Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-02
Hints and Happenings.

| "es SUI ospPeuInko.
! Gen. John Harper. of Lewiston. made
the camp q dying visit yesterday. but will
return again To-day.
Major Bumps and wife are in eamp
Major Bumps Is Brigade Medical Directo,
in Mai. Thsyer's place.
Brigade Hospital Steward Riker reported
yesterday morning three men sick in quar-.
tiers, and one discharged from the hospital
The field staff Of the First Regiment fee
quite proud of thes dapple gray mounts
And then good horsemen sit sstride those
dspple grsys.
Superior order has been maintained thu.
far. but comparatively few men being seer
down street, and those who were out be
hsved with decorum.
The Medical Director has ordered the
captains Of the several companies not 10
supply ice water to their men without FRS,
pre- p,ring i, with Jsmsics ginger.
Capt. Chilcott has reason to feel proud
of the steady manner in which he shot 81
out of possible rs at the team matches
yesterday. This is the order in which he
did IL 1 I 5 t~l-5-5.
Saturday, the Governor and his stsi ars
planning for trip to the White Mountain,
rs the guest of Col. F. T.. Boothby. and 4
delightful trip is anticipated. There viii
he special train of Pullman cars.
The morning of Governors Day, Gov
ernor Burleigh and staff will proceed from
the State House to the entrance of the
grounds without escort thus saving the men
l)ng tiresome tramp. At the entrance to
the grounds they will be met by the First
Regiment and be escorted to He hiQuarters.
| One Of the pleasant events of Monday
evening was the presentation to Col. Bret
/ of a handsome field efiieer's sabre. by Ad.
jutant f. A. Robinson in behalf of tie
officers of the Seconi Regiment. It is an
elegant affair. The work around the hill
and guard is superb, and on the blade there
is no etching, everything being elegantly
engraved. The inscription which it bear.
tells the story of the presentation a. fol.
o~s; Presented to Col Victor Brett BY
the officers of the Second Regiment. NJ. V.
NJ. June Both, 1880 All the commits.
stoned officers in the regiment helped buy
the sabre and thst their esteem was sub
s,an,isily shown i eviden, from the fact
that the cost was More ;hsn sl00. BeEev-
ing that nothing should be done BY halves,
the generous donors aided q costly field
officers gold bel, aud sword knot. There
have been few officers In the Maine militia
A. popular IS the Colonel OF the Second,
and be ought 10 take great pride in wearing
the evidence of that fact at his side on the
coming tours of duty of the regiment.
| Yesterday afternoon, about one O'Clock
|. steam launches Alert and Rambler of Gar
kdiner were towing seine baraaes to this
Hcisy for the purpose of SHIPPING ice from
above the dam 10 Gardner. When abosi
yspposite the Insane Asylum wharf they
,fsere oyeraken BY the schooner Geo. New.
anger, coal loaded. in tow for this city
yAhroush some miseaieula,ion on the part
70 i'd some one, or for some reason not knsun,
to BE- schooner foaied the Alert, the former'l
ID achor catching and stripping Cd the en-
10 e. top works of the Alert. As the craft
- At the s.eamboa. wharf she looked q,
10 2ush she had been through cyclone.
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