Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Hon. b. F. Wade is candidate for Con-
gross, in Ohio.
The Rothschilds are said to have lost lately
enormous sums OF money.
Nearly all the Fenian leaders have been re-
leased on bail.
The "Anti-Radical' is the unique name of
new paper just started at Newborn, North
Carolina.
The Bedford 0nd.) News says that a bull
frog weighing six pounds was captured last
week near that place.
The largest raft ever on the Mississippi was
one from the Chippewa river, containing two
million feet of lumber.
Arrangements have been completed at Ber-
lin for the annexation of the duchy of Lau-
renburg to the kingdom of Prussia.
Outside of New Orleans there were no pub
lie schools in Louisiana until 1869.
A Scandinavian Lutheran Church was or
ganized lately at Duluth, Mimi, among the
laborers on the Northern Pacific railroad.
The Minnesota Western railroad has chang
ed its name, and is now known as the Mime
apolis and St. Louis Railway.
The English Congregational Union, at its
late meeting in London, had an earnest discus
sion on the subject of a revision of the Eng
ish Bible.
Advices from the west coast of Africa re-
port that a party of missionaries have been
captured by the Ashantces and taken into the
interior.
Admiral Farragut was invited to take part
in the ceremonies at Knoxville, Tenn, on Me-
mortal day. but was forced to decline because
of illness. He is in very poor health.
The sentence of death passed upon the
English convict Rutherford, who was respited
on account of the malformation of his neck,
has been committed to penal servitudc for
life.
In the General Assembly of the United Pres
byterian Church, the question, docs di-
vorce secured on the ground of desertion
leave the parties at liberty to marry again?'
was answered in the affirmative.
The silk manufacturers of Paterson, n. j.,
are looking forward to the time when raw silk
can be obtained from California and members
of the leading silk firms have been sent to that
State to acquaint themselves with the pros
poets of silk culture there.
Many of the more intelligent slaves in Tex
as used to escape into Mexico, where all colors
are equal and prejudice does not prevail
90 to Mexico for the sake of equality which
there prevails.
The manufacture Of cigars in Key West has
greatly increased since the Cuban war has
driven so many people away from the island.
The import tax on the tobacco used this year
it is estimated will amount to $50, OOO Last
year it was only $4,000.
The Andaman islands, in the Bay of Ben
gal, are reported to be sinking There are
G,O00 convicts on them but they will not be
drowned unless they live 1000 years, that be-
ing the time computed for the disappearance
of the islands beneath the water.
The support of the bishops is becoming
question of interest in the Methodist Episco-
pal church. Their support is now derived
from the profits of the publication business,
and this is objected to as requiring to keep up
the prices and thus control the circulation of
the Methodist literature.
In Massachusetts, teacher asked little
that she did not know. The question was put
to the next, an Irish child. who answered
loudly, "Adam, SIR" with apparent satsfac-
ton. LAW" said the first scholar, 'syou
needn't feel SO grand about it; he wasn't an
Irishman!"