Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-10
GENERAL NEWS.

| Brigham Young has found one female disci-
pie who refuses to be sealed
Vallejo, California, has public library with
one thousand volumes.
A mulatto succeeds Gen. Bragg in the con-
troll of the New Orleans Water Works.
Irish landlords are sometimes warned now
a-days by finding fresh graves dug in their
front yards.
The Prcsbyterians have eleven churches in
the national capitol, with $500 COMMITMENTS.
Curious and ancient pottery has been un-
earthed by the washing of the flood at Ottum-
wa, Iowa.
Chinese bcggar in San Francisco is the
son of a former Emperor. Political reverses
sent him abroad
They have horse in Holden, Missouri, so
poor that the owner has to tie rail to his tail
to keep his body from slipping through the
collar.
Santa Anna is the Judas Iscariot of the
Mexicans in California. They burn his effigy
annually on the day preceding Good Friday.
A paper was lately read in the London An
throphological Society, suggesting that the
original seat of human civilization was proba-
bly, in Madagascar.
Henry ID. Wells, ex-Military Governor of
Virginia, who was wounded at the recent dis
aster at Richmond, has been nominated L. S.
District Attorney for Virginia.
A tombstone in western New York is 'In
memory of Adeline Cobb, who was struck by
lightning by her friend Mary Hicks"
Aberdeen, Scotland, has vocal society
numbering one thousand three hundred voices.
This is far ahead of anything in New York.
ported n bill providing for issue of T. S. bonds
to the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars,
to replace some which belonged to Reuben
Grindle of Castine, Me-, which were destroy
ed by fire in October, 1865.
The Amendment celebration at New Or
leans was a great success. The colored peo-
pie displayed considerable taste in their ban
ners and decorations, and behaved unexcep-
tionably.
! The Spaniards are afraid to execute the
Catholic priest sentenced to death in Cuba for
espousing the insurgents cause, and he will
probably be sent back to Spain.
An eminent physician says that the white
rubber used for nursing bottles and infants
toys is very poisonous, causing sore mouth,
skin eruption, decayed teeth, spinal curvature,
and death. In Europe, the sale of it is pro-
hibited by law.
A large white headed eagle was captured
alive in the woods near Nashua, n. H. The
eagle did not succumb without fight, leaving
the marks of his talons on the face of his cap
tor.
Mr.. John Russell Young, formerly man
aging editor of the Press, Philadelphia, and
subsequently, of the Tribune, New York, has
just started a two cent daily paper, in the lat
ter city, of the size of the Sun, but containing
more reading matter.
The territorial librarian of New Mexico has
Whereabouts by selling off their records of two
hundred years and valuable titles to property
for old wrapping paper.
\ young lady in Monson, Mass, was re-
Gently offered $500 for her hair, which lacks
but half an inch of being six feet long. On
her refusing the offer the would be purchaser
asked if $1,000 would be any inducement, to
which she replied, no. nor s., 900"
A Havana correspondent writes that all the
steamers going to Europe are crowded with
passengers. The law compelling persons who
| intend to go to the United States to give $500
bail prevents many from proceeding in that
direction
There has been steady increase in the
number of salmon in English rivers since the
appointment of royal commission in 1861 to
supervise the fisheries and to rcstock streams.
In Bradford, Wis, blind man carries on
eighty acres of land, doing nearly every kind
of work himself His young son guides him
about. In winter he manufactures brooms for
sale.
An owner is wanted for tombstone at Mo-
bile. On cleaning up the yard at the Custom
House an old box was broken open, in which
was found a marble tombstone, inscribed with
the name of ''Moses Land and the date of
his death, MAY /, 1859" 1t is supposed to
have been lying there since ante-bellum times.
! A public sale of lot of images, vases, and
water jars, made by the Aztec Indians and inn
ported from Mexico, recently took place in
San Francisco. Many of the vases resemblcd
in style and ornamental finish those found in
Egypt. All were of fine clay and were made
without the assistance of tools.
A story comes from Monticello, Kansas,
which recalls the most fearful features Of the
old days Of blood in the Southwest. Two in