Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-14
GENERAL NEWS.

The erection. of, tw enty-six new buildings
was authorized by the last Congress. Fiji
teen are in process of construction.
An Iowa merchant wont advertise in the
papers, but paints on the fences, "Go two
Aliens for yor dri goods
A Sing Sing prisoner escaped the other day
= BY putting on false hair. There wouldn't be
much chance of keeping the modern woman
in that Jail if false hair is the open sesame.
Sea captains say that there is not good
light house on the entire coast of Nova Scotia
west of Halifax.
Ohe of the mills of the Union Paper Com
papy at Holyoke was burned Wednesday
night, causing a loss of 900.
Gen. Forces. Of Confederate raiding fame
utilizes his cavalry experience in the manage
ment of livery stable.
The Neosho "Journal,' published at Neo-
sho, Mo-, says ",he Bulls Head Bank Of New
York has gone the dogs
The Wyandotte (Kan.) poorhouse shelters
two sisters, the elder of whom is six feet three
inches in hight, the younger six feet eight and
still growing.
A penniless fellow offered-a Jackson hotel
keeper an old pair of trousers in payment of
his bill, saying they were as good as his fare.
The ladies of Philadelphia have formed an
association to promote the centennial exhibit
ton, and meet nearly every day.
| That was most ferocious revenge which
an indignant young woman took in Utica, be-
cause she was not hidden to the wedding of
| friend. She just sent in bill Of ESQ for
twenty weeks board of a canary bird, which
she had cared for during the friends winter
in Albany.
Iowa is rich 10 fre-clay or potter's earth
(kaolin) and coal; Wapello county has an
abundance Of both. The hills around Ottum-
wa have inexhaustible beds of this clay.
The Boston Five Cent Savings Bank is one
of the most successful institutions of the kind
in the whole United States. 1t has upon its
, books the names of over sixty three thousand
depositors.
! The "slickest" thing in the elopenent line
comes from Iowa-two young men having
| each invited the others girl to ride, and, once
away from home, having changed partners
and visited the parson. The Directing old
folks were utterly dumbfounded at such dou-
ble-dealing.
One of the Danbury voters was unable to
attend the polls on Monday, but sent his vote
up by a neighbours little girl. He was very
much surprised to learn that it was not re-
ceived. He told the little girl that it was
quite evident the traditions of our fathers
were forgotten, and that the country was 60
ing to the devil with unreasonable velocity.
Lieut.. John S. Glen, who gained some cele-
brity during the war as ''the drummer boy OF
Chickamauga," is only twenty years old, and
the youngest officer who ever received com.
mission in the United States service.
A gentleman of South Seabrook, N. H.,
named Dow, will be sixteen years old next
July, and his GLADLY" as he probably calls her
is younger than he, but they have child sew
eral weeks old.
A table complied at Washington from the
1 forthcoming census report on mines shows
that the productive mineral wealth of Pennsyl-
| vania is nearly equal to that Of all the otker
States and Territories put together. Penn
sylvania produced S7G.20S. 1896 worth of min
erals during the last census year, and all other
parts of the country produced S76,39O, COZ
| worth.
The indianapolis Journal complains that,
in making post-mortem examinations, the
doctors of that place use a wood saw, a butter
knife and an axe.
Massachusetts, man lately sold seventy
three dozen patent medicine bottles, all OF
which had been emptied in his own family