Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-09

man said when his wife knocked him down
with broom.
Cough has gone to California on a lecture
starring tour, under the auspices of the Bos-
ton Lyceum Bureau.
Garibaldi has become President of a Socie-
ty whose object is the colonization and i'm
provement of Sardinia.
The "Cesko ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Spolek
of Chicago" has filed certificate of organi-
zation.
Twenty-seven pounds of maple sugar from
single tree is recorded in ThetFord, VT,
this year.
Two girls in an Ohio town dress in Bloomer
costume and shoe horses and do other black
smithing for livelihood.
The towns of Jefferson and Houston, Tex
as, have established skating rinks-on wheels.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill ex-
empting the dwellings of clergymen of all de-
nominations from taxation.
Under the new apportonment the Legisla-
ture of Ohio will consist of thirty-six Sena-
tors and one hundred and five members.
A Gloucester schooner brought in, one day
last week, a halibut weighing 347 pounds. 1t
was the largest ever landed there.
A billion feet of peeled hemlocks lie rotting
| on the ground in Ulster Co., New York, the
bark having been considered the only part of
the tree worth saving.
There are to be several yacht races across
| the Atlantic this summer, and in one of the
largest yachts a party of ladies are to be
| among the passengers.
A bill posted on the walls OF an English
country village, announced that "lecture
will be delivered in the open air, and a col
| lection made at the door to detray expenses"
Bishop futile, of the Episcopal Church, re-
ports that his parish in Salt Lake City is now
self-supporting, and that Christian work in
Utah is progressing hopefully.
DR.. Bush says the reason why Germans die
so seldom with consumption, is the fact of
their singing from the earliest childhood.
1t is very comical to hear a man at his we'd
ding repeat after the clergyman in the Epis-
copal service, ''With all my worldly goods
thee endow,' when he happens to be poor
clerk and the bride rich heiress.
John Burns, of Pike county, Pa, hung
himself last week because his wagon wheel
came off when he was away from home, and
he could not find another to replace it.
| A woman on trial last week in Reading,
/ Penn, on a charge of numbering her son, a
| boy ten years of age, was acquitted it being
unexpectedly proved that the boy is alive and
| well. Circumstantial evidence was strong
against her.
| The Mobile Register says that the South
accepts the situation in good faith, and that
the next secession will be at the North. 1t
writes "When the North begins and calls on
US for help, why then, well think about it.
No more secession for this quarter"
| California papers complain of the lack of
moisture in their vicinity. One journal re-
marks that lit is most unfortunate that after
each one of our rains 'Norther' sets in and
uses up all the surface moisture at once. The
north wind which prevailed about ten days
| ago was very damaging in its effects. One
gentleman noted the loss of about forty cy-
press trees in his garden in Alameda county,
the shrubs drying up and turning red within
twenty four hours. Yesterday the wind was
very strong on the other side of the bay. In
some places rose bushes in blossom wthered,
and small plants fell over under this rapid ex-
haustion of moisture. The grass became
crisp, paper upon the walls in houses snapped,
and the horrible desiccating wind threatened
to make desert of the garden. Under its
blasting effect great deal of small fruit just
set fell to the ground. But its worst effects
were upon green fields and pastures. Thus
far the north winds have licked up one-half of
all the surface moisture produced by the late
rains. The more sanguine are looking for
seasonable showers during the month of May,
and with these, believe that good crops will
| be secured"