Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-31
GENERAL NEWS.

Carl Schurz is writing history of Germany
and the Germans.
BY the burning of the ship Sunbeam, at
Valparaiso, six persons were burned to death.
The New York Tribune won't admit that
Bryant is our greatest poet. 1t instals Whit
tier in that position.
New Bedford is going to have the Peace
Jubilee in June, with not less than one thou
sand singers.
Rel is not disposed to accept the COM
promise offered in the Manitoba scheme. He
is disposed to claim little power for himself.
England has sixty-nine monasteries and
two hundred and thirty-three nunneries.
We are paying off the national debt at the
rate of half million day. That's pretty
fair work.
There is only one town in Massachusetts,
that has not a church building.
Embroidered leather and gay-colored silks
have superseded paper and paint as wall
hangings in nobby Long Branch cottages.
The British Museum has cost the govern
ment about 500, 900, 900, and about half a
million year is expended on it. 1t is free.
Brigham Young paid s75 to take his family
to circus, the other day, and only took pa TT
of the children at that.
Senator Wilson says that he will take &C.
casion to reply to the Galaxy article by Judge
Black on the late Mr.. Stanton in a short
time.
The latest from the Darien expedition is to
the effect that it has nearly finished its work
and will soon report the result Of its labors.
An honest old farmer, seeing good deal of
mention about the ''plebiscitum" in France,
expressed the hope that the disease would not
reach this country.
woman's rights woman fixes mans sphere
from the following text, found in End Kings,
2l; Is IL will wipe Jerusalem as man
wipeth q dish
lady who is trying to cure her husband of
smoking has learned to smoke the weed her.
self, and complains that sit is rather an ex-
pcnsive habit for two"
Paris has a large society for supplying
doctors with subjects for dissection-them-
selves, when they die
The "Great Organ" of Boston is to be out
done in London. One is in process of build
ing there which will cost $50, 900.
A Floridian patriarch of 81 is called father
by fifty-nine children, besides one not old
enough to call him anything.
The peach stones thrown away by rebel
pickets along the Petersburg line" have
formed a continuous line of trees, fifty miles
long, which bore profusely last year.
The shores of Walden pond, in Concord
Mass, hallowed by the hermit life of Thoreau,
are actually springing up into peanut bushes,
the germs of which are dropped there by
munching visitors
A hotel bell-boy in Detroit proves to be a
girl. She has worked on a canal as driver,
on a steamer as a cook, and in chair factory
without her sex being discovered.
The venerable Bishop Kemper, of the
Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin, widely
known as the pioneer bishop ofthe Northwest,
died at his residence in Milwaukee, Wis,
Tuesday afternoon, aged 81 years.
Upon the marriage of one of her compan-
ions, a little girl about eleven years of age,
of the same school, said to her parents,
why, dent you think Amelia is married,
and she hasn't gone through fractions yeti"
Bishop Simpson will leave America on
June sth, to preside over the Germany and
Switzerland Conference, which meets on
June 10th. As no episcopal officer has visited
there in three years, Bishop Simpson will
have several elders and deacons to ordain.
1t has been stated by some one curious in
statistics, that the whole amount of grain
raised in New England each year would not
supply its inhabitants six weeks.
According to the N. Y. Evening Post,
there was regular and well-established scale