Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-07

The detectives who have held Mrs. Dud-
ley, wife of the draft operator, in duress since
his arrest, have been or are to be arrested on
charges Of false imprisonment.
A sturgeon five feet long and weighing one
hundred and fifty pounds was caught in the
Warrior River, near Tuscaloosa, Ala, last
week.
'Lemenade, ice creme, sody waiter and
frute" is the way n sign reads at a new re-
freshment stand which has spraDg up on South
Water street, Peoria.
Pickerel is said TO be caught at Hamburg,
n. y, by the device of tying lines with baited
hooks to the feet of geese and driving them
across the pond. When a fish bites, the geese
founder ashore, where they are relieved of
their burden and sent back for more.
On the coast of Maine there are forty. eight
lighthouses and lighted beacons, eight fog
signals, operated by steam or hot-ar engines,
flfty-one day or unlighted beacons, three hun
dred and fifty one buoys actually in position.
Seventy-eight theatres, museums and opera
houses have been burned in this country dur
Ladies waterproof cloaks, SO light that they
can easily be folded into parcel small enough
to be carried in the dress pocket, are sold
now.
The Sentinel" of Kicking, Ohio, reports
an earnest movement making for the nomina
ton of Mr.. W. S. Groesbeck as democratic
candidate for the Governorshp of that State
Mr. Samuel Cary is also urged for the nomi-
nation.
young man who prided himself on his
mental qualifications, once speaking of the
advantages of these, remarked "What is bet
ter than a good education?" Common sense
you fool YOU" quickly responded one of his
hearers.
Among the names mentioned as candidates
for the United States District Attorneyship
at Boston, made vacant by the death of Mr.
Mason, are Chester L. Reed, Isaac F. Morse,
George =. Sanger, Mr.. Hill, formerly assis-
tant city solicitor of Boston, and now in the
office Of the Attorney General at Washington,
District Attorney.
And now the authorities of Sonora, Mexico,
complain that the Apaches of Chefs band have
murdered some two hundred Mexcans and
committed terrible rayages in other respects
within the past six months.
The Troy Times says: ''The Albany Argus
processes to believe that President Grant is
intriguing for third term and that his NOM
inaton is certain. We are sorry for the Ar
gus. Sofening of the brain is regarded as
incurable, We believe
Portland, Or, lately expressed two babes
a distance of several miles, with regular ex-
press tags about their necks.
The three prisons of Sing Sing, Clinton
and Auburn, New York State, discharge one
thousand prisoners upon the community every
year.
The gas we'll near Fairview, Butler county,
pays the company that owns it about three
hundred dollars per year. Pipes are laid to
Fairview, Petrolia, Harms City and Argyle
and these towns light their houses and heat
their stoves with the gas.
| a weak minded inmate of the Northhamp-
| ton county, Penn, almshouse has fallen heir
to several hundred thousands of dollars, by
the death of a wealthy uncle. He does not
| comprehend his changed condition, however,
| and declines to be removed from the room
which he has occupied for over twenty five
| years.