Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-16

Six gentlemen, representing the respectable
old wing party, recently held a meeting some
where in Mississippi, and expressed their con-
servative alarm at the present anomalous and
deplorable condition of the country.
Consul Perry, at Panama, recently received
a call from an Indian chief, who informed
him Of the existence Of a hitherto unknown
opening through the mountains which can be
available tor ship canal. Learned men
have long been of the opinion that the Indians
knew of an easy route across the Isthmus of
Darien, and that belief seems now to have
confirmation.
The last whaling vessel which Groton, CT,
possessed, has been Withdrawn from the BUSH
ness. The schooner Cornelia, which for
some time has had the honor of sinsly main
tanning the right of Groton to be ranked
among American whaling cities, has ceased
to hunt for the oleaginous sea monsters, and
gone into the more humble and less exciting
but, doubtless more profitable business of
oyster catching.
IL is all Olu STORY, Dut IL Soou oHc, eiat tSAiS
of very negligent man who was going away
on visit to some friends His wife extorted
from hima solemn promise that he would aban'
| don his usual custom, and put on clean shirt
every day So she packed dozen in his
trunk When he came home again, his wife
was glad to perceive lie had grown more
fleshy; bnt she was alarmed when, on exam
lining his trunk, she discovered there was not
shirt in it. He had kept his promise to
mount a clean one every day, but he always
put it on over the others, and now he was
sporting around with a whole dozen on his
back Some men will never let women have
their way.
A. Chicago man who was fond of a 'nip''
says that early the first morning after his ar
rival at Sioux City, he went into saloon to
get ''bcwl of vermlfuge," and, the place not
yet having been swept out, he noticed the floor
strewed with what he took to be grapes of an
barkeeper that they appeared to have fine
large grapes in that vicinity, and poil ted to
the floor and asked if they were grown there.
"Grapes?" answered the barkeeper. "Not
much grapes we had little fun here last
night, and them's eyes that was dug out.''
Neck-tie parties promise to be the ''ragc"
this winter. Doubtless many of our readers
are inquring by this time "What is neck-tie
partyf" A necktie party is one where each
lady attending makes bow, or neck-tie, of
the same material as the dress she wears.
The bows are to be taken to the place where
the party is to be held and placed in bag
When the gentlemen arrive, each man
must go to the bag and take necktie,
and it is his duty to wait upon the lady,
during the evening, who wears the dress
corresponding in material with the neck-tie
which he takes from the bag. 1t is desirable
for the ladies to all wear dresses of different
patterns at necktie party. Much amuse-
ment usually attends this lottery for party,
and it sometimes occurs in this case, as in
matrimonial lotteries, that the most congenial
spirits do not come together h'ladslphia
Press.
Brigham Young, in lecturng on extrava-
gance in female dress, says:
II will venture to say that my mother wore
the cloak and hood that her mother before her
wore, and wore them until the day Of her
death, when she had occasion to wear cloak
and when she left this place for the next apart
ment she was forty-nine years old, and they
went to her daughter. do not know what
has become of them. She did not take a
cloak worth S25, $50, $40, or $50, and sit
down in it with child with piece of meat
in each hand to grease it all over. But now,
let some women get silk or satin dress, and
they will perhaps, while wearing it, take up
child with piece of chicken in one hand
and piece of pork in the other, or cup of
milk TO drink, and as likely as not some of it
spilled on her dress, and then they say, well,
declare my dress is spoiled"