Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-01
GENERAL NEWS.


Mule wagons are called ''prairie schoon-
| ers' by the New Mexicans.
| There is place in Alabama called Scuffle-
town.
Lake Superior promises larger yield of
iron and copper this year than in any pre-
vious year.
Governor Davis, of Texas, was recently in
dicted for gambling at Corpus Christi
The Republicans in some of the counties
of Iowa, are nominating women for school
officers.
The preparations for the great New Eng
land fair at Lowell, Mass, next week, is
nearly completed.
Discouraging reports of the grape crop
come from Western New York. The punches
rapidly decay.
Mr.. Andrew johnson does not approve the
"new departure" He is thorough demo-
crat now.
Bethlehem of Judea HIS an omnibus line
lately started.
Cats fastend among the branches of fruit
trees are modern expedient to drive away
birds when fruit is ripe.
A New Yorker complains that the prices at
some of the White Mountain resorts are high
er than the mountains themselves.
Foreigners call the Suspension Bridge, at
Niagara Falls, the greatest artificial curiosity
in America.
A rolling-pin with which loving wife had
knocked her husband down seven times, came
in as evidence in an Indiana trial
Minnesota has bricklayer named Louis
Napoleon. His business is a good deal safer
and more profitable than that of throne build
ing.
Cattle still browse pleasantly around Wa
bash avenue, says the Chicago Republican,
and ask terrified children if they will take
horn.
Josh Billings says 'When a man amt
good for anything else, like to see him carry
gold-headed cane. If he can't buy cane,
let him part his hair in the middle
One of the festive ''foregn Counts" at Long
Branch has become so debilitated by too
much sea-bathing, that he hasn't strength
enough left to pay his bills.
The Wooden Exposition to be held in St.
Louis in connection with the Agricultural and
Mechanical Fair, during the first week
October, promises to be success.
Abraham Lincoln, being annoyed on one
occasion by fiddler, who persisted in play
ing in front of his house, sent him out dol
lar, with the message that one scraper was
enough at the door.
''Where do you hail from?" querried
Yankee of traveller. JWhere do you rain
from?" ''Don't rain at ALL" said the aston
ished Jonathan. ''Neith4 do l hail; $50,
mind your own business.
Ex-senator Cattell of New Jersey has pur-
chased seventeen building lots within a few
squares of the Executive Mansion at Wash
residences, one of which will be taken by
Secretary Robson.
Sophie Sparkle writes to the New York
Mailthat among the distinguished people at the
last Saratoga ball were "Miss Airs and Mr..
and Mrs. Puffy"
George Williams, keeper of saloon in
Greenbush, N. Y, has been arrested on the
charge of setting fire to his own premises on
Saturday night.
In driving London underground railroad
tunnel, we were told that in one part of the
line the cuttings were made through mass
of skulls and bones, sixteen feet in the
ground. In another place forgotten secret
passage, twenty feet, was discovered, sup
posed to date from the fourteenth century.
At almost every step in life we meet with
young men from whom we anticipate wonder
full things, but of whom, after carful inquiry
we never hear word. The effervescence of
youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of in
tellect and Imagination, endow them with a
false brilliancy, which makes fools of them
selves aad other people. Like certain chint-
yes, calicoes and ginghams, they show finely
on their first newness, but cannot stand the
sun and the rain, and assume very sober
aspect after washing-day.