Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-17
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GENERAL Ne VS.
According to the New York Herald, frogs have
begun to sing in tights.
An Alabama negro has been sent to prison Tor
two years for stealing one bushe Of corn.
| Whitehall Times :-"No well bred tramp WI
eat lemon pie with his knife"
Two Frenchmen have patented somniferous
apparatus for putting travellers to sleep on railway
trains.
We fear the total of Boston pety TO morrow
Sunday viii depend largely upon the numbers
of spring suits.-Aduertiser.
| MIR. and Mrs A. j. NJ. White and one Of their
daughters, Of New Bedford Mass, all celebrated
their birthdays on Monday, 9th inst.
Maggie Mitchell has to earn SIS, 900 year to
pay interest and prevent her property from being
sacrificed. This is what it is to be poorer rather
rich.
| Laura d. Fair, stock broker, of San Francisco
has been sued by Lizzie C. Adams, speculator.
Amount at stake, $3.50.
The pioneer humble bee of 1877 crept out of his
hole in the ground yesterday, and after looking
arosnd for hour or two for boy to sting,
found him, stung him, and went back to clean
| house.
reward Of Sl5, 900 has been offered for the
arrest and conviction of the person who reported
on Wednesday that the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company had applied for the appointment
of receiver.
The London Globe states that Mr.. O'Conor
Power, the Home Rule member for the county of
Mayo, Ireland, intends to resign his seat in Par
lament and settle in America.
VIM. L. Morris, New York lawyer, has held
the Office of Commissioner of Deeds in that city
for ffty-nine years. He was first appointed by
Dewitt Clinton, and was on Tuesday re-appointed
| by the Board Of Aldermen for the sixtieth time.
He is 81 years of age aud in vigorous health.
| Caution avers danger An uptown man who
heard burglars in the horse the other night, woke
up his wife and sent her down stairs for a DR. ink,
of water, and then crawled under the bed and
wasn't injured in the least.
| Last November the democratic majority in Mil
waukee, Wis, was LOG, but few days ago the
republican can didate for Mayor was elected by
1000 majority. This is one of the localities to
which Mr.. Tden's friends sent "sinews" Just BE- =
fore the election
| In delivering lecture in Dorchester, Mass, one
night last week, Mr.. Cough remarked that he had
not spoken there since 1913, when he delivered
three lectures, for which he received nine dollars
aud special contribution of seventeen dollars
from the ladies to buy a cloak, of which he in
urgent need.
They have a curious way of deciding law suits
in Siam. Both parties are put under cold water
and the one staying longest wins the suit. In this
country both parties are got into hot water and
then kept there as long possible. The result in
the end is the same.
| Our Dumb Animals says that if people want to
eat the most healthfu veal, let them eat red veal
If they prefer to eat the veal from calf that has
been bled for days before being killed, bled till he
is sick and faint, SO weak that he cannot stand
and he is so sick that he cannot cat let them buy
VIII lite veal.
Walter Bagehot, the editor of the Economist and
a master-educa.or of the commercial world died
few weeks ago, and the London papers
devoted 20 or 80 lines TO his life and char
acter Only few weeks before, the death OF
an eccentric turfman had called forth elaborate
sketches over a column in length, and now one of
the longest editorials in the Telegraph records
the private traits and public services of WIN Dan
by, whipper-in Of pack OF hounds.
iol' l. VI. DdUSOul Mtssacuustt It's state AS
sayer and inspector of Liquors, has been examin-
ing the beers, wines and liquors sold to the pub
lie, and says that 4l2 samples Of liquors were lie
| ceiyed by hm from various cities and towns o.
the Commonwealth, and subjected to chemical ex
animation. OF this number, 276 or about 67 per
cent. were found TO be of good fair quality, and
1876 samples, Or about 80 per cent? were found to
be either Of very inferior ordinary quality, or
were shown to be more or less adulterated.
1t is Mrs, Mary Clemmer Ames opinion that the
size of the fourteen ears aud seven noses Of the
Cabinet is something remarkable, and she makes
that observation palatable by saying that you
never saw a man who amounted to anything for
action who mad a little pinched-up nose, ears OF
mouth" Speaking of Attorney-Gcneral Devens'
she declares that he is reported to have said to a
visitor "You see in me the biggest fool in Nus
sachusetts. left place that suited me exactly
for one that desn't suit me at ALL"
1t is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our ma
tnre that, when the heart ia touched and softened
by some tranquil happiness affectionste feeling,
the memory of the dead comes over it most pow
erfaliy and irresistibly. 1t would seem almost as
: though our better thoughts and sympa,hies were