Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-12-15
ng to the Times of India, been sold to the Mahar-


ing to The Times of India, been sold to the Mahar
ajab of Pattialla.
A Western paper says 1--WE are publishing a
tri-weekly now We get out paper once week.
and try like blazes to get it out the next
New York liverystable keepers complain THAI
the "nicest' of their former customers now 60 to
parties in street cars on account Of the hard
times.
There is to be Supreme Court wedding at
Christmas in Bloomington, H., where Mr. Justice
Swayne's son will marry Mr.. Justice Davis
daughter.
In New York, Friday hight last, man refused
a piece of bread to beggar, deriding him for his
nationality and greejily attempted to swallow the
bread himself. The bread choked him to death.
The fight of Tweed has thrown SO New York
lawyers out Of employment right in the dead Of
Winter. And it is rather fortunate for them that
the city soup-houses open next weck.-Noryis-
torn Herald.
William Lloyd Garrison on Friday observed his
ffteth anniversary at Newburyport by taking
his place as veteran volunteer composition on the
Herald Of that city, on ich he set type II half
century ago.
A Russian journal announces that belief in the
approaching end of the world has seized on the
Cossacks OF the Don. Many, especially aged peo-
pie, are giving up worldly affairs, wearing shroud,
and ordering their collins
Mr.. kerrs father never a rich man, but he
had very narrow escape from it, lie sold his
farm near Tiusville Pa, in 1854, for 50 800; the
next year petroleum was discovered on it, and not
long after it was sold for over S250,000.
A Brighton lady, riding the cars the other
day, was amused by the question of little girl,
who, hearing the conductor cry the stations,
looked up into her mothers face and innocently
asked: "Say, mamma, do we get out at the next
AoNers'
A prisoner in Ludlow Street Jail has prepared
for the press a statement about Tweed's escape,
which shows that Tweed's absences from the Jail
were more frequent than has been supposed. lie
was ont with the Warden two or three times a
week, and went to the theatre with him several
times
1t is said that about $1,000 punches Of violets
are sold per day in Paris. Their sale amounts to
100000 fir. year. They are not in so much favor
now as they were during the Empire, for the vio-
let is looked upon imperial flower. 1t is,
therefore, political flower, and some people fear
to be thought imperialists If they wear violet in
their button hole.
police captains sermon: "Ouf system Of
caring for Migrants is fifty years behind the times.
There should be no public lodging rooms attached
to any police station. They cause dirt and vermn
and disease among prisoners and officers, which
nothing prevent. If the city must provide
lodging houses for the destitute, let them be en-
tirely devoted to that purpose. Offer the dodgers
chance to wash, and give them in the morning
cup of coffee and roll. Then they will have the
heart to 60 and find something to do. Now we
turn them inio the street at daylight unwashed
and unfed; in less than ten minutes they can feel
the marrow freezing in their bones and grow
reckless of their behavior. A cup of coffee and q
roll would make a citizen Of many an outcast."