Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-10-11
NO.n.24I.
GEEERAL VIEWS.

GENERAL NEWS. .o'Sa
Edmund Kirke" u. R. Gilmorel has sued a
Newark newspaper for libel. s'"ftiis sA1
General Roserans is now superintendinx the
mining interests in Egan Cannon, about $50 miles
west Of Salt Lake City, on the line the Old over
land route. .H< aainss<ss>
Moody says he takes four or five ycsrs 10 pre-.
pare sermon. Hca sarsg
OF the persons recently poisoned at D wedding
at Dalton, Ga, by ice cream favored with peach
leaves, two died Wednesday and one Sunday.
Postmaster James has ordered that hereafter all
letters addressed to New York city marked posis
restante, "to be called for or words to shs sect,
shall be retained there for three monehs, suljsct
to the call of persons addressed, before sending
them to the Dead Letter ONCE. II has xbfmefly
been the rule to retain them but thirty aays, and
the new arrangement will prove Of nuch Sadyau.
tage and convenience more especially to occasion
al residents, tourists and other travellers. INK,
A young lady asked bookstore clerk, the
other day. If he had "Festus" "No," replied the
clerk, "but I'm afraid boil is coming on the
back Of my neck" 5aVa " Yh
Tennessee girl, riding on the cars, crossed
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dow, and remsrked al was bruag up nevef to
allow yeller-eyed man to wink at me"
A colorcd man. who was lately resuscitated
from what seemed death, but wAs only csealspsy,
was entertaining his friends with the sgAAs hsbs.
held in the other world. "Pisnty coloss1bssisen
in Heaven, spec, Tom" "Oh, yss!" saia Ton.
"And how about hell-any down thsrs y" asked
another nterlocutor. "Oh, yes nasss. plenty Of
dem der too" "Any white folks, Tom = "Lord
save u.s. der amt no end ON 'em, but, By gosh.
massa, ebery white man done got Niger holdin'
between him and de hrev'
woman with her first baby, banged on her
female neighbor's door the other morning, shout
the time old sopers crawl out to hunt their nesn-
ings cheer, and shrieked out excAedly, ACome
over as soon as you get your breakfastj il the ba
By hasn't got q tooth I'm a liar.-Glassgo Ky.
Times. 3 '{8 :" 72ih
Lotta has friend in the st. Louis Republican
man who says. in chronicling The dedieatisas Of
the dedication Of the fountain she prssente d TO
San Francisco "And now the man who ventpres
in that city to say the little dear is is
liable to be rent limb from limb"
The new postal cards, being printed without
border, offer temptation to the prtins Of Aavet.
tisements and illustrations ON their face but the
public should take care not to yield to il snythng
except the address written or printed on tbs face
of postal card renders it unmailable aud cou-
demns it to the limbo of "held for postage" letters.
The Supreme Court Of the United States has
rendered . decision denying the right Of women
to vote under the Constitution, unlsss The lsisht
Of suffrage is conferred upon her BY the lawsi of
Of the State in which she resides. Citixenship
does not necessarily carry with it the right to vote
Anthony Trollope is visiting the Yosemite Val
ley.
They are now quarreling over the drawingof
the prizes of the Montpelier Female Humane As
sociation" swindle At Alexandra, W. ls8i ied
There are fifteen ladies in the Freshmsn clsss
at Cornell.
Charlie Ross is beginning to be found in various
places in England now. 81. ..,,,., ~, hrs
Daniel Webster's Marshfeld estate Is now re-
duced from 800 acres to nearly the original pur
chase Of about 400 acres, but the homestead re-
tains the characteristics Of ito old ownesshiY,
though most Of the works in the library have
been removed for sale. .ei. d arAi sgom
Longfellow has received presents Of two cales
recently, both of which were cut BY . native Of
Acadia. One of them Is from an old apple tee
that stood near the shop Of BASIL" he black.
smith, and the other grew on the summit Uf cxpe
syAJ o. 334
A general order from the War Department an
uounces that the soldiers' burial grosAd st Finn's
Point, N. j., opposite Fort Delaware, shall be
known hereafter As q national cemetery. ,-sr
The following additional pos,masters have been
dismissed for improper traffic in postage stamps
Hans F. Peterson. at San Pete county, Utsh. and
David w. Mercer, at Ms:feld Green, Chase
county, Kansas. lrr..-.a.a3 Gss III
characterization lifts up its ovsr-som in the
Hub on receiving the news that Ned 0. Baldwin's
last words were "1Iave me buried 10 Boston,
Gone to meet Emerson. o. +" ''' 'n'
MIR. L. L. Davenport sprained Ms wrist severely
in falling in Macbeth at Philadelphia, Fnday
evening, and has been unable 70 appear siacs. /
William Cullen Bryant and family have re.
turned to New York from their summer home in
Cummington, Mass.
Men have heretofore had bald heads al to
themselves, but st. Louis lady has discovered
that twenty ladies of her acquaintance arc b.
coming bald from wearing false hair. b. ai,s
81 never sot my hand to writin' poetry till two
years ago." said young ruralist, tltisg back in
grocery chair; "but the minute took 10 goiu'
with that johnson girl, by gosh! ] couldn't help
it." t-. rao,,,.
A Cincinnati correspondent recently receiveda
call from Robert Dale Owen. He wa alone and
to all appearances perfectly sane. The wild szs
preston of the eyes, so noticeable whnn he %.
tered the asylum, is entirely gone. sad tn Arh
step and ruddy face indicate returning hssalh. He
is still regarded inmate Of the ssslum, bas In
tends returning to New Harmony bsfbfs winter
sets. He reads much. but ~ ystvrises lhse. H
IS now just beginning to realize how bsa,y - "
vas when his sons brought him here tlrse effodt
months ago. al ~ ssiasssa n 7rsriIlsag