Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Imprisonment for debt in that State.
One of the famous female brokers of Wall
street announces herself candidate for the
Presidency!
Ten dollars was the wager which induced
Connecticut woman to eat a bushel of roast
oysters.
A Nevada Judge the other day fined himself
So for being late-probably for the benefit of
the Court.
David Crockett's last surviving son, Robert,
lives in Hood county, Texas.
April is known in New York as the month
of ..house hunting"
Pierre Soule was buried in New Orleans
last Sunday, General Beauregard being one
of the pall-bearers.
Two bills for the protection of married
women are before the British Parliament
The trial of Mcfarland for the murder of
A. d. Richardson, was commenced in the
Court of General Sessions, New York, Mon
day morning.
Shelbyville, Tenn, is having an epidemic
of mad dogs Some thirty or forty were killed
around there lately.
In Paterson. New Jersey, there are sixteen
silk factories, in which $500 hands are en-
ploycd and 10000 spindles run.
A lady asked pupil at public examna-
ton ola Sunday school, "What was the sin OF
the Pharisees?' Eating camels, marm,"
quickly replied the child.
News comes from the West that the crops
promise well for the next season. The grow
ing wheat will have more to do with resump.
ton of specie payments than many persons
suppose.
The death of famous brigand chief, Pas
ouale Torreggnani, who for seven years has
been the terror Of an Italian province, is an
nounced. He was shot by the troops sent to
arrest him.
If no tidings are received of the city of Bos-
ton. she will be the fourth ocean steamer that has
vanished with all on board. The others are
the President, City of Glasgow and the Pa
| cifc
make more money in raising beets at So per
ton for sugar-making than they can in raising
wheat or any other kind of grain.
The Established Kirk of Scotland has 1854
congregations and about 100000 members.
The Free Church lsas about 253, 000 and the
united Presby terians about l60, 900 commune
cants.
bill is now before the California Legsla-
ture prohibiting the expectation of dead Chi
namen. With John the only way to heaven
is through China, and the object is to rid the
State of the Chinese.
Lexington, Virginia, has had an excitement,
in the recent erection of the first steam-engine
ever seen in the place. When the engineer
put on steam the villagers INDUCED in de-
lighted cheers.
In the Quaker town of Nantucket there
used to be military company called the
Nantucket Guards, the first article in the Con-
stitution of which was ''In case of war this
company shall Immediately disband."
A Baltimore couple, recently married, APP
pended to the announcement of the fact in the
papers: advertised for the benefit of few
of our inquisitive friends"
Bishop Simpson playfully observes, in one
Of his lectures, that while in Europe he never
travelled with German student without being
told that he (the student) was saving money
to go to America nor rode with an 1rshman
that did not ask him if he knew his cousin
\ young man recently went to the banks of
the Danube for the purpose of drowning him
self. He laid his hat on the ground, when a
soldier on guard shouted, "Fall back there,
or I'll shoot you" The young man picked
up his hat and rapidly ran away. Death by
shooting was not in the programme.
A Judge at Sank Rapids, Mimi, is keeper
of provision and grain store, and holds his
court there, amid quarters of beef, bins of
grain, and sacks of -four strewn about the
floor. frequently he is obliged to leave the
bench to wait on customers the lawyers mean
while eating peanuts and cracking jokes.
A matchmaker in Meriden, Conn, has on
exhibition in his shop an old watch, with only
an hour hand and common catgut for a
winding chain. 1t has a brass case, but was
originally enclosed in huge tortoise shell.
The inscription on the watch is "W. Lee, No.
., designating it PIP years old, undoubt-
eddy the oldest running watch in America. 1t
keeps excellent time, not varying two min
utes week.
An iron ore is said to have been discovered
in York county, Pa, which has the peculiar
power of transforming pig iron into good steel
by simple mixture of the two in pudding
furnace. The ore is soft and friable in the
bed, so much so that it can be mined with the
spade, but upon exposure to the atmosphere it
soon hardcns. Professor Lesley, who has ex-
amined the ore bed, estimates the contents at
seventeen million tons.
On Wednesday last five young women,
three of whom were from Hartford, one from
Collinsville, and one from Providence enter
ed the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in