Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-31
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Ceored brides in Cairo go blushng to the
altar in mosquito-bar walls.
Two women of San Francisco lately order
ed eighty-five dresses from Berlin
An Indiana farmer got in front of his NOW
ing machine to examine the gear. The
horses started and off went his head
To promote concord, it is proposed to
unite the three Republican papers at Con-
cord, N. ii.
A negro once gave the following toast
.'De Gubernor of our State He come in
wild very little opposition; he got out wild
none at all"
A fellow lately undertook to hang himself
in London, but was cut down and forced by
magistrate to pay his preserver ten shilings
for job.
1t is profoundly cruel to charge JEFF. Davis
with having insulted lady. So long as he
lives, he will always recognize pettcoat as
a signal of distress.
Wisconsin now puts forth its claim to the
coolest Mason in the person of David Styles
of Prescott, aged one hundred and five years,
and who was raised to the sublime degree
seventy-nine years ago.
young man in Indiana lately become so
alarmed at widows persistent attempts to
marry him that he turned over to her all his
property and ran away.
A bricklayer in Philadelphia has been
bound over for trial on the charge of malic-
iously throwing mortar into the eyes of
little girl
A fashionable mammals advice to mar
ried daughter: Never take your husband to
an evening party there is nothing that is al
ways so much in the way.
Fayette county, Pa, boasts of an old lady
who was the mother of fourteen children
and has five hundred descendants living. She
is in her ninetieth year.
1t is now stated that Wilson's devoted
French lover toek the last steamer for home,
carrying with him remarkably we'll fitting
mitten, and the great singers firing woman.
A gentleman in Indiana has cleared his
house of cockroaches by scattering about
liberal supply of old fashioned red waters. 1t
is supposed that after gorging themselves
these cheerful insects retire to their holes
and stick fast
Miss Mary Westbrook, of Wautsboro', Sui
livan county, has praire rose trailed over
the room in which she resides, in perfect
bloom, that numbers over a thousand perfect
roses, besides large number of buds yet to
expand.
Washington Irving, in conversation once
alluded to man of superior pomposity as
ga great man, a very great mana man of
East tips up"
The following paragraph shows some of
the new words that have been coined by the
modern school of journalists; "He excurt-
ed day or two on beer, and getting short, he
burgled little. But he was soon COPIED
and jailed. The news was Immediately wired
to his amiable wife, who rallied to him at
| once"
"a pue'hess III III III Cpfihshelu, Ill, WHICH
buys large quantities Of rags for shipment
have had occasion to admire, of late, the en-
ergy and enterprise in collecting cast-off ha-
biiments of two or three youngsters, who
came almost daily with supplies To be added
to the general accumulation. Tbis continued
for a while, when j, was found that the little
rag-pickers were in the habi, u stealing their
| stock from the cellar Of the business house
alluded to, entering at the front door and
caused change of sentiment on the part OF
the buyers.