Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-26
GENERAL NEWS.

colony of Friends, some thousands in
number, propose to settle in Western Texas.
The Central Vermont Railroad Company
organized at St. Adams on Wednesday by the
choice of substantially the old Board Of Di-
rectors.
The soil in Nebraska froze to the depth of
eight feet, and the potato bug-oh, where
was he? He was nine feet down, and is now
coming out gay and lively.
The temperance people of New York are
much excited over Gov Dix's veto of the Lo.
cal Option bill.
An Iowa clergyman who had a donation
party lately has beans enough to last him
thirty seven years.
John Cannon shot planter named Butler
dead on board the steamer Phil Allen, near
Memphis on Wednesday. The murderer
jumped ashore and escaped.
Among the European cures, or royal roads
| to health, are the mud bath, the whey cure,
| goats milk, the grape cure and mares milk.
1t is said that the late Chief Justice Chase
was the finest scholar who has ever presided
over the Supreme Court. AS Latin and
Greek scholar he was not surpassed by any
man in his profession.
A genius with more ingenuity than homes
| ty is travelling about Connecticut selling col
ored flaxseed, which he euphonically calls
"bloom of Paradise" When last heard from
he was working from Waterbury toward Mass
achusetts.
notorious lobbyist was put out of the
New York Senate Library by the Sergeant at
Arms Tuesday, on the ground that he had no
business there. The affair occasioned con-
siderable excitement.
The original wagon which jim Fiske once
drove throughout Southern Vermont is now
owned in Athol, Mass, being the property of
one Prescott. pedlar.
young lady who has been travelling out
West as drummer for wholesale grocery
house has been discharged by her employers
because she induced the retail dealers to or.
der more goods than they were able to dis.
pose of or pay for.
An industrious housewife in Milwaukee has
completed forty-two dozen straw hats since
February. in addition to performing all her
ordinary domestic platitudes.
The censorious public of Rushford, N. Y,
treated an enamored swain of nearly ninety
years to several ducks in the river because
he wanted to marry duck of girl aged six
teen.
The Connecticut schoolmaster is abroad,
and ought to return home. In grocery in
Stratford, Conn, sign ia hanging up, in
scribed TX. Scene Oil so cents gallon"
A Kentucky man purchased coffin fifteen
years ago so as to have it handy, and the other
day he was burned up in lime kiln, and the
coffin was dead loss.
The usual costume of Chicago swells this
spring consists of an umbrella, a buffalo over
coat, linen buster, pair of snow shoes,
swallow-tail coat, seal-skin cap and Panama
hat.
train on the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad was stopped for an hour, one day
last week, by the multtudes of caterpilars
on the track.
Inc New FORK postmaster will not sell over
900 postal cards to any one person. The de-
mand is far beyond the present means of SUD-
ply.
fnty men are engaged in trapping pigeons
among the roosts in Dodge county, Mimi, for
shipment to New York and Boston.
St. Paul, Mimi, horsemen are maryelliro
over the feat Of a trottng horse of that vicin.
ity, who recently trotted two hundred miles in
forty eight consecutive hours.
Train is to have chance to prove his san.
ity before he is sent to the Lunatic ASYLUM Mt
Utica, N. Y.
The Civil Service Board of the Treasury ia
passing en- the merits of As "probationers"
appointed last October
An Illinois couple, who were divorced
nearly half century ago, were married last
week, the husband having been twice made
widower in the meantime.
The New Hampshire Historical Society |
held its annual meeting on Thursday in Con. |