Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-14

the food prepared for dinner. recently saved
three hundred lives.
James Woodbury., temperance lecturer
who used abusive language in lecture at
Laconia, N. H., was pelted with rotten eggs.
He belongs in Frankfort, Me.
Pulyerzed charcoal sprinkled over dressed
monthly. after the animal heat is expelled, will
nreserye it from spelling for some time in hot
weather.
BY the upsetting of a stage coach between
the Crawford and the Profile Houses in the
White Mountains, Monday morning, two men
were killed and twelve or more persons were
injured, five or six of them seriously
In New York on Monday forenoon, Ger
man merchant named Schonlake shot his
partner, man named Steinhart, in the head
and afterwards attempted suicide by shooting
wounded.
The Chicago Journal declares it to be ian
indubitable fact" that one J. X. Brown, an
Iowa spiritualist, can see or read the unutter-
ed thoughts of others, and gives instances of
the manifestation of this power.
st. Domingo is progressing, and fighting is of
daily occurrence. The roads in all the north
ern provinces are impossible owing to guer-
rllas.
One of the guests at a dinner recently Civ
en- by the Union League Club, after eloquently
responding to the toast, "Woman, God bless
her!" reached home quite drunk, and had his
eye "blacked by his wife in moment of emo
ton
The Carlists continue their war operations
in Spain, so that the Spanards are quite like
ly to have enough of war during the present
season of military contention on the PENN
sular.
The dying words of Delaware woman
were; Henry. ifyou marry again, remember
that it only takes cupful Of sugar to sweeten
quart of gooseberries.
Mrs. General Gaines is residing in Men,
phis, Tenn, the home of her husband, waiting
for the final settlement of her New Orleans
claims, which have been forty-one years in
litigation, and cover property worth $50 ,OoO,-
OO0
proposes to celebrate the National Centennial
in a peculiar way. He thinks it should be
kept as a general jnbilee, and that all the in
mates of our jails and State prisons should be
released upon this suspicious day. to remain
free until they get into Jail again.
A new and cruel invention at Long Branch
is the introduction of living butterflies into
the centre pieces of flowers, which usually
adorn the middle of the table at the fashion
able dinner and supper parties. The poor
insects are fastened by fine wire, which is
passed through their bodies, and concealed
among the flowers.
In an advertisement of bakers business
for sale, the following appears: death the
sole reason for leaving" 1t would be difficult
| to find better reason.
The Hakluyt manuscript it is stated, has
been stereotyped, and the plates are in
Boston. The manuscript destroyed with DR..
Woods library was probably history of the
Andover Theological Seminary
1T costs as much,' says the Rev. Henry
| Morgan, ''to launch woman on the sea of
life in these times asst would take to fit out a
| small schooner"
A beetle took refuge in a church organ, at
| Florence, Mass, few Sundays ago, stopp-
| ing the music, and necessitating the taking of
the instrument to pieces before the mangled
remains Of the bug were discovered.
At North Ogden, (Utah). recently, a COM
| pany of women went to the house of man
was in the habit of beating his wife, and tax
ing him to barn, applied to his naked body
a complete covering of tar, and would have
added feathers but for the earnest pleadings
of his forgiving spouse.
Not long since young kentuckan paid
his undivided attention to one of the fair sex,
and concluded to pop the question. After
much stammering and hesitation the young
lady exclaimed, Il am partially engaged,
but my mother wants to marry!''
Tiles, instead of shingles, are recommended
in Baltimore for roofing purposes. In Great
Britain tiles are in frequent use. and are said
to last as long as the buildings they cover,
besides costing less than most other materials.
1t is suggested, in consequence, that tile
making might form a profitable branch of
manufacture in this country.
The painful anxiety concerning the steam
ship Alabama, reported to have been wrecked
on the Irish coast, and the Ernst Moritz
Arndt, now many days overdue at New York,
is dispelled by tidings from both The
former was spoken last Tuesday at consd-
cradle distance from where the wrecked
matter was found, and the latter was seen
July 23 and "a, with her propeller broken,
but proceeding under sail and requiring no
assistance.