Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The Algeria Jews have been admitted to
the rights of French citizenship.
The first yard of calico made in the United
States is on exhibition in Boston. s
The General Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church will hold its next session
in Baltimore, Nd, in May next
Ole Bull, gossip says, is going to marry a
young Norwegian girl in Wisconsin.
| St. Petersburg danseuse has been fined
eighty rubles ''for gestures out of all bounds.
Trains arrive at San Francisco from the
east on time. Passenger time seven days;
freight fifteen to seventeen days.
| The biggest shoes for women made in the
Philadelphia market go to Utah; the smallest
are ordered from Havana. s...-zs ....,.--.....
| Hiram Powers original Greek slave was
lately sold in Paris for 1000, or more than
six times the price paid to the sculptor.
The territory of New Mexico applies for
admission as a State. she having the ;equis-
lite number of inhabitants.
When friendship is to be valued, value the
friendship of him who stands by you in the
storm: swarms of insects will surround you
in the sunshine.
A Jerseyman lost an ak over twenty years
ago. which he has just found under his bed
His life hasn't been made unhappy by house
cleaning.
II oc1c farf hn arrnSf Of
man because che carries Testament, sun
day School hymn book, and is regarded As a
dangerous man"
Governor Geary of Pennsylvania, has
vetoed the bill passed by the Legislature for
bidding the erection of public buildings on
Independence Square, Philadelphia.
In an account of a ball in Hartford, the
Times newspaper of that city mentioned
Young lady who wore "a double shirt neatly
trimmed with narrow satin ribbon
The Argentine Republic has population
of ,S52. ITO: three inhabitants to each square
mile of occupied territory; Buenos Ayres
495, I2l; seven inhabitants to the mile.
There is a man in the west who moves so
often that whenever a covered wagon comes
near his house, his chickens all fall on their
backs and cross their legs, ready to be tied
and carried to the next stopping place.
The African colonization societies, it Is I'M
derstood, will hereafter devote their attention
chiefly to the improvement OF the condition OF
the negroes already colonizcd, and will not
labor to send more blacks hence to Liberia.
Mrs. Darlington says that Ike, having be-
come cnamored of a syren in Boston, has led
her to the mental altar. He didn't appear
the least decomposed. On the back of his
wedding cards were little cubits with wings.
A man died in Trenton, n. j., the other
day. who refused to allow his pantaloons to
death the Innings were found to contain
200.
A French paper says something new and
important transpires every day in relation to
the conspiracy against the life of the Emper-
or, and states that it will take six weeks to
complete the investigation.
A party engaged in sinking wells for oil,
about ten miles from Buffalo, have struck
supply of illuminating gas which seems to be
inexhaustible, and at the depth of 700 feet
have found a salt spring which holds in solu-
ton salt supposed to equal in quantity and
quality that found in Syracuse.
A married man in New Hampshire has
adopted an original method of economy. One
morning, recently, when he knew his wife
would see him, he kissed the servant girl.
The house expenses were instantly reduced
$500 per year.
A romantic suicide recently took place at
village near Meath, Glamorganshire, Wales.
A respectable young woman, named Barry,
while suffering from the effect of disappointed
love, took poison, and with her remaining
strength made her way to the house Of her
lover, and died in his arms.
In Dayton, Miss Shirk, one of the females
who rode in Vallandigham cart in his day,
under an inscription ''White Husbands or
None" has married an unadulterated African
named Lee Kelly, to the everlasting disgrace
of the darkey.
The present consumption of wood in the
United States is enormous. 1t is estimated
that $50, 900 acres of the best timber is cut
every year, to supply the demand for railway
slecpers alone. For railroad buildings re-
pairs and cars, the annual expenditure ofwood
is S3S, SOC, 900. In single year the locomo-
tives in the United States consume $50 ,000,-
600 worth of wood.
WASHINGTON NEWS.