Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-20
NEWS BY MAIL.

Sojourner Truth is lecturing at Lawrence,
Kansas.
Little folks Christmas has already arrived
in the shop windows.
A Detroit lady visited menagerie and
asked to be shown the cundurango.
A Massachusetts, woman made five hundred
dollars last year by the cultivation Of lilies.
They have "Algerines" in Philadelphia,
and country lady wants to know if they're
good to eat.
Garibaldi is against the Internationals, and
fears their violence will restore the Holy AL
lance.
The United States contains four hundred
and nine incorporated cities, Of which st.
Augustine is the oldest.
Iowa farmers sowed larger lumber of
acres to winter wheat last tall than ever be-
fore.
Taunton, Mass, has turned out seventeen
and half million bricks this year, worth
about $4,000.
relic hunter has Just returned from Chi
cago who says he has secured a few drops of
the identical kerosene that kndled the Gar
den City"
There are already twelve hundred miles of
bitches and canals for mining purposes in
Nevada county, California.
The third trial of Mcclellan, who was de-
Tended by Vallandigham, on a charge of
numbering Myers, began at Dayton, Ohio,
on Monday.
Nervous headache is said to be instantly re-
L.. -. Al A.sA II, Sn~k
of cold water in which dessertspoonful of
soda has been dissolved
The first contributions to the Boston "Wo.
man Suffrage Bazaar" were a cook stove and
a sewing machine. No more donations of
this suggestive sort are solicited.
The Indianapolis "Sentnel" thus relieves
itself: eighteen souls with nine single
thoughts, eighteen hearts that beat as nine,
at Evansville last week"
A portable villa has been constructed at
Paterson, N. j., to be shipped to Peru. 1t
is built in sections, which are put together by
wooden pins, slides, and bolts, and without
a single nail.
A rural poet indited sonnet to his sweet
heart, entitled Il kissed her sub rosa" The
compositor knew better than that, and set it
up in printers Latin-'.I kissed her snub
nOsa."
The Savannah ''News," says the people
near Brunswick, Ga, are having fun by FIR
ing into the trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad. They say it is truly laugh
able to see the passengers dodge at the fash
Of the gun.
At the Boston banquet to the Grand Duke,
James Russell Lowell got off the pun of the
han 70 eGo he
that our relations with Russia are now of the
most cordial and intimate kind, for the EN-
peror has made us the keeper Of his seals.
A Southern California paper advertises for
"a young freckled- faced man that won't back
down, with pair of saddlebags, pistol and
bowie-knife, to collect for this Office. A large
salary will be paid"
Who but one that had been there could
have given expression to this scandalOus bit
of realistic cynicism? CHOW is the time to
rally to the festive donation party. A dona-
ton party is cheerful gathering, where
poor clergyman's flock overwhelm him with
bead watch-pockets and eat up about SIP
worth of his winter provisions"
Ex-Comptroller Connolly was taken serious
ly ill on Saturday and now lies, it is said, in
critical condition.
The inquest on the murder of Mrs. Venner
was begun at Lynn Monday.
Tire report that the Czarewitch of Russia
made personal assault upon Prince de
Reuss, is denied in London.
BY the overlooking of the Guniti river in
British India three thousand houses were
destroyed and ten thousand persons made
homeless The suffering was great.
The Geographic report that Ex- Gov. Sew
ard was very low with paralyis, is entirely
without foundation, as a telegram from Au-
burn, N. T., states his health to be perfectly
good"
Broken down Tammany is quivering again.
Several warrants for arrest are in the hands
of sheritis. Nobody knows who are to be the
victims, and the guilty crowd is trembling.
Sweeney has left the city and is supposed to
be fugitive from justice. Three new names
are now added to the list of voucher thieves,
and among them is that of John c. Heenan.