Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-23

working together, satisfied the "dear people
that as this great "Reform Party" "Work-
ings Mans Friends" &C., &c., Gas they term
themselves) had been fishing so hard for the
last four years, they had better stay at home
and cut bait the next four.
If that last Democratic Legislature could
but have been endorsed and sent back to Sac
ramento for another term, with their expert
ence and the example of Tammany before
them, the widest stretch of imagination could
hardly predict where they would have stop
ped; it is bewildering to think of. The great
tunnel to be cut by Col. Won Schmidt through
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which is to be
five miles long, nineteen feet high and twen-
ty-one feet wide, for the use of the Central
Pacific r. r., and the supplying of San Fran
cisco with water from Lake Tahoe, at cost
of one million five hundred thousand, would
have looked to them as a very insignificant
job.
The notorious Brick Pomeroy is out here
He attempted to stump the State in the inter-
est of the democracy, but he ran up against
so many stumps by reason of the people at
the localities where he was advertised to
speak, notifying him that he was not wanted,
that he gave up the project. He then endeav-
ored to deliver lecture on 'Pluck" at Oak
land. No one attended. He then tried it
here, but as his audience only numbered IF
teen, it was announced to them that Brick
e;a al y IT,
ident, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin is also here
He has made few campaign speeches, and
drew crowds. People delight to hear such a
man. Mrs. Stanton has gone East. Susan
champs" did not create very great furer in
California.
A new and unfailing remedy for rheuma-
tism and govt had lately been discovered in
Oregon, and is for sale in this city. 1t is
preparation of the INK Weed. Dr. Loryea,
physician and surgeon in the Oregon Hos
pital and State Insane asylum, the discoverer,
states that from May 1869 to June 1871, two
hundred and forty.three cases were treated,
and all successfully. The longest time re-
quired to cure the worst cases was fourteen
days. 1t makes no difference how complica-
ted they may be with other diseases, or from
what cause arising, they must succumb. 1t is
a simple tonic, and one Of its greatest virtues
is that it may be used by the most delicate
and debiltated.
A queer case has lately come before the
court here. Two men are claiming divorce
from the same woman at the same time. 1t
seems that one man lost his wife and didn't
know where to find her. In meandering
about the country he stumbled into a house
near San Jose, foot sore and weary. Imagine
his astonishment when he discovered that the
wife of his host was his own lest spouse. He
wanted to embrace her, but she put on airs
when he asserted that he knew every hair on
her, she commenced to shuttle, and said she
was the victim Of a horrible conspiracy. At
this point husband No. 2 stepped forward with
the evident intention of quitting a head on"
hubble No. l. Hubble No. displayed flag
of truce, and asked that an armistice might
be granted, in order that he might be able to
bring forward evidence to prove his lawful
authority over this frail piece of femininity.
This proposition was readily granted, and he
came to this city, but was speedily followed
by the doubly welded wife, who, when she
had arrived here, filled out check for four
thousand dollars, signed her late husbands
name to it, went to the bank where she knew
his money was deposited, got it cashed, took
the money to Oakland and deposited it in her
own name. Hubble No. l asks for divorce.
Hubble No.2 asks for divorce and restitu-
ton of his coin. The woman opposes both,
| c. ii. III.