Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-28
GENERAL, NEWS

OLNL HdL NE WS.
It. Warner Of Kansas, has just come into
Scotch estate worth a couple of millions.
A maiden lady Of 65, named Wood, hung
herself at North Orange, Mass, on the 25th.
Gov. Hartranft is about to introduce female
clerks in the Pennsylvania State department
James MIlmore, brother of Martin Mill
more the sculptor, and an honored member
Of the same profession, died in Boston on the
25th.
Roein, distinguished member OF the
French Institute, has been dropped from the
jury list because of his ed atheism
1t is estimated that 400 yards of tulle went
up the aisle on the six bridesmaids at fash
ionable wedding in New York, recently.
Warmoth claims 1896 majority for Gree
ley in Louisiana, while the actual count is,
according to the election board 1864 for
Grant.
Sidney Rigdon, the reputed author OF the
Mormon Bible, died of paralysis lately in AL
legany county IN New York.
Savannah man is trying to do business
under the name Of James Fisk, Jr., but be is
not so successful as the one snuffed out by
Stokes.
A stingy man, who pretended to be very
fond Of his horse, but kept him nearly starved,
said TO friend, ''you don't know how much
we all think of that horse. shall have him
stuffed, so as to preserve him when he dies"
During the last twenty-five years of lis
life, Horace Greeley gave away at least $780,
600 to impecunious cheats who constantly in
tested his sanctum
1t Ia anpounced that successful experiments
in silk worm culture have been made at Beau
fort, S. c., and that the experimen,er is COM
ing north to seek encouragement for enlarged
operations.
The boy that recommended few drops of
panegyric on sugar for the child Of disquiet-
ude, has his match in another, who, after
successfully spelling 'ehcaner,' defined it
to be Large coop to raise chickens in
After life of peculiar vicisitudes, COM
menced as a circus rider, and eliminating as
princess, the Princess Salm- Salm closes
her romantic career as ii nun in convent at
bleak Innsbruck in the Tyrol
On the 25,h of November, 1888, the British
forces evacuated the city of New York, and
on the 25th Of November. 1872, the last Of
the British forces evacuated the Island of
San Juan.
Josiah A. Nounan RECENTLY the richest pa
per manufacturer in Wisconsin has gone in.
to bankruptcy He used to be !, journeyman
printer in Schenectady. and afterwards start
ed the first paper in Amsterdam
C. g. Bemis general agent oil the uuar-
dian Mutual Life Insurance Company at
Wilmington, VI, Is said "
considerable sum o4 rL<eHaSs borfdSed
a trip to CAM '
> Aea&SA1Ae nsburg journal says that tele-
gram received in that town, Saturday even
ing, states that the Province Of Quebec has
granted aid to the section of the Portland and
Ogdensburg railroad running through that
Province, to the amount Of 81 800 per mile.
AS the buckwheat season is upon us, the
following is given as a receipt for s'greasing
the griddle'' Take turnip, cut in Ealf, rub
the griddle with the inner side, and you will
find the cakes to come of nice and smoothly,
and you will be rid of the disagreeable odor
Of burning fat.
1t was officially announced on the 18th that
the Czarowitch of Russia has been i'll since
the 10th of November, and his malady is be-
coming serious. On the 10Th Of Dec. it was
pronounced case Of typhus fever, sccompa-
MED with an affection Of the abdomen which
the physicians considered OF grave charac-
ter.
Two young men of Newcastle, near Ports
mouth, named Alexis Yeaton and Theodore
Post, were arrested Wednesday evening,
charged with stealing $1,000 United States
bond from the house of Albert Dow of Rye,
where Yeaton worked, and selling it in Bos-
ton in Oct. They acknowledged the theft
and have spent all the money.
Barnum has been burned out three times in
seven years.