Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-30
GENERAL VIEWS.

Boston reports twenty-seven snow STORMS
this season.
The Rev. Newman Hall has separated from
his wife.
There are over 800 Jewish congregations in
the United States.
a. T. Stewart, of New York, has just re-
duced all of his rents from ten to twenty-five
per cent.
1t is estimated that the United States coal
fields cover an area Of 304 PIG square miles.
Judge Peters, of Davenport, has decided
that Iowa's prohbtory liquor law is unconsti-
tutional.
Montreal gives its poor one thousand quarts
of soup and six hundred loayes of bread every
week.
Fred. Douglass once said that you could no
more silence brawler by answering him than
you could get the ding out of brass kettle by
beating it.
The aggregate attendance at the common
schools in the State of New York during the
year was about one million.
The faculty of the Michigan State Agricul-
tural College has decided to admit six young
women to enjoy the benefits Of that institution
The London Times criticises Sheridan's
summary mode of dealing with the Indians.
and thinks that firm yet kindly compulsion
might save the race from extirpation.
Queen Victoria's health is failing. On
March 10 the Queen was unable to visit the
Prince and Princess of Wales, and was not
able to join the royal family at dinner in the
evening.
The Virginia House passed a resolution au-
thorizng Gov. Walker to call on the Presi-
dent for troops to suppress resistance to the
law by the colored land squattcrs near Hamp-
ton.
Among the graduates at the annual COM
mencement of the New York Medical College
for Women, on Wednesday, was Susan M.
Smith, colored woman. She delivered the
valedictory address.
Man must have occupation, or be misera-
BILE. Toll is the price of sleep and appetite
of health and enjoyment. The very necessity
which overcomes our natural sloth is a bless
ing.
The Daily Telegraph, Gentle paper of
Utah, says, in regard to the Cullom polygamy
bill, that it agrees with the Sun and other
journals that the better way for Congress to
deal with Utah is to admit her as State.
The Cuban Junta of Charleston, S. c.,
have determined to hold on the 4th of April
public meeting of the Charleston sympathizers
with the independence of Cuba, to cooperate
with the Cuban League of New York.
Gerard Douw, the famous Dutch painter,
always had his studio near canal. The
proximity of water was necessary, he said, for
the delicacy of his Finish"
The nursery-m in Illinois say that the
cold weather which coated the limbs and bodies
of the trees with ice will cause heavy crop
of fruit this year. They say the ice will kill
the bark lice and the eggs of the apple curculio.
1000 persons are said to have been arrested
hilister conspiracy. 1t had extensive rami-
fications over the empire, in which members
of all classes participated.
The Boston journal, of Monday, says:
.'One of our popular clergymen, in an elo-
quent discourse, yesterday afternoon, whether
by design or accident his congregation could
not determine-located the kingdom of heaven
in the city of Boston,"
The burning of the Central Pacific Railroad
bridge over the American River was undoubt-
eddy the work of design, as fire was observed
in number OF places at the same time. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
Samuel j. Lowell, member of the Boston
Police, is under arrest charged with stealing
gold watch from the pocket of a lady while
escorting her through crowd into Music
Hall
Women enjoy military rights on the coast of
Africa, and an English naval officer says
regiment of rifewOmen which he saw there
was equal to any corps he ever met.
The Board of Trustees of the Industrial
University, at Champaign, ILL.,, has adopted
resolution to the effect that girls be admitted
to the course of study, and that they be SUBJ
ject to the same rules as now apply, except as
to military tactics.