Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-13
Coral and State 1ems.
Thursday. Aug 10. 1885.

4ofal and State Nems.
Thursday. Aug, 10, 1886.
FINE JOB PRINTING.
The job Printing ESTABLISHING mt of the Kennebec
,xork, as ell as the more common branches This
office EMPLOYS competent printers, carries large
variety OF paper stock, and keeps hand the latest
iepes in stock; also varied assortment of dane
ORDERS programs. announcements, ETC., etc. Orders
by mail will receive prompt and careful attention.
The Salvationists have lost their drum
again.
The county commissioners were in session
Yesterday.
Native apples are appearing quite plentiful
ia the market.
Black bass are taking grasshoppers freely
at Cobbossecontee.
There will be an excursion to the Richmond
csmp-meeting next Sunday.
The new Salvation Army barracks will
cost IN the HtIghOOrnD0d OF $1,000.
Mary Burt tor drunkenness, was sent to /
Jail yesterday, under 30 days sentence
There was Catholic picnic at Whitefeld. !
Yesterday, several attending from this city.
Physicians report that there is a notable alb
sence of summer complaints among children |
in Augusta this month
Capital Skating Rink will be open during /
muster week, and there will be numerous
attractions presented
The Capital Guards are shooting Thursdays
and Saturdays, qualifying for the State
shoot uhich occurs muster week.
The accommodation train had a narrow es-
cape from striking COW, between Gardiner
and Hallowell, yesterday morning.
Mr. X. W. Soule supplies the National
Home with bananas. fie is also dealing quite
heavily in produce shipped from Boston.
The Kennebec River Ice Co. and Consum-
ers' Co have completed ice shipping for the
season. their houses having been emp,ied.
A party of school teachers numbering
about a dozen, came down on the boat from
Boston, yesterday, and took the Mt. Vernon
stage.
Ward e. C0gan, who have been plumbing
the Maine Central Institute at Pttsfeld. are
also plumbing DR.. Taylor's residence in the
same town
Mr.. Joseph Il. Briggs of Baileyvile will
light his new house, near that village, with
gas 1t will BE- manufactured especially for
use in his residence.
The close time partridges expires Sept.
LIST. An Augusta nimrod has flock of the
birds under surveillance in Vassalboro which
he proposes to visit the opening day.
Mr.. Charles Ilbbetts and party bagged
seven pover on Saturday last. 1t is reported
by sportsmen that the birds are tolerably
abundant and the shooting is very fair.
The Augusta Refrigerator Company have
ing on Water street. and are fitting up two
tenements therein. The Augusta Water Co.
is extending a main to it.
Water street clerks employed on the river
side amuse themselves these sultry dog day
afternoons by shooting rats on the wharves.
with air guns. Half dozen are often brought
dawn in "A b,v NV oup n,arksman
The remains of the late Geo. Murray Dana,
who died in London nearly three weeks since,
arrived in this city yesterday afternoon. The
funeral will take place At the residence of
Mrs Rice, FRIDAY morning at eleven O'Clock.
Detective True of Hallowell has been APP
pointed to furnish the police at the coming
New England fair at Bangor. Two detectives
from New York and three from Boston will
be on the grounds that ample protection
from crooks will be obtained.
Some over one hundred answers have been
received by the State Board of Health in re-
ply to the questions sent out to physicians.
Some of the communications are very elab
crate, and illustrated by maps and drawings.
One covered sixteen pages OF foolscap
The attention of our readers is called to the
advertisement in our paper of an excursion
to Old Orchard. and fare only 8 80, tickets
good from Saturday morning to Monday
night Grand baud concerts both forenoon
and afternoon on Saturday. There should
be general turn out.
An old gentleman named John Kelley was
found dead on the floor of his residence at Gar
diner Yesterday morning He had been i'll and
had evidently made an effort to arise from his
bed when he fell to the floor dead. He lived
alone and had $500 bank book in his posses
sion, besides S45 in cash.
Darby Block is completed. Herrick
Varuey were moving into their store yester-
day The Knights of Pvthias will at once |