Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-22
GENERAL Ne VS..

New York city now receives 10000 tons of
coal per day.
They have put man in Jail down in Mary
land just for trying to shoot his mother in law.
A celebrated wit was asked if he knew
Theodore Hook. YES" he replied; "ITook
and eye are old acquaintance"
Philetus Barley of Dubuque, has raised ten
young barleys in eight years and has thrashed
them all himself
The Solicitor General in the Tichborn case
is in no hurry to end it. He get $3.50 dollars
day for his services.
The lightning appears to be unusually de-
structive throughout the country this season,
and the same may be said of the wind.
One county in Iowa reports three men made
insane by the excessive use of tobacco.
A Boston lady having been asked if she
was an admirer of Trollopes novels, replied,
Eyes, have always been a Trollopologer."
The English people spend each year about
one-fifth of our American debt for intoxicat-
ing drinks.
The Louisville Courier journal reminds the
Democratic organs that the Democratic party
has at this time very pressing need of converts.
The man who this year pays the highest tax
in Portsmouth, N. H., twenty years ago
drove charcoal cart into the city for his in
digent father.
An Illinois wedding had to be postponed be-
cause the groom didn't appear. The weeping
bride touchingly remarked, Gle always was
that way"
The bill for the Reorganization of the Brit
ish army was rejected in the House of Lords
on the evening of the 18th inst. the majority
against the government being twenty-five.
DR.. George b. Loring delivered the annual
address at the commencement of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst
A Hartford man who made a little lunch on
raw oysters, at twenty-five cents dozen, paid
the bill when his appetite was satisfied 1t
amounted to $3.50.
blind OK, recently sold in Minnesota,
broke from the Enclosure of its purchaser,
swan river, and walked twenty miles to its
old home, guided by ''instnct."
Mr.. M. w. Whitney, the well-known sing
er of Boston, has received an offer to take
part in the great London oratorios next fall.
He viii sail for England in a few days.
The population of Utah has been nearly
doubled since the lst of January last, in con-
in districts adjacent to Salt Lake of number
of vastly rich silver quartz veins.
An Ohio inventor claims to have devised a
process for converting iron into steel of so
liquid a quality that it can be cast into threads
and ready sharpened edged tools, all at one
process.
A modern astronomer gazed long and ear
nestly through telescope at the movements
of Saturn, and afterwards discovered that he
had been watching the recedng light of New
York steamboat.
The Norwich (Ohio) Reflector says: "a
lady, whose name we will not mention, caught
her husband in the act of kissing the hired
girl. The doctor thinks his face can be
patched up so that he will be recognized by
his friends, but he will always be bald headed
Virginia papers say that the powder tanks
found by the wreckers in the Confederate iron
clad Richmond, now lying in thirty or forty
feet of water off Chaffins Bluff are in good
condition, and the powder as dry and ready
for use as before its submersion six years ago.
Out West they tell story of a dog which was
greatly interested in music. He attended
singing school, and was subsequently found
in the back yard with music book in front of
him, beating time with his tail ON tin pan,
and bowling "Old Hundred"
The code of ''honor" established by the
Southern chivalry still prevails. A few days
ago gentleman (O in New Orleans heard
that former partner had called him q thief.
He called on him and demanded retraction,
which being refused he shot him dead on the
spot without moments warning.