Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-04
GENER4L NEWS.

Over forty Washington ladies claim that
thew refused to dance with Prince Arthur.
venmonter boasts of killing forty-three
foxes the past winter
Dartmouth is crowded with students, and
the dormitories accommodate hardly one third
of them.
The Sparta Herald announces that Gen C.
c. Wa.hburn will not be candidate for
nomination to Congress next fall.
The Georgia wheat crop is backward, but
uniformly good. Ploughing for cotton has
been delayed by the rains.
The New York Mail says that Miss Mehlig
is now acknowledged to stand at the head of
the lady pianists of this country, if not of the
world.
San Francisco is excited over crab brought
from Japan, which spreads thirteen feet and
weighs forty pounds.
Trade returns in Belgium show that in 1869
the imports increased nine per cent. and the
exports six per cent. on those of 1868.
An indianapolis grocer has been married
three times and divorced twice within year,
and now has the same wife he started with.
bill is in the Pennsylvania Legislature to
compel railroads to open their ticket offices at
least an hour before train time.
San Francisco dinner party was broken
up by some Guy Fawkes explodingten pounds
of powder under the floor. No one was hurt.
but they all lost their appetites.
The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, who is
expected to visit the United States the coming
summer is only 81 years old, and said to be
the best-looking Prince in Europe.
Frogs are easily pleased. A German pro-
fessor has discovered that if you take out the
BRAIN and then rub a wet finger down the
frogs back, the creature will croak with de-
light.
Capt. William Reed sailed on Saturday on
his one hundred and first voyage, between the
ports of Ncwburyport and Porto Rico, in the
employ of the firm of Robert Bayley & Son.
Fruit-growers in many sections of New
Hampshire are offering reward of half a dol
lar for every partridge killed in or near their
orchards. 1t is thought that the birds destroy
apple buds.
Vermont school committee man has en-
tered on the records his opinion that one in
stitution is "a very good Chool for smoall
Schalears think that the chalears hav learant
and like the Chool weary WE'LL
A dinner party was given last week by Will
liam Skinner, of Haydenvlle, Mass, one of
the directors of the Northampton National
Bank, in honor of its president, Eliphalet
Williams. on his ninetieth birthday.
A Grand banquet was given at the residence
of Mr.. Motley, American Minister to England,
in London, on Monday evening last in honor
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and number of
other celebrities were present on the occasion.
Five buildings on wheels, with stove-pipes
protruding from the rear, and each drawn by
four yoke of oxen, passed through Clinton,
Mo-, the other day, heading for the south
west. Each wagon formed house, to entitle
the owner to homestead farm.
The Paris journals state that the Emperor
has requested Prince Pierre Bonaparte to
leave the country, and that he is coming to the
United States.
The Republicans of Charlotte, Mich, were
amused the other day at the candor of Dem
ocratic editor, who, being temperance man,
was desired to take part in recent temper
ance convention. He replied that, as the ed
itor of the Democratic organ of the county,
he could not consistently participate in pro-
hibition convention.
Last week number of immigrants made
their appearance in Milwaukee. They were
the first of the spring immigrants, and num-
bered some fifty able bodied men, all Scand-
navians. Some of them go to Minnesota, and
the remainder to Northern and Northwestern
Wisconsin.
AT Sioux City Iowa, few days ago, Miss
Humphrey, teacher in the High School,
punished one of the female pupils. This so
enraged the mother of the child that she at
tackled the teacher with butcher-knife, and
the latter escaped injury only through the in
reference Of Mr.. Rogers, principal of the
school.