Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-09-04
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The National debt has been reduced nearly
seven millions during August.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has been stopping
for several days past at the Montreal House
| in Montreal.
The Mormons are represented as being ex.
| ceedingly disloyal to the General Government.
| The steamer ''Ironsides" was wrecked a.
Hog Island Shoals, near Fortress Monroe,
| Friday night. The crew were saved
| The currency the country now in actual
use, independent of the precious metals, is in
round numbers S776, 200, 900.
\ Nebraska lawyer had a woman on the
witness stand three days to make her tell her
age. and then he gave it up as a bad job.
A Modoc squaw has opened millinery
shop in Chicago. Fixing head-gear has al
ways been her forte.
In Philadelphia the Jews have eight syna-
gogues, and in New York twenty-.ix. The
census of 1870 numbers l52 svnaQoyues in
this country.
An ext nited States Treasurer few days
ago applied to General Spinner, the present
Treasurer, for a position as messenger in his
office.
The Italian societies of New y ork are tax
ing active measures to prosecute Italians
engaged in the traffic of children
The attendance at the Marthas VINEYARD
Camp.meeting on Sunday numbered fully
10000.
A coal mine is ON fire at Carbon, Penn
Several thousand dollars worth of property
have been destroyed, and large number of
workmen thrown out of employment.
The n. Y. Graphics Great Balloon will
start to cross the Atlantic Ocean on Wednes-
day of next week. 1t will ascend from the
Capitoine Grounds in Brooklyn.
country exchange notes that the foliage
of many apple trees is disappearing. On
sea ching for the cause green worm about
four inches long, with a single sharp horn, is
found. Casarism again.
Mrs. Mary Frances Wade has revived the
breach of promise suit which she institut ed
against the late ex- Mayor Morton Kalbheisch
of Brooklyn, n. Y, and now brings action
against his estate.
The Canadian Marine and Fishery Depart
ment has received dispatch from Magdalen
Islands stating that fifty vessels, American
and British, were wrecked in the gale of the
| 2lst ult
| A committee has been investigating the
finances Of the Cleveland (Ohio) Fire De.
partment, and discovered that opera glasses
patent leather boots and silv Ell plated harness
had been purchased and charged to the fund
The wife of Don Carlos is a beautiful
blonde, having golden hair, dark eyes, ant
carries herself with graceful and haught,
mien. She is inclined to be Amazonian. ant
wants to march with Charles at the head O.
the insurgent army.
NJ. Rochefort, on leaving France for New
Caledonia in company with batch of fellow
Communists, of very unclean and unattractive
appearance, is said to have murmured, "Alas
always advocated equality. and now have
got it,
The Richmond Wing says-''There are
more buildings going up this season in Rich
mond than in any city of its size on the At
lantic coast. This is the result of the pro-
gress we have made in manufactures and
other departments Of business
Georgia paper recently contained the
following item in its society gossip: 1.-THE
amiable and delicious Miss Pilkington. who's e
charms of mind and person have turned the
heads of our galants, now does her hair in
braids and patronizes this paper exclusively
in her personal make up"
The German and other foreign consuls
have asked the City Government to take ONE
Immediate measures to protect foreign sea-
men from the clutches of boarding hous keep.
ers' who are represented as doing great dam
age to the commercial interests of Boston
true story lady was stopping with
ief little son at u Chicago hotel, and he was
ire,ful at the dinner table until she became
exasperated and said to him in an undertone:
No'"e with me up stairs ana l will attend to
r your case Pulling back he blubbered out
III voice loud enough to be heard over most
Vi the well filled dining room: "Say moth.
CT you going to take you hand or YOUR
slipper?'
Work has a wonderful attraction for nm
idle mind There is fascination abou,
labor that such mind cannot resist. On
Friday Danbury man was engaged in fixing
sewer running between two houses which
stand two feet apart. During the hour he
was at work sixty persons stopped and looked
at the front opening of the alley, and the oc.
cupant of the house, which had a fiat roof and
a skylight. received thirty eight applications
for the privilege of going up on his roof and
looking down. Danbury News.