Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-17
GENERAL NEWS.


class of citizens.
The United States has seven thousand miles
of seacoast. 1t will have fourteen thousand
before the century closes.
They have had sleighing in kennebec
County, on the river as far down.as Bath.
-Erchange. mot much"
Some remarkably fine specimens Of silver
ore have recently been found in the Ralston
Silver City mines in New Mexico.
Quesaia has agreed to assist Guzman, the
Venezuelan leader, with fleet, in return foI
the latter's help with arms and supplies.
If you have performed an act of disinter-
ested virtue, conceal it; if you publish it you
will neither be beloved here nor rewarded
hereafter.
A funny and Intellectual mode of advertis-
ing is that adopted by merchants who hire
small boys in masquerade dress to distribute
circulars.
The Pacific Railroad is drawing largely on
the trade that formerly tourished by the waite
routes routes between the Atlantic ports and
California.
James Woodbury., temperance lecturer.
who is speaking throughout Massachusetts,
has gained the title of the Temperance
rhreshing Machine" for the force with which
he dehounces liquor sellers.
new mineral fertilizer has been discov-
cred in Lisbon, n. II. II is 4 silicon rock,
which, when pulverized. is said to be equa
to the best guano, and only costs quarter as
much Immense beds of it are discovered.
Treasurer Spinner says that if the evil is
not corrected by the government of compen
sating insufficiently the time will soon come
if it is not already npon US, when none bur
rich men or thieves will be able to hold any
public Office
The New York Commercial Advertiser, nc
ticing the recent removal of an eminent law
yer from Troy TO New York city, mentions
the fac. that, with here and there an excep-
ton, the most eminent legal talent of the me
tropolis graduated in the rural districts.
Fvarts. Fields, Stoughton, Seward, Choate
Shofer, Fullerton, &C., were not to the pave
ment bred. On the contrary, they wert
'nurturcd on fresh clover huckieberries.
pork and beans. and reared to manhood il
linsey-woolsey pantaloons." Country ali
and farm work serve to develope to their full
lest capacity both mind and body.
The old maids at Sioux City enjoyed ban
quet at hotel on Thanksgiving afternoon.
and the bachelors supper at another place
in the evening. A Miss Kennedy made tht
concluding speech at the former. and create
a turore by saying: "Let others do as they
please; as for me | am determined to have
husband as soon as l can get one. And let
US all see to it, SO that when another Thanks
giving day rolls around there will not be an
old maid in Sioux City" The banquet closed
with the song, mo one to love-"
Dow, Jr., in his day, said many good thing,
which modern imitators have not improved
on. ~ believe tlat-sinple honesty, the naked
truth, pure virtue, and straight up and down
way OF dealing with the world, have as much
advantage over vice, trick and stratagem, in
tue long run, as goOu square tIottiuS hors'
has over pacing pony, or racker that goes
his mile or two like mischief, and is done for
the rest of the journey" 81 believe that the
human flesh is hard to digest. Jonah did moi
sit easy upon the whales stomach" 81 be-
lieve that the most industrious are the mos,
contented and happy. Idleness is an incubus
upon the bosom of enjoyment. 1t is the hard
est work in the world to do nothing by the
month, and have nothing 10 do it with"
OF all droll epitaphs, that from tomb in
Ipswich upon Lady O'Looney, remains I'M
approached and unapproachable.
Here lies the the body of
Lady OLooney.
Sister of Burke, commonly called
The Sublime:
She was bland passionate and deeply religious
Also,
She painted in water colors and sent several pic
lures
to the Exhibition:
She first cousin to
Lady Mary Jones,
And of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.