Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-26
GENERAL Ne US.


The Hudson river towns are enjoying
skating.
Dime dances are the prevailing amusement
in Wisconsin.
Miss Annie Louise Cary is reported en-
gagged to a Philadelphia gentleman.
An Iowa COW has died of ten-penny nail in
the heart. 1t is supposed to have been there
two years.
De Rodas babe final farewell to Cuba,
and sailed for home on Monday.
Geo. Holland, the veteran comedian, died
last week in New York.
The original Cardiff giant has been seized
at Buffalo for debt.
The legal profession almost monopolizes
the higher posts of the present French gov
eminent.
Senator Sumner cleared IS 900 on his re-
cent lecture tour.
AKeokuk girl discharged her lover because
he would court on Sunday nights, instead OF
going to meeting.
Indiana reports spring sixty feet in di-
ameter with no soundings at 400 feet. 1t
runs -four mill.
A firm in Louisville has received an order
from France for 1900 casks prime mess pork
for use in the French army.
Mrs. Ingham, of Iowa, will live in history
as the woman who delivered Thanksgiving
sermon while her husband proudly sat back
of the pulpit holding the baby.
Newark shoe-string peddler. supposed to
be a pauper, has got good joke on his rela-
tives by dying and leaving them $50, 700.
A number of French peasants have been
tried and sentenced in Prussia for trying to
poison German soldiers with verdigris.
A citizen of St. Paul, Mimi, who evidently
possesses too much money for his own good,
has habit when drunk of eating ten dollar
greenbacks.
The Springfield Republican is Of the opin-
ion that in New England the Lyceum has had
its day, and that the people are beginning to
conclude they have been lectured enough.
Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, has been
converted under the preaching of Earl, the
reviyalist, and will soon become member Of
the Baptist denomination.
Detroiter who took flask of whiskey
with him on shooting trip, struck race
track in the suburbs on his return, and walked
around it all night, wondering why he didn
get to town.
Nevada City miner was drying fifty
pounds Of giant powder, the other day, at
furnace. He went out through the end of the
building very quick.
The gambler shooting season in California
promises an unusually large yield. The
exhilerating strains Of the revolver are heard
every pleasant afternoon on the frequented
streets of Frisco and other lively towns.
They have peculiar ideas of justice in
Bridgeport, Conn. A boy who robbed his
father recently was arrested and fined seven
teen dollars. AS the father had to pay it, he
has concluded to deal directly with the boy
hereafter.
Santa Anna has issued a characteristic pro.
test against being included in the amnesty
proclamation lately issued by Juarez, and
with such high flown elaboration expresses
his contempt for the iatteF's offered pardon.
Franklin Kettle and his wife, two of the
oldest and most respected residents in Ste
phen town, New York, were murdered on
Thursday night by their son, who is blind.
The father and son had some dispute about
will, which eliminated in the murder The
murderer has been arrested.
In 1861 New York paper announced that
"a young Swedish girl, Christine Nilsson,
has been sent to Paris by the Duchess OF
ossgothland, to be educated at her expense,
as singer, in consequence ofthe great beauty
Of her voice."
An Arkansas editor apologies for the
''thinness" ofa late issue, by saying that all
his time has been occupied in answering
challenges and arranging for the duels and
funerals, q number of such matters having
accumulated on his hands.