Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-01
General News.

The only housework that some girls do is
when they begin to dust around after beau.
Gail Hamilton.
A schoolmaster in Tiffn, Ohio, used piece
of rubber hose with which to whip his pupils
and ii proved so effective that little girl was
nearly killed.
One of Gov. Fosters daughters was at At
| lanta. Ga when the news of the Ohio cleo
ton was received, and the young bloods OF
the town CALAMITY turned out and serenaded
the young woman in honor of the event.
Mary Deane, who made her entry into In
diana six years ago in Bloomer costume, with
a revolver displayed at her belt, and became
| a public speaker on woman's rights, now re-
tires to prison as thief.
Ii is becoming fashion in Europe to trav-
el in private railroad cars. The Baroness N
de Rothschild ownes one that cost $50, OOO,
and the Countess Potocka has ordered one at
S25, 1000. These vehicles are smaller than
American cars, but are very elegant.
1t might be supposed that deaf and dumb
man and wife would not quarrel; but Mr.. and
Mrs. Goodwin, of Greensburg, Ind, deaf
mutes. lived four years in noiseless disagree
ment, and finally had desperate parting
| fight, in which he was scalded and her skull
was fractured.
Many of the mines on the mountains around
Leadyille, Col, have suspended work for the
winter, being inaccessible in consequence OF
snow. Those that can be worked are carried
on with difficulty, and prospectingis not easy
The ground is covered from two feet to eight
feet with snow.
At Houston, Texas, Mrs. Maria Gester-
mann has instituted suit for divorce against
her husband, Otto. This is her third trial
for divorce. The first suit was dismissed,
the second was successful, but two days after
the decree was granted she and her former
husband were remarked. Now she again ap-
plies for a divorce.
Two Chicago men went on weeks spree
which involved an irregular tour through the
West. One morning they awoke in hotel
with dazed notion as to what city they were
in. One said st. Louis, and the other Gin
cinnat. They bet 500 as to which was
right. and neither won, for the bell boy in
formed them that the place was Milwaukee.
A young schoomistress who peeped has
lost her certificate and the Supreme Court of
Iowa will give her no redress. She had APP
piled for certificate and during the examin-
alton was daught glancing over the shoulder
Of an other applicant and getting answers to
questions propOunded in arithmetic. The SUI
perintendent refused to issue the certificate,
and the young lady brought suit in the Cir
cult Court to compel him to do So She car
ried her point in the lower court, but the de-
cision has been reversed by the Supreme
Court.
An artisan Of Altoona, Penn, has been
working for seventeen years on 'wonderful
clock" which is to be ready for exhibition
next New Years. 1t parades sixty-fve anto-
matte figures--a beer garden, with men draw
ing beer and passing it out; a linseed oil-mill
in running order, with half dozen workmen
engaged in different parts of the business;
blacksmith shop with men hammering iron
and others shooting horses women bringing
Refreshments; a Summer-house, fountains
and games in progress; quarry with men
hewing stone; a saw mill turning out minia-
ture boards; a shoe factory, with men and
women working at different parts Of shoes II
grist mill with man bringing grain to hop
per, and others carrying the bags away, while
buckets go mp and down and mill stones buzz;
residences, where visitors call, and servants
are about their work, ETC., etc, etc. The
mills are driven by water which falls from
the top and is drawn up again. The whole
complicated continuance is run by weight of
ninety pounds.
The party that visited fernando county
last week state that crossing the hummOck
three miles this side of Sumterville no water
was found but returning three days later a
bold stream was flowing through so deep that
the water came nearly over the backs of the
horses. Beneath this strip of hummock, as
stated some time since, is an underground
river, the water of which can always be seen
flowing through deep sink hole few miles
further on, and the recent rains forcing the
water to the surface caused the sudden APP
pearance of the stream.-Sumter( Fd:) Ad-
rance.
During their foreign tour the Jubilee Sing
ers breakfasted with Mr. Gladstone, took sup
per in the new palace of Frederick the Great
at Potsdam, received many attentions from
the Emperor of Germany, Queen Victoria
and the Prince of Wales, and were cordially
welcomed everywhere. In Boston they en-
gagged rooms at the New Marlboro Hotel.
and all arrangements were satisfactorily made
with the proprietor. On Saturday the sing
ers, with Prof George l.. White and wife,
moved to their new quarters. Without any
previous notice they were told that some of
the boarders objected to their color. The
proprietor proposed that they should occupy
a second table, which Mr.. White Immediately
declined to d. stating that as they were to
pay the regular price they were entitled to
the same treatment that other guests received.
They were, therefore, informed by the pro-
prietor that he could not entertain them, and
they left the house. This incident occurred
in Boston, a city which was somewhat famous
in anti-slavery times.