Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-18

Arms akilnbo, head tossed on oy.e side and
eyes turned Heavenward, they saunter down
the street-an embodiment of impudence and
sang y(roid painful to see amor ladies. The
girl of the period is unquestionably bold in
looks if not in manners"
Much anxiety is felt at Halifax over the
non-arrval of the Anchor Line steamer Tro-
jan, now SC days out from Glasgow and Liv-
erpoel She has large quantity Of goods on
board for Halifax merchants.
And now Santa Anna, whose obituary has
been written dozen times, persists in COM
ing to life as the agent Of the Texas Pacific
Railroad, and is engaged in buying up min
ing interests.
young gentleman at Kansas City sent
seventy five cents to New York recently, for
method OF writing without pen or ink. He
received the following inscription on card :
"Write with a pencil"
The American Board have appointed two
new missionaries to go to Mexico in place Of
Stephens, who was assassnated. Two others
are ready to go when the Board has the
means to send them.
According to all accounts, those Menno-
mites who are coming from Southern Russia
to settle in our Western Territories are an in
dustricus and thrifty people, just the kind to
make the wilderness blossom like the rose.
Here is pithy sermon: "Our ingress in
to life is naked and bare; our progress through
"a 10 md :.
we know not where; but doing well here, we
shall do well there; could not tell more by
preaching year"
At the Lord Mayors ball to the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh, which was very
brilliant affair, the spouse of an Ex-Lord
Mayor outshone the Duchess and all the
other fair ladies in the splendor of her cos
tune.
Disrai is said to have formed warm
friendship for the Duchess of Edinburgh
and to have declared that she is the most
gifted and cultivated of any lady ne ever met.
The Duchess speaks all Continental Ian
guages, with but little Tartar accent.
A new way to claim old debts has been
pTdCtiseu III DTOokiyh, N. :, WNere truck
| man, accompanied by a boy bearing aloft a
conspicuous placard, with the legend "Wait-
ing for $l2 for removing furniture and put
ting down carpets has made the life of a
prominent citizen a burden. Believing that
he had suffered enough agony by reason of
the inevitable May moving, the gentleman
very properly had this latest disturber of his
peace of mind promptly arrested.
Such stories as the following-the truth of
which is vouched for by a San Francisco
| journal-tend to restore cur faith in the native
heroism of poor Lo and incline to the belief
that, after all, the reviled Indians code of
| honor and gallantry is not nearly as black as
has been painted: Six weeks ago seven male
Indians and young Indian woman started
| to cross Clear Lake, near the northern end,
in a small boat which was capszed three
miles from land They righted it, but as the
lake was rough they could not bail it out, and
while full of water it would not support more
than one person. The men put the girl in
and held on the edges of the boat, supporting
themselves by swimming, till exhausted and
chilled through by the cold water and then
dropped off and sank one by one. They
| showed no thought of disputng the young
woman's exclusive right to the boat. She
was saved by their self sacrifice.