Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-15
rotary of the Treasury will ask Congress next


session for authority to place the entire loan
at 5 per cent.
When goods are offered at prices really on
level with the times they will be purchased.
II. B. Claflin & Co. of New York, having re-
duced their prices, sold on Tuesday S5O0,O0o
worth of dry goods. "Small profits and quick
sales" should be the motto.
An absent minded nah entered a Troy shoe
store the other day and wanted his boy meas
ured for pair of shoes. "But where's the
boy 2" asked the dealer Thunder said
the man, Give left the boy a. home I'll go
and get him. And off he started for his
house, six blocks away.
Sir Robert John Mcclure, an English naval
died at London recently. He was attached to
the expedition of 1850 tina. went in search of
Franklin, and the ship which he commanded
had the honor of discovering and sailing
through the famous north west passage.
At Wilmington, N. c., they have secured
genuine prophecies in the shape of an old
negress named JENA who has assumed the
roll of prophet, seer, and savior and is dong
quite thriving business. Her method of
operation is singular, but very effective. She
uses hot poker, and .'mashes out the sins"
of her devotees in a very effective manner.
ST. John, New Brunswick, is in a state of
great excitement over the discovery of a lot
of treasure which has been found in q bank Of
I, 81 h,r f,,., ,,,iln h..
city. Some twenty East India Spanish gold
coin of the sixteenth century have been sold
from the lot and the paperssprnt full details
of the discovery but say they are bound by Sc
crecy not to reveal the names of the fortunate
finders.
The failures in the tea trade on Tuesday
are attributed rather to the competition which
is growing up in the West than to the panic.
The great western marts, it is said, are re-
ceiving their teas mainly by the way of San
Francisco, and many smaller firms in New
York have wound up, owing to the withdraw
al of trade. The decreasing trade is men
TONED as the cause of one of the heaviest i'm
porters advertising two vessels of their fleet
for sale.
At country church in New Brunswick on
a recent Sabbath young lady entered and
passed up the aisle without bonnet or hat
She had lost it on the road. Her consterna-
ton at the discovery'was not lessened when
the young pastor, who had picked it up, en-
tered and handed it to her. The incident
probably inspired the pastor, for his sermon
was based on the text, "a woman ought to
have pow r on her head.
In East Windsor, Conn, on Sunday morn
ing, the wife of Hiram Allen was found lying
on the back doorstep of Deacon Gaius Booths
residence, gagged and securely bound by
ropes combining all her limbs, besides several
shawls around her head. Her story is that
her husband and a stage driver named Nye
took her out of bed and told her if she did not
sign certain document they would blow her
brains out. She refused to sign, and they
bound her and left her as she was found.
Allen, the husband of this woman, is the man
who, some months ago, received an ingen-
iously contrved internal machine while stop
ping at Hartford hotel. Mr. Alien had no
doubt that it was forwarded by his wife, with
whom he had lived unhappily, and who was
believed to be insane. The town authorities
are investigating.