Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-24
GENERAL NEWS.
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The poet John G. SAKE will soon become
domiciled in one of the prettest quarters of
Brooklyn.
A drunken Toledo man wrote on the wall
of his cell jug not that ye be not jagged"
A brigantine from St. Johns, N. F., has ar
rived at Halifax, having failed TO reach Sgd
ney, Cape Breton, an account of the masses
of ice along the coast.
The Boston Post thinks that Mr.. Adamss
address on Mr.. Seward "can be regarded on
ly as a violent political essay, rather than the
dispassionate survey Of q notable. life"
Mr. Sumner continues to improve slowly.
His physicians have strong hopes ofhis entire
recovery. The Senator is still prohibited
from work of mental character, but is al
lowed to read.
British merchant writes to the London
Times that, having contracted to deliver Ger
tain hardware in Canada, he found it cheaper
| to get the goods manufactured in the United
States than in England.
Our fashionable ladies are now covering
their foreheads with a mass of little curls and
jumbled-up hair, not at all becoming and sug-
gestive only Of negligence
Governor Baxter Of Arkansas has issued a
proclamation declaring the ratification of the
Constitutional amendment doing away with
disfranchisement.
Spanish wells are being much worn, fasten-
ed in the hair with the bright red rose which
is indispensable in an Andalusian toilet.
~. l,o:l
ted that every time he had visited Boston, for
the last six years, he had been summoned
home to attend funeral.
| Five counties of Iowa have female superin-
tendents of public schools.
| Lsprosy is spreading to an alarming extent
among the natives Of Honolulu.
The latest labor-saving invention from the
land of wooden hams is a toothpick that picks
both rows of teeth at once. A leading advan-
tage of it, according to the inventor, is that it
can also be used as a comb
An amateur snake fancier, whose neigh
bors complain of him for keeping boa.co
strictors on the roof of his house, defends
himself by saying that he supposes he can
and that he prefers reptiles.
Mr.. A. Stewart is convalescing, after an
illness of a months duration. His appear
ance in the streets now waits only the arrival
of good weather.
The best thing in the Danbury News this
week is the statement that it is proposed to
apply the Westinghouse brake to George
Francis Train, as final test.
Terre Bonnie Ola. paper announces that
that parish is so poor that no one will trust it
for three.fo plank to stop the holes made
in the Jail by the last inmates.
Some people think happiness is in ball
room or theatre; some think it is in Europe,
and some in heaven. But those who cannot
find true happiness at home are not likely to
find it elsewhere.
Geneva lake, Wis, has been stocked with
5000 salmon trout, the gift of former towns
man, Senator r. II. Baker, now a resident of
Racine.
Twenty bushels of acorns were planted
Minnesota last year.
The oranges an lemons in the groves
around St. Augustine, Fla, are now in full
bloom, and, though the latter have no fra
GRANGE, the sweet perfume from the former is
almost overrowering.
colored man in Raleigh, N. c., in tear
ing down an old house, recently, found rolled
up in a paper, some s24 1000 in old State
notes and Confederate bonds, and some five
hundred dollars in gold and silver.