Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-26

Local ann STATE Nefus.
Thursday, Nay 20, 1881.
The Governor and Council will be in An.
cost. next Tuesday.
Mrs. Garfield will pass the summer in
Maine, it is said.
col J.B. Peaks of Dover, Insurance Com
Missioner, paid the Journal call yesterday.
Hon. G. T. Stevens of West Wateryille
and c. E. Littlefeld, Esq. of Rockland.
-ere in town yesterday.
Part one of the Insurance Com missioner's
,ox ready for distribution.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
If the NJ E. church, will meet with Mrs.
rnoch Libby, on Swan street this Thurs
day. evening.
The law court is still hearing cases from
Somerset county. Four were argued ye,t.r-
dsy, and to-day will probably by occupied in
hearing cases from this county.
Rev Phillips Brooks, ID, has been Sc
cured BY the Portland Young Mems Christian
Association TO deliver an address at their an
niyersary meeting June 18th
The annual gathering of the Maine Home
pathic Medical Society convenes at the
sldermens room, Granite Hall block, in this
city, on June 7th.. 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
This is Ascension day. the anniversary of
our Saviour's ascension into heaven after
His resurrection. Services at St Marks
church will be at 10. 80 A. NJ. and Up. NJ.
Weekly shoot of the Cushnoc Gun Club
this afternoon at five o'clock. Every MEN,
Der should be present. as the matter of ar
ranging match with the Riverside Club of
Topsham will be considered
Gen. Henry Boynton left Augusta yester-
day morning for New York. He sails from
that city on Saturday for Queenstown, Ire
land He will be absent several months,
and will make a pretty thorough tour of
Great Britain and the continent.
There will be meeting of the trustees of
the State Agricultural Society at the Dewitt
House, Lewiston, on the Both inst, to finish
the revision of the premium list preparatory
to publication to decide what further i'm
provements they will have made on the
grounds, etc.
Librarian j. S. Hobbs has just made most
valuable addition to the State library. He
has purchased forty-five volumes of legal
text books, of late editions. Maine already
has magnificent collection of legal books
and documents, and accessions are constantly
being received
There is no occasion for swearing outside
of a newspaper office, where it is very useful
in proof-reading, and indispensable necessary
in getting forms to press. 1t has been known,
also, to materially assist the editor in looking
over the paper after it is printed. But other
wise it is a very foolish and wicked habit.
The following Juniors have been appointed
to take part in the prize declarations at the
close of this term at Bowdoin: G. F. Bates,
A. +. Belcher, II. Carpenter, c. II. Gilman,
NJ II. Goodwin, NJ. $. Holway, J. X.
Jordan. +. +. Mccarthy, W. A. Moody, G.
H. Pierce, W. q. Plimpton, G.. +. Stinch
field.
Early yesterday morning w. +. Potter and
George Chadwick might have been seen rid
ing out toward Windsor, with a couple of
long poles sticking out of rear of their
buggy Before returning they captured
iy-one trout-the finest mess that has been
brought into Augusta by local anglers this
season.
1t is understood that Hon. Lewis Barker of
Bangor is to argue the question before the
F, full court in this city, as to the right OF the
Governor to remove certain State officers
without the consent of the Council. Ru-
NOR says that ii. ID. Hadlock, Esq, formerly
Of Bucksport, will argue the other side Of the
question.
At precisely 4.37 O'Clock by railroad time,
yesterday afternoon, locomotive 30 came
flying into the depot, with two passenger
cars behind. Superintendent Tucker was
trying the experiment of running from FORT
land to Bangor in three hours. The light
enng express was three minutes ahead Oh
time here.
The Augusta House wore an air OF oust-
ling activity last night. Five of the Supreme
Judges of Maine are quartered there. Among
the arrivals yesterday were. j. w. Spau'd'
ing, Richmond; Josiah Crosby, Dexter
&c. Harrington. Fryeburg: Abner Coourn'
Skowhegan; ID. n Mortland, Rockland H.
B. Cleaves, Portland; A. Z. Gould, Thorn