Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-08
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BURLEIGH & FLYsT.
Harrison fireworks for sale at Soule's.
Bankrupt stock of Shaker chairs selling al
Soule's.
The Maine Central have issued their win
Ter time tables in handy poke. forms
Michael Madden, who runs the pump at
the mill, jammed one hand badly Tuesday
Billy Fox, the prompt delyerer of tele-
grams, appeared in neat new uniform yes
terday.
The board of directors of the Y. NJ G. A.
tomorrow evening.
Schooner J. ID. Ingraham which has been
dseharging coal for Allen is now loading
lumber at the mil.
Rabbit stew is becoming a common and
fayorite dish. The little animals retail for
twenty cents each.
The ninety seventh number of Robert b.
Thomas almanac has made its appearance,
crowded with bad weather az usual
bet laid upon the result of al election i.
legally void, but the mau who refuses to pay
it is not generally regarded the soul OF
honor.
The Boston Globe and Herald arrived on
Jewetts tram yesterday morning and the
rush for them entirely blockaled the book
store. Every copy was sold in a very shorl
time.
Logging teams are fast STARTING for the
woods and are encounterng much trouble
from the bad condition of the roads and
and standing water. 1t is a terrible fall foi
all interests.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Fred W. Chas,
received from Eoston two Of lis carrier
pigeons. As they bore news of til election
of Cleveland they must have bee liberated
very early in the evening.
When the day has q soft, gentle glow in 1t,
as though molten gold permeated the air, and
it is just trife too warm for light over
coat, that is the day that the furnace dcviates
from its custom of sending iced air up through
the register and drives you out OF doors to
cool of
The electric light pole at the top of Rines'
Hill has been moved from the center OF the
square to a position directly in front of the
Hartford House. The change in location
gives a much better light On Green ST. than
formerly his light llumnatcs more space
than any other in the city.
The first carload of Florida oranges this
season is now On the way nOrthward. The
crop this year is the largest ever grown, and
its shipment will not be intertercd with at all
by the yellow fever epidemic. Arrange
ments for exporting oranges to Europe hav,
been made, and fully 1000 boxes will be
sent there this year.
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A firm in Boston makes a specially of the
the manufacture OF farm bells which art
rapidly taking the place OF the old-fashioned
dinner horns Mr.. c. NJ. Jones of Bailey
Vile recently purchased large bell which
will be hung near has house NJ used in sum
moning from their work the numerous hands
employed ON his large farm.
The first service IN the chapel at the In
sane Hospital will be held next Sunday.
when Rev j. Il. Jordan of this c,tJ will de
liver a discourse. No work on the roal re
Gently laid out by Mr.. Capen will be done
until next spring. The isolated wards
which have been thoroughly disinfectei. will
not be used for some time, eNceI; for stor-
age. They will PROBABLY be occupied event
ually by attendants.
\ down east gardener claims to have dis
covered the secret of raising good cabbages
aud it certainly deserves a trial by some OF
our farmers. lie has taken large number
of the very finest specimens from a small
piece of ground this season. lie attributes
his success to placing a dish of sweetened
water between the rows of plants when first
set out Into this water punges the moth
from which the cabbage worm originates.
By employing this simple method he thinks
anyone can easily raise cabbages.
At the next session of The Governors Coun-
ell on Nov. %. an attempt viii he made TO
secure the par ,na of Cbssl.~ pre-lott,
who in 1915 was gwen life sentence in
States Prison for the murder of Jas. God
dard alias Henry Williams, at Deering, two
years previous. Prescott was convicted en-
tirely on oircumstantial evidence, and as he
has always been feeble minded, it is very
doubtful whether he committed the deed,
though he was undoubtedly an accessory
after the fact Prescott is very sick with
consumption, and will probably not live long
even if removed from the prison.
gentleman who recently visited Small
Point, says that while he was there, several
steamers engaged in sening came within POO
feet of the shore. Commissioner of Sea
and Shore Fisheries Counce was at once mott
fled and sent a warden over, who arrived tn,
next day, but the crafts had departed and
their whereabouts were unknown. 1t is
known that the law which forbids SEEMING
within three miles of the shore has been VIC
lated with impunity at times, and the gentle
man above mentioned saws an attempt will bC
made in the next legislature to make the law
more stringent and effective. On the othe1
hand a member of the limited States Fisher,