Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-13
GENERAL NE us.

Inc IdSsalC river, near PATERSON, mas Deen
stocked with salmon, black bass, and trout.
John Carter Brown, senior member of the
firm of Brown & Ives, Of Providence, II. l.,
is dead.
Kansas women are having picnics all by
themselves, ignoring the sterner sex altogeth-
er.
A severe rain and hail storm, accompanied
by lightning, Tuesday night, in New Jersey,
did much damage.
There is still six feet Of snow on Mount
Mansfield, between the Halfway and Sum-
NIT houses.
In the French Assembly Wednesday the
Government was defeated in the bill fixing
the legal age of electors at 81 instead of %.
Columbia, Conn, hasn't a single soldiers
grave to decorate. Hail, Columbia! is rather
out of time and tune there.
Rev. f. g. Brooks of Philadelphia delivered
the ann ual address before the Divinity alum
nj of Tufts college Wednesday.
A cross-eyed Georgia girl has been the
cause of three duels and ten fights, it makes
pcoplS 81 SiOoo W IOUh
Dotted lace wells are now worn only by la.
dies whose physicians have advised Temporal
ry abstinence from powder.
The Brooklyn Argus states that the latest
telegram from the spirit world is signed "Da-
vid G. Farragut," and contains the pathetic
injunction; "Don't let Winnie Ream bust
me-
1t is claimed that Piux IN. has performed
several miracles, among them the raising
from the dead by his mere blessing of the
Princess Odescalch.
Every room in the Harvard College build
ings, except those reserved for the freshmen,
has been taken, and as high as $500 bonus
for choice is reported to have been paid in
some instances.
Rev. w. II. Cudworth of East Boston has
received a unanimous call to become the pas
tor of the church of the Messiah in New York,
of which Mr. Hepworth was formerly pastor.
The Jews in Palestine are in need of imme-
date relief, the famine having reduced them
to absolute dependence upon outside aid for
the means of existence.
Danbury Bailey has no more respect for
Old England than if she lived on Nelson street.
He says that the English like their CRATES and
sit and admire them for hours, and SILVER.
It's rather curious that men who won't ad-
vertise "because nobody sees it" are willing
to give five dollars to have their names kept
o,t &c tbo Dol;oa Court ronorts
The New York quarantine officials are wise
ly taking precautions against the introduction
of yellow fever and other infectious diseases
from foreign ports.
A lady entered a telegraph office il New
York a few days since, and after delivering
her message, earnestly requested that the an
swer should not be read by the operator, as
it was of a very private nature.
A little six-year- old daughter of Rutland,
VT, clergyman watched Barnum's street pa.
rade with great interest, and finally said to
her papa: "If l want a minister's little girl
could go to the circns, but suppose must
set an example to the whole church now"
This is the kind of letter that Western edi-
tors occasionally receive: "On Tuesday May
2G Four Gentlemen of this Place went Squirt
ing and left town at one O'clock p M and
Rhode Four miles and Killed IS Squirles and
and was Back home before Sun Set. not a
good day for Squirting"
They are shaking hands," etc., effectual.
ly in Golden City, Colorado. A company has
been organized there, consisting entirely of
soldiers of the Federal and Confederate
armies. The captaincy has been given to q
Colorado Union ex-ofiicer, the frst.lieutenan-
cy to rebel, and the second lieutenaacy to a
Maine man.
An able discussion is going on between
the Chicago and Detroit newspapers about
the size of women's feet. The following
low. flung personality is the last try of De-
troit editor: "Chicago may talk about the
homely women of Detroit, but there is one
redeeming power. When one of them gets
mired they don't have to dig up half the street
to get sixteen foot scantling under her foot
] for pry."