Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-15
GENERAL NEWS.

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Trout raising has been successful and prof
table at Yr0utdale, N. J.
In Chicago, drunkenness is called "suffer
ing from wet groceries"
"Flour four dollars per barrel and beef ten
cents per pound" is the Minnesota quotation.
The growing mulberry trees for silk-worms'
food, in southern California, are estimated at
five hundred thousand.
The Senate has passed the bill to fund the
national debt, thrty-two voting in favor and
ten against.
An English company is going to wake up
the japanese by laying three hundred miles
of railroad sleepers.
A burglar was lately arrested in Chicago
with pardon in his pocket The Times sug-
gests that he send it back and have the date
changed.
An Ohio widow of thirty six was obliged to
20 to the Probate Office for license, because
her intended was too bashful. She gave his
age at eighteen.
England has feet of forty ne iron clad
vessels, from the first to the sixth class, in
gliding broadside and turrcted ships, besides
a number of smaller iron vessels.
A bill has been introduced in the California
legislature, giving authority to certain per-
sons in that State to construct telegraph line
to Japan by the way of Honolulu and Brooks
Island, in the Pacific.
This is from the Greencastle tOhio) Ban
ner: Look here, captain" said Sol. Clay
pool, addressing a colorcd brother, the other
day, Il know you are a democrat" "Golly
no, mister; dis darkey can read"
Mr. Cary, of North Adams, Mass, put SO
swarms of bees into his cellar last fall, and
Deacon Brimmer, of Pownal, VT, reports the
loss Of only three swarms during the winter.
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
Had she failed to SO it would have mattered
very little. However, we appreciate her de-
sire to be placed right on the record.
A justice in Kent, X. l., recently dismissed
three liquor cases in which the criminal acts
were clearly proved, on representation of the
counsel for the defendants that the law in
question twas troublesome, and that the court
should set it aside"
A Connecticut paper tells of man there
who has shepherd dog which acts as news
paper carrier. The paper is thrown off the
train by the baggage master at the road cross
ing, and the dog never fails to be on hand to
take it and carry it to his masters house.
Ten trains day pass this point, but it is only
when the right train comes that the dog
scampers down to the track and receives his
daily newspaper.
Among the bills for public expenses recent
ly presented to the Commissioners of Hum
boldt, California, is one Of $50 for ''chickens
used in swearing Cinnamon" Whenever a
Chinaman is sworn as witness in Court a
chicken-cock must be slaughtered in his pres
ence, and it is suggested that state hennery
should be established to aid the Cinnamon in
telling the truth.
A charitable society has been formed in
Berlin with no other resources than the ends
Of cigars thrown away by smokers. With the
produce of those despised remnants it has been
able to clothe completely sixteen poor chill
dren.
man in Sacramento City has sued a saw
ings bank for one thousand dollars deposited
by his wife, who died recently. The wife de-
posted the money in her own name, with an
order that in the event of her death the amount
should be paid to certain reverend father Of
the Catholic Church, in trust for the benefit Of
her children. The bank refuses to pay the
money to the husband without an order of the
court.
A certain amount of opposition is great
help to man. Kites rise against the wind,
and not with the wind; even head wind is
better than none. No man ever worked his
passage anywhere in calm. Let no man
wax pale, therefore, because Of opposition;
opposition is what he wants and must have to
be good for anything Hardship is the native
soil of manhood and self-reliance.