Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-23

Eofal and STATE 1ftrs.
Saturday. January %. 1885.
FINE JOB PRINTING.
The Job Printing ESTABLISHING Mt of the Kennebec
Iourua IL always well prepared for doing the incest
work, as well az the more common branches. This
Once employs competent printers. carries a large
Sariey OF paper stock, and keeps hand the latest
styles of type. Wedding and visiting card. and enve.
lspes in stock; also varied assortment OF dance
orders programs, announcements, ETC., etc. Orders
BY mail will receive prompt and careful attention.
Republican headquarters.
GRANITE BANK BUILDING.
Open Day and Evening.
The snow shovel did duty on the roofs,
yesterday.
The weather was soft yesterday and the
snow packed
Judge Stevens court st Chelsea has not
been very busy Of late.
A drilling rain commenced falling last
evening, continuing into the night.
The G. A. K. post at Togus will hold
grand campfire on Monday evening.
Some twenty members Of the Augusta
lodge, A. Q. L. W., will visit their Gardiner
brethren Monday evening.
The Haynes & Dewitt Ice Co. have
small field Of ice at Iceboro where they will
harvest some 10, 900 tons.
The loss by the fire at Mrs Scruton's resi-
dence on Stat street has been settled by the
insurance company for 1868.
Nathan NJ. Grover and Thomas G.. Hoyt
have been drawn as travers jurors to serve at
the February term Of the superior court
The granite bases Of the seven columns of
the new Episcopal church have been hauled
out to Arches sheds, where they are to be
cut
An apartment, 10 feet by TO- for the use of
the American Ex"ress Go. is being con-
suuctcd on the station platform adj 'cent to
tue L. = mail room.
Fred Tracy of Iallowell was arrested Thurs
day night for making d sturbance on the
train, and on being brought before Judge
Andrews. yesterday, was fined s. AMI cost,
which he paid.
The annual meeting of the Kennebec Log
Driving Co. will occur in this city, proba-
bly the second week in February, at Grand
Army Hall The meetings have formerly
been held in Gardiner.
The continued case of Andrew Morang,
prosecuted for selling liquor withouta United
States icence, will again come up in Com
missioner Choates court to-day II,
Blanchard. Esq will appear as his counsel.
The trestlc work between the empty spans
of the railroad bridge was completed yester-
dav, and cara can now be moved across. This
temporary structure will not be used for the
passage of trains until the iron of the spans
is up.
The Maine Central housed nearly 800 tom,
OF IRE this week to be used by them in Ban
gor next summer They have a field all
scrapeh on tive Mount Desert Branch and in
few davs will send crew of men down
there to cut several hundred tons
six-vcar-old son of Frank Butler a
Frenchman living at the north end, was Sc
vrrelv bitten in the calf Of one leg while slid
ing down hill Yesterday forenoon, by dog,
the property of Mr.. Edward Murphy. Later
in the day the same animal bit a man in the
arm and afterwards fastened onto the pants
lag of another man. Murphy promised to
have the dog killed last night.
The Maine Central car repair shops in this
city always find plenty to do. All the pas
,enger cars on the road pass through the
shops, and ii requires a crew of some 30 men
to keep things moving. A new saloon car is
being constructed here and one in Wsterville
There are thirty five cars fitted up to be oc
cnpied as travelling boarding houses by the
different rep,ir crews along the line.
The ice operators are busy and should the
prices of the frozen commodity rule high the
surface Of the Kennebec in this vicinity for
the next four weeks will be a scene of sc,iv-
ity. Smrgis. Lambsrd Co.'S four teams
have been employed for several days in clear
ing their field of ice, and to-day, his scrapers
having arrived yesterday, Messrs. White
and Cony will set some fourteen teams
al work on their field opposite the
Arsenal and Hospital 1t is upwards