Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-12
GEHFRIL NEWS,

Now they are beginning to talk of blight on
the western grasshopper crop.
A Baltimore paper speaks of a man who was
"threc times shot dead" and says che cannot re-
cover"
Five hundred Dutchess county On. y sheep
we're the other day shipped TO England, the first
sheep. it is said, ever sent to that county from
| this.
One of the oldest living graduates Of Dartmouth
College died last week in New Hampshire poor
! house. He was one of the first scholars of his
class and as mathematician stood at its head.
WORKOUT steel rails are being used by the Penn
sylvana Railroad Company at its csr-wheel foun-
dry in Altoona. in the manufacture of chilled
car wheels. The experiment is a success.
That delightful season has come when the coun-
try boy rises with the lark, when rosy fingered
Aurora ushers in the day, and trips lightly with
bare feet over the dewy grass driving the cows to
pasture.
A speaker at Columbus (Ohio) temperance
meeting electrified the audience by saying that a
man had chance once in a while to win bucking
against the tiger, but against whskey never
Last night, about twelve o'clock, there were
the map of Europe. requested one another that
the fines should be drawn around "Tschkalj atoch-
m-ayou! !"
Admiral Semmes, who, the other side of the So
called chasm was so-called pirate, is a proficient
practitioner of law at Mobile lie is slim, with
STOPPING shoulders and his thin hair falls over his
sharp face.
Gen. Horace Binney Sargent, Commander of
the Massachusetts Grand Army of the Republic
urges the several Post to make special effort, on
the occurrence of Decoration Day, to raise the
$50 900 needed for the State Soldiers Home.
What perplexes philosophical man is to dis
cover how. when he is shaking carpet, with lit
tie woman ON the other end, she can SO exasper-
atingly hold on, and shake, and shake, and jerk
his end out of his hands, and call him butter fin
gers and SLOUGH.
The beach at Aspnwall was seen the other
morning to be completely lined with broad band
Of indigo-colored substance, just above the limit
OF high tide. The appearance was found to have
been caused by deposit of immense numbers of
blue jelly fish, of kind never before seen in
that vicinity. The hot sun soon decouposed them
and by the following day they had all disappear
ed.
The editor of The Austin (Texas) Statesman,
who was personally acquainted with the late Par
son Brownlow, pays this tribute to his memory
''He was personally the most generous of men,
and most devoted and tenacious in his attach
ments, and the very poor in East Tennessee never
knew such a friend. When Knoxville was once
ravaged by cholera there was no hut Of poverty
and wretchedness that did not have its pale watch
er by the bedside Of the plague-stricken in the
person of the violent, fighting parson. When
Biownlow's Wing was the most successful news
paper in money-making in the South, the editor
aud proprietor who rallied out so bitterly against
his partisan enemies, gave money to the poor and
helpless everywhere until he was himself al ways
impoverished. Bitterly as he was denounced and
fercely as he was hated as party leader, it was
never safe, where Brownlow, the man and private
citizen. was personally known, to denounce his
name or deeds"