Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Cairo, ILL.,, has abolished corporal punish
ment in her schools.
white dromedary is among the pets Eu-
genie brought home from her Eastern pilgrim
age.
Minnesota town probably has the young
est mother in this country. She lacks several
months of being twelve years old.
The product of seventeen of the principal
silver mines in Comstock Ledge, Nevada, dur
ing the past year, was S7,265,000.
There was a great snow storm in England
on Christmas day and the day following. At
Merionethshire the roads were filled with
snow to the depth of two or three feet.
Senator Sumner thinks the attempt of the
New York Legislature to withdraw the assent
of the State to the Fifteenth amendment is a
constitutional ridiculosity."
The Home for Juvenile offenders in Indian
apolis contains 1l9 boys. The expenses for
the past year amounted to about 353, 900, of
buildings.
A Chinese quack doctor has just bought a
SEC, 600 house in San Francisco, and the
Louisville Courier-Journal says that if he had
been a graduate of a medical school he would
have starved to death long ago.
An urchn of seven years went into bar
cut his hair as close as the shears could do it.
He was asked if his mother ordered it that
way NO." said he, ''but school commences
next week, and we've got schoolmaam that
pulls hair"
A man in North Brookfield tied his horse S
head and tail together, and drove it in circle
to cure it of baking. In one minute the ami
mails spirits were entirely broken, and so was
its neck, from running against post.
The California Senate has passed bill re-
pealing the clause in the Sunday law prohb-
| itng theatrical amusements on the Sabbath.
The Assembly adopted resolution congrat-
ulating the people of Tennessee on having re-
jected the Fifteenth Amen dment to the Ma
| tional Constitution.
There are twenty-thr ee shorthand writers
| in attendance on the Ecumenical Council,
eight Italians, four Frenchmen, as many Ger
mans, five Englishmen and two Americans.
They are all priests, and have taken an oath
to keep the debates and proceedings secret.
| Ulrich de Fouvielle, who fortunately was
not killed by Pierre Bonaparte, was in this
country, and served in the Union army dur
ing the war. He was an abide camp to Cen
eral Cluseret in the Shenandoah Valley cam
paign, and was afterward transferred to the
Typographical Corps serving under General
Warren to the close of the war.
The New York Board of Health report one
hundred and sixty cases of small pox in the
| 10th, llth and 18th wards of that city. The
disease is mostly confined to persons of for.
eign births recently arrived. The school
children have all been thoroughly vaccinated
and so far as they are concerned there is no
cause for alarm.
| On Mount Desert, public houses are being
erected by Messrs. S. Higgins, Abby, Ash
Brothers and J. Douglass. Mr.. Rodick is
building lodging house in connection with
the Rodick House; the Messrs. Hamor are
building two houses for Messrs. Minot and
Weld, of Boston, each fifty-three by forty-two
feet, two stories. DR.. Derby is having cot.
tage built Swiss cottage at Schooner Head
| is in course of construction as summer resi-
dence for Judge Brigham of Salem, and Chas.
l naso Of A nd q
number of private houses are also being built.
1t is estimated that at least half million feet
of lumber have been brought into the place
the present season. With ten public houses
in operation last season, and every available
room in the place used for dodgers, many visit
tors had to leave for the want of accommoda-
tions.