Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-05
GENERAL NEWS

potato-bugs to each potato.
\ kicking horse at Buffalo sent the end of
whiHetrec through Il plate window worth
two hundred dollars.
Montreal is organizing q Flower Mission,
to supply flowers to the sick in hospitals,
jails, and almshouscs.
The quaFtermaster general is erecting an
used on Decoration days. L will cost about
$4,000.
Robert Bonner las ordered an expensive
monument for Fanny Fern. The pedestal
will be surmounted by Roman cross bcauti-
fully enriched with fern leaves.
The Postmaster General has nearly compile
ted his arrangements for his proposed extern
sion Of the railway postal service.
Hon. Henry l.. Dawes is going to Europe
soon, to remain till the opening of the next
session of Congress.
The whisky frauds in New Orleans are now
denied by the internal Revenue Commissions
er.
William NJ. Parker, General Saperintend-
ent of the Boston, Hartford and Erie, has been
appointed to like position on the Connccti-
cut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad.
Hereafter the legislators of Iowa will have
no penknives or other perquisites. Five dol
lars day must satisfy them.
Philadelphia Boosting has taken a peculiar
form of expression. Her papers are talking
about "her vast miles of streets"
The new city government of Providence
was organized on Monday, and Mayor DOYLE
delivered his ninth annual message.
The Long Island Railroad is to build new
docks at Greenport to accommodate new
steamers to run in connection with Boston
trains.
The New England Womens Club held a
festival Of universal peace in Mechanics Hall
Boston on Monday.
A Minnesota man who was fined $40 for
cutting off a quarter of an inch of another
mans pigs tail, is demanding to know what
value the other man puts on the whole pig.
\ subscription paper for repairs to a church
in Lawrence, Mass. contained one entry,
"a poor man, So and directly beneath this
another reading, "A poorer one, ST."
y slight shock of an earthquake was felt at
Sioux City, Ia, al ten minutes past ten
o'clock, on Wednesday night, the vibration,
which lasted about thirty seconds, being ap.
parently from southeast to northwest.
New Jersey papers are telling some fearful
stories about the mosquitoes of that State.
The insects have grand roosts, like pigeons,
and when they settle down on 4 COW she is
gone up.
1t is announced that His IIighness the
khedive of Egypt will arrive at Vichy, France
on the 18th of this month. Several chalets
formerly occupied by Napoleon, have been
secured for the use of the Viccregal party.
1t was found impossible to open locked
door in the Jail at Springfield Mass. the 9th
er day, even with the assistance of lock-
smith, and an old burglar, who was in custo-
dy, was appealed to to try his hand at H. lie
opened the door in few minutes.
despatch from Los Angeles, Cal, reports
the discovery of mammoth tin ledge, forty
five miles from that city, on the San Antonio.
The ledge is said to be n mile long and sixty
feet wide.
\ lady returning from an Improbable visit
to church, declared that 'whcn she saw the
shawls Of those Smiths, and then thought Of
the things her own poor girls had to wear, i.
it wasn't for the isolation Of religion she
did not know what she should do"
When Charles Reade told of lady's stock
ings being pulled off her feet by the force Of
flood lie invited the credulous smiles OF his
readers; but lie would have found even less
believers if he had told of hurricane that alb
solutely blew off the feathers of q fowl, and
left it as bare as if it had been picked for the
pot. Yet such an incident is seriously nara
ted in the detailed account of the Iowa lorna
Go.
In Indiana lately lady gave brilliant
party on the occasion of the success of her
application for divorce. The guests who
crowded her brilliant parlors were enthusiast
tic in their congratulations and on leaving at
late hour each wished the fair hostess many
returns OF the happy occasion.
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