Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-21

Connecticut has furnished twenty Bishops
to the Episcopal Church, of whom about one
half were from Hartford.
A man in Lynchburg, ILL.,, had his skull
fractured by brick in fight, which report
er styles "a controversy with friend"
Toronto feels aggrieved because the Grand
Trunk railway machine shops are not to be
there, but at Stratford.
One of the late cable dispatches has it that
the veteran author Tom Carlyle is coming on
visit to this country.
A religious association of Boston has dis
solved, because, though the ''poor heard the
gospel gladly" they didn't feel like paying
for it.
An English tailor has invented pair OF
trowsers with wheels at the end. The expert
ments are said to give the speed of horse
and the power of instantaneously stopping.
Paris annually sends $4,000 children into
the country to the charge of nurses. Many
die from insufficient care.
The story that Queen Victoria is about to
marry prince of the house of SchleswIg-
Holsteip, relative of her son-in- law, has
been repeated by Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt
Richie.
Jefferson Davis has been elected one of the
vestrymen of the ST. Lazarus Episcopal
Church of Memphis Tenn. Two of the sons
of the rector were Confederate officers, and
both killed during the war.
The corpse of the late King of Siam was
burned at Bangkok on the 18th of May last,
in presence of the new monarch, the mobiles,
BONES and ministers. The pyre was lighted
by the present king.
1t is stated that the action OF the Crispins is
the cause of the introduction Of Chinese
labor into the shoe shops of Massachusetts,
The manufacturers will carry out their Celes-
tial plan if it can be made to work.
The Saginaw Courier says that the salt pro-
duct of the Saginaw valley for the present
year is estimated at 100000 barrels, little
more than last year.
The proprietor Of country paper advertiscs
for an editor that can please everybody. Also
for foreman who can arrange the paper
that everybody's advertisement will head the
column.
The wheat fields of the Southern States are
ripe, and the harvest is in progress. The |
crop in Geogia, Mississippi and Alabama is
said to be good.
New Albany, Indiana, has a young lady
fifteen years Of age, who advertises for sit
uation to teach three languages, and is will
ing to assist in doing the Homework in the
family where she teaches.
The London Lancet states that Mr.. Bright's
health has materially improved. His progress
has been satisfactory, although it has been
retarded by sharp attack of lumbago.
An unpleasant person says it is a great con-
yenience to have women for postmistresses.
They can not only inform an applicant if there
is letter for him without looking, but can tell
him what's in it.
Gen. Mcclellan and wife have been for
some time stopping at the International Hotel,
Niagara Falls. Mrs. Mcclellan is an invalid,
great fears being entertained that her health
will never return.
A St. Louis mechanic sued his employer for
twenty thousand dollar damages for the loss
of leg caused by ''too high pressure OF
whiskey in the engineer of the establishment.
The pavement of modern Rome is sxcellent.
Each stone has the form of a blunt wedge,
eight inches in length which, when laid on
the principle of the arch, grows more COM
pact and durable the more it is travelled over.
1t also wears smoothly.