Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.


GENERAL NEWS.
The stock of cotton on hand at Savannah
| is unprecedentedly heavy.
Chicago is to have a society for the proven
ton of cruelty to animals.
A Chicago woman seeks divorce because
her husband sis not a smart man, nor the man
she took him for"
Ole Bull and his charming young better
half are residing in New York. Ole Bull has
chung up de Bow and de fiddle"
| Prince Gortschakoff, of Russia, is seventy
two years old and has been in the govern
ment service for nearly half century.
| Young ladies have adopted the high stand
up London collar, broken at the ends, and
worn in connection with bows of gay colored
ribbon.
Governor Seward has telegraphed that he
and his party arrived in Pekin, China, all
well. They will start for Calcutta in few
days, and thence proceed to Bombay and the
Persian Gulf.
| The woman suffragists have inaugurated a
vigorous campaign against the monopolizers
of the ballot box, and are pushing their cause
ahead with zeal and energy.
The Rome (Ga.1 Daily says that the thous-
and Cinnamon who are working on the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad do not give
satisfaction, and the experiment is not likely
to be repeated in that section.
The new Lord Mayor of London, Mr..
Alderman Dakin, when youth, went to Lon
don to seek his fortune. He entered a whole
sale druggist establishment as salesman, and
rose step by step to its head.
There was a race last week on the Warm
Spring Mountain, Va, between Governor
Letcher and panther, in which it is said the
Governe. made the hest time of the season for
short distance.
A movement is on foot to send immigrants
direct from Denmark, Sweden and Norway
to Mobile, and thence to their appointed des'
tination. Tennessee and other Southern papers
encourage the project. and it will probably be
carried out.
The Baptists of Jamaica, who made but
little progress before emancipation, now have
ninety-seven churches, with $4,000 members,
and twenty-five educated colored preachers
from the seminary at Calabar.
Photography can now fairly lay claim to be-
ing an art 1t has recently added seal en-
craving to its already large list of accomplish
ments. A German practitioner Of the art
gives his patrons the means of sending their
portraits in wax to their correspondents, land of
affixing their efigy wherever they attach their
hand and seal.
The Boston lions Herald regrets that in
the approaching trial of DR.. Lanahan, the
Methodist Book agent, before the General
Book Committee, ''the committee which have
already sat four times on his case, should be
party" being at once complainant, prosecu
tor, jury and court.
An exchange inquiries if it is not about time
that the custom of passing solemn resolutions
for the public eye, upon the decease Of men
of no particular account, as if for great
statesman, hero or other eminently distin-
gushed character, should cease?
The cases of the assistant Marshals whose
accounts with the Census Bureau show them
to have been guilty of making fraudulent en-
tries, in order to increase the per capita COM
pensation allowed by law, are in the hands OF
the attorney General, and instructions will
accordingly be issued next week to the Dis
trict Attorneys of the several counties in
which they reside to institute proceedings
against them and press for a conviction in
every instance.
An exchange says common mistake in the
use of coal il the placing of too large a guam
ity in the stove or CRATE at once. Coal, to burn
freely, should only be six inches deep in the
vessel containing it and then, if properly ig-
nited, there will be no trouble. By placing a
few oyster shells occasionally in stoves when
hot those disagreeable customers known as
cinkers will entirely disappear.