Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-09
GENERAL VIEWS.

! Lost Cause attended the memphis races'
| The Boston Police have found and returned
within the year 971 stray children.
The bill legalizing marriages with de-
ceased wifes sister, has passed the House of
Commons.
Women in Africa, who have the misfortune
to have twins are summarily drummed out Of
their native villages.
An Illinois vigilance committee has COM
mited the mistake of hanging the wrong man
for horse-stealing
Mr.. Manton Marble, editor and owner of
the New York World, is dangerously ill and
threatened with blindness.
San Francisco has an organized band of
Chinese blackmailers.
pucius and bears his name, is now one of the
sights at Brussels.
The yearly meeting of the Iowa Quakers
directed that lists should be made out of all
users of tobacco.
Andrew johnson has bought three story
brick house in the city over which he was
formerly Alderman.
1t has been ascertaned that every bushel
of raw corn yields ten pounds of pork.
An ungainly, deformed beggar in New Or
leans is worth $50, 900 in real estate and runs
stock brokerage business.
The white miners at Bannock, Montana,
have organized for the purpose of driving
Cinnamon from the mines
In the shop window of a Richmond mil
linery establishment may be seen this card:
"Wanted, second hand seamstress."
The wife of James Lynch, of Manchester,
n. H., was burned to death on the 2Sth ult.,
by the explosion of kerosene lamp.
great horrid mouse in her chignon nearly
fair Treasury clerk to death last
week. She had worn rats in her hair without
shedding a tear
Mr.. Edmunds, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Pensions, has presented an adj
verse report on the bill granting a pension to
Mrs. Lincoln.
The Indianapolis Journal says the delirium
almost approaches the dignity of an
epidemic in that city.
A Virginia editor declares that one day, re-
Gently, he became $50 incensed with the mis-
prints of the types, that he could not eat with
put anger"
San Francisco proposes to tax the Chinese
gambling houses for fund to pay the expens-
IS of the female slaves who want to return to
he Flowery Kingdom.
Philadelphia will cool herself with $50 900
ons of ice, this summer, New York will re-
luire nearly three times that amount to ap-
,ease her thirst.
A New Orleans lady lost or mislaid her
,aby while shopping recently. She thinks
The must have left it in some dry goods store
md feels quite bad about it.
Religious enthusiasm in Bloomington, Illi-
lois, has developed passion among some of
IS inhabitants for appearing in public in the
costume of our first parents.
At Spurenburg, Prussia, layer of salt has
,een bored to the depth of 2630 feet, of which
.347 is through pure rock salt.
An unreconstructed rosebush in New Or
cans fiaunts the Confederate colors, red
" hite and red, in three roses on one stem, the |
wo outside ones being red and the centre one
pure white.
A sect in Massachusetts have found that
Sunday comes on Saturday, beginning at two |
o'clock in the afternoon. They observe it &C
'ordingly.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company is
building large brick machine-shops in Toron-
o, and is in negotiation with the other COM
,anies for the erection of a spacious central
tation in that city.
A party of covival Baltimoreans going home
n the small hours, a night or two ago, were
erribly frightened by white robed ghost on a
black horse. 1t proved to be a young lady
The Photographic News attributes the dear
ness of eggs to the fact that four millions are
ANNUALLY ny III Eu-
rope, and one million in the United States.
A bright lad by the name of Ladd dug his
way out of the Grant county Jail, in Wiscon-
sin, the other night and stole one of the |
sheriff7s best horses, and was pursued and
caught on an Island near Potosi.
Kentucky has its champion old man, "one
hundred and fifteen years of age, and able to
thread the finest needle" says the Chicago |
Times.
New York savings banks have over seven
million dollars of unclaimed deposits, and it |
is proposed that they shall build from these
funds home for disabled soldiers and sailors,
and an asylum for the orphans of the slain
A process by which copper and all grades /
of steel and iron are welded together at one
heat, has recently been discovered. The |
weld remains perfectly solid after being SUBJ
ected to the most thorough tests.
One watch kept right will do to try many