Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-03
GENERAL NEWS.

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Some of the Virginia Touring mills still Sc
cure their motive power by means of wind
mills.
Mr.. John c. Breckenridge has been elected
vice-president of the Big Sandy Railroad
Company.
A tough old Indian drank quart of whiskey
in one inning at Detroit, and wasn't unduy
elated either.
Mr.. Frederick Douglass proposes to leave
Washington and return to his old home in
Rochester.
New York paper gravely reports that
several persons were drowned while cross
ing the Connecticut river at Claremont, Maine. y
Nickelai, poor Indian shoemaker, who
has been peggins away for about forty years,
has fallen heir to $4,000.
Two of Hartford's sewers have caved in
within day or two, and the people are won
dering whether they are all built on that prin-
ciple.
A man has invented new and cheap plan
for boarding One of his dodgers mesmerizes
the rest, and then eats a hearty meal-the
mesmerized being satisfied from sympathy.
Prominent business men of New York and
Brooklyn express the belief that from 500
000,0 900 to $25 900 900 will be required for the
building of the East River bridge and its APP
proaches."
gentleman who took a common sense
view of things, being asked his opinion of a
poetic individual, replied: o he is one OF
these men who have soarings after the un-
fathomable, but who never pay cash.
While in San Francisco there is a. Chinese
Young Mems Christian Association, in Mas
sachusetts the Celestial cordwainers 90 to the
Methodist meeting with edifying regularity.
1t is poor economy to purchase mixed IA
brics-half silk and cotton, or cotton and
wool. One dress Of pure woollen, or pure
silk, or pure linen, will outlast half dozen
poor mixed materials.
A Hartford journal says the stoops of board
| lighthouses are now gay at eventide with
groups of "happy families" all in light sum-
mer array. Mothers who object to their
daughters acquiring the Grecian bend, how
ever, should not allow them to sit on the
stoop.
The New Orleans papers, now that the in
undation is over, don't think it was much of "a
shower after ALL Only lG47 acres were food
ed, and the water amounted to the triflng
sum of 600 600, 900 gallons. The Northern
press is asked to make this soothing correc-
ton.
Under the Mormon suffrage law, not only
women may vote, but foreign born woman,
provided she is the wife of native or natur-
allied citizen, may vote six months after
her arrival in Utah. The gentiles, who are
left by this statute in hopeless minority, are
preparing to test its constitutionality.
An Indiana clerk the other day took in a sill
yer coin five hundred and sixteen years old,
which an old farmer ploughed up in his corn
field, and passed it for ten-cent piece. The
present owner is so jealous of his prize that
he refuses to exhibit it.
A story is going the rounds, Of an old col
ored man who was left in charge of tele-
graph Office in New Orleans while the opera
tor went out ''to see man." A 'call" came
over the wires, and uncle Pete shouted at the
instrument as loud as he could: "De opera
tor isn't YER" The noise ceased instanter.
A ST. Louis gentleman who employs a coolie
as servant finds the paganism of the Chi
naman his greatest fault. The other morn
ing after prayers it was ascertained that the
coolie had been worshiping an old-fashioned
brass andiron in the fire place. He mistook
it for an idol; and had offered it two rats.
He spends four hours day in front of that
andiron.
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