Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-03-18
neral News.

The salary Of the Speaker OF tLe Louisiana
House OF Representatives is 81 day.
There are twenty-one uuNer,it.e- Il The Ger
man Empire. with q, 229 students.
la 1876 more than Sl3,000,000 worth Of egg,
were imported into England.
President and Mrs. Hayes win, Il /, said, spera
a portion OF the summer u the White Mountains.
At Chicago uey talk Of closing The High school
and OF making another reduction IN the sallues
OF teachers.
The King OF Greece lupchod with Gen Glart
at the American Legation 10 Aliens thursday.
The General sailed thai evening tor Naples.
A Kentucky winter notos tuat Robert Letchcr
when young man, worked upon the Executive
Mansion a. a bi1chlayoi and afterwards, IN 1870
lived in Il as Governor Of Kentucky.
Boswell, dining one day w.A DR.. johnson
asked him il he old not think lLal a good oooa
was more essential TO The community thau GOOD
poet 81 don't suppose, said the doctor, 'tha
there's dog IN the the town but what thI.ks so.
The marriage OF Miss Eleanor Locker aud MI
Lionel Teuuy,on TOOK place at Westminster 40
hey " ith all manner OF stately ceremony, aud in
the presence Of macy OF the most disung uIsnod
men and women Of The British peeIaso and OF
British art and literature.
romantic stony is told Of Martin Mix OF
Northdeld, and Ellen Minough, Of Middlubury
Vt who have just got mari led altet long separ-
alton. Many years ago they quaneiled AID broke
their engag ement Martin weat 10 sea, dug gold
IN Aust ALA and California, served IN the [ uion
army during the wal worked on the Pacific Rail
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the Black Hills, but escaped and returned TO Yer
mont. Ellen had long since forgiven her recreaul
lover, and having advertised in vain for bis re-
turn, devoted her Time to saving silver dollars SJC
Of which found their way into one Of her ola
stockings Now the two are one and the past Ii
forgotten.
woMANs GRAVE.
Under this beading lady writing to the Wash.
ingtou Republican says: ave can pass the grave
Of a man with somewhat Of indifference; but
when we survey the grave Of female, sigh
Involuntary escapes Us. With the holy namo
of woman we associate every sort OF tender auC
delicate aG elton, We think Of her u, the young
and basLful virgin, with eyes sparkling and cheek,
crms opod with each imTassiJucd feeling of The
heart; a. the chaste, yrtuous NATION tired will
The follies of the world and preparing for tn,
grave to which ali must soon descend. Oh ther
is something in contemplating the character Of
true and womanly woman that Iaisos the sou
above The common level Of so-calied society.
She j. formed to adolu aud human - mankind
to soothc his cares, and -tIcw hi, path WIKI flow
eis In ne hour Of disIc.- she is he iock OF
which he lean, for support aod when fate call
bin from existence her Tears bciew his grave
Can you look upon her TOMB without emotion
| Man has justice Away done to his memory
woman never. The pages Of history lie open u
one but The meek aud uuobtrusiye excellence o
the Other sleep with her, upnoticcd, IN the grave
IN her how may have shouo The genus Of thu
/ poet, with The virtues Of saint She too ma,
have passed along he sterile Paths OF existence
and felt ior otncis the same emotions that we
now standing above her grave, feel fJr her.
Mrs. Chisolm, widow Of Judge Chisom, mur
dered al De Kalb, Mississippi, last year, has re
turned TO her position as clerk in the Treasur
apartment from the trial Of the murderers Of be