Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-13
FANCY PRINTING.

Tuesday. January 10. 1885.
FANCY PRINTING.
,.,, need of fancy and engraved dance ORDERS
nramme,. announcements, wedding and visiting
pross large and varied assortment OF samples can
osros' he found at this office. Have new and de.
A'.sIe STYLES of type for doing nice work. Samples
snc . Nv mail and prices quoted.
The legislature will meet again today.
Wheeled vehicles again have the floor.
The sleigh bells are having rest.
The county commissioners of the State
.oet at the Court House to-day.
One inebrate went to JAIL yesterday, being
unable to pay fine and costs.
The snow has almost wholly disappeared
f,or the face of the country.
REPRESENTATIVE Randall of this city. will be
u,en,ber of the committee on interior wat
ers.
Tbere is still a boom in -four The Mime
anil. patents have advanced one dollar a
barrel.
Nearly all the members of the legislature
rho left the city after the adjournment had
returned last evening.
The Granite Citys will play the Deerings
at the rink this evening, the latter club as re-
organized still remain in the league.
Its generally understood that the Augusta
delegation to the legislature favor the restor-
alton of the common council in this city.
The city has snapped horses with Mr.
lanes Keegan, getting 400 pound grey of
Prince Edwards Island extraction. Boot was
given.
Several telephone wires were blown down
by the gale, yesterday Two poles on the
Topus road were overturned
Commencing to-day, John II. Bennett will
conduct the laundry on Court street, recent
" managed by o. n. Blackington.
Awarrant has been issued for the arrest OF
bog named Noyes. on the South Belfast
road, FIR alleged disturbance of school in
one OF the outlying districts.
The aouual children's party announced to
take place at the Universalist church nexl
Friday evening. is postponed until some time
in next month. Let all interested take
notice.
The river rose slowly, all day yesterday
but was not high enough to do any damage
Many surmsed that the ice would start. bu
nothing Of the kind occurred and there were
no tangible indications of freshet.
Copies of the Biographical Sketches, ir
pamphlet form. may be had of Mr.. Brennan
and Mr.. Chadbourne, at the entrance of the
House aud Senate; also at the journal anG
Farmer Offices, and at J. Frank Pierce's.
That ex Gov Coburn has remembered Paw
son Tucker, Esq. of Portland, in his will i.
suthoritiatively asserted. Mr.. Coburn re-
garded the manager of the Maine Contra
as wonderful man and so stated a shor
time previous to his death
A great saving of fuel results from the
protracted mildness of the weather. fac
that is not relish,d by coal and wood dealers
The haymow also feels the effect of the mild
ness, and is much larger than it would have
been had swapping cold weather prevailed
without interruption.
Application has been made to the govern
ment to establish four lights on Moosehea
Lake. AS there is now a great deal of nav
CATION On Moosehead, and much of it by
night, these lights are needed. The govern
ment has established lights on Lake Cham
plain and other inland waters.
The case of Elijah Farr of West Gardi
nr against the Gardiner Water Power Co.
for damages caused by the fowl ng of thu
plaintiffs land by the water of Cobbossee
contee Pond has been settled, Mr.. Farr re
ceiving 800. Loring Farr for the plaintiff
Baker & Cornish for dett.
MIR. K. b. Capen of DirigO Commercial
College, is an electrician of considerable
note He owned the first telephone eve
seen in this city and has recently received ar
electrical apparatus for lighting and extin
gushing gas lamps. The operator simpl.
pulls tiny chain or turns button and tn
gas is lighted in an instant. 1t is put but il
the same manner An electric spark ignite
the gas,
An old farm cart containg a solitary shoe
oox went rafting up Water street in the
height of the storm yesterday morning. Tn
horse, bedraggled dobbin with long ears
gailoped up the street. Several clerks VIII
mad ventured out in the driving rain, shoute'
whoa and the runaway finally snbsided tt
walk, and was caught by an enterprisins
young man. A minute afterwards small
ooy' buried in Il big coat, came rush ing up
mounted the cart, and applying sundry
strokes of a rawhide to the steed, drove off