Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-27

having great sale of goods in their line, not
only to white down the large and elegant
stock which they have put in this spring, but
to meet the various needs of housekeepers.
Nearly every boat that has arrived at our
wharves this season has had goods consigned
10 the Wells Brothers. The several stories
of their large warehouse in Bridges Block.
Water street, are crowded with goods, and
they have large coffin and casket sale
house besides
Deputy Marshal Jones searching the
building north of the store of Charles +.
Mclaughlin on Water street, seized a two
gallon jug, containing about six quarts of
whiskey. There was also "spilr' at the
Mclaughlin establishment.
Dexter correspondent of the Bangor
Wing says that many temperance grcenback-
ers in that county, are digustcd with the re-
fusal of the grecnback-democratic sheriff of
that county to do anything in enforcing the
law against dram-shops, and will this year
vote the republican ticket. There is consd-
cradle feeling elsewhere at the failure of the
greenback State convention to express appro-
val of the prohibibitory law.
Bradstrcet Bros. of Gardiner, sawed lO7,-
600 feet of lumber at their mill, on Thursday.
Who can equal this 1t is chawng up logs
pretty fast.
Randall and Lurton who are sacreligiously
called the ''Grcenback Moody and Sankey,"
are to hold forth in this city tonight The
Gardiner Journal doesn't give them com
plimcntary notice, as follows "Mr. Randall
made the speech. and occasionally the two
would sing-which pleased the boys as much
as u patent medicine vendor would"
List of patents to Maine inventors, June "a,
furnished the Journal by S. W. Bates, Wa
terville, Me.
Arthur w. Cox of Auburn, (assignor
of to w. II. Hamilton table-knifc--2l6,-
72j.
Geo. W. Mckenzie of Harrington, row
lock, 2lG,s76 pump, 2l6,s71
Julius 5. Shaler of Boston, Mass, and NJ.
r. Ethefdge of Woodstock, Me, (assignors
to Copeland Lasting Machine Co., } lasting
machine, PIC. 7G5.
Willard Titcomb, Waterville, cleaner
for locomotive boilers, 2l69ll.
The new Cyprus" soda fountain at Part
uTuH stoTc II uTdWlnS ucIiciDUs pew
erages, which the public appreciate, as the
crowds of ladies and gentlemen who go there
for pure refreshing drinks will testify.
The Gardiner journal speaks in high terms
of the performances there of the Boston Pin
afore Company, saying: They are all first
class, and we have no doubt that they. would
have another full house if they would come
again"
We are informed that the greenback mana
gers are making arrangements to food this
county with National Tribunes, the Augusta
greenback paper, in opposition to the inter-
ests of Fogg's Chronicle. LeristoH Jour
nal
Bates Cole re CONNIE ncement.
Yesterday was Commence me MT Day proper
at Bates College. Following was the or
der Of exercises:
Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.
MtsiC.
PRAYER.
MUSIC.
/. CRATIC Salutatoria, LATINA
Rodney Fuller Johonnett Pittsfeld.
2. Thesis. The Future of Labor,
Willard Ernest Lane, Monmouth.
3. Thesis. Modern Journalism,
'Frank Nelson kincaid North Cornville.
=. Thesis. The strength of Republic in the
feOpe.
Frank Leonard Buker, Litchfed.
D. ps9uistio :, The Importance ofthe Conservative
tLous Melville Perkins. Mechanic Falls.
Music.
6. Disquisitio. Cooperation,
Elisha Atwood McCollister, Canton.
:. Thesis. Earth's Battle Fields
Thurston Merrill Lombard, Auburn.
s. Disqusitio. The Art Of Thinking,
Frank Pierce Otis, West Garland.
o. CRATIC. Our Free High School System,
Melville Clarence Smart, Maxfeld
Music.
10. Thesis, John Brown,
Thomas James Bollin Lexington, Va.
II. Thesis. Liberty and Government,
Allison Eugene futile. Pennington, N. H.
i2. Thesis William Lloyd Garrison.
Fletcher Howard, Leeds Centre
II. CRATIC. The Demand for Exact Scholarship in
America
Walter Eugene Ranger, Wilton.
MUsIC.
"A. Disqusitio. Shouda Student Choose his Pro.
fession before Entering College?
'Charies Morris Sargent, Sutton, VI.
10. Oratio Bayard Taylor,
Simon Common Moseley, Lewiston.
10. Thesis Is Eloquence Decliningf
Edgar Merrill Briggs, Parkman.
Il. CRATIC Vaedctoria. Typical American Character,
Emery Winfield Given, Auburn.
MUSIC.
CoNFERRING DEGREEs.
BENEDICTIoN.
Close Time for Plover.
The following letter from DIR. Martin ex-
plains itself:
AUGUSTA, June 25 1879.