Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-22
GENERAL NEWS.

in the English Parliament.
One of the interior counties of New York
sent S500, 900 worth Of peppermint to market
last year.
A Paris able, aged seventy-two, has eloped
with one Of his congregation, midde-aged
single lady.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says
"suicide is the sickle with which the Almighty
reaps the harvest of FOOLS"
A Texas young woman cultivated seven
acres of cotton with her own bands last year,
and sold the crop for $500.
A number of colored men in Louisville have
formed an association for building first class
steamboat to ply on the Mississippi river.
The Alabama man who offered bride of
$1,000, 900 for the assassination of President
Lincoln, now humby prays Congress to re-
move his political disabilities.
The Richmond State Journal thinks the re-
union of Virginia and West Virginia is one of
the events that are casting their shadows be-
fore.
The family of General Samuel Houston is
very poor, and Texas papers are making APP
peals for aid for them. The family consists
of his widow and three young sons.
The Governor of California has vetoed
bill awarding damages to secession editors
whose office was destroyed by mob Of citi-
zens and soldiers.
The Republican legislature of Ohio has re-
pealed the law passed by the preceding Dem
obratic legislature depriving the veterans Of
the Soldiers Home in Dayton of the right of
suffrage.
The production of petroleum during 1869
has been nineteen per cent. more than for any
other year since the lucky pioneer first ''strack
OIL" The production of Pennsylvania since
1859 has been 81 ,s53, 100 barrels.
A Montana vigilance committee, caught an
obnoxious character, seated him on his mule
and told him he had precisely fifteen minutes
to leave the country in. He replied, Scents,
ifthis mule don't balk, fiveIl answer"
Stephen Lamb, of Jasper County. Ind, re-
Gently deserted young woman whom he
promised to marry. The girl got revolver,
rode twenty miles on horseback, and made
the Young man, on pain of instant death, ac-
company her to the office of County Clerk,
get license and marry her. Then she re-
turned home in triumph.
The Philadelphia Telegraph says there are
in that city fve-hundred able bodied men that
do not do days work from one end Of the
year to the other, and who live and exist upon
what they rob the people Of in and around
gambling houses.
Russia has just made demand upon the
Government of Switzerland for the body of
felon who fled to the latter country some time
ago. As no extradition treaty exists between
Russia and Switzerland, the authorities of the
latter Government have not yet determined
what Course to pursue in the matter.
Roof gardening has been commenced in
Baltimore, a gentleman having devoted the
roof of his stable and carriage house to the
purpose of growing ornamental plants. Water
pipes are carried to this portion of the build
ing for convenience Of watering in dry sea-
sons, and supplying a fountain yet to be
erected in the centre of the garden. Where
ever the fiat roof is in vogue this beautiful
idea could be readily and extensively realized.
The Concord On. H. Statesman relates
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engaged as saleswoman with dry goods firm
in that city. Though new at the business she
soon became proficient. Like the other en-
ployees, she had the privilege of buying at cost
price any goods she wanted for her own use.
She was an extensive purchaser, from time to
time, on this basis; and at the end of two
months gave up her position. Very soon
after, she was married, as was also her sister
at the same time; and it turned out that she
had entered upon the clerkship merely to en-
JOY the perquisite of buying at cost price the
liberal supply Of dry goods so mysteriously
necessary on such occasions. Her employer
is not anxious to engage any more young lady
clerks from the country.
ANebraska letter of recent date contains the
following: About thirty warriors of the
Pawnee tribe started out from their country a
week before the storm to find some buffalo,
and, if in luck, get some scalps from their old
enemies, the Sioux. When out, the party d.
vided, some going south, where they found
buffalo, and returned well loaded with meat
The others fell in with party of Sioux, killed
several Of them, and started back with about
forty captured ponies. On their return, and
when about eight miles from Long Tree sta
ton, they were overtaken by the terrible storm
Of Sunday, and all perised within days
march Of their homes. The bodies of those
Indians, with their own and their captured
ponies, were all found lying dead together,
partly covered with snow and ice, by the run
ners who were sent out to discover their
whereabouts"
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