Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-28
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Religious revivals are reported in all parts
of the country.
Two boys in Baltimore amused themselves
in playing at hanging, and one Of them was
hung in earnest.
Cologne Cathedral, which has been building
1875.
Another new submarine cable is to be laid
in a short time. 1t will connect England and
the West Indies.
| General Negley says that West Point is
useless expense and humbug, and goes in
for abolishing it.
The anniversary of washington's birthday
was appropriately celebrated by the American
Ministers at Paris and Vienna.
Gossips link the names of General Sheridan
and Miss Harris, Washington belle and
blonde. in their matrimonial talk.
A man lately attempted to start writing
school in Denver, but they made him turn it
into liquor saloon, not wanting any ''fangles
in this town."
A new glazing putty, known as thermo-
plastic putty, has been recently introduced
into England, and applied TO fasten glass where
iron sashes are employed.
The Erie Railroad Company has been en-
joined at the suit of the preferred stockhold-
ers, from recognizing the certificates bearing
the tax stamp of the English stockholders.
The island of Juan Fernandez has been
purchased by an enterprising German, who
has imported considerable colony of his
countrymen, and supplied them with suitable
implements Of agriculture.
The White Mountain Medical Society of
New Hampshire has adopted a bylaw that
any member who advertises himself by ere
porting his operations in newspapers" shall
first be reprimanded, and, for the second
offence, expelled.
Providence man caught ffty-two rats in
one night by exchanging barrel of oats that
had been visited by rats for one of water, COW
ering the surface with chaff. The vermin un-
reAectingly pitched in, and found watery
grave. ,r
The Home for Aged Men, just opened in
Boston, covers 10000 square feet between
Worcester and Springfield streets. The es-
tate was purchased of the city for $4,000,
and paid for by private subscription. The
carpet and furniture dealers of the city fur
nshed the building with all the articles neces-
sary to make pleasant and comfortable home.
The present number of inmates is twenty, and
there are accommodation for thirty more.
| At divorce trial, before Judge Sample, in
Muncie, Indiana, last week, the principals in
the suit, in relating how lovingly they used to
live together when first married, became SO
affected over the recollection of their lost hap
piness that they began to cry. The Judge
followed suit the audience joined in, and
handkerchief were in general demand Judge
Sample, when they had all got through cry
ing, suggested to the husband and wife the
propriety of trying to live happily together
once more. After consultation they conciu-
ded to try it again, and the case was thus
ended.
The Hartford Post tells story of a deacon
who once got drunk in New York on the
Fourth of July. 1t was at a time when ice
was unknown in summer in the country. The
deacon confessed his fault, but pleaded in
palliation that it was a prodigiOusly hot day,
and the lemons and ice in the punch did look
so cool and inviting that he couldn't resist the
temptation, and he supposed he did actually
drink to intoxication. A brother on a back
seat listened attentively but incredulously to
the defense, and at its conclusion rose. 81
hain't no objection" said he, "to mans get
ting drunk, if he owns up to it and is sorry
for it that's a thing a mans liable to, and
p'raps some times he can't help it; but when
the deacon comes in here and undertakes to
excuse himself in any such way as that-talk-
ing about seeing ice in July, 60 for jerkin
him out for lynn"
On Thursday last man named Wilcox, in
Beardstown, Illinois, shot and killed two mer
in a saloon, and wounded another. The muir
derer was arrested. After dark on Friday q
crowd of 500 gathered about the Jail, took the
KEYS from the Sheriff, seized a prisoner whom
they supposed to be the murderer, got rop'
around his neck, and then discovered tina
they had the wrong man. In the meantime
the murderer, who was in another cell, chain
ed to the floor, got possession of an iron bar
and rs the leader of the mob appeared t.
open the cell door, he warned them that III
would sell his life dearly. Apistol shot through
the head killed him. His body was taken on
Of doors and hanged.