Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-03-07

The census shows q loss of 100, 600 inhab-
itants in Paraguay since the beginning of the
war for the overthrow of Lopez.
Arkansas politicians call each other pet
names. Parties there are now divided into
Minstrels, Brindle-Tails and Republicans.
A new monthly published by the Shakers at
Albany, New York, is called The Shaker and
bears the motto Il will shake all nations
Bridal wreaths are no longer worn round
They are now crescent shaped, or clustered
! elaine brads of hair in the back.
New York laments the number of unoccu
pied houses that are to be found in its streets,
and landlords gloomily anticipate reduction
OF from 10 to 20 per cent. in the rents.
1t is claimed by Prof Swallow, engaged in
the geological survey of Missouri, that there
are larger trees in that State than in Califor
mia, and he notes a sycamore that is forty-five
/ feet in circumference.
Mrs. Sarah A. Littlefield has been elected
/ Superintendent of the common schools in
Croker county, Iowa.
New York ladies', not contented with ban
ishing wines from parties, are making war on
the gentlemen smoking in their dressing
rooms.
4 jerseyman exhibits with rare pride to his
most intimate friends a tray on which Mrs.
Richmond carried to General Washington his
breakfast, as he. was sitting on horseback in
Trenton before leaving for Princeton.
On the 2Tth of December last n farmer of
West Lebanon, n. H., put load of hay in his
the 10th of February biddy was dug out, lean,
but tolerably well and lively.
Newspapers die young in San Francisco.
Thirteen daily papers have failed there in the
of one million dollars
The New Haven Palladium thinks the
proposition from a Southern editor that
Raphael Semmes be appointed to serve on the
Alabama Claims Commission the coolest
piece of impudence" it has lately met with
The American House, in Lebanon, Pa. was
built in Ill, just one hundred years ago.
On one Of the stones is an inscription in Ger
man, which, translated, reads Good bless
this house, and every person that goes in and
out
The Boston consumers OF gas are exulting
over a notice that the Boston Gas Company
will reduce the price of gas to 50 80 per
thousand feet. on and after April next. This,
it is claimed, is lower rate than sgas is fur
nished at in any other city in the country
when the relative Illuminating capacity of the
gas is considered.
Lady Wilmot Horton died in Derbyshre,
England, on the 10th ult., in her eighty third
year. 1t was she who inspired Lord Byron
with the first song Of the Hebrew Melodies,
beginning
.She walks in beauty: like the night
/ Ofcloudless cmes and starry skies;
/ And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes"
The stanzas were written by Byron on return
ing from a ballroom, where he had seen Mrs.
| afterwards Lady, Wilmot Horton, wife of his
relation, who was Governor of Ceylon. On
this occasion, Mrs Wilmot Horton had ap-
peared in mourning, with numerous spangles
on her dress, and in the full bloom of beauty
The Philadelphia Press publishes the let
ter of General James B. Fry addressed to
Governor Perham in relation to ''paper cred
its" and calls attention to it in an editorial
article in which it says Gin calling attention
to it we discharge in part the obligation due
by the city of Philadelphia to General Fry for
his thorough and fair dealing with Philade-
phia and Pennsylvania in all the business of
raising men and giving credits. Few of our
citizens who acted for their own local autho-
tiles or with them, in meeting and in carrying
out the requirements, of the Government,
care to look back on the dark ways through
which they were dragged. The vast sums
paid and often largely misspent in bountes
are painful memorials of the prodigious zeal
of the people to avoid drafts and of the read-
ness with which their money was taken.
Still it is always right to bear in mind the fact
that Philadelphia always found in General
Fry an honest officer, earnest in the discharge
of his duty, and therefore always entitled to
| her thanks"