Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-21
GENERAL NEWS.


At recent sale of old coins, in New York
one cent piece of 1900 brought S35
Corsets are said to be economical because
they keep women from running to waist
Plus the Ninth has occupied the Pontifcal
seat two years longer than any predecessor.
A Western mother is uncertain whether
she will call her baby Mount Vesuvius or
Piota. both such pretty names"
Weston proposes to try to walk 100 miles
in 25 hours, on the 25th inst, at skating
rink in New York.
President Grant is forty-eight, Vice Presi-
dent Colfax forty seven, Senator Wilson fifty
eight Senator Morton forty-seven, and Sem
ator Sumner fifty-nine.
| Henry Ward Beecher says: 'Never sGold
the children, but soberly and quietly reprove."
The latest novelties in the way of engage
ment rings are sapphires set with diamonds,
one large sapphire in the centre, and large
diamond on either side.
Senator Ames, of Mississippi, is stopping
in Lowell at the house of General Butler.
His marriage with Miss Blanche Butler will
take place probably in July.
Senator Corbett predicts that the Republ-
cans will carry Oregon this year, electing
Judge j. G.. Wilson to Congress, and General
Joel Palmer to be governor.
Brownlow has to be brought TO the Senate
by attendants, his voice Is gone and he votes
by proxy, sending his vote to the Secretary by
page. Yet he is in his seat every day.
'.Why do you call me birdie, my dear ?" in
quired a wife of her husband. Because"
was the answer, ''you are always associated
in my mind with BILL"
B. p. Shllaber, well known as ''Mrs. Par
tington" in the newspapers, will favor the ed
itors and publishers of Maine and New Hamp-
shire with poem at their convention, to be
held at Rye Beach, near Portsmouth.
Amanda Craig and Elisha Sprague will soon
have another trial, in Chicago, of the question
whether he promised to marry her, and
whether that promise was worth one hundred
thousand dollars.
Edwin Burlingame, son of the late Minis
ter is going to look after the San Francisco
property purchased by his father three or four
years ago, which Californians now declare to
be worth $500, 900.
Aunt Susan says: "Suppose all the men
were in one country and all the women in
another with big river between them
Good gracious! what lots of poor women
would be drowned"
Marshall p. Wilder of Massachusetts, pres
ident of the National Fruit Growers Associa-
ton, who is good genealogical authority pre-
diets generous fruit crop this year.
Cinnamon are being shipped over the States
from San Francisco. Minnesota and Wis
consin have applied for a thousand each.
New Orleans receives them in regular install
ments.
A few weeks ago a boot which hung outside
the cellar-door of a Berlin shoemaker was
stolen. In the afternoon was found a note on
the doorstep written as follows: "If you do
not hang out the other boot, SO that we can
steal it also, we will seek it in the night or
else break all your windows"
Manitoba" the name selected for the re-
bellious Northwest Territory, which is prov
ing such an elephant in the hands of the Do
minion, is said to signify ''the god who speaks"
1t is also the name of a lake which forms the
western boundary of the new province.
A st. Louis reporter is terrifcaly graphic"
in describing the recent collision of railroad
trains in Missouri. Hear him: "'rhe two en-
gnes rushed ut each other like maign and
enraged monsters, grappled with a tremen-
dous crash, reared from the track in mortal
wrestle, and fell into helpless and disjointed
fragments on the ground"
In excavating for new building in Mon
treal the laborcrs turned up number Of hui
man skulls and other bones. The pick axe
in some cases perforated holes through large,
hard, brown-looking skulls. The site was
formerly burying-ground. Perhaps, in
other generations, cheerfuliy observes the
Montreal Gazette, the pick-axe of the iaborer
may make holes in our skull, in the same