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

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mess at Fall River, Mass, just now.
| In the interior of Africa there is Moham-
medan university with 1000 pupils, many of
whom are girls. ..=.:
| A literary and musical entertainment was
given at Baltimore, the other day for the ben
| eft of Miss Rosalie NJ. Poe, sister to Poe,
the poet.
There were exported from Boston last week
about 10000 bushels Of corn, the largest
amount ever recorded in one week.
Dubuque beggars wear placards on their
| breasts inscribed: Large bills cheerfully
changed for all donations over ten cents"
The roof and walls of the Cincinnati, o.,
Water Works fell in Monday killing two men
and seriously injuring others.
A coalition for raising the price Of petroleum
| is threatened. zs.
The lookup of gold and currency ia the
New York market is broken.
N. H. Barnard, Postmaster of Iowa City, is
charged with perjury, theft and embezzlement
on the afidavits of his clerks. He has held
the Office since June last.
The japanese have sent a bach of students
| to Russia, as well a. to other countries, for
| educational purposes, not forgetting France
| and England.
Alexander T. Stewart has moved into his
new house in New York, known As "Stewart's
palace" at the corner Of Fifth avenue and
Thirty fourth street.
| A Kansas law, we notice, gives mothers
control of their children. This is an admir-
able law, and every family should have one.
Without it too many children have control of
their mothers.
| An intoxicated printer wandered into a
Newcastle shoe-shop in fit of mental aberra-
ton, and set up several sticks full Of shoe
pegs before he realized his awful condition.
An English jury has aw arded 6 800 damages
to an actress whose forehead had received a
trihing scar in a railway collision, on the
ground that in her profession personal ap-
pearance has a direct pecuniary value.
Referring to the close of navigation, the
| Buffalo Courier states that vessel owners
have seldom had more profitable year than
| the one just drawing to a close. Freights
have been abundant and rates higher.
Shortly before midnight, Saturday. the Tri-
Mountain House at Nahant caught FIRE and
before the flames could be extingushed the
building was entirely destroyed. 1t belonged
| to the Tudor estate and was valued at about
| $4,000.
Mr.. Garrett Davis's death will probably be
formally announced in Congress this week by
Senator Stevenson of Kentucky; Senators
Vickers and Sumner will also speak on the
| occasion.
The committee on appropriations decided
Monday to appropriate 5000, 900 for the pay
ment of Commander Gushing and his crew as
prize money for the sinking of the rebel ram
Albemarle, which sum has already been &C
corded by the court that adjudicated the claim.
The Senate of the Mechanics Institute Leg
islature at New Orleans has passed q resolu-
ton inpeaching Gov. Warmoth. The State
House Legislature organized Monday. There
have been no disturbances as yet.
An old Iowa gentleman and his wife went
to Chicago the other day in search of two
missing daughters, and stepping into theater
found their promising ofsprings Ripping it in
| the ballet.
"A Sire dend" has been captured in New
port, r. l., in the form of a fifteen year old
boy named Waters, who has already confessed
setting some of the many incipient fires that
have alarmed the people Of that city.
Mr.. d. G. Northrop, Secretary of the Con-
necticut Board Of Education, delivered an ad-
dress at the dedication of the Jefferson High
School at Washington on Saturday, compar.
ing the European and American schools. lie
strongly condemned the prevalent fashion OF
sending the boys of this country to foreign
schools. Professor Tyndall followed, cor
daily approving Of Mr.. Northrop's warning
against that practice.
That interprising traveller, Du Chaillu,
with whose books every school-boy is ac-
quainted, sailed on Saturday from New York for
a third journey through Norway and Sweden.
Hardly three months ago he landed in New
York, fresh from those countries. and having
spent most of his vacation here in lecturing,
returns to Scandinavia, for whose climate and
scenes he evidently has an earnest admira-
ton. lie will, if living, return to US in the
spring, bringing his sheaves with him in the
shape of book of Scandinavian adventure.
While Mrs. Patty Morse, of West Camp
ton, N. H., was engaged in cooking, on the
eth of November, kitten jumped upon the
table where she was at work, and a. she threw
1t on the floor, it scratched her right arm very
slightly. She continued her work a. usual
the rest of the day, but during the night fol.
lowing she was awakened by severe pain in
her arm, which began to swell and continued
to grow more and more painful. DIR. San.
born was called, but medical aid proved un-
! availing and she died