Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-11
GENERAL NEWS.

The chaplain Of the Kansas State Prison is
lady Of seventy years, Mrs. Lydia Sexton.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is now visiting the
Yo- Semitic Valley, looking at the wonders OF
nature and the big trees.
DIR. Morrel, the physician who gave evil
dence in favor of Prince Pierre Bonaparte in
the Victor Noir trial. has been assassinated.
Ex-Governor John Wood of Illinois has do
mated property valued at half million dollars
to found female seminary, to be located at
Quincy.
The Republicans gained nearly one thous-
and votes at the recent election in Indianapo-
lis, over the vote of last year.
Gen. ID. II. Hill, a prominent commander
in the rebel army, under Lee, is now editing
a small weekly paper in South Carolina, en-
titled, The Southern Home.
Lucretia Mott is said to be at work endeav-
oring to brighten Quaker life a little. Gay
carpets in the houses, and music in the schools
form part of her contemplated reforms.
When Nilsson was at Savannah she sang,
"The Conquered Banner" in order to please
her auditors, and is consequently in high ia
vor at the South.
The largest school of whales ever seen
about Portsmouth appeared on Wednesday at
the Shoals, and schools of herring seemed to
be literally packed between Boone aud Duck
Islands.
A citizen of Ottawa, Canada, has taken out
patent for new style of boat oars, by which
a person, when rowing in the usual manner,
faces the direction in which the boat is going.
Narrow collars worn low in the neck are
the prevailing style for gentlemen.
The fashionable sun umbrellas are edged
with two-inch stripes o: bright colored satin.
A Western editor has been sent abroad by
his subscribers on account of i'll health. This
is the first instance of the kind on record.
Clergymen are sometimes subjected to this
| treatment.
The Texas Legislature, following the exam
pie of Bulgaria, has passed law compelling
the attendance upon the public schools of all
children for four months in the year.
Capt. Lewis Ryan of the schooner ID. X.
Aerey Of Belfast, Me-, while loading his YES
sci last Tuesday afternoon in Boston, acct
dentally fell and fractured one of his legs.
He is now doing as well as could be expected
under the circumstances.
An apparatus for generating heat from train
oil, and using it with super-heated steam, is
to be practically tried on Captain Halls Are
tic ship at Washington. If successful, it will
enable the explorers to carry less coal, and
enable their voyage to be prolonged.
The latest instance of generosity and mu-
nifcence comes from New Orleans. The boy
finder of twenty five thousand dollar check
returned it to its proper owner, prominent
broker of Carondlet street, and was rewarded
with abundance of thanks in words
Jefferson Davis Stonewall Jackson is the
name of a lad arrested in New York city for
throwing stones. His mother accounted for
the name by saying that the lads father was a
rebel who neglected to support his family,
and passed his time in talking of Southern
rights.
Fifteen colored men have been hanged in
Union county, South Carolina, for the muir
der of G. M. Stevens. Thirteen were put to
death by the Ku-klux and two by law. If the
latter could be made half as effective in the
punishment Of the Ku-klux for the murder of
Union men, we should have peace in the
South.
The other day one of the "High JOINTS" as
the Commissioners are irreverently called by
the Washington Capitol, said to pretty girl,
"Where are all your handsome men? The
ladies are all very well, but pom my soul, you
know, haven't seen handsome man since
I've been here" "Ah," said the young lady
sweetly, ''but you have handsome men in
England, presumed" ooh, yes, of course,