Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-23
GENERAL Ne Us.

Mr. and Mrs. Sartors have a son four days Old
Ralph Waldo Emerson is visiting Washington.
San Francisco people are eating strawberries.
Denver lady is having a fine beaver robe
made for presentation to Senator Blaine
severe shock Of an earthquake was felt at
Troy, VT, at six o'clock Tuesday, which lasted
about forty seconds
Her Royal Hghness the Princess OF Wales viii
King of Greece.
90 TO Athens shortly on visit to her brother, the
Vermont woman left her umbrella at Sacra
mento, and had it expressed home at cost Of nine
dollars. Nothing like having your own umbrella
Capt. Sylvanus Baker of Baskerville, Dartmouth
now upwards of 80 years of age, is cutting his
third set Of teeth.
The European custom of having the lamps
of ones private carriage lighted at night is now
quite general in New York city.
New style of wedding cards very large. All
the names, date, address and general information
is given in old English letters on one card.
Miss Emma c. Thursby, the soprano singer at
the Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York, re-
ceives a salary of $4,000.
Ex-President Grant called at the War Depart
ment luesudy anu paue Boou ny W ihc army Vi
fcers stationed there.
Josh Billings says THE mewl is larger bird
than the guse or turkey. 1t has two legs to walk
with, and two more to kick with, and wears its
wings on the side of its he'd"
An old miscr died at w oolwich, England, few
weeks since who would only eat or drink when it
was actually necessary to appease the appetite.
1t is supposed that he was worth 100000. lie
left $25 900 to one party and $50 900 to another
and various legacies Of smaller amounts.
Mr.. Gordon Cumming, the famous Scotch ex-
plorer and lion killer, is to. be married in April to
Miss Eames, a Washington belle. Among the
bridesmaids will be the daughters of exSecretary
Fish and Sir Edward Thornton.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young recently hired locomo-
tive to enable her to keep an engagement to lee
ture, having been left behind while searching for
a missing trunk. She paid $40 for the ride, and
kept her audience waiting only few moments.
Sour milk jewely is the freshest Boston fancy.
The milk comes from diaries in the cheese making
counties of New York, and in the form of curd
looks like popped corn Coloring matter is intro
duced, and the butter, after being subjected at
high temperature to enormous pressure is trans
formed into American coral and jet.
General Lew Wallace, it is reported, is
writing new novel, which has for its scene,
Rome in the days of Tiberious. The General
lives in pretty cottage one Of the tree-shaded
streets of Crawfordsvle, Ind. Another literary
person dwelling in the same city is the lawyer,
Maurice Thompson, young gentleman who has
written some very good poetry for the Atlantic
and other publications.
In an eloquent address at Dayton, Ohio, recent
ly Col Robert lngersoll, speaking of women said :
81 believe that woman has the same rights that
mao has. lie has the compl cations of business
which, Of course, no woman can understandable
ing calico at four cents yard and selling it
at four and a half; wonderful complica-
tions despise man who says to me, Il am the
head of the family and talks of what he will
make them do. In the family where there is kind
ness and love, the woman moves in the perfume
of light, never growing old to him, AMI his is
ever the same young and handsome face that she
first knew, and thus they grow old and pass away
to the grave with the pratt!c of children in their
ears