Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-03
has been introducsdin the Oregon legislature.

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gain.-Detroit Tribune.
The French Sanitary Fair, in San Francis
CO, closed on the 9th, and the total amount
realized is $50, 900, large part of which has
been forwarded to France.
A young farmer who inquired the best way
to start nursery, was told to marry.
Mrs. A c. Wakefield. authoress of the
beautiful poem cover the River" died at
Winchended, Mass, last week, aged 50.
The Ex-Emperor Napoleon is reputed to
hold So 900, 900 in Dutch railway securities.
He had not much money when he assembled
the throne, his various previous attempts at
power having exhausted means once ample.
Virginia judge has revived the lash as
means of punishment, and recently sentenced
colored man, nearly eighty years old, who
had stolen rope valued at thirty cents, to
receive ten lashes upon the bare back.
Desperate efforts are made in Salt Lake
City to keep up the waning faith of Mormon
ism The leaders, who find their power
slipping away from.them, have brought on
from Chic one Martin Harris, an old man of
eighty eight years, who processes to have
been a witness when Joe Smith received the
Book of Mormon, and "to have seen the angel
and handled the golden plates"
The manufactures of Turkey are reported,
on recent reliable authority, to be on the de-
10 for which
Damascus was famous, no longer exist. The
muslin looms of Scutari and Prnova, which
numbered two thousand in 1912, are now re-
duced to less than two hundred spindles; and
velvets, do not now produce one-tenth the
amount of forty years ago.a
Governor Shatfer, of Utah, publishes a
letter censuring General de Trobiand for not
more promptly investigating the outrages by
the United States soldiers upon the people in
the Mormon village of Provo. He writes ::
ST the United States soldiery cannot fulfil
the high object in being sent, to the better
credit of the nation and the American armies,
we would much rather be let alone to our
selves"
The New Roman Government announces
the appropriation Of 100000 900 lire to defray
the expenses of the inauguration of Rome as
the capital Of Italy. The enthusiasm of the
inhabitants is boundless, and the plebiscitum
is expected to be unanimous. The Pope
will probably leave Rome as soon as the re-
suit is declared. Parliament will meet on
the ~ proximo to ratify the plebiscitum, and
on the 18th the King will make his entry into
Rome, and alight at the Quirinal.
Drawing is to be introduced into the public
schools of Mass, as a part of the regular
course of instruction.
The frigate Guerrero which was conveying
the body of Admiral Farragut to New York
got ashore on Wednesday at Nantucket. The
body was transferred to another steamer and
taken to New York.
The new judge of the Supreme Court,
nominated by the Governor of New Hampshire,
is Harry Hibbard, and not Harvey Hubbard,
as the telegraph reported. Mr.. Hibbard was
formerly and for many years an active demo-
GRAFT
A writer in the New York Tribune says:
"To one who knows, it is surprising how lit
tie faith there still is in the value of news
paper advertising; and still more surprising
that it is claimed that circulars are more po-
tent than newspapers, when the experience
of all who have most thoroughly tried both
methods has satisfied them that circulars
rarely initiate business transaction of any
great magnitude, while the expense of print
ing often exceeds that of advertising in the
most valuable mediums offered by newspa-
pers. Many business man is afraid of the
expense of advertising, and yet will pay high
rents for prominent store to exhibit his
wares, and put up expensive signs, and seems
not to know that both are expensive methods
of advertising"
1t is given out that after the proclamation
of King William as Emperor of Germany it
is the intention of Bismarck to recompense
the King of Saxony for the loss of his crown
by placing his son, Prince John, on the throne
of Spain, with the aid of Prm.
That was a very grim humor of the dea-
con who remarked to his newly settled minis
ter, 1.-The Lord keep you humble and we will
keep you poor"
LETTER FROM ANDROSCOGGIN