Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-27

Theodore I've got the humps und cant KUN
und marie ez / agreed ter will suite ez
sumo tz can tho in spyte Nv the humps.
General Washington's private seal is now
in the possession Of Mr.. Bushrod ID. Wash
ington of Illinois. 1t is of white comedian.
in the form of a shield. surmounted by a cor
snet upon which is perched raven with
spread wings. On The shield is the motto,
"Eritus aeta probat."
While the Canadian authorities are eagerly
in pursuit of Louis Rel, NJ. Z whom they
wish to arrest for creating disturbances in
Manitoba, meetings are being held in various
localities in favor of amnesty to him and those
who we're connected with him.
Gov. Ames recently said to a gentleman
calling upon him: Il shall endeavor to lift
my administration above suspicion. that even
my late opponents shall be obliged to admit
that Mississippi is far more fortunate under
my rule than South Carolina or Louisiana"
Congressman Foster of Ohio, who has be-
come prominent by his fight with Butler and
his attempts to get at the bottom Of the San
born business, is serving his first term in
Congress, and never held any office before.
lie is business man, forty-six years old.
There is not much in name simply as a
name, but the fact that Mr.. Death was the
principal official connected with the cere-
monies of receiving the Duke and Duchess
of Edinburgh on their arrival at Gravesend,
England, was not suggestive of pleasant
omens.
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks the loss
in the death of cattle in that country since
fall has been over 81 100000. The feed has
been very scarce and consequently the cattle
were in no condition to meet the long storms.
Shelter is out of the question. Some indi-
viduals own fifty thousand. OF course they
cannot be fed.
Elisha Whittlesey, who was a member Of
Congress from Ohio about fifty years ago,
serving some twenty years. made his first
trip to Washington on horseback with pair
of saddle. bags. On arriving at Washington
he let his horse to a livery stable keeper for
more than the cost Of boarding the animal,
and at the end Of the session rode home
again.
How much better it would have been to
have shaken hands and allowed it was all mis-
take, said a Detroit Judge. "Then the lion
and the lamb would have lain down together,
and white-robed peace would have famed YOU
with her wings and elevated you with her
smiles of appreciation. But no; you went to
clawing and biting and rolling in the mud,
and here you are. It's S. apiece"
Mardi Gras used several years ago to be
great day in Paris. There used to be. in
addition to the show of the fatted OK, a real
carnival. The great feature of the day was a
procession of maskers, who in a double file of
carriages, and in many instances on foot, used
to perambulate the boulevards from the Port
St. Martin to the Madeleine and back again.
Now there are no maskers to be seen-the
BGuf Gras has been done away with since
the war, but yet people turn out in immense
crowds on the boul evards staring upon vacu-
ity. The only vestige OF the former glories
of the carnival is to be found in the various
fancy balls which take place at all the
theatres and the numerous dancing places
which the government of moral order en-
courages, to promote, doubtless, the ''nation-
al regeneration" There is no lack of variety
in the costumes at these balls masques. But
it is poor fun. These displays are as rule
very dreary affairs indeed. And the glories
of the carnival may be said to have finally
set, so far as Paris is concerned. The Legt-
imsts opine that were Gle Roy" on the throne
it would be every brilliant" and the Bona
partists swear that the carnival and every
thing else would revive under the benefcent
rule of Napoleon w.