Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-19

Will Nichols went to Jail for 80 DAYS, YES
terday, and Daniel O'Hearn, 80. Drunken
ness.
Hon James G. Blaine has presented his
check for $50 to the Howard Benevolent
Union.
Detective True of Hallowell will be pres
ent at the hanging of Wilkinson at Thomas
ton tomorrow.
The trustees of the Insane Hospital will
be in session to-day. The annual ap-
praisa will be made.
patient named John Woodman escaped
from the Insane Hospital, yesterday after
noon and was at large last night.
Joseph Proctcr's Nick of the Wood is
booked for Granite Hall the evening of the
gath inst. 1t is spoken of in commendatorv
terms by the press.
Cushnoc Council, Order of United Friends
this city, is in a prosperous condition. The
council has recently received an addition of
three new members.
The rooms ofthe Headquarters of the Repub-
lican State Committee over the Granite Bank
are undergoing thorough repairs. new
hard wood floor is being laid.
The Bond Brook mill pond froze over
Tuesday night. 1t will now be in order for
the small boy to drop through the ice and get
drowned. We are not anxious for any items
of this kind, however.
There will be fun for all at Meonian Hall
on Thursday Friday, and Saturday evenings
of this week. when John Evans. the cele-
brated boy mesmerist, will give exhibitions
of his wonderful powers.
Sturgis, Lambard & Co., will operate their
mill until the river closes. They have an
abundance Of logs, while several concerns on
the river have been oblig d to shut down
their mills for want of logs.
At the public meeting of the Howard Be-
nevolent Union in the Granite church, Sun
,d1y evening some GO persons subscribed
Sl.00 each, thereby becoming members of
the Union, and Sl2 Is was raised by con-
tribution
Capt. Frank Mccartney closed his labors
at Winthrop last SUNDAY evening, Nov. 18th,
after a series of successful meetings Town
Hall was crowded to hear his farewell. He
said that he had lO3 converts. A correspon-
dent writes that he gained many warm friends
there.
Supper will be served from to o'clock
this evening, at the Free Baptist vestrv, fol-
lowed by an entertainment consisting of vo-
cal aud instrumental music and readings. All
who desire to spend pleasant evening, and
assist the ladies in a worthy work will be cor
daily welcomed. A small admission will be
charged at the door.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Sylvester were given
pleasant surprise Monday evening. party
of nine young ladies from Mr.. Aliens pub
fishing house, where Mrs. Sylvester was for
merly employed, entered their residence
without giving premonition of their coming,
and presented Mr.. and Mrs Sylvester with an
elegant silver card receiver.
The Augusta polo team won another victory
at Lewiston, Tuesday night, handsomely
beating the Lewistons by a score Of 3 to 2.
The Spindle City men won the first tw goals,
and the Augustus the remaining three. One
of the home players asserts that the Lewis
tons doctored the rolls of their skates with
sand and water; that the Augusta men found
1t out at the end of the second goal and also
tried the sand and water game, the result
being the winning of three straight goals.
The night Pullman train from Boston was
over two hours late yesterday morning, not
arriving in this city until ten minutes of four
The DELAY was occasioned at Brunswick
where the rear trucks of the Pullman sleeper
and forward trucks of the smoking car left
the irons short distance south of the An.
droscoggin bridge. The train was running
slow at the time, but the cars bumped along
at quite a lively rate for brief period, until
the train was stopped. A crew of men was
at once raised and the cars replaced on the
track. A gentleman from this city who
was aboard, thinks the wheels jumped
frog. No one was injured.
Mr.. l. II. Cunningham has sold his two
oeer to go to Togus, where they will be ad-
'ded to the herd of deer in the park. While
the deer were being transferred at Mr.. Cum
ningham's store from the pen in which they had
oeen kept, to box, Tuesday. the doe es-
capped. Trotting to the door she stood a
moment gazing wildly about, and then gave
an airy leap forward, striking in the centre OF
the street. A large crowd gathered. and the
frightened animal, darling among the freight
cars at the rear of PARROTS warehouse, was
captured and placed in the box. Had the nim-
Ole animal escaped into the fields, all the
men and boys in town could not have brought
her back alive.