Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-03
GENERAL NEWS.

$50, 900, 900 per year.
San Francisco is successfully raising oys-
tiers, brought from the Atlantic coast and
planted in the bay.
nephew of Patrick Henry, and bearing
the same patronymc, has been recently APP
pointed to position in the Treasury Depart
ment
The name of Don Carlos Buel is mentioned
for the democratic nomination for governor in |
Kentucky.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed bill
authorizing towns with population OF seven
thousand to elect school superintendent.
At last accounts Sir Samuel Bakers Nile
expedition was about to take fresh start. 1t
consisted of 50 vessels, conveying ZOO bay
onets and 10 pieces of artillery.
In Georgia fund of $50, 900 has been sub
scribed for monument to the Confederate
dead. the corner stone of which is to be laid
July 4th.
South Shrewsbury, Mass, has just enjoyed
the first house a-fire that has happened there
for ninety-five years. 1t is now proposed to
start fire engine and insurance company
General Spinner, during the ten years he
has been the Treasurer of the United States,
has handled the large sum of $50, 900 ,OOO,0 900.
A minister not long ago preached from the
text, "Be we therefore steadtast,' but the
printer made him expound from, "Be ye
there for breakfast"
A man lately made application for insur-
ance on a building situated in village where
there was no fire engine. In answer to the
question, " What are the facilities for extin-
gushing fires ?" he wrote: 1T rains some
times
An anxious mother in Pennsylvania has
sent this note to severe schoolmstress
ssYour will obige me not youse that wall
Bone on the Lipes of my Littel dautor. Give
YOUR Hart to god and Perhaps you will have
NOR Pacence."
Mrs. Sarah Hand, whose death at the ad-
vanced age of SO took place recently at Cape
MAY, was the last survivor of the company OF
young ladies who strewed flowers in Wash
ing's path during his triumphal passage
through Trenton in 1899.
The New Orleans Republican suggests that
if the Ku- klux wish to defeat the enforcement
Get they had better convert their revolvers in
to plowshares, their bowie knives into hoes,
and their carousals into temperance societies.
"Wife, do you know that l have got the
pneumonia" "New monia, indeed! Such
extravaganza You're the spendthriftiest man
1 ever did see, to go and lay out money for
such trash, when l do need new bonnet SO
much!'
An Illinois man is under arrest for killing
friend in Texas. 1t is alleged that after the
murder he returned to Illinois and married
his victims sister, standing at the very mo-
ment of the ceremony in the boots he had
taken from the murdered mans feet.
A lecturer on the ''moral sentiments in
Philadelphia remarked that the ''dearest ship
in the world is friendship" whereupon a
young man rose from among the congregation
and stated that he knew another-a dearer
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man had once been a defendant in a claim for
breach Of promise of marriage.
There is a man who comes to Hamilton, Ne
vada, whose nose is of such extraordinary
length that he can only take liquids through
a straw or glass tube he carries with him, and
which he has to insert in the corner of his
mouth as his nose will not allow it to go in
the middle.
A daughter of Mr.. John Fields of St AL
bans, VT, entered her fathers burning barn,
last week, and while the fire was dropping
upon her head burning it to a blister, released
bseveral head of cattle and three horses. She
also welded an axe with the strength of an
athletic man. demolishing a hog pen and driv-
ing the inmates from danger.
About two years ago vein of coal at Yates
vile, near Pittston, Pa. was accidentally or
designedly set on fire, and has been burningev-
er since. Last week the fire seemed to be in
creasing in extent and intensity, the volume
of smoke being extremely large and heavy.
During the past winter snow has melted upon
the spot as rapidly as it fell, and bare space
of about an acre in extent has offered a
strange contrast to the surrounding mantle of
white The ultimate result of the subteranean
fires it is impossible to predict.
feature of peculiar interest in the Col
ored Representative, paper published at
Lexington, Ky, as an organ of the colored
people, is the advertising by former slaves for
their wives, their children or their friends
from whom they were separated at the behests
of the slave system before their emancipation
Many of the appeals for information fthis
kind are very touching, and serve to illustrate
the peculiar wickedness of an institution now
happily extinct.
Valuable books having been frequently
missed from the National Library at st Peters
burg spy was placed on the watch and dis
covered that the purloiner was no less per-
sonage than the Eev. DIR. Pitcher, professor