Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-14
GENERAL NEWS.

The thermometer Wednesday night in Que
A Taunton, Mass, man was fined six dol
lars for splitting on church carpet.
The President says agriculture is the
groundwork of our prosperity, which no
one will deny.
Many of the new hotels and business blocks
in Chicago are to be built of Ohio sandstone,
which becomes very hard by exposure.
Troy has commenced the punishment of
election repeaters, one of whom has Just been
sent to the penitentiary for six months.
The fish trade of New England amounts to
100000 year.
Chicago calls the great fire ''the recent
heated term
BY keeping her members of Congress in
office for many terms, Massachusetts is able
to exert great influence upon legislation in
Washington.
Mr.. Dawes is universally regarded as one
of the ablest and most Industrious legislators
now in Congress.
1t is believed that Senator Sumner will de-
cline the appointment of Chairman of the
Committee of Privileges and Elections.
The Car of Russia has five sons living
Alexander, the heir; Vladimir, Alexis, Ser
gle, and Paul, and an only daughter, Marie,
seventeen years Of age.
Corinth, Mississippi, finished an iron Jail
last week, and on the same night three pris-
oners escaped from it.
Mr.. Washburn, Governor elect of Massa
chusetts and a member of the present Con-
gress, is to have a dinner in Washington,
rendered him by his colleagues.
Republican principles are making progress
in England, especially in the large towns, in
many of which republican clubs have been
established.
The business of letter and newspaper car
riers would be lightened if housekeepers
would provide safe and suitable boxes in or
near their doors, for the reception of letters
and papers.
The Mobile Register is getting up new
edition of the Book of Proverbs. Here is an
example: "Blessed is the woman who COM
poundeth a pudding in silence, for she is
more 10 be enyied than she who maketh
tart reply"
Connecticut paper states that the judge,
jury, lawyers, and spectators were so moved
by the closing argument of one of the coun-
sci for defence in a recent murder trial, and
the tears fell so copiously that it was unsafe
to venture upon the court floor without rub
bers.
1t was so cold in Chicago last week that the
papers state everything froze up except the
coal bin. The editor of the Post says, 'Our
stove frozc so that we had to soak its feet in
hot water this morning before we could get
it to draw" Yankee would ask where the
hot water came from.
The greatest conglomeration of errors ever
made in an obituary notice was in the Eng
lish notice of Daniel Webster, when he was
described at once as the great photographer,
statesman, the author of spelling book.
and the broken-hearted brother of the muir
dercr OF Doctor Parkman
The Bible war at Hunters Point is at an
end, the conflicting parties having made an
agreement to the following effect: The ex-
PEELED scholars return to the school, and the
Roman Catholics pledge themselves not to
interfere with the reading of the Bible, or
with any of the other exercises appointed.
The Roman Catholics, on the other hand, will
in future be allowed to remain in the class
room during the exercises in the chanel