Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-11
GENERAL NEWS.

GENEh-4L We ..
The Mcthodists control forty-nine colleges
| in the United States.
The Home Baptist Missionary Society have
projected the erection Of theological semi
nary for colored men at Augusta, Ga.
A New York restaurateur announces Flo
rida peas and California salmon on his bill of
fare.
Henry j. Raymond was one of the bonds
men Of the defaulting collector, Bailey, Of
New York city.
Ida Greeley, Horace's daughter, writes
"TropcaI Sketches" for the Tribune. Her
style is warm and fervid.
Royal assent has been given to the bill for
the enforcement of the laws and the preser-
walton Of the peace in Ireland.
The Hon. George Ashmun, who presided at
the Chicago Conventioe of 1860, writes to
friends at Washington that he is on his death
bed.
The fat men have invaded politics with their
nonsense. A fat mems ticket was run at a
recent Iowa election, but it got very little sup
port.
considerable earthquake has taken place
in Greece. The town of St. Maur, in the
Ionian Islands, was entirely destroyed.
The number of workng-women in Paris is
computed at three hundred thou sand. Thirty
cents day is the average pay they receive.
A Cincinnati paper advertises for girls for
cooking" A contemporary replies: You
would like them raw, when you get accustom-
ed to them"
The members of the Mississippi Legislature
are economical. They voted themselves only
one dollar year for postage.
Gov. Palmer of Illinois has issued procla-
nation announcing to the people of that State
the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.
1t is proposed to tunnel the Detroit river,
as to have perfect railway connection be-
tween Chicago and the seaboard.
In Mortified, Minnesota, a storm of dirt
lately fell over the snow to the depth of
quarter of an inch.
The Pope says he don't care whether the
French troops leave Rome or not; he has lived
| through greater troubles than that.
A skeleton of an Indian was found last week
in hill near Pittsburgh, with a knife sticking
in the skull.
Louis Ross, the last of the line of the famous
Cherokee Roses, died in the Cherokee conn
try lately, very rich, and aged seventy three.
The Massachusetts, House Committee on
| Woman's Suffrage have reported in favor of
| resolution for submitting to the people an
| amendment striking out the word male" from
the Constitution.
| An Irishman sent to the Wisconsin State
prison was asked what trade he preferred to
| learn. He said that if it was all the same to
them, he preferred to be sailor.
elephant beetles" aflct Utah in the vicin-
ty of Salt Lake, covering the earth, and mar
vellous stories are told Of their Selling upon
dead oxen and devouring them in twenty min
| utes.
Mrs. General Gaines has applied to the
Legislature of Louisiana to pass an act en-
abing her to settle the New Orleans claims,
which the courts have already decided in her
favor.
youth asked Count Montroud-the me-
moir writer-to teach him the axh of succeed
ing in society. "Oh, it is simple enough
said the Count. "Talk to the middle-aged
and young ladies, and listen when the old ones
talk to YOU"
The so-called Russian American Company
demands from the Russian Minister of Finance
over 5000, 600 roubles for the losses which it
claims to have sustained by the cession of
Alaska to the United States.
Salisbury, N. Y, is an unhappy sort of
place. A letter was sent there lately, ad-
dressed to the Western Union Telegraph Of
fee, and returned with this marginal note on
it: ''dont Send Any more of these Letters to
Salisbury for they is No Such office here Nor
can't be for they is No Poles Neither is they
a good place.
A lady went into dry goods store in a New
England town, and inquired for "bleached
CLOTH" Several pieces of sheeting were shown
her for inspection but failed to suit. per
haps," said the lady, 'if should tell you
what l want it for, you would know what to
give me. 1t is to be used for reposing robes,
The man tainted.