Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL We MS.
The man who works with will-The Pro-
bate Judge.
There are 100000 more women than men
in England.
The territories of Idaho and Montana are
said to be losing population.
A Connecticut editor says familiarity with
the aurora borealis only increases his admira-
ton for it.
The elections throughout New Jersey show
astonishing Republican successes.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to pre-
fer censure, which is useful to them, to praise,
which deceives them.
A lady calls the little memorandum her
butcher sends in with the meat ''pencilings
by the weight
New Orleans has now more fast teams and
stylish private turnouts than it ever had be-
fore, even prior to the war.
admiral Semmes opens a course in Mo-
bile with lecture on 1.-The Three Decisive
Naval Battles of Antiquity"
Andrew johnson denies the assertion of his
eliminate friend" that he is anxious to be re-
ceived back into the Republican fold.
A man with scolding wife says that hehas
less fear of the jaws of death than the jaws
of life.
John Young, a conductor on the Hudson
River Railroad, has travelled l,09G,00 miles,
and he's Young yet.
A Connecticut man has found an improve
ment on wooden nutmegs. He makes sar-
dimes out of porgies.
Mr. James T. Fields retires from the editor
ship of the Atlantic Monthly on the first of
July, and will be succeeded by Mr.. William
d. Howells.
Looking to others for our happiness is the
sure way to be miserable. Our business is
with our own hearts and our own motives.
1t is said that the domestic relations of
Prince Napoleon and his wife are so inhar-
monious that they will not even reside in the
same hotel in Geneva.
A little girl in Salem was sent to store
for a can of concentrated beef and surprised
the clerk in attendance by asking for ''tin-
thing of consecrated roast beef"
Henry Ward Beecher says that he would
rather hear an old cracked voice, feeble, with
many gaps, singing honestly with tears the
songs of Zion, than hear the finest cantatrice
that ever enraptured the most cultivated con-
gregation.
A jewelry establishment in Indianapolis
was closed the other day, and the following
placard in printed letters explained the cause
of the suspension of business ''On jury.
Will be back when we hang the cuss.'
Among the able and efficient scoundrels
sent from new York to Connecticut to assist
in the election of English, was Reddy the
blacksmith; worthy Democrat at whom the
gallows has long been grabbing, and NAV not
always grab in vain.
The authorities of Nantucket have given
notice ''that all persons who shall hereafter
disturb the public peace by means of an in
strument known as the Devils Fiddle.
'Squawker,' or any kindred instrument, will
be charged with committing a common nui-
sance, and will be prosecuted therefor
A lad named John Osborn, aged sixteen,
while in attendance at the public school in
Canadaigua, the other day, INDUCED with
other scholars in violent exercise by jumping
during the recess. Just as the bell rang call
ing in school, he suddenly fell and expired
Violent exercise was no doubt the cause.
Because Cleveland woman buried one
husband on Sunday and married another on
the Wednesday following, the neighbors
turned out in force and gave her an oid-fash-
toned Calithumpian serenade. She rolled
out two barrels of lager to appease them, but
they refused to be appeased, and pitched her
lager back through the windows, and once
getting taste of broken glass, they followed
it up with stones and bricks until every win
dow in the house was broken.