Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-28

The conscript law by which all Spanisrds
are compelled to serve six years, the last two
in the reserve is occasioning great dissatis-
faction in Spain.
| An Ohio woman has coughed up fishbone
which she had in her throat AZ years. 1t re-
stored her voice and her husband wants di-
vorce.
Flower seeds, as rule, should not be COW
cred more than half an inch, and many of
them not more than a quarter of an inch
London and Paris have at present about
twice as many inhabitants as in 1882, while
Berlin has more than doubled its population
in the past thirty-eight years.
Prince Henry Bourbon's death was deli
cately and officially announced in Madrid, as
having occurred while shooting at mark. "
Ex-Governor A. II. Bullock of Massachu-
sets, who has just returned from tour in
Europe, was greeted with public reception
in Worcester on Saturday evening.
Better unpopular than like you unknown"
was Prim's retort to a Spanish Deputy who
lately twitted him with his appropriately.
The Copenhagen journals continue to COM
| plain of the treatment of their favorie prin-
cess, Alexandra, by her husband, the British
heir apparent.
A little Connecticut boy, asking mate who
Good Friday was, received the whitening re-
| ply: "Well, you so home and read your Rob-
! inson Crusoe."
A liam" of logs has been formed just above
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, which is four or
five miles long, already contains from forty to
sixty million feet, and is constantly accumu-
lating.
Mr.. John Bigclow, late Minister to France,
is to sail on Saturday next with his family, in
the steamer City of Brooklyn for prolonged
absence in Europe.
A Tennessee orator, eulogizng Washing
ton, exclaims His mind had a powerful
grasp of the future; if ever a man was non
eompos mentis Washington was that man."
A rapid rise of the Mississippi river at ST.
Louis broke the main caisson surrounding the
east pier of the building there, and the pier is
now twenty four feet under water. The work
on the west pier is advancing finely.
The remains of rebels which were collected
on Virginia battle fields and renterred at Ar
lington, are being again removed South. The
bodies of twenty seven South Carolinians were
last week transferred to cemetery at Rich
mond.
A Connecticut baby leaped from his nurses
arms the other day, through second story
window. The nurse went down to pick up the
lifeless remains, when she saw him hanging
safely by his dress to the blind fastening.
young lady being present with her moth
er and an dedicated" cousin at ball in Den
yer, Colorado, upon being asked to dance, re
| piled: 80, blazes, boys, l caant dance, but
there's nam, jest good dancist as ever
shuck foot"
A singular fatal accident occurred the other
day on farm in Macoupin county, Illinois
A little girl caught her head in the sliding door
of a granary, and was choked to death
An elder in a church near Inverness, Scot
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eldest son and joined in a reel, for which of
tense he was suspended from office for three
months.
Prof Tyler thinks Germany stands at the
head for comfort, safety and economy, in rail-
road management. And yet in Germany al
most every car is used rs a smoking car,
whether ladies are present or NOT.
A new husband in Wisconsin, the other day,
made his first purchases, consisting of five
cents worth of soda, five cents worth of salt,
two cents worth of pepper and one cents
worth of chewing gum, and remarked, as he
received his bundles, that keeping house is
cheaper than boarding" .e..l-f
The New Bedford Mercury says that j
Fisk, Jr is not satisfied with the honor of be-
ing Colonel of the 9th N. Y. Regiment He
stated, day or two since, that there was one
other distinction that he crayed-that of being
elected deacon Of church in Bristol, r. l.
Celery raised in California is for sale in
Boston at Fanueil Hall Market. Peaches are
also temptingly displayed, being the first ofthe
season and the earliest ever seen in the mar
ket, together with asparagus, cucumbers,
strawberries and peas. Green peas from Sa-
vannah, Geo., are selling for So per peck,
and salmon from California for IS cents to 81
per pound.
The fall ofanl enormous meteorolite, meas
urng more than yard in diameter, is report
ed from Mourzouk, in Fezzan lat. 20 deg.
north, lon. IL deg. asst from Paris. 1t fell in
fed, and fred their, guns at IT, The Sultan of
Waddad and all the grandees of his court have
had sabres and spears made out Of it, and the