Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-07-13
General News.

The New York Times says that TO speak
of a man grossly intoxicated as beastly drunk
is exceedingly unjust TO the ''lower AMI
mails.
Light minded Young thing in bathing
suit-Surely, Aunt Margaret, you're not 60
to wear your spectacles in the water: Aunt
M.-Inieel I am. Nothing shall induce me
to take off another thing.
1t is gratifying to note the newspaper and
other reports from all parts of the New Eng
land States Almost the universal statement
is that business is much better than year
ago Manufacturers are generally very busy,
while the number of idle mechanics who
really want employment is small.-Com. Bull
iefia.
During the week commencing with the 2lst
inst, the Free Baptists of the United States
will celebrate at the Weirs Camp Ground In
New Hampshire, the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the organization of that denomina-
ton. The general conference will continue
eight days, the opening sermon to be preach
ed by Prof b. F. Hayes of Bates College.
The arrangements for the meeting are being
carried out ON a large scale, and the prospect
now is that the occasion will bring together
one of the largest gatherings ever known at
religious conference.
The public will be pleased TO learn that the
Chautauqua Sunday School Assembly, now
well known throughout this country and Eu-
rope by the work it has done in the last eight
years, is to be duplicated in all its essential
features at Lake View, South birmingham,
this season. The Sunday School workers of
New England have fortunately secured the
services of Rev. j. III. Vincent, ID. D., the
originator and manager of the Chautauqua
Ion hn ia narfarfipp ARRANGEMENTS
tor the great meeting to commence Aug. %,
and to continue ten days. The committee
which has arranged for this New England
Assembly is composed of the various relig-
iOus denominations. Further particulars
will be given in due time.
Fashionable circles are considerably excit-
ed just now over the feats Of two young men
formerly residents of town near to Boston.
From the rumOrs which are flying about it
would appear that seventeen-year old
daughter of one of BostOn's wealthiest mer-
chants living at a suburban district, and who
has only graduated from the grammar school
this year, met an entire stranger while out
riding recently, and in short time returned
home married. The fond parents while in
tensely agitated about the matter, it is said
have determined to make the best of it, and
to accept the victor. although he is socially
far below them. The second youth, who is
an intimate friend of the first. gave his at
tention to a wealthy heiress worth in her own
right about 500. 900, captured her affections,
ran away to New York and was married.
Upon her disappearance her guardian at once
followed the pair but it was too late. and it is
said that the couple have gone to Europe to
spend their honeymoon. The heiress is a
well-knOwn suburban belle. and the surprise
over the event has caused no incOnsiderable
comment in the highest social circles
| Tr0reiier.
| The recent epidemic at North Adams, Mass.
has been traced to the water supply. Engi-
neer Locke has made map of the town, in
dicating by red dots every house where there
was case of sickness, and by small circles
every house which escaped, covering both the
village proper and all the roads leading out
of it. Afterward he drew the line of the
waterpipe on his map, and everywhere the
red dots stop with the pipe and follow its
course. He cites numerous instances to
prove that the water was the sole cause OF
the trouble, and shows that nearly every
body who was pointed ont as not using the
town water, although sick, had been in the
district and drank the water. He locates! the
impurity in an old mill-dam through which
the water passes, and said he found it full OF
decaying vegetable matter which gave forth
an offensive Odor perceived at some distance
from the pond. That, he thinks, was sufii
cient to cause the outbreak, in connection
with the peculiar weather which had prepared
the people for the epidemic.
| A UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY.
At ten child; at twenty wild
| At thirty, strong, If ever;
At forty, wise; at fifty, rich;
| At sixty, good, or never.
| RAN