Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-08
GENERAL NEWS.

The Easter weddings in New York will be I'M
usually notable this year, it is said.
A little boy was blown into the canal at Bloom
field, n. j., by the gale on Wednesday, and
drowned.
Mrs. Ellen Upper, the renowned bee culturist
Of Des Moines, Iowa, has been arrested for forg-
cry. 1t is believed that she has become insane
from over-work.
A healthy and enterprising beggar in Duplin
county, N. c., makes his rounds in a rockaway
and employs a large and experienced negro to
drive for him.
Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown has resumed the
practice of the law in st. Louis. Besides having
had liberal education he is said to be lawyer of
great ability
A Rochester youth gave his fancee $500 dia-
luond ring, after which the two had falling out,
and he sued for the recovery of the ring. The ju-
ry returned a verdict for the defendant
The farmers in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe
during the recent mild weather planted most of
their early peas, potatoes, etc., in the expectation
of securing an unusually early crop.
The New York Commissioners of Education, by
a vote of thirteen out of eighteen, have decided
schools. There will be an attempt to Gust it from
those in which it is now taught.
A dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, says that the
family and confidential friends of General Schenck
in that city assert that he has not intimated any
intention to return home the coming spring, or at
any other time. The affidavit in the DAYTON Post
Office case at Cincinnati is regarded a mere sur
mise.
Congressman Piper of California is said to own
200 acres within the city limits of San Francisco.
He is of pure Swedish descent, was carpenter by
trade. and caught the California fever by reading
speech of Daniel Webster in which the future OF
San Francisco was described in glowing terms.
Encouraging accounts come from the Argentine
Republic. Commerce is reviving, immigration is
increasing, and 30i miles of the railroad across
the Andes have been built. 1t is satisfactory to
learn that this progressive Republic will be well
represented at the Centennial Exhibition, the Ar
gentine Congress having voted a sum of money
for that purpose.
The other day, when a couple were holding an
angry argument, the husband raised his hands and
exclaimed, so consistency, thou art jewel! - The
wife at once broke down, and as she sobbed she
gasped out. "You saw her at the opera, l suppose
but if she had to split wood, wash dishes and take
care of six children, she wouldn't look any bet
tern do-hoo"
Recently a woman at Saugertics, n. ", after
using bottle of salts for headache one night
fell asleep and on awaking in the morning found
that she had retained the bottle in her hand and
that the salts had raised blister on her thumb,
which had covered the mouth of the bottle. In .
short time Inflammation arose, gangrene set in,
and in spite of every effort to stop its progress her
entire system became poisoned, SO that she died.
A Paris correspondent gives the following pen
picture of Madame MacMahon: "She is dark
fiord stout person, with the merrest clear gray
ewes in France; aud, faith these are her only
beauty. She is the despair of her mllinsrs; for
her stout, short figure deies the graces of their
art. She has passion for pinks and greens. But,
by good luck, because she is very broad and not
very big, people insist that she is motherly soul
Look at that back and shoulders" whisper peo-
pie at receptions. How homely, how motherly !!
And as the butcher-women lean far out of their
INDUSTRIOUS swaying carts to spy her Grace as she
enters a shop from her carriage. Mon Deu they
cry, what fine nurse for her marmots' But
she has the meriest eyes, the pleasantest laugh in
France, that is certain. She Is always In good hui
NOR And she might, with great truth, say, like
Madame la Marechale Letebre; Il and my Mar
shalp"