Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-07
GENERAL NEWS.

, William G. Stearns, who has acted as stew
ard for Harvard College for twenty-six years
has resigned his Office.
Another young lady has been admitted t.
membership in typographical union.
The elections in Trinity Bay, Newfound
land, resulted in the defeat of the Anti-Con
. federation candidate for Colonial Secretary.
A coon hunter, in Boscawen, N. H., treet
: coon and attempted to roast him out. I
} cost him $40, 600 in timber burned.
This season has proved to be the poores
for cheese-making known in Vermont fol
thirty years.
There are 8, 1926 Friends in Iowa. Among thai
number two only were reported having indulg
ed in the vicious habit of swearing during
the year past.
| Drummers are mercilessly overhauled in
the south by the local authorities. They are
arrested for selling goods by sample, and
heavily fined if they do not pay exorbitant
license fees.
The complete returns of the census of
Delaware give population Of 125,050 souls
in 1870, against liz, 2l6 in 1860, an increase
an increase of liza per cent.
A New York paper says Mrs. Dectress
Mary Walker paraded Nassau street on Sat-
urday in masculine suit of black silk She
paid no attention to the newsboys and boot
blacks who followed at her heels.
| 1t is announced, upon the authority of a
Berlin newspaper, that the ehignon has gone
quite out of fashion in that city, nobody wear
ing this unsightly addendum except the demi-
monde.
| Professor I. c. Watson has been intrusted
by the Superintendent of the United States
Coast Survey with the important work of pre-
pairing new tables of the moon for the use Of
navigation.
| Regent Serrano has published decree in
Spain permitting religious teaching in schools,
but exempting from its operations the children
of parents who object to such instruction.
Archbishop Manning, at Westminster Ca
thedral, on Sunday, in referring to Victor
Emmanuel in connection with the present
changes in Italy, compared the king with
Pontius PLATE.
The proposal was made at the Evangelical
Alliance meeting last week in New York,
that the next general Protestant conference
be held at Rome, where religious liberty now
exists by the constitution Of Italy.
A cargo of paper stock just landed in Bos-
ton consists of negative ballots ON Napoleon's
plebiscite of May last.
A steamer with nine barges, loaded with
more than seventy thousand bushels of wheat
from Winona, Mimi, is big tow to the foot OF
the Mississippi.
A movement is on foot in Virginia and
Maryland to keep the memory of Stonewall
Jackson by monumental institute.
1t is stated that Bouchet, the young colored
man in the Yale freshmen class, passed the
best examination of all the candidates for ad-
mission.
The old United States Hotel, in Richmond,
which has been fitted up for the establishment
OF college to educate young colored men
for the ministry, will shortly be opened under
the auspices of the American Home Mission
Society.
The trade in sumac in Petersburg, Virgin
ia, has assumed important proportions. The
people in the neighboring counties are engag-
+ ed in gathering and drying the leaves, and
large quantities are brought into market. One
house in Petersburg took in upward of co.,
900 pounds between daylight and noon in one
day. The probable receipt of sumac in thu
city during the day reached 100000 pounds.
According to recent statistics, the average
} Englishman measures between 5 feet inch
es and feet in height, and weighs 14t
pounds the Irishman is about the same height
but weighs only 1873 pound, while the Scotch
man is an inch taller, and weighs l55 pounds