Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-08
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GENERAL We w.
Brigandage is again on the increase in Ma
Piles and Sicily.
A quarrel over the price of two glasses of
beer cost Louisville man his life, lately.
The wife of New Orleans merchant, his
cook Ga handsome Englishman) and S40,0
are missing.
For want of better sport, Mr.. Campbell, of
New York, intoxicated, bit off a cats tail and
was arrested
The grave of Albert Sidney johnson, near
Austin, Texas, is only marked by rough
board
Two brothers named Smalltubs, recently
married in Michigan, took the names of their
wives.
Venice has an unusual number Of daily pa
pers, but none of them has a circulation of
over two thousand copies.
Chicago is excited over finding, in the rv-
er, the trunk of man, from which the head
and legs were chopped and calls it my stery.
Bacchus has drowned more men than Nep-
tune. The meaning of this proverb appears
to be this, that it is much safer to go over the
seas than to get half seas over.
An urchin being sent for an ounce of "Mac-
coboy" snuff. forgot the name of the article,
and asked for an ounce of make-a-bey
sneeze."
J. F., of Peekskill, writes the editor of the
local sheet that ''youl git yur he'd punched, if
you print in yur paper that my yf had twins.
A site for new State House and Execu-
tive Mansion has been bought in New Or
leans, forSl00, 900, by the State of Louisiana.
In July and August the chances of dying in
Chicago are one in l50. But no one will die
there who resolutely keeps away from the
place.
The return of the Prussians to Berlin will
be signalized by the erection of monster
trophy of all the captured French eagles,
arms, flags, etc.
j. Withers Clay is vainly trying to express
his ''ineffable contempt for the viper that oc-
cupies the editorial tripod" of rival sheet in
Huntsville, Ala.
| Philadelphia is both astounded and delight
ed that its new, paid fire department doesn't
smash mirrors and furniture, nor steal silver
and fancy articles.
Duray, Napoleon's ex-Minister of Public
Instruction, and who assisted the sham en-
peror in writing the life of Julius Caesar, has
gone mad, and is now at Charenton.
There's a moral taught by the following
conversation, which needs to be learned by
many fathers. Said a little four-year- old
"Mo,her, father won't be in Heaven with us,
will hei" ''Why, my child?" Because he
can't leave the store.
Gambetta's funeral Grafton over Kuss, late
Mayor of Strasburg, wound up: "Happy M.
Kuss, to have the privilege of entering your
agonized country only as dead man."
General Moltke was the candidate of the
conservatives in eight districts at the recent
elections for the German Parliament. He
was beaten in seven districts and elected in
one.
creek, and her woodpile stands on the bank
Hearing some one stealing her wood the
other night she quietly threw a young man
into the stream, and then fished him out to
save his life.
The value of hides and skins used in a raw
state in this country annually, is said to be
S66, 100000. The total value tanned and
dressed is over 1924, 900, 600 Total value of
boots and shoes manufactured S246, 0Oo, 900,
sixty per cent. of which belongs to New Eng
land.
The Exter Academy is to be rebuilt. 1t
will be of brick, with wings, two stories in
height, and will contain ten recitation rooms,
and hall capable of containing seats for $50
persons. The cost is estimated to be a little
short of $4,000; and it is designed to break
ground for the work Immediately
The readers of the early history of Florida
will remember that DE Soto found pearls a
common ornament among the natives. Where
they came from was mystery until now un-
solved. Dr. Kidder, of Sumner county, Flor
ida, has the honor of being the discoverer of
the secret. He found the muscle of the lakes
to contain many pearls-out of one shell he OBJ
tanned eighty -four, and altogether he has col
lected three thousand, which have been sent
to the Smithsonian Institute for examination.