Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-21
GENERAL NEWS

Josh Killings says that Goldfish Vii! Keep q
man dry better than an umbrella.
The lottery business is declared unlawia!
in Rhode Island; contracts sbettiog it are
void and lease of place for the purpose
Of selling lottery tickets lie Invalid.
A despatch from Vienna says that the Ex-
position building is no, complete, and Will
not be fer month.
The graceful tradition Of presenting judge
with pair of white gloves when he has a
blank calendar was recently observed in Nor-
wich, Eng 1t is forty years SINCE the Gus
tom was enforced there.
There is a report from Aiica that Samuel
Baker and wife have been murdered by tire
natives.
! 4 lady writing about the people on ore OF
the islands on the coast of Maine where they
have no church, says it is thought that next to
the duty of searching the scriptures is the
duty of studying the dictionary.
The Governor of New Jersey has called an
extra session Of the Senate April "a to con
slider the nomination Of persons to revise the
State Constitution
J. B. Brown, postal clerk, has been ar
rested at Winona Junction, Wisconsin,
charged with burning mail matter to save the
labor of distribution.
Oxford University Is agitated with the dis
cussion of the question, as awiower an un-
married MANI
The official returns show that fifteen per
cent. of the expenditures of English workmen
! are for drink and tobacco. These two items
are as much as is spent by them for bread,
and twice as much as they pay for meat.
A meeting of the holders of Berdell mort
gage bonds in the Boston, Hartford and Erie
Railroad was held in Boston Thursday, and
the parties recognized as the New York and
New England Railroad.
| Thomson is said to have composed lines
about sunrise while in bed of mornings, amid
the fog Of London. 1t wouldn't do, however,
to suggest that similarly, spring verses are
sometimes written over registers and in the
glow of anthracite -would il?
Delaware does some business, as the census
report of the product of its various establish
ments show. Counting only the branches
that make an annual return of one million of
dollars, and the yearly result of the different
interests reaches an aggregate of S7,723,98s.
Pigasof knew Of only three misfortunes--
Sleeping in cold room in winter, wearing
tight shoes in summer and sleeping in the
same room with crying child which one can't
whip. The same cynical individual remark
ed, "There is nothing more disagreeable than
piece Of good fortune that comes too late
The President has appointed on the Civil
Service Advisory Board, Dorman b. Eaton,
Esq, of New York, in place of Mr.. Curtis,
and Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, OF Ohio, in
place of Mr.. Medill. A change of the local
members is spoken of, and might be Of great
advantage in making the civil service reform
more popular
Thomas w. Field, Superintendent Of the
public schools in Brooklyn, has brought
suit against the Brooklyn Union to recover
500 600 for an alleged libel in intimating in
an editorial that the plaintiff secured his elec-
ton as Superintendent in shameful and
dishonorable manner through the influence of
Thomas Kinsela. Certain statements in the
same paper respecting Mrs. Field will, it is
said. form basis for a similar suit for libel.