Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-28

Nr. Clark II. Barker has received his com
mission AZ Postmaster of Portland, and will
enter upon his duties the first of next month
| Representative Milliken of Maine. has in
troduced q bill into the House TO give con-
demned cast iron cannon TO Grand Army
Post Al, at Belfast; also, a bill granting l60
acres Of land to the officers, soldiers and sail
ors Of the Uuion, their widows and Orphans.
| A letter from Rev. DIR. Field of Bangor
mentions the fact Of meeting Mr.. and Mrs.
Stodder, Misses Stetson, Wilson, Hamlin,
Thompson, Peters and Thurston, which, with
his own party, made twelve Bangoreans in
| Rome at one time.
| Hon. Joseph Miller, of Lincolnville, died
Feb. "a. aged 81 years. He was well known
as Judge Miller" in town, county and State,
having filed many Offices, including Judge of
Probate of Waldo county, and was always
prominent in public matters.
Prof. Carmichael gave his lecture on ella
ciaI Physics last Saturday evening at Bow
doin College. Ii was a wretched night yet
over sixty attended and were amply repaid
The lecture was illustrated by views and dia-
grams in a very interesting and instructive
manner.
Mr.. Frank A. Elwell. representative for
Maine Of the League of American Wheelmen,
will start Monday for the Bermudas to ar
range for the projected tour of wheelmen to
those islands next year. He will be accom-
panied BY Carl Kron, who is known as the
greatest bicycle tourist in this country, and AS
the author of new work entitled Ten
Thousand Miles on q Bicycle"
Among the gentlemen who are mentioned
as possible candidates for the democratic
nominee for Mayor of Ellsworth. for the en-
suing year, says the Bangor Commercial. are
Hon. j. b Redham. Mr.. II. b. Mason, ID II.
Eppes, and Roscoe Holmes. In connection
with the republican nomination the following
gentleman are mentioned; Col. c. c. BurriIl,
+. ID. Aiken, Hon. J. ID. Cushman. and Hon.
J. F. Cushman, the present incumbent.
Hon. w. +. Gsrcelon Of Lewiston, who re-
Gently went to Riverside Cal, for the bene-
fit of his health, does not think that he is as
well at the present time as he was when he
left home. A letter. dated February 18th,
states that rainy and dull weather began Jan.
18th and had continued to date. He had been
able TO go out but little in the meantime. II
it were more favorable time of year for max
ing the journey over the mountains, Mr.. Gar
celon thinks he would start for home at once.
The Maine friends of Bishop John Spald-
ing of Colorado, will be pleased to hear of
his success in that State. His former
resident of Camden, graduate of
Bowdoin College, class of So and fitted
for college at Camden. Kent's Hill, and
North Yarmouth Academy He is grad
uate of the the General Theological Semi.
nary of the Protestant Episcopal church,
Now York city and after his graduation was
missionary at Oldtown. Maine. rector of
st. Georges church at Lee, Mass. and of
st. Paurs church. Erie, Penn. Ten years
ago, he was unanimously elected Bishop of
Colorado. An address delivered by him in
Denver, Dec. 30th, on the 10th anniversary
of his conservation as bishop shows the mar
velous growth of Colorado Territory and of
the church of which he is Bishop, during the
last ten years.