Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-10

1,oeal anu State Mems.
Saturday, March 10, 1883.
Ward : hree.
,.oublicsns Of Ward Three are requested to
Inc s ,he Engine House, Saturday evening. March
mee o'clock, for the pu' pose OF nominating ward
49, Per order, ,.
.u~u.ta. March Z. 1853.
Ward Five.
The republicans of Ward Five are requested to
LIZ =, he v ard Room. SATURDAY evening, March
DE- o'clock for the purpose OF nominating ward
Per Greer,
officers Republican wa,d Com,
,.eus,a, Ne, March Z, 1884
Ward Seven.
Tho republicans of Ward seven are requested to
~ ., Inc Engine House, Saturday evening, March
- :, O'Clock, for the purpose Of nominating ward
One.rs sh = I,ss Republican v ard Com.
Mr. Ira D. SturgIs Is IN Boston this week.
Look out for Virgins great storm today.
The Aldermen were correcting the voting
lists yesterday.
About twenty names were added to the
voting lists yesterday.
H.
the Bangor reception.
The Camilla Urso Company will give a
r,snd concert at Granite Hall on the 18th OF
March.
The mercury was l6 degrees below zero in
Fsrmingdae yesterday morning; the coolest
this winter.
Nesrly all those in attendance on the re
cep,ion at Bangor, from Augusta returned
to the city yesterday forenoon.
Signs of spring have appeared. The news
papers have commenced their annual talk
about the Presidents visit to Maine.
MI oiuitii, b>i., VI bduSoi, Is re-
porter at the March term of the S. J. Court
now in session at the Court House.
Rev. A. II. Hall of Meriden, Conn, will
preach in the Granite Church, Tomorrow
morning, and in the chapel in the evening.
1.-The Kindly Treatment Of Other Mems
Imperfectons'' is the subject of the lecture
in the Unitarian church Sunday evening
All seats free.
Nearly every one who owns horse thinks
the animal is fast and State and Bangor
streets are veritable trotting parks where the
fast steppers are exhibited.
Mr.. Nathaniel Noyes will erect a double
tenement house the coming spring, on a lot
near the Weston house on the east side. He
is now preparing the foundation.
Our readers will be surprised this morning
to learn of the dissolution of the well-known
dry good, firm of Fowler, Hamlen & Smith,
Mr.. Smith retiring from the firm.
Service of song and gospel meeting in Y.
NJ. C. A. hall on Sunday at four =. NJ. All
are invited. Good singing and short ad-
dresses. Young mems meeting at five
o'clock.
Dea. Daniel Larrabee of Gardiner, is dead.
All respected and loved him. He was dea
con of the Gardiner Baptist church 20 years.
lie represented Wales in the legislature IN
lsi5 and lSi7.
+. W. Kin, man, Jr., OF the firm of Guppy
kinsman & Alden, has returned from his
Southern trip, and now relates TO bis friends
the little story of high life in Texas, where he
spent most of his time.
Mrs. Margaret Mather, the celebrated ac-
tres, has so tar recovered from her recent i'll
ness that she will resume acting in Provi
dence, X. l., on Monday next. She will ap-
pear in Augusta, on the Goth inst.
The kennebec dam is being graveled.
Seven dump carts with horses are employed.
The gravel is procured from the river bank
on the west side. The teams drive up to the
dam on the ice. and the gravel is dumped ex-
actly where wanted.
In the city auditors report published in
Yesterdays kennebec Journal, through in
advertance the figures were not carried out
against the item Five per cent bond of
1854 The amount due on bonds of that
year is sl4 100, making the total indebted
ness 1881, 2S7 80.
There is the usual amount of talk about
going west this spring Our young men
listen with avidity to the wondrous tales of
western prosperity and how simple matter
1t is to coin money in that favored region
Stul, men are coming back to Maine and
telling us there's no place like home.
The reading room ct Bowdoin College has
IL daiiies. 80 weeklies. II monthlies, two hi
monthlies End five quarterles The labora
tory of the college is to be enlarged and
thoroughly remodelled The library has re-