Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-25

Dunton the photographer has Jast re
ceiyed an order from Germany for som
views of Augusta and vicinity.
Mr.. Chas. b. Savage is building a gabl
window, finishing his ell and making othe
improvements upon his house on Patterson
St.
The druggists and others are getting thei
cold soda air compressors into running orde
and will soon be making the thirsty pedes
TRANS happy.
The sidewalk leading from the railroat
crossing to Gay & Parsons machine shop has
been heightened to join the concrete walk or
Gage street.
The two men who engaged in drunken
brawl at the Central House were intoxicated
when they arrived In this city and evidently
obtained their liquor in some other town.
Walter Brown, while practicing with q
rife on the range at Camp Marble, Satur.
day, rested the muzzle on his right foot
Something caught the trigger. the gun went
of and so did portion Of Walters big toe
Mayor Lane has granted the Salvation
Army permission to parade the city street.
with drums till the first of May, on Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday and Friday evenings
provided that they take care not to frighten
horses nor necessarily impede travel.
The steamer Star of the East" will leave
Gardiner on her first trip to Boston on Mon
day. April s The new steamer "Kennebec'
will be put on the route about the middle of
June Through tickets to New York by
the Sound boats will be sold for the frs,
time this year.
The policemen appointed for the ensuing
year went on duty for the first time Satur-
day The only new officer is Warren Bruce
who will guard Cony -. below Bangor and
the Kennebec bridge from noon till midnight.
Special Doe is for the present filling the va
cancy on Cushnoc Heights.
While the northern States have been en-
joying the mud weather which has charac-
tered the past winter, southerners have been
less fortunate. gentleman Just returned
from the lower States reports chilly. raw
weather, which male the mornings and even
ings really uncomfortable The past win
ter there has been unusually cold and diss
greeahle.
Last weeks U,.ton quotations for spring
lambs were Sc l pound instead of s37 apiece
as stated in Saturdays paper Lambs unless
exceptionally fine will not now bring more
than So. some OF the finest ever sent from
kennebec county were a flock of ten OF the
famous herd owned by the Bodwell estate
and shipped by Mr.. Henry Norcross. They
averaged 80 pounds each in weight.
Prof. r. Il. Capen has BE- gun tha surv'y
for the electric railway and has thus far
measured the grades of Gas House hill and
the downward slope just beyond the State
House, both of which are found 20 be practi-
cable The worst pitches on tho route are
at Louion Hill and near the Hal Dwell plains.
Several parties who wish To aoutract for the
construction of the road viii De- 10 the city
next wednesday.
Saturday was the first d'y of neauon'
and the lovely spring wrat4'r 0rrugh' Ali
the children out iuto the $50 ljght The lit
tile boys amused thems ''''s IN exciting
games of base ball aud spirtsd c"Ht' 81 of
marbles while their sisters 9 Ipy, themselves
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The citizens of Ward Cre have become
tired Of voting in the Phillips carriage shop
on Swan 81 and at their next meeting the
Ci,y Council will be requested to appropriate
a few hundred dollars for the erection of a
substantial ohe-story brick building on the
''heater piece" near the Ausustr y Use
Prof. X. b. Capen has drs'g ned plan
Tor structure coh'a'n'ns space i'i u am
engine ana convenient "ii'
Sbopkeepers should make n note of the
fact that after the middle Of April. they are
r.hI, ,o s,e of s5n for selling A cigarette
IN. hov unler l6 and the rest of mankind
.houlA also bear in mind that they are sub
loot tn the same penalty for giving cigarette
tn. minor The age of sweet sixteen" be-
,o,,.. vor, interesting one 10 those who
are q, unfortunate A, to have contracted the