Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-31

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Wednesday, March 81, 1880.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
,r,HE Committee on Accounts will meet at the Al.
dsrmen's Room on Wednesday evening, March
=. a, o'clock. All bills that are in at that time
ii, 40 ON the roll OF accounts full attendance OF
W. fommittee is desired. Per order.
a W. K- L RHIHfESSk' Committee.
mar3o.2t
The wild goose f1yeth northward.
Sec advertisement of ring lost.
DIR. Garcelon declares the story of his in
humanity at Antietam a falsehood.
Since the new tramp law was passed the
xanderers are becoming scarce.
The police raided on suspected parties yes
,erday, but found nothing.
There are at present 50 mining companies
in Maine, organized under the new law.
Harry Bloodgood, Friday evening, is sure
to draw alarge crowd.
The song of the robin was heard on Sewall
street, yesterday morning.
Twenty vessels are at the mouth of the Ken
nebec river waiting for the ice to go out, it
i. reported.
Schooner d. S. Williams, Jr., loaded with
200 tons of ice from the Arctic company,
sailed from Bath for New York, Monday.
Ice freights from Kenncbec river to New
York, 81 20 and sl.j0; to Philadelphia,
sl.2J.
Natives of Maine, now citizens of Illinois,
have resolved to form themselves into So
ciety. Judge Drummond of Chicago is to be
president.
S. W. Cummings recently appointed gen.
era passenger and ticket agent of the Hoosac
Tunnel route, has been on an inspection tour
through Maine and the Provinces.
We learn that j. Z. Wyman will run his
sash and blind mandatory on full time.
commencing April lst. He employs about
forty hands, and the manufactured products
find a ready sale outside of the State.
Simmons, the Auburn sculptor, has just
completed statue representing Israel wan
derng in the wilderness-a female figure,
little above life size. Simmons may possibly
return to this country from Rome, this sum-
mer on brief visit.
The Ladies' Social Aid of the Unversalist
Parish, will meet with Mrs. G. w. Quin5y,
Maple St, east side ofthe river, on Thursday
evening of this week. All the adult members
of the parish are cordially invited. A picnic
supper will be served at seven o'clock.
Monday afternoon two Augusta men, rath-
or the worse for liquor, were driving a horse
about Cushnoc Heights, trying to trade with
men in that section, when the animal fell
down and expired smashing the carriage
somewhat The quadruped's sudden death
rather sobercd the gay drivers.
The Lewiston police obtained from this
city Monday, the trunk of the man Richard
son, who played a confidence game on bag
gage wagon driver in lewiston, few months
ago. Richardson fled from Augusta and left
his trunk, and the Lewiston baggage man has
attachedit
Work on the fishway is booming. The pier
for the protection of the way is nearly COM
pletcd, and the bed timbers are being sunk
rapidly. From 40 to ~ men are employed at
this place The time for completion will de-
pend a good deal upon the height of water
An early frcshet would delay the work ma
tcrialy.
Mr. Geo. Townc recently exhibited on our
streets large wild goose shot by his son on
Church Hill in this city. 1t fine ex
ample of the species which recsivedsuch rich
tribute from the poet Byron, and reminded
one of the time when Robin Hood and his
stout-hearted yeomen, tipped their yard long
shafts with gray goose feathers, and drew the
bow for popular liberty in merrie England.
Some idea can be formed of the labor and
care required by the Valuation Commission,
and their clerks, when upon examination of
the inventory of one town sixty-seven mis-
takes are found on nineteen pages. The
whole inventory contains only twenty-five
pages in all The entire inventory is in pen
ell including the rulings and heading. 1t is
not too much to say that it was poorly written
beside
Items" said the boss carpenter to our re-
porter. As the knight of the quill propound-