Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-26
GENERAL NEWS.

constantly for twenty-one years
Miss Lewis, the American sculptures at
Rome, was born in a wigwam, her mother be-
ing an Indian and her father negro.
At Berlin, inthe space of one week, recent
ly, eight suicides were committed.
A Cincinnati lady is not discouraged by the
loss of eight husbands, but is going to try
again.
Private letters from Southern Kansas and
the Indian Territory say the smallpox prevails
to great extent.
p. T. Barnum has been lecturing the Nor
mons at Salt Lake City on the "Art of money
getting"
Ice thirty three inches thick, and so clear
that newspaper can be read through it, is
product of Minnesota.
An editor in Michigan offers Presbyterian
church and graveyard as premium to the
getter-up of the largest club of subscribers for
his paper.
Secretary Boutwell, has ordered the revenue
cutter Lincoln to the Alaska Islands to look
obtain the skins of fur seals.
There arc 5lS inmates in the Indiana State
Insane Asylum at Jacksonvile-a larger
number than was ever confined there before.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company has
finally purchased the California Pacific Rail
road, and will take possession in June next.
The average annual production of beer in
England is %, 200, 900 barrels, of which four
fifths are consumed at home.
A St. Louis man hung himself because his
third wife wanted him to buy her son new
coat.
The white mans party has broken out in
Alabama. 1t is of mild type, and will not
create much excitement in political circles.
The estimate of the gold crop of the coun-
try for the year 1869 is sos 500, 900, of which
California produced nearly one-third.
The proposition to impeach Judges Field
and Hoffman creates much indignation in San
Francisco, where the charges against them are
not credited.
A democratic editor in the interior boosted
that the result of the New York state election
was "great moral triumph"
Miss Dorothea L. Dix, whose labors in be-
half of the insane have been equal to John
Towards for imprisoned convicts, is seriously
ill.
Cuban robbers approach cottage on the
run, cry, 1.-The troops are coming!" and when
the family have fed pillage at their leisure.
Excursion parties will be far more numer-
Gus this year than ever before. The Pacific
coast will be largely visited and many of the
western roads are organizing excursion trips.
Railway carriages in Sweden are warmed
by means fhot sand placed in eases along the
side of the car and heated and renewed at
each terminus.
About nine hundred thousand dollars worth
of eastern railroad tickets and half ton of
mail matter were among the items destroyed
at the late fire in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
A boy named Gardner Brown, son of Am
brose Brown, of Dover, n. H., was killed on
Friday, while playing baseball, by the ball
striking his head
A little boy hid, the other evening, in the
mash-tub of Cincinnati distllery and was
boiled to death when the scalding fluid was let
in.
During a thunderstorm recently at st.
John, N. b., the lightning struck the wires of
the fire. alarm telegraph. which are connected
with some of the bells of the city churches,
ringing them in two or three instances.
Shrewd Cinnamon have been smuggling
opium, spices and tea into San Francisco by
throwing overheard waterproof packages with
chain and buoy attached, just before landing
pick them up at night.
Hereafter, according to the laws of Missip
pi, any person sending or accepting chal-
! lenge, or second carrying one, or any person
going out Of the State to fight duel, will be
forever DISTINGUISHED.
Governor Bullock publishes letter review
ing the investigation into the alleged bribery
of senators upon the Georgia case, in which
he congratulates himself that nothing was
proved, and asserts that the whole affair may
be traced to the personal influence of Joshua
Hill.
There are rumors of combination between
those who advocate the importation and reg
istry of foreign built vessels, and those who
urge the payment of drawbacks on materials
used in the building of vessels in this country.
This arrangement, if successful will be more
profitable to the shipbuilders of Scotland than
of New England.
Miss Milford writing of certain author
css, says: "She is ugly, of course; all litera-
ry ladies are so. never met one.i in my life
| Except Miss Jane Porter, and she is rather
passee) that might nothave served for scare
crow to keep the birds from the cherries. It's
a prodigiously strange and disagreeable pecu-
liarity."
General Eaton, Commissioner of Education.