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

Bethesda" is the title of charitable in
stitution founded at Savannah, Ga, by Whit
field in I740. Its one hundred and thirtieth
anniversary was duly celebratedilast week
The leopards in circus got into a big
fight at Ringgold, Ga, on Tuesday last, dur
ing an exhibition, in which one was killed.
The imperial government of Turkey has
determined to prohibit, from the LIST of May,
the manufacture, sale and purchase of salt
petre throughout the empire under penalty of
confiscation.
The government engineers of San Francis
co say that the surveys indicate that Blossom
Rock has been utterly demolished by the re-
cent blast. The soundings give thirty eight
feet of water over its site at low tide.
Near Danielsville, in Madison county, Ca,
there is russell apple tree ten feet two inches
in circumference at the base. The sprouts
said to have been brought from. Virginia short
ly after the revolutionary war
A substance called "naphthaline" occurs in
large quantities in the waste of gas-works,
and has always been rejected as worthless.
1t is asserted to be an admirable substitute for
camphor as a protection against moths and
other insects. u
The Yarmouth Register says the long con-
tinued easterly gales and unfayorable weather
have delayed the fitting and sailing of the
Proyincetown fishing fleet. Last year at this
time large number Of thelvessels were on
the fishing grounds. Last years catch has all
been sold.
An annexation meeting has been held at
Burnside, n. S., of which the following res
olution, passed without dissenting vote, is
the record "Resolved, That in the opinion
of this meeting, annexation to the neighbor-
ing republic would be a great advantage to
the province of Nova Scotia.
A deserted vessel, laden with provisions,
was recently discovered by some fishermen
floating in the lake near Monroe, Michigan.
No one was on board, and the mysterious YES
sci had no name painted on her. The discov-
erers secured good supply of provisions and
then let the deserted craft drift on.
A Boston despatch says there is a curious
development in the case of the attempts to
throw the trains off the track on the Boston,
Hartford and Erie Railroad. Comey, who
professed to have prevented disaster, and
who reported that he was fired upon while
doing SO, has been arrested on suspicion Of
having placed the distractions on the track
himself.
satire in the colored people of Louisville, on
the occasion of their grand celebration recent
ly. They had a transparency in which the
'.Train of Progress was depicted as a loco
motive labelled 1.-The Fifteenth Amendment"
with train of twenty-nine cars attached rep
resenting the ratifying States, and number
of jackasses harnessed to the rear car, en-
blematic of the States refusing to ratify, and
vainly trying to pull the train backward. =,
The Hot Springs of Arkansas are situated
about six miles from the Washita river, and
sixty miles southwest of Little Rock. From
seyenty-five to one hundred of these springs,
varying in temperature from los degrees to
LOG degrees, issue from lofty ridge of sand
stone overlooking the town, while number
rise from the bed at Hot Spring creek, which
flows at the foot of the ridge, and by reason
of the springs is rendered sufficiently warm
for bathing in midwinter. The waters are
said to possess medicinal properties.