Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.

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Senator Ferry of Connecticut has returned
to Washington for the winter in very poor
health.
Two additional iron clads are to be sent to
the German fleet in Spanish waters.
A widow and her four daughters were re-
Gently all married on the same day in Cincin-
natl.
Sir Robert Hodgson has been appointed
Island.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce Pc
titions Congress for an early resumption of
specie payment.
Eighteen lives were lost by the wreck of
the telegraph cable steamer Robert Lowe. off
Newfoundland, on the Goth inst.
Minister Sickles denies that any rupture,
personal or official, has occurred between
himself and the Spanish authorities
The Hon. A. II. Stephens of Georgia has
arrived in Washington, to take his seat in the
House of Representatives on Monday.
The California village of Rough-and- Ready
crows over Grass Valley because it is put
down on recently published map and Grass
Valley is not.
A private in the army recently sent letter
to his sweetheart, closing with, "May Heaven
cherish and keep you from yours truly John
Smith"
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company
have declared a semi annual dividend of four
dollars a share, payable on or after Deem
Der 18th.
One Of the western lights of the theatrical
profession announced that he should begin to
''hunt stamps" in certain city on a certain
date and show its citizens how Shakespeare
ought to be slung.
San Francisco is now looking forward to
building her own ships inside the golden gate,
with timber and iron brought from Alaska.
OF both these that outside possession of ours
is found to have an abundance.
Masters of Masonic Lodges in Massachu-
sets and New York are circulating petition
calling special sessions of the Grand Lodges
to consider the situation of the widows of those
men shot in Cuba who were Masons.
1t is asked: "What can be wetter than
woman with cataract in her eye, a waterfall
on her head, creek in her back, forty springs
in her skirt, and high-tied shoes?' And it is
answered: 'Why, one with notion in her
head, and swimming in tears"
An old man said to his sons "Boys don't
you ever spekerlate or wait for something to
turn up. You might just as well go sit down
on stone in the middle of medder with
pail twixt your legs, and wait for a COW to
back up to you to be MIXED"
The keeper of a dining saloon in Charles
ton, S. c., as an inducement to patrons, Of
fers to give them, while they are eating, a
free concert, participated in by four hundred
singing birds, which cost three dollars and
hal: ssch
The drowning season bids fair to be live
ly one. Within seven days we have report
ed the drowning of eleven boys who went on
thin ice, and fourteen more have got off cheap
ly with duckings, colds, and possibly some
thing else, for their carelessness.-B Boston
Heraid
Aninquisitive citizen writes to one of the
st. Louis papers inquiring why the commit
tee on art at the late fair happened to award
the first premium for fruit in water colors to
an oil painting. 1t is question concerning
which mild curiosity would seem entirely
justifabe.
very prudent man in Danbury provides
himself with an extra hat for the month OF
November He carries it in his coat tail
pocket, and when the wind lifts the one from
his head he straightway jams on the other,
and then puts after the first, and thus not
only saves much chatting from the unregen-
crate, but actually gets credit as philanthro-
pist-the general impression being that he is
in pursuit of somebody's else hat
M. Rubellis, an artist. recently dined alone