Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-25
GENERAL Ne VS..


The Emperor of Germany was Il years old
Sunday.
Another post Office clerk has been caught
stealing letters. This time in Providence.
The President denies that he said that he
would use his veto power against any bill for
imitation.
Kentucky has ll4G John Smiths and seven
John Quincy Adamses.
Senator Boutwell, rides out every pleasant
d,y, but he has not yet fully recovered his
health.
It's announced that Minister Schenck will
be a married man when he returns to the
Court of st. James.
Several accomplished Philadelphia ladies
are at Washington, coaxing the Congressman
to help out the Centennial.
The Railroad Committee in Congress are
disposed to compel the Pacific railroads to
pay taxes on the lands granted them.
At the request of several heightened young
men, the Brooklyn Argus entreats young
ladies to abstain from chewing gum until after
Lent.
The Rev. Canon Charles Kingsley will
Summer at Colorado Springs, Colorado, rest
ing after his lecture tour month or so be-
f,re returning to England.
Advices from Spain announce that decree
ha. been promulgated establishing national
bank also that the wife of Don Carlos has
given birth to a daughter.
C~tp I'D RI O.
ceive deputation which came to ask for the
release of the incarcerated Fenians.
The New York railways connecting with
the western lines are about to raise the pas
senger and freg ht tariff considerably, so Dame
Rumor says.
A stern republican in Aurora, ILL.,, objects
to the law requiring dogs to be registered and
wear brass collars, on the ground that it will
create an aristocracy among dogs.
Vermont now claims Willard Fillmore's an
cestors on his fathers side; his grandfather,
Nathaniel, after serving in the French war,
settled at Bennington. and took part as an
ensign in the revolutionary battle at that
place.
like a pigeons egg, has been dug up at East
Hampton, N. Y. On one side is a good rep
resentation Of an Indians features, and on
the other is hole through which string was
probably passed to hang it around the neck.
Chignons are really Of service to the wear
ers in Virginia. 1t was only the other day
that an eagle bounced down upon young la
dy there and fixed his talons in her head. All
the noble bird got was hair.
The new boot in Paris is the Pompeian. 1t
is of black velvet, and very high, the Logging
in front all Venetian cut work, embroidered
with silver cord, and a pink or Pompeian red
silk stocking is thus seen through the open
clover or diamond shaped design.
The heavy defalcation of an employee in q
New York patent medicine house, alluded to
some days since, was in the establishment of
X. Fl. Mcdonald & Co. DR.. Walker Of Vim
egar Bitters fame was the chief sufferer. The
culprit was Arthur Bell, and the amount
stolen was some $50, 600
A Washington special says that Mr.. Dawes
is to have an opportunity to cross-examine
Jayne concerning the customs moietes, and
will probably develop Gen. Buffers connec-
ton with Jayne as counsel. The statement of
Judge Noah Davis on Friday, before the Ways
and Means Committee, made greater i'm.
preston against the moiety system than any
statement yet made against the system.
Rhode leland girls are not wanting in the
art of gently insinuating that, like Barkis,
''they're within" 1t was only recently that
lady walking one evening, under the classic
shades of Brown University, overheard the
following conversation between young lady
and gentleman just in front of her: "Char-
ley, did you ever hear it said that if person
found four-leaved clover and put it in their
shoe, the first gentleman or lady the person
walked with would be their husband or wife 2"
"No-never heard of it before" "Well l
found one and put it in my shoe this morning,
and you are the first one have walked with.
l wonder If it is truei" There could be but
one answer to this, but the unintentional
caves dropper does not mention it, leaving
the public in cruel doubt as to whether the
ruse was successful or not.