Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-03
GENERAL Ne VS..

Boston ships are loading with ice for India,
China and Japan.
Those disposed to nervousness are informed
that celery will help them.
There are more improved acres of land in
Vermont than in any other New England
State.
Get your ages ready. ladies'; the census
takers will soon be around.
1t takes a supplement of twenty-six pages
to the Chicago Republican to advertise the
delinquent taxpayers Of that city.
The newest thing in colored fancy jewelry
is smoked Roman pearls in shaded violet,
green or crimson balls.
Ericsson. having shown the world how to
make iron-clads, now brings out a torpedo
that will blow them all to flinders.
Louisville has bloodhound which meas
ures eight feet from the tip of his nose to the
end of his tail.
| One Of the crew of a lost ship has astonished
his family in Baltimore by arriving home well
He left his ship at Liverpool.
! Mr.. Pikklcton was recently married at the
Walnut street church in Philadelphia to q
Miss Julia Sardine.
Ex-President johnson has just purchased a
three-story brick house, known as the Lowery
House, in Greenville, Tenn.
Stratford- on-Avon will not celebrate Shake
speare's birthday this year. Even his old
playmates have given up the CUSTOM
4 monument over the remains of Captain
Williams, of the Oneida, is in course of
erection in the foreign cemetery at Y okohama.
John p. Hale will return from Europe
about the last of May. The citizens of Dover,
n. H., are preparing to give him public re-
cepton on his arrival home.
Prince Arthur has riveted the loyalty OF
Montreal oilers by riding 'pig-back" on the
shoulders of the surgeon of his regiment in a
foot race through the streets.
| Cincinnati complains of the monotonous
patients jump out of lofty windows, mussine
up the sidewalks.
! A party of twenty Fenians passed through
Boston on Wednesday evening, uniformed
with long overcoats of Irish freize, and car
rying well filled knapsacks. They were
bound North.
Several Madrid journals cmphatically deny
the recent published statement that Prince
Frederick of Prussia is candidate for the
Spanish throne.
The lady whom Bandmann accidentally
stabbed while playing Othello, has lost her
suit against him, though she modestly estimat.
ed her damages at only $500.
The Philadelphia Press says: ''By dis.
solving scene the old headquarters of the
Philadelphia Democracy change into negro
minstrel concert-room. 1t is the sarcasm OF
history"
A Philadelphia blind man recovered his
sight remarkably when a passing policeman
offered to drop brick in his cap. ''No yer
DON'T" said he, and was arrested.
Rome, Oneida county, has forgiving wife.
/ She has just taken to her heart and home a
girl of fifteen with whom her husband some
time since eloped.
Some of the posts of the Grand Army of
the Republic threaten to observe decoration
day at a different date from that set by the
Commander-in-C Chief, as in the northern
states that is an unreasonable time
A Cincinnati druggist declares that there
are no less than a thousand arsenic eaters in
that city and immediate vicinity, mostly young
women, who take the drug for the complexion.
A great polar expedition is being prepared
in Sweden for the years 1871 and 1872, under
the direction of Professor Nordenskjold, the
| celebrated scientific leader of the Swedish ex-