Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-12-14
GENERAL NEWS.

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GENERAL NEWS.
Chicago hackmen fight at funerals.
London contains about l4O, 900 paupers.
Is he who marries a shrew a shrerd man!
Twelve steamers are in winter quarters at
East Boston.
A Beet Sugar mandatory has been start
ed at Alvarado, Cal.
Nitro glycerne has been in use five years
and has only killed 900 people.
A crazy Connecticut farmer has just fin
ished $1,000 hog pen which is grained and
papered.
Already there are ominous signs in Spain
of dissatisfaction with the new King.
Wall streets version of the Golden Rule
Do others as others do you.
An exchange remarks that a goat is very
good for milk, but succeeds much better as
butter.
man in Minnesota who was jurymsn in
divorce suit has become insane.
Eight thousand dollars worth of presents
were handed in at a recent wedding occasion
in Reading, Pa.
Work on the New York Post-ofice pro-
crosses slowly, only fifty men ing now en-
ployed.
At Boston golden wedding one of the
presents was golden egg, which hatched out
fifty golden eagles.
Roast cat and dog, with broiied sirloin of dom
key, are now added to the original dish of
fricassee monkey in Paris restaurants.
s'mistur tomus brown, president of nashur-
null bank, fellerdelfy," was the superscription
on a letter that passed through the sBoston
post Office, recently.
The London Times remarks that there are
not ten Irshmen in Ireland who do not think
of coming to America some time or other.
1t is thought that the present coal strike in
Pennsylvania is device of the large COM
panies to raise the price of coal.
So enormous are the railroad facilities of
London that about train minute, on an av-
erage, enters and leaves that city during the
entire twenty-four hours of the day.
Isabella, the Bad, has again made herself
ridiculous by protesting against the election
OF the Duke of Aosta as King of Spain.
Kansas had not mile of railroad five years
ago, but now has 1900 miles. Three lines are
stretching out through the State toward the
Pacific coast-the Missouri Pacific, the Kan
sas Pacific and the Topeka and Sante Fe
roads.
A wealthy bishop congratulated poor
priest upon the good air which he breathed
in his parish, to which the latter replied: eyes,
my lord, the air would be good enough if
could only live on it,
mo, my DEAR" said mother to her daugh-
ter, who had been taking nap before dress
ing for the evening party, ''you needn't
rearrange your hair; you couldn't make it
look more scrambled if you tried"
would be highwayman near Providence
seized gentlemsn's horse, when the owner
sprang out OF his wagon and gave him a
sound thrashing, a courageous lady passing
by volunteering to hold the horse during the
ceremony.
A New Hampshire magistrate is under
Indictment for having married a matron Of
forty to youth of fifteen, whom she had
captured, and who states that he was afraid
to say ''No" when asked the momentous gus
tion.
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire, at
Concord, have decided that the police courts
have no authority to naturalize aliens under
the United States laws, and rendered void all
na,uralizstions made by such courts in that
State.
! The New Mexico Legislature is in snarl,
not knowing whether it ought to go into ope-
ration this winter or next. 1t is in session,
however, at Santa Fe, doing nothing, but
waiting to hear what the authorities at Wash
ington have to say on the subject.
A police order has been issued in Paris di-
recting that after seven o'clock in the evening
the supply of gas to cafes, restaurants and
wine shops, and all refreshment houses shall
cease, but those places may remain open un-
! til midnight II other modes of lighting are
adopted.
The following curious advertisement is in
an Arkansas paper; "Whereas ], Daniel