Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-12

/ President Hayes is not to be in Boston until the
9th of the month.
Last month SO newspapers were established and
"a suspended in the United States.
Senator Merrmon of North Carolina, has spok
en- strongly in Raleigh in favor of prohibitoty
liquor-lsw.
Major General John A. Dix and Thurlow Weed.
of New York, regularly draw their pen sions Of s.
per month as privates in the war of 1872.
The wife of Gov. Van Zandt of Rhode Island is
daughter of the late Albert G. Green, who
wrote the beautiful chant "Old Grimes is Dead
An estate 10 Boston, dorchester District,) for
which Sl2j, 900 was refused few years since, is
now offered for $4,000, and nobody seems in
cned to jump at the offer.
When Gail Hamilton went for Joe Medll he felt
like seven-by-nine bunch of rhubarb boiled
down to a saucerful.-New York Herald.
Marks j. Pendleton, a former Cleveland (O.)
actor has been welded to Miss Alice Worthington
of tina. city, young lady who has fortune of
$40 900 in her own name.
Some people in Watertown, n. Y, are wonder
Ing why the public schools should have been closed
on the day the circus came, and kept open on Dec
GRAFTON Day.
1t is reported that Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher has
received from the Boston Lecture Association an
offer Of $4,000 to spend his vacation in Calior-
MIA.
Andrew Jackson was accused of bad spelling,
but John Randolph defended him by declaring
that "a man must be q fool who could not spell
words more ways than one"
Worcester Sauce 1--WE suppose the milk of q
bob-tailed COW may be appropriately referred to
as the lack-tailed fluid"
A huge mammoth has been discovered in Sibe-
ria at depth of % feet beneath the surface. Its
hide and flesh at first had pinky hue, but in
few days it turned to a solid, white, argillaceous
mass.
A New Yorker admits that lady cannot 60 out
nowadays in that city without being subjected to
insults by married men who desire to get up q
Irritation.
The father of the Harper brothers obliged the
younger (Wesley) to pay his boarl for six years
while he was learning the business. When he
came Of age he gave him the entire amount 10
start business with aud with this he became an
equal partner in the firm.
Victor Alvergnat, the French professor who
lately died of hydrophoba in Hartford was wont
to argue, half in jest. half in earnest, that in
hereafter of such eternal progress as he believed
in we should all have our work to d.. "And you,
monsieur p "Oh, expect to teach French, for
surely that will be the language of heaven, where
oHly the best things will be preserved
Leasing, the German author, was, in his old age,
subject to extraordinary fits of abstraction. On
his return home one evening, after he had knocked
at his door, the servant looked out of the window
to see who was there. Not recognizing his mas
ter in the dark, and installing him for stranger,
he called out, "the professor is not at home" Oh
very well, replied Losing; mo matter-I'll call
another time!''
Among the articles sold at auction by Balti.
more jewelry firm the other day, was mechani.
cal bird box, about the size Of match safe, made
of solid gold and delicately chased and enameled.
1t was presented to Madame Rachel the actress,
by Napoleon Ill. and upon her death was sold in
London with her other effects Upon touching
spring diminutive bird leaps out and sings for
several minutes.
1t is said that fve-year old girl, named Comma
Cdniberti, is star at one of the Florentne thea
tiers. She is lovely and plays marvelously, walking
the stage with as much freedom if she had trod
it all her life. Poets have written verses in her
honor, the wife of Salvini, the tragedian. made
her gift Of precious necklace. and the Prin-
cess Royal Margherta expressed her appreciation
in a beautiful and valuable present. Cavaliere
Rossi, the tragedian, predicts for her splendid
career, and that she will improve with age until
she becomes the grcatest actress the world has
ever seen.