Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-02

The United Brethren Church in Benton
: county, Indiana, expelled five of its members
last week because they were Masons.
A court in st. Louis granted twenty eight
divorces in one day recently.
A greyhound is reported to have died in
California at the age of twenty-three.
Gen. Ewell, late of ''the Confederate States
army" is cultivating little garden spot of
1000 acres in Tennessee.
Edwards, the prizefghter, has been made
chief butcher at Blackwell's Island, and Col
Inns, his opponent, is breaking stones instead
of heads.
The number of public schools in Philadel-
phia, of all grades, is three hundred and
eighty, employing one thousand, five hundred
and thirty-nine teachers, of whom all but
eighty are women.
The Bellevue CO., Gazette announces an
other 'meanest man" in that county. He
paid sixty cents for two quarts of live potato
bugs, and scattered them broadcast over the
patch of a neighbor, against whom he had a
grudge.
movement of great Importance has been
set on foot in England. A bill has been pre-
pared, which sooner or later will be introduce
ed into Parliament, providing for the emigra-
ton of unemployed persons to Canada Some
of the inducements offered are free passage,
sixty acres of land, and ESQ in money.
The Hudson river aims from New York
are infested with gamblers. On Monday last
party Of them tried first a Poughkeepsie
lawyer, then a nondescrpt stranger, then two
| Ohioans; but being repulsed at all points, left
the train at the first stopping place after their
| final defeat.
A Detroit merchant received a check for
$4,000 from a penitent defaulter. The
amount due being only $1,000, he gratefully
made change with check for the balance,
and INDUCED in profane swearing when he
found the next day that the original check
was worthless.
"Do you remember how / managed those
Charleston rebels when they wanted to pray
for jeff. Davis in the churches2" asked Gen.
eral Sherman of an interviewer, the other day.
'tNo. Howl" ''Why, said l, yes, pray
away-he needs it"-and-it, if they didn't
get mad and go away and pray.for Lincoln"
The secretary ofthe New England fireman's
muster at Portsmouth, N. H., has made ar
rangements with all the railroads in New En-
gland for the transportation of fire companies
at half fare, engines to be brought free by
freight trains. Ten thousand invitations have
been sent out to all parts of New England.
The Rochester Democrat is slightly sar-
castle on railroad line in that vicinity. 1t
says that gentleman took train few days
since, on what is termed ''the huckleberry
road" running between Avon and Mount
Morris. After the train started from Avon he
discovered that he had lelt valuable dog
dehind buton arriving at Mount Morris the
lost dog was found sitting at the station
awaiting the arrival of his master.
'Old Trotter" is an eccentric genius, who
drives the first stage out of Fort Kearney
westward, and whose deeds and saying will,
in future, become historical. The following
is related of him: "One day he stopped a
man on the road whs drove miserable team
Of sick and aged little mules, and with the
| ejaculation, Look here, pilgrim; / know a
man that would give eight hundred dollars if
he could see them mules why, exclaimed
the man, startled by such an unexpected
prospect of luck, 'yeou daon't say so. Who
is he? Hes blind man. said Trotter
'g'lang.'"