Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-22
GENERAL NEWS.

year.
Seven of the Avondale widows have mar
ried again.
The French prelates complain that they can
get nothing good TO eat in Rome.
The Pope has created diocese of Sahara
in Africa, including all the territory between
Algeria and Bengal.
Colonel Mack, of the War Department, has
been ordered to make a general inspection of
all the national cemeteries.
Stephen Preston has arrived in Washington
as the Minister Resident from Hayti, to SUI
persede General Tate.
about to organize special police force for
their own protection.
large bald eagle was killed last week in
Bath county, Ky, while making off with
young lamb it had seized.
Frog hunting is becoming profession with
boys around Memphis. From ten to fifteen
dollars day can be made at it by skilful
fisherman.
The Rothschild firm, it is stated, netted ST.
500, 600 in the introduction of the last Russian
loan, made without the slightest risk.
The first time colored persons walked in a
procession in California was at the funeral of
Thomas Starr King.
Figaro says that legal peculiarly of the
West is that all the lawyers are judges, and
none of the judges are lawyers.
A new and formidable irearm has been dis
covered by a Cincinnati reporter, who says
that suicide in that city ''shot himself to
death with great composure."
Some of the papers waggshly suggest that
Andy johnson should apply for the vacant
Spanish throne, and try my policy" upon the
conflicting parties in that distracted county.
Benjamin G. Harris, of Maryland, will not
be reconciled to the Fifteenth Amendment.
and has announced himself as an independent
candidate for Congress in opposition to it.
An Elmra lad had hawk that was par
tally tame. The other day he tied small
kitten to the birds leg and set the two out of
doors, when hawk, kitten and all swiftly dis
appeared in the air.
A Harrisburg (Pa.) paper states that thir-
teen and half tons of pigeons passed through
that city last week on the way to the New
York market
A long delinquent subscriber to N>w
Hampshire paper received copy with print
ed slip attached, with his attention directed to
Proverbs iii. 27-2S.
Evansville, Ind, is excited about missing
man, one Jacob Herman, who, on the 10th in
slant, felt indisposed, went out to take walk
| and has not been seen or heard of since, al
though diligent search has been made.
! Four persons, convicted by the womens
jury in Laramie, have gone to the Michigan
Penitentiary, there being no prison in Wyo-
ming. These prisoners remarked that they
had no faith in women as jurors or voters.
Cassell's Magazine says one of the most
successful editors of the day once remarked l.:
IAN editor is generally right when he rejects
an article, but almost always wrong when he
begins to give his reason for so doing"
Fishing and politics are both appreciated by
the enfranchised negroes. The Nashville
Banner the other day asked an old negro, who
was fishing in the river, ''what luck?" He re-
piled: "De fish is like de dimocrats arter us
niggers' votes. Dey wants all de bait, but
won't hang on to de hook
A born male child was picked up on an
Indiana railway track on the 10Th inst. The
indications are that it was thrown off the night
express train. The child was alive when
found but died soon after from bruises re-
ceiyed in the fall. 1t could not have been
born an hour before found.
Not for Joseph might have been the remark
of Joseph Dixon, who was the favored sutton
for the hand of young lady in Rush county,
Indiana. He had in Edwin Colburn a rival
who tried the effect of strategy. As Joseph
was returning to his home, from visit to the
lady, last Sunday night, ghost appeared to
him and solemnly warned him not to visit her
again. The youth was badly frightened, but
had nerve enough to draw pistol and fire it
with such effect as to bring Edwin, the ghost
down with fractured knee.