Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-09
GENERAL VIEWS.

GENERAL VIEWS.
bands, fathers, and brothers in their out door
farm work this season.
water-spout in the Mississippi, fifty feet
in height was the last storm phenomenon at
Anoka MINI.
The San Francisco Alta puts no faith in the
story that the leprosy is common among the
Cinnamon in California.
ZEN Eyck won the single scull race near
Poughkeepsie Wednesday, and the Ward
brothers the double scull race.
In anticipation of the probable advent of the
cholera, a bill giving arbitrary powars to the
Board of Health has been introduced in the
District of Columbia Legislature.
Fall River mill owners are discussing the
advisablity of running on half time after July
/, the market being dull and prints running
low.
The obsequies of Lieutenant Governor
Howe of Novia Scotia occurred at Halifax
Wednesday afternoon, with imposing cere-
monies.
A Detroi. woman, aged twenty five, was
lately married to her fifth husband. They
are all alive, and the other four doing well.
The Indiana Democrat makes this confess
sion; "If any antiquarian wants the skull of
a mound digger, he can be accommodated by
calling at this ofics.'
The Louisiana Government has provided
for the payment of the January and February
interest on the State debt.
Chicago jewelers. sell country patrons fine
stem winding watch for Sl.50, with four jewels
aronnd each hole and holes punched for
| more.
Nathan Lees, a Manchester (England) cot
ton manufacturer lately died and left 81 $780,
900 for his relatives to squabble over. He
had never been married, and was seventy five
years old.
| The New York Post is uneasy about cholera
reports, and says the city is in the worst pos
| sible sanitary condition; the result is an
alarming one, irrespective of any prospect Of
approach of cholera.
Captain c. II. Wells, Of the United States
steamship Shenandoah, was appointed by
President Theirs member of the Legion of
Honor, for his late reception of him on board
that vessel while at Havre.
"a horned snake that measured six and
half feet in length and nine inches in circum-
ference" is mentioned by the Humphreys
County Journal as having been killed in
Tennessee, fortnight ago.
There is a prospect of more litigation in
the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad mat
ter, portion of the old directors refusing to
recognize the reorganization as the New York
and New England, and claiming that the
valuable leases are wrongly held by the new
company.
The heads of the Chinese companies are
sending dispatches from San Francisco to
Hong Kong, reading: "Stop all passengers;
no more work here; no food no houses many
sufferers.
The new law in Illinois, doing away with
discrimination as to sex in the election or ap-
pointment Of school officers, takes effect on
July l. AT that time all distinctions of or on
account of sex, SO far as eligibility to any
school office in the State is concerned, will
cease to exist.
Brady, the photographer, and the clerk of
the House of Representatives are having a
row about historical chair borrowed from
the capitol nine years ago, for the purpose of
taking the picture Of Lincoln. The borrower
now refuses to return it on the ground that it
was presented to him by the President, who
of course had no right to it.
We have heard of will admitted to probate
written upon paper collar, and have heard of
one written with chalk on a barn door; but
here is new story; The will Of Phebe Ann
Woodward, late of Kennett Square, Penn,
recently found written upon new slate care
fully enclosed in a box and locked up in a
trunk, and dated May ., 1868, has been adj
mitted to probate.