Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-04-01
General News.

"Spring butter" may mean butter which has
been brought up out of the cellar to breathe the
spring arr
Eight Of the banks in Boston pass the April
dividend.
young apprentice to the shoepaking bushes
asked his master what answer he Should give to
the ofl-repeated question, "Does your master war
rant his shoesi" Answer, Thomas" said the
master THAT warrant them to prove good, and
if they don't III make them good for nothing"
The Madison wis., Journal says that DR.. j.
W. Hoyt of that city, who has been appointed
Governor Of Wyoming, has done much to ad-
vance the interests of the State. industrially ed
ucatonally, scientifically, and POLITICALLY, during
the past 20 years, and possesses all the quaifca-
tons to make an excellent Territorial Governor
Western papers tell the story of man who
sold his gun for whiskey, drank the whiskey,
started for home and sat down on the railroad
track, where subsequently seven trains "ran over
him and cut bis body into small pieces"
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, in New York, is doing good service by
rescuing from unnatural parents and cruel guar
dams children. sent out in the streets to beg.
Five juvenile pickpockets were caught in one
day in the same neighborhood in New York last
week, and upon the person of each of them were
found evidences OF their guilt. 1t is supposed
they belong to a thieves training school,
Mr.. Trollope is one of the most industrious Of
men. He has written novels in plenty, and yet
gives himself every day three hours of good, hard
reading, chiefly in the classics. He has lately
been reading the Greek historians. During his
viaitt tn r,;r a. l.
he wrote the whole of the work on the country,
which has just been published.
Mr.. Lsrkin j. Meade's design for memorial
monument to SeEator Morton presents a shaft
rising from base and sub base, and supporting
at the height of lis feet figure of the dead Sena
tor in heroic size. He is represented in the att-
tude Of speaking. The cost of a monument ex-
ecued after this plan is estimated at 500, 10000.
The proposed site of the Paris exhibition of
1873 to be held next May, is of interest aside
from the exposition. 1t is over 5000 feet long,
by about 600 wide, and derives its name Champ
de Mars from the annual assemblages of the old
Frankish tribes The first freak of the revolu-
ton was celebrated In it. The population OF
Paris, irrespective of sex. turning out and work.
ing day and night to complete it by July IL, 1890.
little over year later, Lafay dispersed with
much bloodshed the demonstration against the
legislative assembly. In 1894 the feast of the
Supreme Being, with Robespierre as its lead
ing performer, was held here. Two years
later it was the scene of rejoicings ON &C.
count Of the taking of Milan by Bona
parte, to be nine years later, after Napoleons re-
turn from Elbs, the scene of the great assembly
for the acceptance Of the supplementary act to the
Imperial Constitution. Here, in 1927, was held
the review, in consequence of which the Paris Ma
tional Guard were dsbanded on account of their
demonstration against the policy of Charles X,
and here Louis Napoleon distributed eagles to the
soldiers, May TO- 1858.