Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-12
GENERAL NEWS.

+ A philadelphian has made his relatives rich
by dying after getting his life insured tor
slsl goo.
4 reduction in the wages an hour of labor
in the New England factories will soon be
made.
Chicago is in panic over the dangerous
state of her court house, which threatens to
topplc over any moment.
A Minnesota couple, who have been married
eleven years, have % children-nine pairs of
twins and one quartette.
\ boy ten years old WIS frightened to death
at Westboro (Mass.) on Sunday night, by
another boy wearing mask.
An old Israelte survived a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem only to be smothered by fire at
Louisville, the night after his return.
On Monday of last week work was resumed
in the Avondale mine, rendered famous by
the heart rending calamity of which it was the
scene last September.
The custom-housc officers at San Francis
co seiz I'd $4,000 worth of struggled opium
the other night, but they had to drown two
men to do it.
A Pittsburg wife who preferred charge of
deserton against her husband, melted when
he was brought in by policeman, and pay
ing the costs she Withdrew the suit and took
him home.
The Nova Scotia Annexation League"
have issued a circular, setting forth the adj
vantages to their coal mines and other inter-
ests of annexation to the United States.
A Liverpool society for aiding fallen women
has taken in over IA Thousand during its exist
ence of whom nearly half have been restored
to their friends and others permanently re
formed.
\ Michigan couple concluded to dissolve
and the husband sent copy of the agree
mcnt with this note explanatory This agree
ment has been maid draud up bctwixt my
Self and my Wife and doant now wether it
is corden to law or Knot and want you
Sod record if if it is lawful and if it is knot
draw won that is"
\ reform has been adopted by the editors of
weekly newspapers in the interior of New
York State. They have agreed to stand to the
system of prepayment on all subscriptions
and advertisements.
4 brave little boy near Altoona, Penn,
savel the Pacific express train the other day
by waving his hat in front of it. mass OF
T. 4 cali -, iS
into the face OF precipice, and he had dis
covered it.
Philadelphia legislates against impure or
aduleratcd milk, and Massachusetts peo-
pie complain that although their legislation
is complete enough in that respect there is
no requirement whereby quart measures shall
hold two pints.
An organization of Juvenile robbers has
been broken up at Altoona, Henry county Ill.
They had their regular passwords etc, and
had accumulated quite Il stock of plumber
Their leader was Is years old, and was an
Unsuitable reader OF dime novels.
a lobby member in Wisconsin relieved HIM
self by telegraph as follows, on the defeat of
an obnoxious bill; ''Dell's bill defeated.
Glory be to God on high.
Sound the loud timbrel DER Egypt's dark sea-
Eau Clair is cleaned out, and the Chippewas free.
Ferdinand Hitler will direct the music at
the Beethoven festival, which will take place
at Bonn, in September next 1t promises to
be great musical event, and is attracting
much attention both in Germany and England.
General Butler was the recipient of queer
containing chewing gum, each piece OF which
WAS enTeloped in piece OF tissue paper, hav-
ing upon it the words ''shoo fly and a pic
ture of fly with the body representing Hon.