Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-03
GENERAL Ne VS..

1t is proposed in London to name new and i'm
portant thoroughfare Washington avenue" as
a Centennial tribute.
The peach crop of Tennessee is said to have
been destroyed by recent cold snap the trees
having budded prematurely.
1t j. terrible to love somebody and see her
washing windows for another man, says the De
troit Free Press.
There are $4,000 men and women and $1,000
children who live in the canal beats on the Eng
fish river and canals.
BY late decision in Pennsylvania, railroad
companies are liable for all property burned by
sparks from their locomotives.
The Shakers living in settlement east of Al
bany, n. Y, recently refused money from an al
bany ice firm who asked to be allowed to cut ice
on small lake, on the ground that it was contra
ry to Shaker principles to sell water, air or ice.
A Pittsburg girl went through the livery stables
to count the white horses, expecting to meet her
future husband when she had counted a hundred.
When she had reached the charmed number, she
fell fainting into the arms of Chinese hostler.
A twenty five cent pamphlet, full of thny-dis-
guised abuse of the Royal family Of England
has attained in London circulation of over l20,
900 copies. A correspondent writes at is as
as near treason as the author dare come for sh-
ling"
A man who has been in the Black Hills has the
following in the Glenwood (Iowa) Opinion. II
went to the hills in full confidence of success,
backed by $3.50 in my pockets, and after laborng
six weeks, came back without a cent. am thus
candid because desire to warn others from at
g. a. aoI 10, 1tar,,
A petition is circulating in New York, asking
employers to pay wages on Monday instead Of
Saturday. The prime movers in this are temper
ance women. who believe there would be far less
money spent at liquor shops if men did not receive
their wages just before the idle day of the Sab
bath.
The other night merchant prince attended a
church meeting, and made an eloquent speech.
AS is often the habit of men accustomed to lay
down the law, he emphasized each sentence or
important word by tapping with his knuckles on
the table, which moved young man not as yet a
merchant prince to remark audibly at one of the
orators most imprisoned flights Cash" The
effect was electrical. But that merchant prince
says that if they are so smart and light-hearted,
then they had better lift that church debt them
selves, and buy the new organ without any of his
money,-that's ALL Alta California.
A number of funny incidents arc recorded in
the New York papers as having occurred there on
Monday, owing to the slippery condition Of the
streets. The following is one Of the most anus
ing:
cat the Hippodrome line had formed for ad-
mission. The people in the line were close to-
gether, and served to prop one another up. All
would have been well if the first man, as the door
was suddenly opened, had not started back and
slipped. He fell backward, striking the man be-
hind him, who in turn lost his feet and extended
tie Generalization to his next neighbor back. 1t
was hardly the place or the time for such pro-
ceeding, but the entire line, affected in the same
maner as row of closly placed bricks Of which
the first one has fallen upon the second, sat down
on the pavement of Madison avenue at the feet Of
winged griiins which guard the Hippodrome.
Many ladies and gentlemen who were sitting on
the pavement round about saw and pi;led the
performance"