Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-08
five mile. at Concord, N. H., Thursday, in

FIVE miles at Concord, N. H., Thursday, in
four hours and twelve minutes.
Miss Nettie Power Houston, daughter of
the old hero of San Jacnto, is 'the gifted
poetess of Texas"
The coopers' and bricklayers' strikes in
New York city and Brooklyn have proved
total failures.
A Missouri man who snapped wives with
another Missourian, got COW, a calf, thirty
good steel traps and four children "to boot. >"
The factory operatives of Lawrence will
have ''ten-hou banquet on the 22d inst.
Mrs. Chapman of Pleasant Ridge. Mis-
souri,, went out to pasture recently and re-
turned to her home in about half an hour,
speechless. Her loss of speech cannot be &C.
counted for.
A game of base ball at Hartford on Satur-
day resulted in the serious manning of four
of the players.
The Supreme Court in New York has de-
MED motion for a mandamus to compel
Chief Justice Davis to sign the bill of excep-
tons taken on the trial of VIM. NJ. Tweed.
daughter OF Baron Alphons de Roths-
child has just received certificate as school
ma am at the Hotel de Vile in Paris
DR.. Morgan Dix of Trinity Church, who
was married on Wednesday, wrote book
once advocating the celbacy of the clergy. A
wealthy New York belle induced him to re-
wise his opinion on that point.
Tho hoo arrival tha 7 oil
Courier, when smart people everywhere are
asking the conundrum, Why is mosquito
like charity? The gleeful response of course
is, Because it begins to hum.
Hon. Joseph II. Robinson, Assistant So
licitor of the Treasury Department for the
past five years, a native of Massachusetts,,
and lawyer of fine ability, it is said will re-
ceive the appointment of Solicitor of the
signed.
They tell Of hen that foated down the
raging tide of Mill River, in barrel, setting
on nineteen eggs. She attended strictly to
business during the flood, finally brought up
in friendly harbor, and has since left her
barrel with nineteen chickens at her heels.
The army worm has made its appearance
near Nashville, and threatens a total destruc-
tio1 of the crops. 1t was there about eleven
years ago, and if we remember right the crops
suffered somewhat at its hands.
A cable despatch says that there is great
excitement at the Vatican and intense anxiety
manifested. His Holiness the Pope has suf-
fered relapse Of the fever, and the physi.
clans state that his death is imminent
1t is stated that the so-called "Prussian
needle-gun" is the invention of an American
named Smith, and patented three years be.
fore it was used in Prussia, to which country
the United States patent was taken as proof
Of the invention.
1t is estimated that three million cubic
yards of levees are required to be built to
save Louisiana from another inundation next
year, and the State is not in condition to
pay for one third of the expense.
The coroner's jury in the Julia Hawkes.
case concluded their second session Thurs.
day evening at Weymouth, and then decided
upon verdict, charging the crime of murder
upon James Henry C0stley, the Hanover
Hotel man, who is now a prisoner in Ply
mouth Jail.
'Is that an esculent?" inquired Professor
Hotchkiss the other day of huckster who
displayed in the market mammoth and very
odd looking vegetable. The mans face as
sumed a scornful smile, and after he had
studied the Professors form CONTEMPORARY
for a moment, he answered.: "Esculent!
thunder and lightning, no! That's blue
nose potatoe!"