Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-01-23

Local anp State Nous.
Friday, January 23, 1880.
.~R. W. FILES, ESQ. Of Unity, is agent for the
Henpebec Journal
coMMTTEE NOTICES.
Committee Of Education.
The Committee Of Education, vii meet IN tn ne
c.n,,e Chamber, Tuesdays and Ihorsdx!s NJ Il
ee''<A GEO. S. HILL, Secretary.
Committee on Railroads.
The Committee on Railroad 1, win o'ci es1 r. NJ "
No Tuesday .Tsyf 2, tysy KS. Ch.;rm,,
xAnKf. WENTWORTH 'nA''"A"'
Members Of the Legislature,
Who have ordered their Daily Journal lett at their
boarding house instead OF at the STATE nouse' VIII
h. sccoi1modaied BY our carrier boys. AS large
DC ~ IN. members have made this request pos
,hiv some OF them may be missed Tor DAY or Two;
bu, If they should be- the mistake VIII oe recl,ned
Laying word with the Messenger OF either house.
rhu,sd.v morning was one of coolest of
the season.
People who have teams are improving the
good sleighing.
+, !. rumored that the fusionist authorities
have invited Petroleum v. Nasty to Angus
>, N advise them as to what course they
should pursue
CAPITAL Lodge, I. o. of G. T., meets to-
night, Friday. All strangers in the city
wbo are members of this order are cordially
invited. -
There are 81 prisoners in the county JAIL
a larger number than has been in that insti-
,u,;on at anv time since it wa. thrown open
to the public
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
If the State hold convention in Biddeford,
on February 4th and 9TH Many Augusta
ladies will be present.
Rev. G.. G. McCully of Hallowell returned
last night from a seven months trip in En-
rome and Palestine. lie leaves to-uay, WIN
hi. family, for their home in Calais.
Rev. Mr.. Ecob of this city was in Auburn.
Yesterday, TO attend the funeral services of
Mrs. A. p Tinker, wife of the well known
pastor of the i'igh street Congregational
church of that city
Thanks to vigilance of Mayor Nash, and
his course in closing disreputable saloons,
there have been fewer arrests in Augusta dur
ing the entire trouble than ordinarily take
place in a single week.
The Augusta Parish will hold Chillrcns
Sociable at Waverly Hall. for the members
of the Universalist Sabbath school, Friday
evening of this week. Supper served at
o'clock. Admission, cents. All parents
requested to contribute for the tables.
young man belonging to the Little
Corinne Opera Troupe. which gave an enter
tainment in this city last week, got left from
the train at Thorndike, and pluckily walked
over the railroad ties to Belfast, distance
Of some twenty miles, in time to play with
the troupe in the evening.
The Gardiner Reporter says the ice opera
tors on the Kennebec are very busy. There
now must be actively employed along the
river in gathering this harvest over 1000
workmen and horses, according to the best
estimates, and the crews are by no means
full vet, many establishments not yet having
commenced to run, thus employing only an
out door crew. A ride up the kennebec val
lev reveals a busy sight The ice is COW
cred for miles with men and horses.
We noticed on our streets yesterday, David
Ware of Belfast, gentleman ninety years
old Mr. Ware never used tobacco, never
INDUCED in the effeminate luxury of scarf,
or never used any liquor, except very little
for medicine. Two years ago the old gentle
man walked from Ltchfield to Lewiston, II
miles. in little over two hours. He is still
hale and hearty, and moves around as spright-
" As most youngsters of sixty. Uncle Ware
was a democrat until the war broke out, and
then he became a republican,
Joshua Norton, more generally known as
Emperor Norton fell dead in the street OF San
Francisco Thursday, January s. His eccen-
tricities had made him noted in the history
of that city and he will be missed more than
many a sane man. He has been insane since
1853. Like thousands of others in Califor-
MIA, he amassed fortune and invested IN
mining stocks and lost it all and with it his
reason. He regarded himself as Emperor OF
the United States, wore a royal uniform and
dcported himself with royal dignity. Often