Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-07-18
General News.

President Hayes has engaged apartments at
Cape May for brief stay cary in August.
A sensitive policeman at Racine, Wis, has re-
signed from the force because one of his prisoners
was released without being fined.
King Alphonso W Ill build a million dollar church
containing splendid msusoleum 10 memory of
the late Queen Mercedes.
One Of the indications Of better days in the
iron business is found in the fact that the leading
iron mills in and about Pittsburs have notified
their employees that the usual summer vacation of
two weeks cannot be allowed this season in con
sequence of the large number of orders still un
filed and the general Improvement of business.
The number of Sunday excursion steam boats
the veteran excursion goer knows of. Last Sun
day thirty fine large excursion boats sailed out of
the North and East Rivers, carry ing not one less
than fifty thousand passengers, many of the boats
making several trips during the day aud evening
Of these thirty steamboats,, eight went to Coney
Island, six to Rockaway, three to Newburg,
six around Staten Island. stopping at Perth Am
boy, one to Fire Island, one to Sing Sing, one
to the Fishing Banks, one to College Point,
two to Bridgeport and City Island, and one to
the Highlands Besides these were many regu-
lar lines, such as the Long Branch boats, and
a large number of picnic and private excursion
boats.
A nice young man in Kansas City resolved,
the other day, to present his beloved with a nice
pair of shoes, procured her measure, went down
town and bought a rair for So. In order to
make the present appear more valuable he
marked 80" upon the soles and induced the
clerk to put receipted bill for that amount in
side. When the girl examined the shoes she was
convinced that her lover had been chea ted
carried them back, procured SO 50 pair and
81 90 in cash from the clerk, who saw the re-
ceped bill and could not Ego behind the returns.
and went home happy. The man of boots
promptly sent bill for SO to the young man,
who paid it on condition that the matter should
not be known, but somehow it leaked out.
Mr.. p. T. Barnum told a reporter of The
Buffalo Courier in these words how he came to
be a teetotalier; " One evening in lS47 | went
to Saratoga with party of friends, ard without
noticing what was coming to, suddenly found
my self talking thick. knew that was boozy
The next morning | said | never should drink
another drop of liquor. and never have. did
not at the time stop drinking champagne.
L became
from that day very much interested in the
cause of temperance, and was instrumental in
getting the Rev. Dr. +. II. Chaplin to lecture
on the subject at Bridgeport. TO my surprise
the chief target of his eloquence moderate
drinkers and champagne suppers. 1t changed
my views considerably, and the next mornin
took DIR. Chaplin into my wine cellar and told
him to look at the eff, ct of his arguments |
had knocked the heads oil all my champagne
bottles. He was sstoni,hed, and said he thought
| was a teetotaller. am l replied"
The following address on letter recently re-
ceived at the New York post-ofiice, and held for
lack of stamp, forms an interesting contribution
to the curiosties of postal literature:
PM, N. Y. City.
Swift rs the eaping leopard,
Light as the floating cork,
Speed this to VIM A. Sheppard,
Nysck, State Of New York.