Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Tweed proposes to publish his diary.
An Iowa Judge has recently decided that it
is lawful to chop wood on Sunday.
A man named Driscoll committed suicide
Sunday nigh, or Monday morning at the
Adams House, Boston.
Mr.. Shepherd was confirmed as governor
of the District of Columbia by the United
States senate, Monday.
Minnesota lumbermen, who two weeks ago
refused 1926 a month, now offer to work for
SIG.
Prof. Agassiz is again i'll at Cambridge, and
again this winter
A halter in Terre Haute, Wis, has bun,
die of old unpaid bills hung up in his store
tabled, "The reason why do not give cred
it,"
An innovation in Friends meetings was
made in Brooklyn on Sunday, where for the
first time, the sexes sat together.
A large number of people who have object
ed to women in the pulpit buried that preju-
dice after hearing Mrs. Liyermore preach on
Sunday Boston Journal.
A number of boys have been expelled from
school in Iowa for carrying loaded rev divers
in which practice some of them were counte-
nanced by their parents.
Judge c. Underwood, United States dis.
trct Judge for the district Of Virginia. died
suddenly at a late hour Sunday night, of apo
plexy, at his residence in Washington.
A grand funeral service for those who lost
their lives on board Of the Vile du IIavre
was held in Havre on Saturday. Subscrip-
tons for the survivors have been raised IN
France to the amount of 100000.
Senator Edmunds' health is not good as he
brought home from Europe a malarial fever
which it is not easy to get rid of, but he Is at.
tending to his Senatorial duties.
An imperial ukase has been issued in Rus
STA requiring six men out of every thousand
inhabitants of Russia, including the Polish
provinces, to be drafted into the army
There is a man in Versailles, Kentucky,
now supported by charity, who twenty years
ago used to display his wealth by pinning
| 800 bills all over the lappels of his coat
! Such is life.
Details Of the bombardment of Cartagena,
Spain, show that the principal damage was to
the buildings within the walls. The forts
and batteries are almost intact. The insur.
gents are strengthening the works and arma-
ment.
Seth Adams, an old resident of Boston,
died on Sunday at his late residence at New.
ton. lie was associated for more than 80
years with his brother Isaac, the inventor of
the Adams press, in the manufacture of that
article.
Fat men are encouraged to 60 to the thea.
tres in St. Louis, because one of them hap
peped to be in the way the other evening
when gymnast missed his hold, and the
gymnast wasn't hurt bit.
Even the Washington correspondence of
the New York Herald admits that the course
of Secretary Fish on Spanish affairs is uni.
versally approved by the Republican men,
bers of Congress.
1t is believed that within two months the
Consolidated European and North American
Railway will be under lease to the Eastern
Company. and the line from Boston to St.
John will be under the manager e Mt of Mr..
Charles F. Hatch.
A letter received from we'll Informed per-
son in England says that Mr.. Motley looks
very much better than he did two months ago.
but he is very far FROM we'll He is under
the care of Sir William Cell, who attended
Louis Napoleon, and who is regarded as the
first physician in England.
portion Of the sidewalk on Grand street,
New Haven, has been undermined by rats.
BY the falling out of one brick it was discov.
cred that space of walk four feet wide and
of considerable length was simply crust with
the foundation removed to the depth of four
feet, and was in great danger Of caving in.
The last Enoch Arden comes from Malone,
N. Y. Only two short years ago he left
home for the South, took the small-pox at
Evansville, was kicked and cuffed about as
he recovered, slept at the engine houses and
on the streets-and yet all this did not pre-
vent his growing eight inches in stature and
getting brown hair instead of red, and new
teeth for his old ones. Now on his return
home his wife and family don't recogni ze him
and have put him out of the house, and he ap-
peals to the law for redress.