Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-06
GENERAL NEWS,

Gen. Sidney Sherman, the last of the cav
airy commanders at San Jacinto, died in Gal
weston, Friday.
The Eastern Railroad Corporation will sell
1000 more shares of new stock by auction on
the 18th inst.
No hope is given of Hon. John 2, Hale S
recovery, although he continues in a comfort
able condition.
The New York Tribune is of opinion that
the outlook for business in the United States
is more favorable than it was four months
ago.
Gen. N. p. Banks was robbed of SIS on the
train. while going from Boston to Springfield
on Friday night.
The belle of Cape May is Baltimore lady.
very beautiful and very ,ich. She receives
day from her admirers.
! Imitation meerscliaum pipes are now made
out Of potatoes soaked in diluted suIphuric
acid, and afterwards dried under great pres
sure.
1t is rumored in New York that 800 men,
chiefly Americans, have been enlisted by
Cen Quesada for service against the Span
iards in Cuba
The scythe makers, at their recent con-
vention in Springfield Mass, decided to
raise the price of scythes two dollars per
dozen next season.
The thunder shower at Long Branch, FRI
day evening, was the severest ever known
there. A waiter at the Allen House and
several horses were killed by the lightning.
The New York Journal of Commerce gives
it as its opinion that the exact amount of fare
must be rendered to horse car conductor in
order to make demand for ride n legal
one.
Chinese immigration to San Francisco las
greatly fallen off, the six companies having
warned their countrymen of the prosecutions
that await them.
ThePittsburg House of Refuge is to remove
its inmates to farm of five hundred acres
for the application Of the family system in
their treatment.
"Rebecca Jones, you are singing through
your nose again." exclaimed a Wisconsin mu-
sic teacher, and RebecGa was so mortified
that she ran out and jumped into the river,
but was rescued.
The papers of Iowa, northern Illinois, is
consn and Minnesota are discussing the
probability of an early frost this year-an
August frost, which, if it falls, will play
havoc with the corn crop.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 10 o'clock Z.
N. on Saturday.
The first rain at Santa Fe, NewMcxico, of
any consequence during the present season.
fell on Saturday night.
An ingenious insane man in the Lancaster,
Pa, hospital made rope 500 feet long, OF
peach leaves, bark and grass, which was SO
strong that nobody could break it. He de-
signed it to escape with.
The report that the 100000 subscription
necessary to secure the promised gift Of a
similar amount to Bates College, Lewiston,
by Mr.. Is. E. Bates of Boston had been oh.
tanned, is untrue.
a hotel at Martha's Vineyard, situated on
the bluffs, it is said, commands the finest
water view of the world, the hotels of Naples
alone excepted. The shipping of the New
England coast. like soldiers pass in review.
Government surveyors in Northern an(
Northwestern Nebraska report diseoyerin!
immense tracts of prime lands in country
supposed heretofore 10 be barren.
In many localities in California since 1853
the thermometer has ranged as high as / l.
and III in the heated season, and yet there
never was a case Of sunstrokc reported.
They have a sliding machine at Noun
Washington down which the guests coast
at the rate of three and a half miles in five
minutes. 1t consists of board or two fitted
to the railroad track, and governed by q
brake. 1t is a wonder some do not break
! their necks.