Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Only one thousand couples were divorced
! in Ohio last year.
A correspondent says that Jerusalem the
golden" is now Jerusalem the filthy"
Hon. John Morrissey has a half dozen as
pirants for his seat in the next Congress.
The peppermint of Michigan is represented
to be an entire crop failure.
Lord Courtenay is the last aristocratic bank
rupt. He was ruined by betting on horse
races.
Large quantities of potatoes are annually
used in Minnesota for manufacturing potato
whiskey
There is peaceful household in Beliot,
where mans wife has not spoken to him for
fifteen years.
Bill Goose4ull is the name given Dakota
Indian chief; and an exchange thinks it is a
feeble effort to do honor to the name of Will
liam Penn.
"Shingle weddings" have been started in
Chicago, to be given by newly married
couples, if they have lived together happily
for a year.
The debt of Chicago is eleven million dol
lars. The City Council have decided to in
crease it four million dollars more for public
improvements.
All the prisoners in the Canton Mississippi
Jail escaped last week in body and are now
at large.
l. nth wi h
ing to impress young lady. ''You look as
| if you lived in one" was the reply
The new buildings for arsenal purposes are
to be Immediately erected on the island at
Rock island.
The Ashtabula (Ohio) Sentinel denies the.
statement that has been floating around the
country that Ben Wade is candidate for
| Congress from Mr.. Garfelds district.
The Cunard steamer Tripoli went ashore
off Cohasset in attempting to make Boston
harbor but was got off in the evening. The
vessel was injured somewhat, but not Sc
riously.
Of the nineteen Congressman from Ohio.
thirteen are Republicans. The Democracy
of the State will make strenuous efforts this
fall to obtain a majority of the delegation.
1t is reported that the future management
of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway is
to be delegated to nine directors, and that Cen
eral Mcclellan will be elected president for a
term of three years.
| A parson surprised farmer, whom he sell
| dom saw at his ministrations, by asking him
directly after little reproof of his sin of
| omission, ''Shall we see you at church next
Sabbath" 'Y-e-s," he replied slowly, ''I'll
go-or send hand!"
Illinois has one mile of railroad to every
fourteen square miles of territory. France
has one to every twenty -six, Great Britain
one to every nine, the United States one, to
every eiglrty-one. Illinois has one mile of
railroad to every 754 inhabitants.
The first cutlery against Hyacinthe was
caused by his liberal sermons at Notre Dame ;
and Pere Felix, his celebrated successor, has
been driven from the pulpit for the same
cause, .f9Tf
The name of the pastry cook at the Patee
House, st. Joseph, Mo. who has fallen heir to
fortune, is Charles McLain Grey, and the
papers now call him mr." Grey. The prop
erty is mostly about Parkersburg, Va, and is
valued at $4,000.
If half the pains were taken by some peo-
pie to perform the labors allotted to them that
are taken by them to avoid it, we should hear
much less said about the troubles of life, and
see much more actually completed.