Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-21

There will be a great influx of travelling
men today to attend the banquet rendered
them by Landlord Lovejoy at Hotel North
this evening.
Wood & Harvey show by their ad. in an
other column, that they mean business at
the store formerly occupied by J. c. Rollins
on State Street
4 party Of French Canadians started from
this city on gum hunting expedition into
the wilIs of Northern Maine. They will
return during April,
The records of til, State Board of Health
show that for the ?, two weeks Maine has
been more free from contagious diseases
than At any oli,r time during the year.
There were two lively rows near the east
end of the bridge yesterday, in one of which
woman took an active part. The com
batsnts were taken in charge by the police.
The patent delivery wagon invented by Mr..
Hiram Clark and described in a recent issue
Is uffAlHs WIN u i'Hh1 N''' N'"i ~ 'NS
Just received two orders from Minneapolis.
The four gentlemen who give the supper
at the Iniversalist ves,ry this evening are
VIM. r. Smith, MIR Charles Milliken, Judge
Andrews and j. s. Hobbs. All their friends
are cordially invited.
The Golfer dam protecting the unIi.Ished
wall of the Edwards new nil. has been re-
built ainee the frrshel, and the water has
been thrown out with steam pduP If the
weather is fair today the masous will begin
work
Mr. S. u. Wooicock forw ariei 200 dozen
eggs to Boston yesterday, thr largest snip
ment made from this city during the last four
years Mr. woodcock will send away 700
dozen per week during the remainder Of the
spring.
The Congregational Parish COMMITTEE have
received applications from a Large number of
candidates who desire to preach ia Augusta
during the summer. Az yet No rr,liemeat
for supplying the pulpit after the Hrst of
April has been made.
The second lecture of Mr.. Jack .un's course
on New England Poets AM P'c-rs" will be
given next Friday evening nt ,hr parlors of
the Unitarian church. The subject will be
"Home. the Humorist tickets for sale
at public library and the bcoksiores.
Mr.. A. j. Fierce received last might from
L, c. kan ina,
fancier, a valuable cocker spaniel named
Harry The pup is three months old and
has pedigree which includes some of the
best blooded dogs OF that breed in the coun-
try
The mild season has male = vast diher-
ence in the amount of fuel consumed, said
scoal dealer yesterday. Last year at this
time the coal supply throughout the henne'
bee valley failed entirely, and everyone had
to order fresh supply from Boston Now
in Augusta alone at least 700 tons will be
carried over"
Crook liorner & Co of Baltimore who re-
ceved the contract for heating the new
public building, have shipped the boiler, air
pipes and fans needed and will begin the
work of putting them in. Supt. Noyes e1-
poets to have thirty men at work on the
building during April
The barge Geuesta drove down Water st.
| yesterday morning shrouded in black and
followed by curious crowd. 1t was filled
With sixteen insane veterans on their way TO
Washington who were landed about the depot
where they wandered about until train time
special car was attached to the rear OF the
ten o'clock train for their benefit
In the First National Bank in this city. is
fund amounting to some three hundred
dollars, left for the redemption of bills is
sued by the old State Bank, the affairs of
which were wound up in 1868. As no bills
on that institution have been presented for
payment during the last two years, it is
probable that those not already redeemed
are either los, or preserved as curiosiues'
l Mr.. Fred Stevens, the Augusta House
meteorological, who has kept careful record
Of the weather during the winter, reports
that since Oct. /, 1855, there have been
twenty-eight storms in which more than
l susrter of an inch of snow has fallen. I've
of these were in October, Ave in November
six in December. only three in January and
two in March, while February leads the lis
/ with ten
L Let all remember the address to De de
| livered this evening in the lecture room o
the First Baptist church by Mrs. Mary [
Reynolds of wallingford, Conn.,, secretar.
| of the woman's Baptist Home Missionar.
Society. We feel confident that all will b
interested, as she speaks from recent per