Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-04
GENERAL NEWS
TIE fur trade Of Alaska is rapidly deesea.

TIE fur trade Of Alaska is rapidly deeSeAs-
ing
Account hun thy real friend who desires
thy good. rather ;lan thy good will
a eonyea,ion 6. mea whose arms ani leg
have bsea shot Of firing sAlutes" Is proposed.
The Esprit OF The West" published in Al
bia, Iowa. nomiaatss General Belknap fer
/ PresiIen, in 1879.
/ Friends mus, be pre-ers I'd with good deeds,
and enemies reclaimed with fair words
Buffalo is laying ous beautiful city park.
with an artificial lake covering forty-siS and
half acres,
! About six thousand women have SO far
signed the memorials TO Congress asking that
suffrage be not extended to their sex
The Chancellor of the Austrian empire has
forbidden the celebration of the German VIC
tories al Vienna.
Queen Christina. OF Swe,den. is dead. She
was represented as an amiable lady, possess
ing many accomplishments.
The Grand Ma ster of Masons of Ohio has
suspended the charter of 4 Masonic lodge be-
cause its members elected liquor dealer for
master.
Voltaire's gardener is to Europe what
George Washington's coachman is to Ameri-
ca. This gardener has Just died again near
Geneva at the age of 10.
That woman was philosopher who when
she lost her husband, said she had one great
consolation-she knew where he was onghts
William PENIS manuscripts have been pur-
chased by some citizens of Philadelphia, who
intend TO present them to the Historical Soci-
ETY. of Pennsylvania.
A Georgia editor who has Just been mar
ried, relates in his paper that the''marriage
ceremony was performed in an eloquently
impressive, AMI captivating manner, by the
minister"
The Democrats now have more members
in Congress than at any time since the Thirty
fifth Congress, the first during President Bu-
chanan's term.
A clever repartee is attributed to the men,
Der from Mormondom in the new Congress.
A brother member asked him how many wives
he had Enough to keep me from running
after other peoples" he promptly replied.
These are the days when foolish people lay
aside thick garments and leave off flannels.
The man who goes out in this weather with
out his overcoat will find, quite likely, that
he has exchanged it for a mahogany one.
This is the time for flannes and warm cloth
ing, and no wise man will forget it,
The bay-window season is upon us again,
says the Titusville Herald. One architect re-
Gently completed a design for a barn and hen
house with six bay windows on each Car
penters now contract only for the bay win
dows, and throw in the rest of the house
| Owing to the many irregularities at the
election last fall, when the present Legisla-
ture of Alabama was elected it is thought
Mr.. Goldthwaite, who was elected to the
United States Senate by that body, will not
be allowed to take his seat.
A clergyman, out of a situation, had sever
al calls to preach on trial" lie preached and
was liked ;but he was rejected because he had
grey hair, the congregation preferring
younger man. Then this preacher re-
sorted to ''ways that were dark'-dyed his
hair-and at the very next trial gave ssper-
feet satisfaction the young ladies calling him
" just splendid"
Sunday. the 10Th instant, was a terrible day
at Superior City, Wis, and in the Superior
country generally. The wind blew at the
rate of sixty miles an hour and fifteen inches
of snow fell. The waves on the lake ran very
high, and came so thick and fast as to stop all
communication thefcabouts. The cold was
intense. They have two and a half feet of
snow on the ground up there.
a city miss, newly installed as the wife of a
farmer, was one day called upon by neigh
Dor OF the same profession, who, in the alb
sence OF her husband, asked her for the loan
OF ms plow for a short time 81 am sure YOU
would be accommodated" was the reply, ''f
MIR. Stone were at homc-I do not know.
though, where he keeps his plow but. sshe
added, ev IDENTIFY Jealous to serve, s.therc is
the cart in the yard could Mt you plow with
that till Mr.. Stone gets back?"