Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-27
General News.

Seth Green is establishing kiudergartens
for schools Of little fish.
The number of building permits issued in
Boston since the year opened is twice that
issued in the same period of 1879.
When the farmer puts porcelain egg un-
der the hens is he setting good egg sam
pie?
A tin-peddler in Newburg found pocket
book containing 81, 900 in a lot Of rags he
bought one day last week. in Orange County,
and Immediately returned it to its owner.
The laie Mrs. Mary Chapman. an actress
we'll known on the Pacific coast, was the
mother of twenty children. She not ONLY
filled the stage, but she crowded the omni-
bus.
The terrible game puzzle is having its ef-
feet everywhere. When the clergyman IN
church announces efficiently" everybody
gets up and leaves the house. as if satisfied
that he cannot do it.
1t is said that Gen Butler has offered his
services to sustain before the Supreme Court
that portion of CALIFORNIA; new Constitution
which prohibits corporations from employing
Cinnamon.
The President has sent the following NOM
nations to the Senate: James B. Angel OF
Michigan. Minister Plenipotentiary to China
vice George Seward, recalled; John F. Swift
of California and William II. Prescott Of
South Carolina, commissioners to China te
negotiate treaty with China.
George Durgan, Of Limerick, hung him
self last Monday. 1t is said he has been lou
of his head" for some time past, but nothing
very serious. Last Monday, however, he
went out in the woods with his boy to get &
load of wood He sent his boy home with
the wood and while he was gone he tied one
end of rope to the limb of a tree and the
other end he fastened to his neck and Their
jumped from the tree and broke his neck
He was found hanging about ten feet from
the ground.
THERE she cried, in an excited voice
II should like to know what's become of tina
ambril. sot it up agin the counter when
come in and afore I could turn round it!
gone-and it was only Monday that giI
four and six fort!' "What kind Of an UNI
brella was it, maam?" asked the polite clerl
in his blandest tones. "A spick and spal
new gingham, young man." was the eager re
Spouse, with an iv'ry handle ont and a.
Like the one in your hand, ma'am, for in
| stance!" "Sakes alive" she exclaimed
| And one might have thought she saw ser
pent rather than her own "spick and spa
| gingham," with its ''iv'ry handle" clutche
fast in her hand. She colored up like
| druggists window and went off amid unin
teliigible excuses. She never felt so fus
tered in all her born days, as she told Jemi
ma Ann when she got home.
| DR.. Victor Christiancy says it is utterl
false that he told Mrs. Christiancy that hi
farther bartered away his seat in the Senate
He says: 1.-The cause of my fathers resis
nation was that he found his nervous system
| was breaking down under the severe menta
labor in his Senatorial capacity, and he ha
stated to me many times, that he never coul
feel that he had right to hold a public posi-
ton the labors and duties of which he wa
unable to perform. Another reason was tina
having in 1878 got all his means in real es
tate, which, like all others so situated, he wa
unable to sell without making q great sacri
fee, he was left with no great income. II
became in that way somewhat embarrassed
and felt it his duty to avail himself Of high
er salary from which he might save littl
| portion. which he could not do in the Senate
| Peru or Central America"