Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-28
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Revels was once excluded from the Senate
gallery on account of color.
| Capt. Eyre, the drowner of the Oneida
crew, proves to be a near relative of the no.
torious Jamaica Governor of that name.
Eight-nine dozen eggs, given an Illinois
minister at donation visit, is called ''lay
tivity."
An Ohio murderer who escaped conviction
on the plea of insanity, now refuses to pay
his lawyers for the same reason.
An cnterprising Yankee woman in London
sells pop corn in Soho Bazaar, exhibiting
parchment declaring her to be corn pepper
to the royal family"
In Burmah there is still an unrepeaed statute
of the realm making it capital crime for a
native to change his religion
Ex-senator Wigfall and family have turned
up in England, where they are quietly living.
They wish to return to Texas, but not under
the present state of affairs.
The old graveyard at Newcastle, Delaware,
is being washed away by the Delaware, and
from the river bank ghastly rows of human
bones project.
The male students of the Indiana Medical
College have given one of the lady students a
gold headed cane. The question now arises,
''What will she do with it,
1t lis stated that Hon. Montgomery Blair will
attempt to secure the nomination for Congress
from the 9Th district of Maryland, now repre-
scented by Frederick Stone.
Captain Ewing in the Putnam County
(Ohio) Sentinel, offers to make the following
wager Fifty dollars that there will be women
in Congress within three years
| Wild ducks are abundant in Illinois on the
Illinois river. One man who hunted a whole
day. not far from Meredosis, killed two hun
dred and thirty head.
Three hundred Iowa merchants have re-
solved to use nothing but silver for "change"
in all their transactions of business.
Several young ladies have presented them
selves at the Michigan Agricultural College
for admission. The only requisite will be the
ability to pass the examination.
The small feet question is discussed in the
mission circles in China. Shall parents be
admitted into the Christian church who con-
tinue to compress the feet of their children:
Governor Clafin of Massachusetts,, has is
sued proclamation appointing the seventh
day of April as the annual fast day in the
State.
There is likely to be large emigration. of
Cornish miners here this spring. The mining
interest in Cornwall has been greatly de-
pressed of late years.
An unpleasant young lady in Chicago re-
venged herself on woman she disliked, by
stealing her child, carrying it into church
organ loft and taking away all its clothes, the
other day.
The funeral of Prince Henri de Bourbon
was conducted by Free Masons, of which or
der he was a member When the remains
were brought to the church, the officiating
priest seeing masonic emblems on the coffin
withdrew the insignia of the church and re-
fused to perform the ceremonies.
The famous ''tea race" has a rival in its
claims for public attention Last week six
! iron vessels left San Francisco for Cork and
| Liverpool, laden with cereals. Much interest
is felt ms to sailing qualities and relative speed.
A young lady in Brattleboro' made SOM
nambulist excursion the other night of more
than mile in the snow, barefoot, in her robe
de NUT, and only awoke as she locked the
door on her return. Result, severe cold.
The Southern States are beginning to cult
waite China grass, to be used as a substitute
for silk A machine and process for its pre-
paration have already been patented. The
louisiana planters have raised the most of
this grass, but they sell it in London where it
is worked into what are called japanese silks.
Some Michigan Spirtualists called for the
Devil at recent seance, but when he APP
pcared, ''sx feet high, clothed in black to the
ends of his fingers, which were armed with
cruel claws" they cleared the room, and will
'raise the 'Dcvil" no more.
Brigham Young has had the following no.
tice published: Married in Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the 10th ultimo, in the presence of
the saints, Elder Brigham Young to Mrs. j.
! X. Martin, Miss L. NJ. Pendergast, Mrs. r.