Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-05

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The man in debt for his shoes cannot say
that his sole is las own. ..-r-,ss.-..-.. s.
Human legs are worth $4,000 pair in
Chicago. A man got that for losing his on
a railroad.
In enterprising Frcnchman has offered
1905, 900 livrcs for ten years lease of Pom
pei as a SHOW
Miss Kate Field has become resident of
Boston and is pleasantly housekeeping in Joy
street, Beacon Hill.
On Tuesday evening in New York, Frank
Blair predicted that Grants administration
would end in bloodshed --
Denmark has population of one and a
quarter millions, and paid Parliament, with
universal suffrage.
The canal through the isthmus of Corinth is
to be commenced within period of eighteen
months by French company.
Butter at St. Adams, ranged from % to 80
cents for fall, and 20 to % for winter dairies,
! last week.
| Major White who shot Mrs. Alvah Hobbs
in Boston last August has pleaded guilty of
manslaughter and been sentenced to fifteen
years in State Prison.
An international dog-show is to be opened
at Paris on the I'D of May, which will also
include all fittings necessary for the kennel,
etc.
Gentlemen attending the Washington re-
ceptions, who care about their hats, are said
to be obliged to carry them in their hands.
The cranberry crop at Iarwich' Mass,
amounted, during the past year, to 3,76l bar
rels, which were sold for $4,000
The statement of the State Treasurer of
Connecticut shows reduction of the debt of
nearly $4,000 under Governor Jewels adj
ministration.
The President, with several members of his
Cabinet and a number of army officers will
visit Troy, n. Y, to attend the funeral of
General George IL. Thomas.
The Spanish Government has officially an
nounced its determination not TO interfere
with the Pope and the Ecumenical Council.
? The present Lord Chancellor of England is
not only friend of Sunday schools, but is in
active service as ateacher.
Street-car conductors in Wilmington,
North Carolina, carry their female passen
gers to and from TIE sidewalks on rainy days.
A single establishment at ST. Louis has or
ders for nearly 10000 plows, to be shipped to
the Red River region, Arkansas, during the
present season
The number of conyicts at present in the
Connecticut State Prison is two hundred and
twenty-five. Only three deaths have occurred
in the past year, one of them being suicide.
With all the success attained by the Pro-
Catholics far surpass them in the number Of
their converts.
Five new zinc furnaces will be erected at
Carondelet during the present season, the
late experiment in smelling Missouri zinc at
thay point having proved entirely satisfactory.
+. 4. Alexander, the son in law of Wander
leyden of Troy, n. y, who was murdered on
Wednesday, Tuesday afternoon wrote out
full confession of his crime, and committed
suicide by blowing his brains out with shot
gun.
The editor of the Waco (Texas) Register
has in his possession the scalp of one of the
Indians killed in the recent fight in Comanchc.
There is plated with the hair of the Indian
what appears to be that of white woman
doubtless one of the victims of the savage.
Mr. Tilton, of the New York Evening
independent publicly announces tha' he is
commissioned to procure the name and ad-
dress Of every person in the United States
who takes friendly interest in woman's en-
reimbursement. In order 10 complete his roll
he therefore requests the friends of the cause
to respond so simultaneously that their letters
shall fly to his office Ike snow-storm.