Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-07-26
GENERAL Ne VS..

The general elections in France occur October
IA.
President Eliot, of Harvard College, has ayscht
which he calls Sunshine.
Mrs. J. S. c. Abbott is preparing for the press
the memoirs of her late husband.
The Tribune thinks if the railroad strikes con-
tinue much longer the newsboy will be the CD ief
capitalist of the period.
Victor Hugo is writing an inaugural ode for the
Paris Exposition.
Let those railroad strikers stop and wonder
how things would go if the cash boys should try
to run the sore.-Detroi Free Press.
The Black Hills stage robbers are said to be as
polite and gentlemanly villains as those of the
good old stage-coaching days in England.
The new London review, the Nineteenth Cen
fury, for July boasts five articles by members of
the House of Commons and two by members OF
the House of Lords.
The Smith Sisters of Glastonbury, live 10 a
house 1879 years old sit under tree l0i years old
and are the happy possessors of the Governor Sal
tonstall china, which is 200 years old.
1t is reported that of the one hundred and twen-
ty-fve men thrown out of employment by the
strike on the Boston and Maine road. but one, q
fireman, has obtained work.
The hard times have been severely felt by the
liquor dealers of Philadelphia. A careful survey
of the field by the licensing authorities has made
known the cheering fact that in some wards near
ly one third of last years retail dealers have quit
the business because it failed to pay.
St. Louis is endeavoring to establish direct
trade with South America. An agent for Is of
leading manufacturing and commercial houses of
that city recently started for Venezuela. He took
with him samples of great variety of goods.
fair estimate of the number Of glasses of
"soda- water" so called, drank in New York on
hot day is 100000. The aggregate amount of
money spent daily by the thirsty for the bright
and bubsling liquid is, roughly stated in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
One of the contractors engaged in supplying
the granite to be used in the construction of the
Poughkeepsie bridge, is rather an eccentric char
acter. Though reputed to be worth million and
half of mouey, yet he takes off his coat and goes
to work among his men like a common lsborer.
The Cumberland, Nd, Alleghanian says: IAN
incident illustrating the present fearful depres-
sion among our working classes is illustrated by
something that came up before one of our Justi-
ces the other day, to whom a poor aged German
living on the west side of Wills Creek made
complaint about the law forbdSing goats to roam
about. He said that his sole dependence was one
goat. The animal wandered about browsing here
and there, and thus was no expense to him for
pasturage He lived upon part of the milk and
sold the remainder, thus getting little bread"
One cold and stormy election day Judge Story
felt it his duty to 60 to the polls. He ordered his
carriage, but just he was getting in, turning to
his colored driver, he said; "IIsve you voted
yet| "No, Massa Story; was waiting to drive
you first" "Well. replied the Judge, "aud who
do you ntend to vote for 7" 81 shall vote for A."
answered the driver. "Well," continued the
Judge, laughing al should vote for b.. so you
may put up the carriage again, and we will both
stay at home and pair off our votes"