Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-12
GENEE.iL. MINIS.

GEAE6-iL " vs.
| The population of Southwestern Wisconsin
is almost entirely German
! The semi annual review of the trade of San
Francisco shows healthy increase over
formerSyears.
been asked, What is mis-, = vaguely replied,
An umbrella"
A proposition for general amnesty in Spain
and the colonies. is under consideration in
the Cortes.
Bears are plenty in Todd county, Minneso-
Ia. and are making terrible havoc among the
stock Of farmers.
Senator Andrew Jackson Jones, of North
Carolina, has sued gaming house in New
York for s., 900 lost at cards.
The poet says: Friend after friend de-
parts" but it by no means follows that the
Quakers will vote the democratic ticket.
Moonlight excursions are in high favor at
Detroit, three and four steamers leaving the
docks every Evening loaded down with pleas
ure seekers.
The president of the Dover ''fat mems
club" was measured for linen suit the other
day, and the result was call for twenty -one
yards of the material, nine of which go for
pants.
P. S. Gilmore will leave Boston for Europe
in few days to interest the magnates of for
eign lands in the grand international jubilee
which it is proposed to hold in Boston next
June.
A Springfield, Mass, man was going home
one night, when he was assailed by couple
of rowdies, who asked him if he had any
money. "Yes, lots of it," said he, and at
once knocked them down and gave each
good beating
The courts have decided that bonds issued
by county court in Tennessee for the sup
port of widows and children of confederate
soldiers during the rebellion, are illegal, be-
ing intended to aid in levying war against the
United States.
gentleman asked lady, SLOW did you
get along when abroad to make yourself I'M
derstood?' "Oh, my dear sir" replied she
with quite French air, eve had an inter-
rupter with u.s."
Senator Schurz is reported to have written
a letter to friend in Washington in which
he favors the nomination of Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams of Massachusetts,, for Vice
President Of the United States in 1872.
Governor Palmer of Illinois, has called a
special election on November It'll, for Con-
gresham at large to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of General Logan.
General Horace Binney Sargent, in his
Fourth of July Grafton in Boston, said that
all the citizens of the United States should
be compelled to vote, for the same reason
that they were compelled to perform military
service during the war.
! The late brilliant festivities at Berlin were
accompanied by promotion on large scale,
in the German army. All soldiers who had
been in the field received a war medal with a
ribbon with the new national colors. To the
standards OF the regiments which had been
under fire, ribbons in the colors of the Order
3 of the Iron Cross were added.
prominent Government official recently
wrote to friend in New York, inquiring as
!, to the position, financially and otherwise, of
/, certain resident Of that city. He received
g the following reply;
W Il am happy to inform you that Mr.. -
stands at the very top of responsibility here.
m lie owns a fast horse, New York Judge
l and intends to steal the first railroad he see.
), lying around lose"
IN NEVER RAIL AT THE WORLD,
N Never rail at the world-t is lust as we make II -
:; We see not the flower if we SOW not the seed:
- And as for Ill luck, why it's just as we take il -
D. The heart that's In earnest no bars can ,mpede
" You question the justice which governs man
=. breast,
And say that the search for true friendship
vain;
J. But remember, this world though it be not the bes
lie next to the best we shall ever attain.