Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-25
GENERAL NEWS.

John B. Cough is announced to deliver two
hundred lectures during the next six months.
He has undertaken pretty heavy job, if there
is no mistake about the number.
Bishop Whitehouse, of Chicago, has secured
the passage of the following additional section
to the Constitution of the Episcopal Diocese
of Illinois: ''No clergyman shall resort to the
civil courts for the purpose of arresting or
avoiding any ecclesiastical proceedings
against him, under penalty of suspension,
ipso facto, from the functions of the ministry"
This section met with considerable opposition
in the convention, but it was pushed through
without much difficulty.
The Lowell mill operatives have had their
work hours shortened fifteen minutes per day
by giving them full hour for dinner instead
of three-quarters, as heretofore. The mills
will now run ten and three quarters hours per
day.
This, we are told happened in Canada :
''During a whirlwind at Bolton, on the Mis-
sisquoi river, a small boy fell upon the ground
and chung by his hands to the roots of sap
ling, while the wind lifted his feet and legs
into the air and snapped him to and fro like
whip
A boy in GAINESVILLE, Wis, carried "playing
circus" little too far the other day, and two
surgeons had all they could do to get his head
back where it belonged.
The people living in the neighborhood Of
Woolwich, England, the site Of the royal ar
senal, have been lately gravely disturbed by
the discovery that the ground beneath their
feet was liable at any moment to give way
and let them down into a cavern or subterra-
neous reservoir containing thirty feet of wa
ter. Excavations and probings at different
points have proved that considerable area is
thus undermined, and the consequence has
been a general removal of all who could
afford to take other and safer habitations.
For the security of such as remain govern
ment surveys of the ground are to be made
Immediately, and such safeguards adopted
against accident as the necessity of the case
shall demand.
The Rochester Courier tells of man liv-
ing in Milton, who was told that by sinking a
barrel of cider into the pond and letting it
remain till spring he could preserve it sweet
and pure. He did so, and in the spring, in
trying to pry it from the mud, ran an iron bar
into the barrel and his sweet cider passed out
upon the water of the pond. A gentleman
says that early the next morning six men
were seen at the dam three miles below. down
upon their knees to get taste of the cider
upon the top of the water.
A cynical old bachelor, who believes that
a woman has something to say on all subjects
recently asked friend: "Well, madam, what
do you hold on this question of female suffer
age?" The lady responded carmly, "Sir, l
hold my tongue"
Olive Logan says that in Europe the woman
suffrage movement is generally classed with
Mormonism, Oneidacsmmunsm and freelov-
ism, which shows that the people of Europe
are good at classifying.
Bishop Simpson is slowly recovering hi.
health.
A poor penman on the Cincinnati CONNER
cial says that "Greeley's signature on the
hotel register at Chicago is described as re.
sembling field of Norway oats after a
| cyclone"
| If thou art worn and hard beset,
| With sorrows that thou wouldst forget,
Ifthou wquldst read a lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
| Go to the woods and hills tears
Dim the sweet look that nature wears.
GLonafellor.