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

GENERAL NEW
In Tennessee a hotel-keeper is called q
''hash- mill boss"
No man is always wrong; q clock that does
not 60 at all is right every twelve hours.
The superstition that marriages in May
would soon result fatally is Of Roman origin
The thirty-ffth anniversary of Texan in
dependence was duly celebrated on the goth
ultimo.
Those who would know what the service of
song is should listen to the birds these golden
mornings.
Pitsburg has ATS manufactures, which, if
placed in a continuous line, would extend
distance of IS miles.
Keep out of debt, out of quarrels, out of
damp clothes, out of reach Of liquors, and
out of doors all you can in good weather.
Sixty-fou fisherman have been lost on the
Georges this season. They leave "a widows
and so children.
If you wish to know how many friends you
have, get Office; If you wish to know how
many friends you haven't, get into trouble
An army of caterpillars is on the move
through Illinois, devouring in its march
leaves, buds, and everything of succulent
nature.
The boys in country towns are anticipating
the arrival of the circus, and are laying in
stock of old junk and iron. in order to raise
the necessary dimes to procure admission.
A lady inquired Of an Episcopal friend,
why she was detained SO long at church on
particular morning, adding, 81 suppose, how
ever, you stayed for the TEDIOUS Lauda-
num-"
A Georgia editor explains that the title he
gave an article was "a cut and dried affair.""
and it was the types which made it read "a
cut and dried apple"
Senator Frelinghuysen has purchased the
old Albert Mansion in Washington for $780,
600, and Ex-Governor Mccormick, the dele
gate from Arizona, has purchased house on
Fourteenth street.
The New York Commercial says that many
women are such lovers Of nature that they
will indulge in the picturesque and botanical,
if they have to plant geraniams in their hus-
bands boots, and sweetwilliams in their old
hats.
The Chicago Republican" names Mr..
James R. Doolittle, the ex-senator from Wis
eonsin, who was Ex-Presid mt Johnson's special
friend, as democratic candidate for Presi-
dent He is now living in Chicago.
A Washington editor is mad because com
positor headed his editorial "The Champagne
Opened" when he wrote "The Campaign
Opened" He says that printer lie always
thinking about something to drink.
An old colored washerwoman, who used to
groan over her tubs, found consolation in the
hope that she ''would soon be where robes
won't need washing and poor creature can
| upset her tub and dance on the bottom of it
singing glory hullaballo, forever and forever! p
A young man, Geo. Pelham by name, was
stung on the ear by honey-bee in Westkill,
Greene county, on Thursday last, and died
! from the effects in less than an hour. The
local accounts say that soon after being stung
| he complained of feeling faint, and turned
spotted"
The editor of a western paper in his last
issue says: "We cannot exist any longer on
frewood, maple sugar and sheepskins. We
bid our patrons goodby, and offer for sale 200
bushels seed potatoes, slightly frost. bitten
A wonderful discovery has been made of
coal mines and oil wells thirty miles from As
pinwall, S. A. The mines are reported to
be inexhaustible, and the coal is said to be of
a superior quality, equal even to the best i'm
ported.
A girl medium in Memphis, the other day,
created quite a sensation. Inadvertently rest
ing her hand on a sewing machine, distinct
raps were heard, and the machine commenced
moving about the room, as did other pieces
| of furniture, until in a short time she had
| quite respectable train following her.