Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-03-18
GENERAL NEWS.

The price of goods of all kinds must follow
gold.
The Glouccsteryessels lost on the Georges,
dnrinp last MONTH more than one hundred
anchors.
July is gradually being fixed on by common
consent as the date of the adjournment Of
Congress.
Josh Billings reckons among the Lost Arts
Pumpkin P, Rum and Tanzy-Honesty,
and the art ov getting up in the morning.
Residents Of Sheboygan county, Wis, had
one hundred and eighteen days Of continuous
seghing up to the 7th inst.
An artisan well at Morrison, H., has been
eighty feet without finding pure water.
San Francisco judge tempered justice
with mercy by fining a starved girl 20 cents
for stealing, and then raising $40 for her from
sympathiing spectators.
In Illinois corn shelling is now done by per-
sons who travel from farm to farm with a
machine. The usual charge is two cents PR
bushel Six to eight hundred bushels is a
days work.
The draw of the new iron railroad bridge at
Peoria, which contains 220 tons OF iron, will
be really to swing in a few days.
A Finland vessel has conveyed to St. Peters
burg two enormous blocks of stone from the
banks of Lake Ladoga, each weighing 12, 900
pounds, to be used for the pedestal Of the
statute of Catharine II.
German woman living near Groveland,
Tezewell county H., married her fifth husband
the other day Her first husband ran away,
the second hung himself, and third shot HIM
self, and the fourth was drowned.
The best ice secured in Massachusetts this
season has cost more than three times as much
of snow from the ponds. The thin snow-ice
secured has cost about as much as the best
blue ice in other winters.
Count Bismarck has given the University of
Virginia valuable collection of Photographic
and angraved designs If recent government
works in Germany, exhibiting the modern im-
provements applied to bridges, canals, rail-
ways and public buildings.
1t is said that the Directors of the Boston,
Hartford Erie Railroad were compelled to
obtain the legal opinion of distinguished New
York lawyer on an important point, for which
the small fee Of sixty y-thousand dollars was
paid.
Lake Ontario was frozen over a few days
since it is said from the Canada to the Amer
can shore, and as far east and west as the eye
could reach. This is the first time that this
great lake has been ice-bound for many years.
On Saturday morning a scamstress named
Mary j. Lunsford was found murdered in her
bed in Mansfield, Ohio. The body was hor-
ribly mutilated, and the appearance of the
room indicated that there had been desperate
struggle between the murderer and the victim.
Assistant Postmaster Genera: Terrell has
received specimens of the new postage stamps.
They are far superior to those at present in
use, and printed in appropriat colors. 1t is
probable that the stamps will be ready for sale
by the first of April.
In Delaware the Democracy are in great
trouble concerning the new American citizens.
They say thev .'wll not ask negro to vote
their ticket, but if a negro asks for one of
their tickets they will not rudcly refuse to
give it to him." Very kind and obliging, are
they not?
There are no tidings yet from the murderer
Yerger. The Mississippi Legislature passed
a resolution appointing Committee to idVes-
tigate the circumstances of his escape, and
an effort was made to pass bill instructin9
the Governor to offer reward Of S25, 900 fol
his apprehension; also to appropriate $780,
600 as secret service fund. Without def
mite action the bill was laid rside.
Doniestir Nems.