Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-13
GENERAL NE VS..

In New York 80 cents per 100 lbs. for ice.
"Hawthorne" is the subject Of Z. c. Stedman's
poem to be given at the Harvard commencement.
The royalty of Is cents on each passenger to
Mount Vernon, neted S27 900 to the association
last year.
IF you want to find Newark policeman strike
the first trail of penut shells you come across and
follow it up."-Newark Call.
A lucrative business is that of the soda water
vender; at 10 cents glass the beverage pays a
profit Of 400 per cent.
The Suez canal has thus fa' cost the Egyptian
government upward of ST. ,O00,O 900, nearly half
the amount being interest.
In Albany, N. Y, during the year ending April
30, II, there were 342 marriages, 1928 births and
1888 deaths.
The Oldest tombstone in Trinity Churchyard,
New York, is that of Samuel Churcher, who died
Aug. 1851.
Col. ID. G. Potts, democrat has been appoint
ed Postmaster of Petersburg, Va. There were
five republican applicants for the office.
An Irishwoman asked and received charity in
Pottsvile, Penn, day or two ago. Investiga-
| ton afterward showed that she was as she claimed,
the wife Of a cripple, but that he was the owner
of three buildings-all occupied by good paying
tenants.
Americans and American manufacturers are
playing very important part in the develop
ment of South America. Brazil has recently con-
tracted with the Baldwin locomotive works for
Al eng ines, l6 of which are to be shipped during
this month"; and will be accompanied by number
of machinists and by an engineer and fireman for
each machine, the men being engaged for three
years service.
One of the Southern newspapers tells of man
whose life was saved by plug of tobacco carried
in his pocket. A pistol bullet fired at him lodged
in the tobacco, and the man was unframed. Nor
al If you will use tobacco, don't take it out of
your pocket.
The San Francisco Bulletin says that the re
port of the Federal Grand Jury sets forth the fact
that under the system which goes by the name Of
registration in that city, the repeater can, without
much chance of detection, cast Is ballots.
couple applied to a clergyman in Quincy, ILL.,,
to be married, got him to take 80 out of a coun-
terfet $50 bill for his fee, and then departed and
some of the household who watched them were
astonished TO see the bride remove her dress in an
alley and come forth young man.
A widow lady, Nine. de P, endowed with
wealth, beauty and spotless fame, was engaged to
be married to a gentleman in Paris who lately re-
ceived anonymous revelations rejecting on his
brides character Therefore he returned her
presents and letters. She implored an interview
explanation. lie sent back verbal reply that
he had none to give. The poor lady roamed about
his portals and returned home broken-hearted and
shot herself through the head. The falsehood Of
the ma levolent allegations has since been proven
Emma Grattan, Harry Courtaine's pretty little
wife of years agone, returned to this city few
days since. Seventeen years ago her husband
went to "the dogs" and she went to a Lon don
theatre. Both pursued the courses they had
marked out with steady success, and it was two
weeks since that the actress, in easy circumstaL-
ces and under engagement in New York, saw in a
San Francisco paper that her husband was sick.
probably beyond recovery. Throwing up her en-
gegcment she came directly on and sought him
out, and now, reaching her hand down into the
depths where he has fallen, offers the loving aid
of a true and noble wife to start him anew in the
world. If the chivalry preem inently quality
of the Harry Couraine Of old has not all deserted
him, there is little doubt that he will do all in his
enfeebled power to assist her in the work of re-
forming her husband.-California Eost. tfn