Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-13

Eofal aud State 4fws.
Friday. November l3. 1885
FINE JOB PRINTING.
r.. Iob Printing Establishme Mt Of the Kennebec
,ournal s always well prepared for doing the incest
om ev Of paper stock. and keeps on hand the latest
s tyss in stock; also varied assortment OF dance
sfsrs. programs, announcements, etc., etc. Orders
oIu nail will receive prompt and careful attention
Business was unusually brisk on the street.
yesterday.
There are four pairs Of twins in the gram
mar school.
Three coal laden schooners were at the
xharves yesterday.
The Della Collirs, yesterday, was heavily
fregh,ed with apples.
Dealers are airing their thermometers for
the cold weather trade.
Frank Brown was sentenced to 80 days in
;ail for drunkenness, yesterday.
Calanthe Lodge, X. of f., visited their
uallowell brethren, Thursday evening.
A new paper has been started in Bucksport
nnder the name Of the "Bucksport Clipper"
The new sewer running through DR.. Web
.,ter'. premises, east of State street, is about
completed.
Mr. Reuben Packard, who recently pur-
chased the Aborn house on Bridge street, will
nut the building in thorough repair.
The trestle work under the west span of
the railroad bridge has been extended up
among and to the top of the framework of the
span.
The Augusta market was well supplied
with game Yesterday Wild ducks, rabbits,
partridges and gray squirrels were displayed
for sale
Miss A. Foster will receive pupils in
oil, china and pastel painting, at "a Gage
street Specimens can be seen at Milliken'.
art store and Rowse's jewelry store.
Councillor Bixby. who with the other mem
hers of the Governor and Council is visiting
the institutions in Massachusetts, patronized
by the State, is accompanied by his wife ant
daughter.
The managers of St. Marks Home ar,
to have pound party" next Thursday. a
friends Of that institution who have so gener
ously remembered it in times past.
young man from Norway, violently in
sane. was taken to the Insane Hospital yes
terdav afternoon. He came on the o'clocl
P. NJ train, was handcuffed, and struggled
desperately to escape from his keepers.
An inebriated individual confined in on
of the cells of the police station, Wednesda
night set fire to his mattress. The blaz
getting too warm for him, he shouted "fire
and the officers near by came to the rescu
and extinguished the flames.
The contract to furnish sausages for tn
National Military Home. has been awarded t
the Augusta Refrigerator Company at SO 9
per hundred weight Mr.. Fred Thorne OBJ
tanned the contract to furnish the turkeys 70
the Thanksgiving dinner.
home from Hallowell on the 2 o'clock A. NJ
train, one night recently, fell between tn
cars while they were in motion, and had no
a brakeman, with rare presence of mind
pulled him out, he would have been injured
Lancy Block seems to be in good hands
it is now owned by a syndicate composed o
Messrs Z. w. Whitehouse, w. ii. Libby an
A. c: Otis. These gentlemen are to so thor
oughy repair and improve the block as t.
make II a valuable piece of property.
There is a rush of electric light agents t
Augusta, eager to place plant here. Mr.
Frank Ridlon of a Boston company was il
the city yesterday in the interest of his light
1t is the same that is in use in Gardiner, an,
he was accompanied by Mr.. J. w. McCaus
land of that city. who has had much expe
rience in electric light matters.
Hon. Fred Atwood, who has been in atten
dance on the meeting of the reunion execu
tive committee, returned home yesterday
He received ten or dozen more letters from
ex-members, indorsng the project. yesterday
among those writing being Hon. F. A. Pix
OF Calais. The answers to the invitations
will all be sent to Hon. f. c. Burleigh, treas
urer of the reunion.
The annual meeting of the Kennebec As
ISOLATION of Universalists closed a very prof
table session at Hallowell yesterday. Re
ports from the various churches in the Asso
citation, show an encouraging state of The
work generally. and very hopeful DISPOSE
ton on part of the churches. Five sermons