Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-27

Mr.. Bereh is making war on the Broadway
stage lines. On Saturday lame or disabled
horses we're turned out of nearly every line
by his orders.
sRarer than thephGnix," says DE Quincy,
sis the virtuous man who will consent to lose
good anecdote because it is lie.'
Toothache matinees are said to be call the
rage" among the young folks addicted to ma
pie sugar munching this month
Commissioner Pleasanton has decided that
a discharge in bankruptcy frees the bankrupt
from all liabilities, including Indebtedness TO
the Federal Government.
Olive Logan declares that she will 'remove
the mystery that surrounds the girls ;" where
upon the Louisville Courier says: "the rest of
you may shut your eyes, but hanged if we
will"
They have a sylvan curiosity in Georgia.
Two pine trees, five feet apart at the base.
come together thirteen feet above, forming
solid body, then separate, uniting again TWEEN
ty feet above, forming single top.
The oldest naval officer living is Rear Adj
mral Shubrick, on the retired list, a veteran
of &C years standing The oldest officer in
active service is Rear Admiral. Goldsborough,
who entered the navy in 1921
Snake stories are now in order. A Prov-
dence paper says; "Thirty black snakes were
discovered in a quarry at Westerly one day
last week and killed. The largest of them
measured nearly four feet in length
Forty five million persons died of small pox
in Europe during the two centuries previous
to the introduction of vaccination. But two
millions have died of the same disease in that
quarter of the earth since.
The Connecticut Board of canvassers have
given the certificate of election in the second
Congressional district to General Stephen w.
Kellogg. The Congressional delegation
therefore is the same as in the Forty-frst
Congress.
you havnt got such thing as u pair Of
old trousers, have you?" "No, my man.,
said the merchant; 81 don't keep my ward
robe in my counting house" "Where do
you HNe5 TeJOlHeu Rat, anu 1 IL Gail III TIC
morning for the ould pair you've got on"
If you have dog that has peculiar gift
for barking at night, be sure and learn him to
stay out of doors. If you don't that gift in
your dog-which is great one and ought to
| be cultivated-will never be appreciated by
your neighbors.
Contrary to expectations, the spring trade
| promises to be extraordinarily brisk The
importations at New York since the beginning
| of the year are largely in excess of those of
the corresponding period last year.
A doting mother in Poughkeepsie expend
ed s2S in dressing up her little baby, and sent
the bill TO her husband, who made out check
for the amount, and added the words: "This
is for a child a few months old Fools still
live" To which the clerk added, $50 do
hogs"
The Republicans of jamestown, Chautau-
qua county, held a meeting on Saturday and
adopted resolutions denouncing Orange S. VII
mans traitor to the party, and requesting
him not to return to live in that county, but to
tahe up HIS Iesiuehce III tHe CLAti warn Vi
New York.
They have in China what is known as the
grease trees. Large forests grew there, and
the oleaginous product has become an article
of traffic. The grease forms excellent tallow,
burning with clear, brilliant and (what is
more to the purpose) white light, and at the
same time emitting not trace of any unpleas-
| ant odor, or of the ordinary disagreeable ac-
| compartment of combustion-smoke.