Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.

from Europe early in May.
Ohio has 5000, 900 sheep, their annual profit
being $1,000 900.
General Fremont has been rendered po
sition of high rank in the army of the Pasha
of Egypt.
A survivor of the Wyoming massacre, in
1888, has just died in New York, aged ninety
seven.
Umbrellas with windows are the latest in
yention The windows are presumed to make
the umbrellas lighter.
interest on the bonds ''nominaly outstanding"
is stated to be S944,Oo0.
Public opinion in Austria is disturbed at
the growing anti Prussian tendencies of South
Germany, fearing that they will lead to anoth-
er civil war
The answer to the latest question, "What
is house without baby?" is, well, compar-
atively quiet
A marble statue of Hercules has just been
found in the Roman cisterns discovered at
Constantine Algeria. 1t has been deposited
in the museum of that town.
new Roman Catholic catechismis is soon to
appear bearing the title of "Catechsm of the
Council of the Vatican
There are over two thousand applications
on file at the State Department for consul
ships, nearly all of which are well indorsed.
The coal mines of Takusuma, in Japan, are
being successfully worked by Europeans. Up
wards of one hundred tons day of excellent
quality are now raised.
The Canadian expedition to the Red river,
it is now said, will consist of ten thousand
picked men, two thousand militia, a steel bat
terry and pocket brigade.
The Emperor of Brazil has issued decree
prolonging until the end of December, 1870,
the privilege granted to foreign vessels, of be-
ing engaged in the coasting trade of that
country.
Some of the citizens of New Bedford,
Mass, are organizing movement to obtain
authority to surrender their city charter and
return to town government.
Among the rs roughs who were caught at
the prize fight in Connecticut were "Reddy,
the blacksmith" Patsey Shepard, "Baby"
Collins, New York alderman and three 9TH
er New York officers.
ST. Louis is suffering under a premature at
tack of hot weather. The Republican of the
the 18th says that April has become unusually
fervent, and glows with the warm nature of
sensuous June.
A French fleet has sailed from Hong Kong,
China, at latest dates, to demand satisfaction
for the murder of French missionary by the
Chinese at Szchuen. When last heard from,
it was at the mouth Of the Noonsung river.
Governors Fairchld of Wisconsin, Austin
of Minnesota, Merrill of Iowa, and Harry of
Kansas, are in Washington urging Congress
to make an appropriation for canal between
the Mississippi and Lake Michigan.
Melbourne, Australia, is to have a mint.
The machinery is said to be the most perfect
made. Hitherto all Australian money has
been coined at Sydney. No silver or copper
coinage is struck there.
The receipts from customs and internal
revenue have been very heavy this month,
and Secretary Boutwell, speaks encouraging
y of there being much larger reduction in
the amount of the public debt than usual
"To the parent whose son dies in infancy"
says the Louisville Courier journal, ''there
must be something peculiarly soothing in the
thought that no matter what may be the fate
of the child in the next world, it can never be-
come member of baseball club in this"
The project of union to be called ''The
United States of Southern Germany" is Wig
orously canvassed in some of the German
journals. The kingdoms of Bavaria and
Wurtemburg, the Grand Duchy of Baden and
the southern part of the Grand Duchy of IIesse
are the suggested participants.
Senator Saulsbury's term expires on the 4th
of March, 1871. Should the Republicans
carry the Legislature of Delaware next fall,
it is understood that Hon. George p Fisher,
recently nominated by the President as United
States District Attorney, will be the Republ-
can candidate for the United States Senate.
Judge Fisher is a native of Delaware, and
proposes to resume his residence in that
State.
Senator Sprague of Rhode Island has writ
ten letter to one of his constituents urging
the whole manufacturing interests of the
North to oppose the effort to repeal, for one
year, the duties on cotton and spinning ma
chinery for the benefit of the South. He says
that such a repeal would not only damage the
machine-sho interest of the North, but the
cotton manu- ufacturing interest as well which
already suffers from over production.
Mr.. Caldwell, late American Minister to
Bolivia, who now appears at Washington as
Minister from Bolivia to the United States,
claims that according to precedents, he is en-
titled to be accepted by our government as
such. Other governments, he says, have set
examples, and our own government receives