Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

somebody had shaken pussy all to pieces.
Father Hyacinthe went home for the pro
sale reason that he had spent all his money.
REV DR.. Baron Stow, one Of the oides
and best known clergymcn Of the Baptist de-
nomination in Boston, died recently of apo
plexy. He had been settled in Boston for 81
years, but resigned his pastorate two or thre'
years ago. His age was CS years. During
the first eleven years of his ministry in Boston
about nine hundred persons were added to thu
church. Mr.. Stow remained with the Bald
win Place Church until lS4s, when he became
the pastor Of the Rowe Street Baptist Church.
This position he sustained until the spring o
1867, when his declining health compellt hin
to resign. DR.. Stow has been distinguished
by various honorary degrees, from Water
Vile College, from Brunswick, and from
Cambridge. He was identified with the ear.
lier history and progress of Boston, and wa
formerly connected with the management
many of our public charitable institutions
Youth found in him an adviser and counsel
lor, manhood and old age an associate, and tn,
distressed a sympathizing friend.
The voice at midnight came.
He started up TO hear;
4 mortal arrow pierced his heart
He fell but felt no fear
1t cost Delaware man two dollars Il
marry three wives.
A Connecticut pumpkin has been mad,
into 200 pies.
A Western poet has found inspiration il
the Richardson Mcfarland affair, and after !
decidedly original statement of the case h,
moralizes thus:
lis wrong, Ills dangerous TO peace or Life.
To touch mans honor or his wife;
Public opinion will not allow
Med Hing with families anyhow.
The old bank of Brattleboro, VT, recent.
ly employed locksmth three days and night.
box inside the vault
A curious phenomenon has lately beer
observed in Germany. Some weeks ago a,
opening was observed in the earth on chair
of hills near Mergentheim, close to the roat
leading from Ingelsingen TO Ebersthal. /
has gradually increased in extent ASSUMING
breadth with perpendicular sides, and of I;
great depth, estimated at four hundred feet
The buildings for the Girls Industrial
School at Middletown, CT, are approaching
completion, and the school will open in Janu
airy. A pxblic dedication of the building will
take place next June or July. The cost
furnishing the rooms is $1,000.
Papa" said Mr.. Browns youngest son
the other day, lean go TO the circus!" Ne
my boy" atiectionately replied Mr.. Brown
but if you are good boy, will take you to
see your grandmother's grave this afternoon.
There are only seven hundred women 10
vote in Wyoming, and young women in tina
territory must become twenty one before tn, y
attain a maj ority.
Seventy five dollars is the estimated val
ue of broken heart, according to an Illinoi
jury in a recent breach of promise case.
-Napoleon's state dinners cost 5000
apiece, which is $50 plate.
Mormon missionaries are perambulatine
and prosecuting the southern stats.
Indiana harvested its last corn in snow
storm, and the voices OF the haryesters wer.
husky.
1t costs young lady five dollars to throw
Indians.
There will be ffy-three Saturdays il
1870.
"A forty-one poun turkey was latel,
brought to Philadelphia market
"A woman has just died in Scotland wh'
for fifty years passed for man. She married
two wives, and lived with one of them twent,
three years.
There are indications that the admins
traton is making preparations to renew nego
tiations for settlement of the Alabama claims.
The Roman Catholic churches in this
country number 1860.
Mrs Lincoln has bought cottage in Zu
rich.
A Connecticut man is punctual in hi
habits that he carries his watch in his coat-tai
pocket, so as to be ''ahead of time
--Fiffy-five thousand hogs have been killed
in indianapolis during the present season.
which is now about closing.
Gentlemen of Vicksburg, are no longer
asked in saloons what beverage they prefer.
but are invited to nominate your family dis
turbance."
Here is personal advertisement in 2
French newspaper: Eliza, you can return TIC
the house. The boil on my nose is gone"
Why is the dance, like new milk? Be-
cause it strengthens the calves.
The eulogies on the late Senator Fessen