
last evening 1t was classic entertainment of
thrilling interest, and the acting va, full' 40 to
The highes, expeditions OF all. No such fine act
ing has been seeu here since the aPpesrauce of
Edwin Booth as Hamlet. One passage il the I'M
pers lnatiun of til, King last evern- the speech to
the army Just betSre the battle, was mos, effective
and thrilling, and may be reckoned among tie
very best specimen, of character acting.
Diphtheria a, an Epidemic, is indeed % be
dreaded. Modern science has not yet shown how
the dsea,e arises, but it is plainly and uum ttka-
bly, contagious, and will propagate n.ef by cor
tact or infection. Personal cleanlin, So good veu-
tiiati)n aud drainage are the great preventwes.
The disease, being both con;a- lou. and infec-
ious, is to be treated As such disease, are, e.pec
tally in the case Of small poX aud scarlet fever,
though 1t is not contagious either of these
diseases The clothing should be di,nfscted by
means OF intense hear, either dry til, ough the
agency Of boiling water The body Of person
dying of the d sea,e sh0a.J be buried a. s)on as
possible and mothers having youug children at
home should neither visit the hou,e during the
patients illness, attend the fuueral if that i'll
ness results in deah. PEG. lie had not been suiti-
cienly careful these and other points Pay
sicans should be very careful 10 maIiug their
visit, and children should be kept away from
school if one Of the family SICK.
Tie young Mems Democratic Club DR..
q. w. Martin presiding, he'd meeting in Me-
uopclitan Hall, Tuesday ing, with a slim at
tcuoancc. Some promlnent speakers were eX-
pected to be present, and, as one Of the memb RS
of the club said, already waiting to come,
b 1t on II count of the mcsg eruess Of the assembly
it was deemed adSi.ahle tot To wait upon lhem
and so home talent finally resorted t.. Con
spicuous among the SPEAKERS was Reuben Nc
Kuey, who in his usual touching and plethorJc
manner sddre ssed his brethren 9Th, Republican
party is never mentioned to me" he nd, - but
there comes to me odor Of r,tlcnness" Aud
this remark elected prolonged app ause Mr..
Mex nney continued in the above strain until the
audience seemed to weary Of his eforls, when he
gave way to Mr.. Sennett. Mr.. Sebnttt was rot
happy usual il his remark that evening, and
did not create the eutiu.a. m that his remarks
upon the subject Of "iempeiauce' usually cal
forth be seems more at home on the latter sub
ject, and the temperance complexion of the Dem
ociatic Club is rather-led. However he was
loudly spplauded as he closed with the remark
Whatever Others do, intend to do right" But
what this had to do with Democracy we think
neither the speaker nor any other member of the
club could have been able to say. After listening
to one or two other eloquent y eeches the club at
about half past s, adjourned