Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-14

of the Baltimore City Council, was fined by a
Justice Of the Peace for displaying fire works
and exploding fire crackers in the streets on
the Fourth.
Mr.. Barnum has presented a stuffed sea
lion to Yale College.
The remains and burial-pla of Gen. Stark
are to be given to the State Of New Hamp-
shire.
The temperance in London of Madam
Ristori, after an absence Of two years, has
been unattended, according to the newspapers
of the capital, by any strong exhibition of
public interest.
"kearsage" is not, as many suppose, the
Indian name for mountain in New Hamp-
shire. 1t is a corruption of the name of an
early white settler, Kiah Sargent.
A Danbury saw filer always wears wadding
in his ears when at work, so as rot to disturb
his neighbors.
Senator Chandler forgets the perplexities
of politics in the pleasant pastime of raising
meadow grass six feet in height.
A New Orleans university confers the de-
gree of "M. S."-Maids of Science-upon its
female students.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that canned Holsters and canned salmon are
entitled to be entered free of duty as fish, I'M
der the Treaty of Washington, the only ex-
ceptions in the treaty being Of fish preserved
in oil.
| Senator Buckingham Of Connecticut, has
had his back pay returned to the Treasury,
making the fifteenth Senator who has taken
| this course.
| Her Driesbach, the ex-lon tanner, and the
only man who was ever able to frighten
Edwin Forrest, accidentally chopped his hand
off the other day.
Mr. Carroll, of Kentucky, being seriously
ill, he sent for couple of ministers. While
the latter were administering spiritual conso-
lation, Mrs. Carroll remarked, with much ve-
hemence, that ''it was all pack of foolery !;
that all the CAROLS. that had died had gone
to"-we will not mention the locality-s'and
she saw no use in dividing the family"
Horace G. Clark was in the habit, so his
friends say, Of working seventeen hours out
of the twenty four. His unfagging industry
brought him ten millions and funeral in the
prime of life.
The Louisville Ledger says it does not look
exactly the thing to see a minister tanning
J himself while offering prayer, while the
New York Tribune is of the opinion that a
, divine in his shirt sleeves engaged in similar
l occupation would present very ridiculous
; spectacle.
Says the Lawrence Kansas Republican
f Journal THE democratic papers oficious-
ly assure the farmers that in any political en-
terprise they undertake they will have the
democratic party behind them. This reminds
one Of the position of Mickey's horse in tbs
} scrub race. 'Bedad,' said the cheerful own
er of the steed, hes drivin' everything be
,, fore him."
+ Kate Field, who has described the Shal
y festivities in England for the Tribune, is dis
J. gusted with the Persian magnate. She say
:, he looks like ''crafty Parsee merchant
it has no manners and bad taste; has attend
J. ants who, at St. Petersburg, amused them
u selves by cutting flowers out of the imperis
y carpets; eats with his fingers, and throw
If under the table food which he does not like
n spits on people at the opera, and tells tn
It venerable Kaiser William that he had bette
k get rid of the Empress Augusta.