Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-13
GENERAL NEWS.

| since 1890 five of whom are now living.
Of the twenty-four members of the Senate
whose terms expired on the 4th instant only
| seven have been reelected
Fred. Douglass is named as candidate for
| delegate to Congress for the District Of Co.
lumba
There is man in Middletown, Conn., poor
house, who is the last of a family of thirty
children, all of one mother.
Victor Emanuel plays ten pins which he
thinks will postpone the apoplexy, with which
he is threatened.
For the third time in less than sixty wears
Paris is occupied by the stranger and the con-
queror.
The wife of Ben. Wade is heiress to a large
estate in Connecticut, by the death of brother
John T. Monroe, an ex-Mayor of New Or
leans, recently committed suicide at Savannah
by taking poison.
The coal panic in New York is at an end,
| as the opening of navigation ensures an am
pie supply of anthracite.
North Carolina is now engrossed with the
shad business, and large quantities of the de-
licious fish are being packed for shipment to
northern cities.
They failed to maintain 4 Sorosis in Craw-
fordsville, Ind, because the members would
get married and see the folly of their ways.
II, I L. al, l.: tl,,r
mans wife is two dollars. Sooner than pay
it, an offender accepted severe thrashing the
ether day.
musician, in giving notice of an intended
variety of other songs may be expected, too
tedious to mention"
There is no satire so keen as the simple
truth. Any person can live down SANDER,
but there are none who would be willing to
hear the whole truth of themselves or their
friends.
A carriage was upset in Auburn, New York,
the other day, by an Infatuated animal that
was afterward descriptively referred to by
modest lady as "bachelor OK"
With the return of peace the exEmperor of
France will be at liberty to choose his future
place of residence. A report comes from
Austria that he is negotiating for an estate for
future residence in Bohemia.
In jackson county, West Virginia, there is
spring strongly impregnated with arsenic
For some years past its owner has been COM
PEELED to keep fence around it, to prevent
the cattle from drinking the water and poison
ing themselves.
curious child was ushered into the world
in Indiana the other day, if the local paper is
to be believed. 1t had mouth, eyes and ears,
but no head. To the inquiring mind, the
question of where the mouth, eyes and ears
were presents itself.
In the little town of Windham, Me-, there
stands one-story Imprinted house, with flat
stone step, door in the middle, high steep roof
the usual sort of an old-fashoned poorish
New England farmhouse. Here was born,
May 81, 1918, John Albion Andrew, the ''War
Governor" of Massachusetts.
The New York World is covertly opening
its batteries against Frank Blair's scheme of
overhauling the reconstruction laws. 1t says
the real question is whether the South wishes
to go into the next Presidential election with
the abolition of negro suffrage as Democrat
ic issue. 1t intimates that it has no notion of
doing anything of the kind.
year or two ago poor man in Ports
mouth, N. H., sent a $40 bill to his uncle to
pay for money lent him when he was in want
A few months since his uncle died and be-
queathed him all his estate, valued at $780,
900, giving as his reason for SO doing that he
had many times lent money to his relatives
and except in this single instance he had never
been repaid
Here are the two latest fish stories On the
25th ultimo, as Mr.. ii. Fletcher, of London
n. H., was cutting through the ice Of Clough's
pond, for piscatory purposes, he accidentally
''let go" his axe into twelve feet of water. A
sinner hitched to one Of his hooks was sent
after it. Imagine his surprise when, half an
hour after, he drew out his axe with the line
very ingeniously looped around the handle
The sinner was let down second time, when
it 'made fast" to the neither jaw of 3 l-2
pound pickerel, which was likewise secured
by one of the fishermen. That is story No.
|. The second comes from st. Adams pa
per, and is to the effect that "a Mr.. Kingman
caught trout through the ice on the Upper
Saranac few days ago that weighed eighteen
pounds, and was three feet and an inch long
As he attempted to secure him he found the
hole in the ice too small, when he fastened one
hand into his mouth and glls, while with an
ice chisel he enlarged it and secured his prize