Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-10

"My dear" asked John, on observing new
striped hose on his only heir, why have you
made BARRIERS poles of Earnest's legs?' "Be-
cause he's little shaver" was the reply.
Mrs. Deborah Drag, widow of sixty-five,
recently became bewildered during storm
on the mountains in Berlin VT, and her body
was found next morning at the foot of crag,
where she had fallen and frozen to death.
The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks that
"Peter Cooper ought to be saving something
up for his old age. For young man only
eighty to be giving away $4,000 every little
while looks extravagant."
The work of counting mutilated fractional
! currency and legal tenders received at the
Treasury Department for redemption, from
all parts of the country is done entirely by
women.
The return of the robin, says James Russell
Lowell, is commonly announced by the news
papers, like that of eminent or notorious peo-
pie to a watering place, as the first authentic
notification of spring. And such his appear
ance in the orchard and garden undoubtedly is.
| The Michigan Senate has appropriated ten
thousand dollars for the commencement of
work on new State Capitol to cost 200, 900.
A woodman, in telling a tree in Owen
| county, Indiana, found at the base the skele-
ton of a bear, which evidently had lain there
| for half century.
The Pope has no idea of relinquishing his
hold upon the valuable property known as the
Vatican, very much to the chagrin and discom-
| future of the Italian government, which had
made arrangements to confscate it as soon as
the Pope should find quarters.
A recent visitor to Texas Jail, who asked
| negro what brought him there, was told 1.-TWO,
OBJ de State perlice' And when he asked fur
Their if drunkenness had not something to do
with it, he tnegro, promptly replied, eyes,
sab; dey was bof drunk"
Two years ago General Mcclellan was in
Berlin. One day he entered the cabinet of
General Won Moltke, who was engaged in
deep study over the map of France.
Mcclellan OWNED the thoughts of the great
Prussian commander. "Are you ready!" he
asked of Won Moltke. eyes, was the answer.
Charles Brown attempted to steal ride in
box car on the Union Pacific Railroad re-
Gently. His presence, of course, not being
known, the car W as locked, and he was kept
| prisoner for five days without food or drink,
| until the car arrived at Omaha. When found,
| his feet and legs were frozen solid, and should
he survive he will probably pay his fare like
man hereafter.
The Vermont papers are telling a rather
hard story to believe, about Rev. Frederick
Hicks of Bennington. who contracted dis
ease in South America, and under advice of
physicians abstained wholly from food for
thirty-fve days, his only drink meantime be-
ing water. At the end of that time he ate
one ounce of cracker and two ounces of apple,
and that has been his daily allowance since.
The result of this course of treatment is yet
to appear.
gentleman learned in the origin of social
customs WAS asked what was the meaning of
the custom of casting an old shoe after new
Unmarried couple as they start on their trip.
Said he ''To indicate that the chances Of
matrimopy are very slippery
Two years of Gen. Grants administration
being now completed, Mr.. Boutwell, reports
the reduction by payment of the principal of
the National Debt since March /, 1869, at
1904 754, Alb, or little over One Hundred
Millions of Dollars per annum. The books
were opened on Monday morning for Mr..
Boutwells new loan, unler circumstances
which seem encouraging For the first time
ten forties Give per cents and five-twenties
(six per cents.) are fairly at par. The man
agement of the finances has enabled the tax
ing off of eighty millions of dollars per annum
in the taxes, and yet there is still large sur
plus of money left over, which Mr.. Boutwell,
applies to the reduction of the debt, but which
will not be needed if the three hundred mil
lions of funding bonds are taken.
A bill now before the Wisconsin Assembly
provides that whenever eleven jurors, i'm
panneed to try any criminal case or civil ac-
ton, shall agree upon a verdict, such agree
ment, duly announced in court, shall be taken
and held to be the verdict of the whole jury.
The proposed change appeals to the common
sense of everybody. Frequently it happens
that single obstinate juror defeats the ends
of justice, his opinions practically outweigh
ing the unanimous convictions of his. eleven
colleagues. 1t is almost incredible that such
an absurdity can so long have existed in our
present system, and the Wisconsin innovation
will, we think, be regarded by both lawyers
| and the public as decided Improvement,
worthy of more general adoption.-New York
| Tribune.
| The cotton manufactures of New England
have had several years Of rather hard times.
While the value of their machinery and
buildings have never fallen below the price for
which the stock of the corporations were sell
ing in the market, the profits have been small
owing to a combination of circumstances, and