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

zone thing" says an old topper, twas new
er seen comm through the rye an that's
the kind o whisky one gets nowadays"
On June IA, two men were seriously injur
ed by falling rock in American Fork Can
yon, Utah. The accident is not remarkable,
but their occupation at the time was. They
were shoveling snow.
There is at least one good reason why the
negro ought not to be educated. Whenever
he gets so he can read newspapers he will no
longer be eligible for juror Louisville
Courier Journal.
Henry Ward Beecher says: 1T will
scarcely be denied that men are superior to
women, as men; and that women are i'm
measurably superior to men, as women;
while both of them together are more than
match for either of them separately"
The lager beerists ofsCincinnati mildly re-
monstrate against the law which prohibits
| common labor on Sundays, including con-
certs, shows, rope dancing, theatricals, and
the sale of liqnor, as Annoying, unreasona-
Bile, unchristian, inhuman," and to cap the
climax, "unpolitic."
An eastern man who was recommending
young Philadelphia to Chicago merchant
said: ellis grandfather was a very distin-
guished man." "Was he? replied Chicago.
"That's Of no account with us. There's less
dandyism here than in any part of the United
States What's he hmseIf?"
The Salt Lake City "News" says that a
short time since, while some men were en-
gagged in clearing out spring in that region,
from which the people obtain water for irri-
spring what had been two-year old hefer,
in an advanced state of petrifcaton.
| The Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
just made notable decision in suit institu-
ted by a stone-cutter to recover a certain sum
of money-S500-levied as a fine by the trade
union to which he belonged, for cutting stone
| in manner contrary to the rules of the
Union. The Court ruled that the demand
was illegal, and that combination and threat
to prevent workmen from being employed was
an iiIeBal conspiracy.
A Boston paper relates that Edward Ever
EFT when at college used to walk to Boston,
when practicable, on Saturday mornings, car
rying the weeks soiled clothes in a bundle
to be washed, and bringing back the bundle
Of clean clothes in the evening. There was
not then carpet, a window curtain, a sofa,
or an easy chair in any students room; and
nearly all the young men brought their sup
ply of water from the pumps, and trimmed
their own lamps.
The indications are that all the stir made
will prove to have been part of an extensive
scheme to give a new quack medicine good
start. 1t is pronounced by several of the most
prominent physicians of Washington and by
medical officers of the army and navy pure
humbug. firm in New York Yesterday OBJ
tanned patent on cancer cure, having this
newlydiscovered ingredient as a base, and it
is known that prominent parties have secured
virtual monopoly of the trade in the cum
Orange plant.
Sun stroke and stroke of lightning, says
Dr. Hall, as far as present light extends, cause
death In the same manner; the blood is ex-
banded and gases are liberated, both tending
to distend the veins, which causes in the brain
a species of apoplexy; this distention of the
blood-vessels induces pressure on the BRAIN
and consequently all loss of sense and feeling;
the muscles are paralyzed, all motion ceases,
and the functions of the body are all arrested
Apply cold cloths or ice bags to the head,
and mustard plaster to the neck, with some