Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-07
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4 Huntsville. Ala, firm have just completed
the first steam engine manufactured In that
city.
| The new Constitution of Tennessee was
adopted in the election, by large majority
Half a million mulberry trees are growing
in South Carolina for the sustenance of silk
worms.
| A fashionable clergyman in Chicago always
refers to Satan's abode as "a place of eternal
uneasiness."
a New York paper says that not one pound
in ten of the honey sold in that city ever knew
a bee
A young man at a recent fire in Rutland,
VT, threw away pail of water because lit
was too hot to do any good"
The report is again revived that General
Jordan has resigned command Of the insur-
gent army of Cuba
| The Chaplain of the Iowa State Prison was
asked by friend how his Pensioners were.
"All under conviction" was the reply.
A bcggar who lately died in Portage eoun-
ty, Ohio had 81 900 sewed up in his coat.
"Ah Jenny" said sympathizing friend to
man who was just too late for the train
.'vou did not run fast enough. Yes, did"
said Jenny but didn't start soon enough"
Williams College has recently received the
handsome sum of two thousand dollars by the
will of Mrs Riley Loomis, of Troy, y. y,
lately deceased.
Madame Parepa Rosa viii spend the sum
mer in retirement in England During her
stay in this country she has lost her mother
and she now wishes to revisit her OLD home
"what do you know of the character OF
this man ?" was asked of witness at police
court the other day. ''What do know OF his
character? | know it to be unbleachable, yer
honor" replied he, with emphasis,
A letter reached Washington Saturday,
dated august :, ls49.' having been twenty
one years on its passage from Germany. The
sender will be informed of its safe arrival.
1t is proposed to erect suitable monument
to Luther at Eisleben, the town where he was
born. 1t will probably be completed before
the 10th of November 1873, the four hun
dredth anniversary of his birth.
GLOW many children have II" asked
woman of spirit rapper. "Four." 'And
how many have II" asked her husband.
''Two," was the astonishing reply. Mistake
somewhere.
A porcelain mandatory is to be established
in indianapolis. They are satisfied that all
the materials used in its manufacture may be
found in that vicinity.
The new style for dressing the hair is called
''the Cleopatra The hair is brushed high
off the forehead and braided low in the neck,
surmounted by large imitation snake, which
is coiled around the head.
General Walker, Superintendent of the Cen
sus, adopts the competitive manner of appoint
ment, and all applicants for subordinate places
are subjected TO a most rigid examination.
In adiscussion on woman suffrage at Peoria,
ILL.,, on Thursday, between Professor f, C..
Hewitt of the Illinois Normal University, and
Susan b. Anthony, the Professor, it is report
ed, came off second best.
The Philadelphia Press" believes that tn
new colored voters of Pennsylvania will enroll
themselves in the Republican party. There
are about $500 colored voters in the state, of
whom 1000 reside in Philadelphia.
A writer from chihuahua says he attended
a dance where he saw IA sign over the door
which read mo gentleman admitted without
pants on"
John Saxton is said to be the oldest editor
the Uni ted States, having published the
Canton (Ohio) Repository for ffty-fve con-
secutive years. His story is remarkable in
that he has never been absent a whole day
from his office in all that time.
The great ports of the Mediterranean, Ge-
noa, Venice, Marseilles and Trieste, with
Odessa in the Black Sca-and no doubt all
the little ports along with these-have been
touched with new life by the Suez Canal and
the prospects of large cotton trade between
Bombay and the old European west Genoa
has already ordered magnificent steamer to
be built at Jarrow, in England, for that trade.
The plague of locusts is coming upon Jeru-
salem. letter in the London Times says
''The locusts are spread over the mountains
of Judah and Samaria, in the valley of Jor-
dan, and in the plains of Sharon and Galilee,
having come to lay their eggs, which will be
Matched just before the harvest. Countless
millions will appear, eating every green thing,
poisoning the ground, and thus preventing
grass growing for the cattle. There is the
greatest alarm throughout the country.
| The bill disseminating the Freedmen's Blu
| reau was put through the House Tuesday by