Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-25
GENERAL Ne W.S.
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| The California Pacific Railroad Company
are building fifty cars to carry grain in bulk
A lady, injured by the falling of seats at a
circus in Oregon, recovered $1,000 damages
An enterprising merchant out West adver-
tises .'all change under three cents made in
specie"
A new daily paper with J. Russell Young
AS editor. is to be started in New York in May.
May-day celebrations in the olden style will
take place in several of the Mississippi towns.
There are now 800 factories for the pro-
duction of beet sugar in Russia. This indus
try has become one of the most important in
the empire.
The New York Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church has voted in favor of
lay delegations by l45 to so.
A bearded woman of Toulouse died recent
ly. The length of her days was l04 years,
and Of her beard two feet.
An outward and visible sign of the COM
mencement of court economy in Paris is that
the Empress has positively appeared twice in
public in the same dress.
The two marke, houses in Atlanta, Ca, are
to be sold. The markets are not remunera-
tive, and the money held up in them is SO
much lost capital
Tipperary, with population of 250 900, re-
quires more police than Armagh, Down, and
Antrim, with population of million. Such
is the spirit of the 'Tipperary boys"
When the British government undertook
the working of the Telegraph department, not
only were the female clerks retained, but fifty
additional ones were appointed.
Mr. Under Secretary Hammond says that
although the United States does not maintain
expensive embassies, yet where its diplomatic
interests are directly concerned it spends more
money than England.
The Emigrant wave flow from Europe to
the United States has not yet reached full
tide. Ten steamships will leave the port of
Liverpool during the next ensuing week for
this country, taking out six thousand five
hundred persons.
In Scott county, Missouri, last week, ahalf
crazed youth, named Welge, shot and killed
little sister because she refused to eat at his
command. He escaped to the woods, but was
captured and sent to the Lunatic Asylum
The Chicago Post wants to know ''why
didn't somebody think of it to suggest that
Mcfarland WAS insane before he killed Rich
ardsont He was crazy as a loon for year or
two, but nobody thought to mention it to any
body else until the shooter shot his man."
Late Southern papers make strong appeals
to the President to reconsider his determine
ton not to recommend Congress to grant uni
versal amnesty to participants in the late re-
bellion They plead earnestly for the re-
moval of all disabilities
A Pennsylvania editor rejects an advertise
ment sent him by an Indiana lawyer on the
condition that he should take his pay in di-
vorces, saying, however, that he does so be-
cause he is bachelor, and the proposition is
"scandalously premature.
Mr.. vallandigham authorizes his friends
to say that ''under no circumstances will h,
be candidate for Congress this fall" Hi
friends say he is in reserve for the next Sena
torial election.
Connecticut is considering the propriety u
State Convention to revise its Constitution
by striking out the word white from the quail
ifcations Of voters, and changing the time O
the annual election to November, that the
Legislature may sit in the winter.
Rowdies and pugilists will be interested tc
hear that Jim Mace and Tom Allen will hav,
a fight on the 10th of May, within fifty mile
of New Orleans.
The Lewisburg pa Chronicle thinks tn
stringent Polygamy law proposed to be passe,
by the Senate viii be very trying upon Sal
Lake City--and New York"