Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-16

tives Tor the forty-ttlrd congress, hVe nave
offices in Pemberon square.
Small fancy dogs have their little oyercoats
trimmed with fur this winter. The sagacity
displayed in this, causes many persons to pre-
dict very severe weather.
The University of Wisconsin has received
donation of $50 Norwegian books, purch
ased with the proceeds Of a concert given for
that purpose by Old Bull
Professor Agassiz says Niagara will run dry
in nineteen centuries, and tn, Niagara hack
men have raised their fares in consequence.
A little girl in Philadelphia, who lost her
arms by railroad accident, spends her time
in running a sewing machine. She manages
her work with her teeth.
The city of New York still suffers heavily
under the burdensome legaces OF the ring.
1t is compelled to raise by taxation the
enormous sum of S35 ,559. $50 for the coming
year
The Missouri Democrat says of + red Grant:
He is fine looking officer. taller than his
father, but his features disclose the unmistak
able lineaments of the President"
Gail Hamilton in.imates that it is "heayen
ly heathenism to attribute the big fires and
such things to Gods anger, or narrow escapes
to his esp. cial love-, and says: at is good
to be religious, but it is not good to make God
capricious.
The annual reunion of the nineteenth Reg
incnt of Massachusetts Volunteers was held
I r,,l. g.. II T.
w. Kinks was elected President for the en-
suing year
Trains on some OF the Missouri railroads
run so slow that a woman with her back ele
waited to the proper attitude can overtake one
on foot, if it contains her husband and anoth-
er woman.
indianapolis tried to have a sensation, the
other day, and started story that saloon
keeper was starving his year Old boy to
death. An examination by the police effect
ually spoiled the story, the boy being found
in excellent condition.
An incendiary Are at Galena, Ill, Thurs
day morning, destroyed one of the largest
business buildings that escaped the confa-
grafton which consumed nearly the whole
town. The Swedes were arrested on suspi-
ton of being the ncendaries.
The project of omnibus boats, to run
around Manhattan Island, is being discussed.
1t is proposed to have docks every ten streets,
and with small, easily managed boats, like
those used for like purpose in the Thames at
London.
Some bad boys at Muscatine, Iowa, lately
locked up church and forced the congrega-
ton to get out of the windows.
VIM. Lamoille has been arrested in New
York, charged with feloniously appropriating
the funds of the British North American Bank
to the amount of 100000.
The Philadelphia iron masters propose the
erection Of an iron monument to Horace
Geeeley in Paramount Park
1t is said that all the important witnesses
against Stokes have been spirited away since
his former trial, and that when his case comes
up again his acquitted will be matter of GER
tainty.
A correspondent of the London Daily
News, stationed on this side of the water,
writes home in unfeigned astonishment ''that |
on election day ladies promenaded the streets
just as on any other day
The Chester train INSTRUCTOR, Willy Clark,
was convicted at Springfield, Tuesday his |
counsel failing to convince the jury that the |
murdereus youth didn't know the difference
between right and wrong.
There is a regular war going on among the
Memphis milkmen about the best system of
multiplying the lacteal. About ninety-fv
per cent. of water is now considered fair
in five parts of milk.
Down in Grenada, Miss, the burglars have
adopted the plan of raising pustules on their
faces and getting up a sickly look for the pur-
pose of soaring families to death, in order to
rob the house more effectually.
1t is stated that the old members of the sym
dicate with the Rothschilds, have offered to
take the remaining 3oO,0o0,000 of the five
per cent. bonds, together with large portion
of the four-and-a- half per cent. loan.
The full bench of the New Hampshire SUI
preme Court has sustained the decision of
one of its judges that if a person hugs liquors
where the sale is prohibited, but at the time
of the purchase does not intend to pay for
them, because of the law, bat conccals that
intention, it is a fraud, and the vendor can
reclaim his liquors or the value thereof.
The New Hampshire Grand Lodge of Good
Templars held their seventh annual session
at Meredith, on the 18th ult. The present
membership is 400. A few years since it
was 1000. More Lodges have disbanded the
past year than there have been new saes
formed.