Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-31
GENERAL NEWS.

The Archduchess Sophia, mother Oh inc
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria died
Monday morning oftyphoid fever,
Miss Nellie Grant was the guest Of Presl-
dent and Madame Theirs Monday night in
Paris.
New wheat flour, made AT Augusta TIA,
of wheat grown this year, was exhibited at the
New York Produce Exchange on Monday
Nellie Brockway a dressmaker OF Ham
burg, Connecticut, has become $50, 600 richer
by the death of an uncle in Philadelphia.
A riot occurred in Jersey City Monday af.
ternoon, between a large body of men who
had struck for eight hours day and the men
hired to fill their places.
Tom Mcclellan, the murderer whom Val
landigham was defending when be shot him.
self, has turned up again in his old confines
at Hamilton, O., picking fresh quarrels.
Secretary Boutwell, has informed the CON-
missioner Of internal revenue that the SER
vices of collectors, assessors and their en-
ployees may be dispensed with, as far as can
be done without prejudice to the interests OF
the government, on the 30th inst.
The report of the American Educationa
Society shows an expenditure of 900 dur
ing the year in aiding 3Gl young men to OBJ
tain an education for the ministry. The re-
ceipts of the society exceeded $4,000
For fortnight past the catch Of me nha,ler
in the Long Islands bays has been enormous
fishermen were glad to dispose of them at s.
per 1000. 1t is estimated that last week 2
0000 were taken in Gardeners hay alone
The New York Times comments sharply
upon the mrunity of murder in that city
During the week ending Sunday evening last
eight dead bodies were found floating in the
river. An unknown woman was found dead
in the street and a German citizen had mystic
riously disappeared. In nearly every instance
the bodies showed signs of violence.
very remarkable miracle occurred but
recently in Montreal. All of sudden at a
road crossing there appeared the exact figure
of cross in the ground. The faithful flocked
to it. Pious men carried off supplies of the
sacred earth. The excitement was at its
hight, when one of the incredulous suggested
that the figure was due to leakage from in
tersecting water pipes This explanation was
such an obvious and plausible one thst stock
in that miracle has greatly declined, and the
True Witness (Roman Catholic, once jubi-
liant over the marvel, accepts the explanation
though reluctantly. Canadians will now have
to content themselves with accounts of mira
cles wrought a-far oft and beyond the reach
of investigation.
Intense excitement was occasioned in Paris
Monday at the Hotel de Bristol by an acct
dent to the Prince of Wales, which fortunate
ly was unattended with serious consequences
The Prince and Princess, who are on their
way home to England from their tour in the
southern portion of the continent. were about
taking a carriage from the hotel to the steam
er which was to convey them across the
channel, when, as the Prince was about to
step in, the horses attached to the carriage
became frightened and made bolt, knock
ing over passing cart, by which the carriage
was upset. Fortunately, the Prince lcaped
back from the carriage in time to save him
self from injury.