Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-18
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Ex-Secretary Seward is named as a candi-
date for Governor of New York.
Jubal Early will settle in Lynchburg and
practise law.
Over $50, 900 bushels of oysters have been
bedded in Boston harbor for summer use.
Judge Shepley, the new Circuit Judge, is
making favorable impression upon our
tizens.-Portsmouth Journal.
There are only six stills i'll the United States
for the dist lation of gin-four in Connecticut
and two in Massachusetts.
The Pope threatens extreme measures
against the American bishops who quit their
posts at Rome.
Governor Yarmouth has appointed General
James Longstreet adjutant general of the
Louisiana State militia, vice Sheridan, re-
signed
John Grahams fee for defending Mcfarland
was round $4,000. The money was con-
trbuted by friends of Mcfarland.
The indianapolis Young Mems Christian
Association are making preparations on
large scale for the International Convention
to be held there in June.
The Dover Gazette tells of Fred Cavelry,
a boy sixteen years old, son of Leonard W.
Cavelry, of Strafford, who stands in his
stockings six feet four and half inches.
II will preach from dat portion of de Scrip
ture dis evening"" said a colored dominic,
'where de- postle Paul pints his 'pstle at de
'phesians."
People who like to hunt muskrats should
go to Red Wing, Minnesota, near which place
two brave sportsmen lately killed 800 of the
little animals.
A Boston paper whispers that the Great
Organ of that city is unquestio nably the
organ of self-esteem.
The physicians in Crawford county, Indiana,
are said to be in very depressed state OF
mind, owing to the extreme good health OF
the people Whereabouts.
Polished clam shells are mentioned as a
suitable variety in the present modest style OF
shirt studs.
! At the fortieth annual conference of the
Mormon Church now holding at Salt Lake
City five young ladies are at the reporters
tables taking Photographic notes.
Some one has very pithily remarked that a
man too busy to take care of his health is like
mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Rochfort's Marseillaise has hard time of
it. 1t has been seized the third time within
three days for violating the press laws.
| The Charleston Courier, democratic pa
per, says AT this moment South Carolina
has but one organized party, which is the rad
ical party The democratic party, as a State
party, is not in being"
An affected singer at Dublin theatre was
told by wag in the gallery to come out
from behind his nose and sing his song like
other people"
When you are about to plague rich rela-
tive about his hooked nose, think first that
your fortune may hang on it.
''Why do you always buy second-class
ticket 2" asked agentleman of a miser. "Be-
cause there is no third-class ticket" was the
prompt reply
A Virginia judge has, on habeas corpus, re-
leased from imprisonment colored man con-
victed of murder by military court in 1865,
on the ground that the trial and sentence were
illegal.
The Grand Trunk road is so straight be-
tween Yarmouth junction and North Var
mouth, that the head light of an engine stand
ing at North Yarmouth can be distinctly seen
four miles.
1t is calmly remarked of the mouth of Pig
con Creek, Indiana, that ''seven or eight dead
bodies have been found in that vicinity within
a week" The Western paper that mentions
this trihing incident gives no particulars OF
the circumstances.
} The entire Militia of Massachusetts, are to
muster next September, at Sterling Junction
Thy order Of Gen. Butler, and the occasion wiz