Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-18
GENERAL Ne WS.

| Mr.. Leckly's "Ratonalism in Europe" has
been suppressed by the literary censorship in
Russia
| Disraeli has been elected lord rector of the
University Of. Glasgow over Professor John
! Ruskin.
Robert Collyer has presented his original
anvil TO the Boston Young Mems Christian
Union, and it is now on the way from Chi
cago.
Mr.. G. Gordon, of Scotland, proposes to
establish Scottish colony near the Northern
Pacific Railroad, north of Feargus Falls,
Minnesota.
AT a recent marriage among the nobility of
England, two of the five bridemaids were re-
spectvely two and three years of age.
The man who steadily went through the
whole bill of fare, and took each dish in sue
cessoa, may be said to have ''dned ont "
The Hon. Thomas NJ Norwood of Savan-
nah has been elected to the United States
Senate by the legislature of Georgia. He is
moderate democrat, and was elected by a
large majority
Fisk Mills, the sculptor, has just complet
ed The model for a life-size equestrian statue
of the late Secretary of War, Gen. John A.
Rawlins, which will in accordance with an
act of Congress passed in July, 1870, be
placed in some one of the public reservations
in Washington.
Advertising is an art, and is the mother of
the art of money-making. Aver, Barnum,
Bonner and other successful advertisers I'M
hesitatingly and gratefully declare that they
owe the beginning of their prosperity and the
foundation of their wealth to the liberal and
judcious use of printers ink.
Massachusetts, sends her best men to the leg
islature. Among the gentlemen just elected
to the House of Representatives from Boston
are Ex- Mayor Frederick w. Lincoln, Colo
mel A. J. Wright, Hon. Moses Kimball, and
others of equal prominence both on the score
of personal character and past political SER
vices.
newly married couple having occasion to
economic by moving to poor house in Ken
lucky are deeply indignant because the keep
err thereof assigned them separate wards of
the establishment, and have brought suit
against him for violating the marriage cere-
mony by putting asunder those whom God
had joined.
The Indictment found by the grand jury
against Ex- Congressman William S. Stokes,
charges him with receiving fees while Rep
resentative in Congress. The indictment con-
sists of eight counts, and charges that on the
first day of March, 1871, he being Repre-
sentative in Congress, did, for compensation,
act as attorney in prosecuting certain claims
of members of company known as Captain
Beatsy's Company of Independent Scouts.
Judge Frazer of Indiana having arrived,
the mixed commits sion for the settlement of
British and American claims under the treaty
of Washington began its sessions Thursday
Over fourteen hundred cases have been filed
for adjudication, which will require faithful
and diiigent labor by the commissioners dur
ing the two years to which the treaty limits
the term of their office.
There isn't any room for doubt that the
coming winter is to be awful cold. The
prophets all say so; and the man is insane
who disputes the prophets. They have found
the moss growing thick on the trees, frogs
standing on their heads, sunhowers pointing
toward the North Pole, grape vines runnins
around poles, instead of up them, and there
are thousand other signs to show that every
human being will be frozen as stiff as chip
before February. SO says the Detroit Free
Press.
In a recent speech the Bishop of Manches-
ter came down with sledge- hammer power
upon the causes of the social evil in England.
MEN riding in their carriages were its direct
supporters. Sunday school picnics, in which
were cargoes of scholars in cars, coming
home higgledy-piggledy, without clergyman
or teacher" were far from sinless in this
matter. Women themselves were to blame
for admitting ''gay Lotharios into the sanctu-
airy of their drawing ROOM" The Bishop, as
usual, was very full in praise of some not of
his own communion who were working to re-
claim fallen women