Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-08
GENERAL NEWS.


pie think il is a Territory.
John Serliner shot James Lang's head IF al
Belleville, H., Saturday, to prevent his mar
rying Scrliner's sister.
Kankakee, H., has button factory that
employs forty hands. This number will soon
be increased to seventy five, after which a
ton Of material per day will be worked up,
producing II AGO. 900 buttons per annum.
There appears to be no limit to the enter
prise of Massachusetts, fishermen. Halibut
having become scarce off Greenland, vessels
from Gloucester and Boston viii try their
luck in the waters of Iceland, six hundred
miles north of the usual fishing ground.
The Association of Yale graduates in New
York have resolved to institute series of in
formal meetings, for discussion during the
winter, followed by supper in place Of the
annual banquet
An elephant was SO frightened by the cars
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, that he pulled up a
tree to which he was chained and departed
Later news confirms the previous report Of
Sir Bartle Freres success in securing the
abolition of the African slave trade.
Thomas Jefferson's family carriage has
been repaired, and its magnficence will short
ly startle Virginia.
More persons are making the pilgrimage
to Mecca this season than in former years.
The sanitary regulations are better than ever
before.
DR.. William II. McGuffey, professor of
moral philosophy at the University of Virgin
ia, died in Charlottesville, Virginia, Monday,
after long illness.
A North Carolina paper says Of an execu-
ton to come off in that State: 1.-THE hang
ing will be private, and none but persons hav.
ing anSinvitation from the courteous and eff
.cient sheriff will be permitted to see George
launched into eternity"
A book that is worth writing and printing
is worth indexing. As we'll do business with
out an index.
The Norwegians in different parts of Min.
nesota are preparing to celebrate the ami
versary of the concession of their national
constitution by Denmark on the 18th of May.
There are lots Of good in human nature.
The other day, the Detroit Post contained a
little item to the effect that two orphan girls
were at the station-h house, homeless and pen
niless, and before noon thrteeh different per-
sons had called and offered to adopt them.
1t is curious fact that the farmer of Illi-
nois or Missouri must sell two bushels of ripe
corn to get money enough to buy a can Of
sweet corn put up green and holding less than
one quart.
An old lady 39l years old lately walked
200 Iowa miles in one day. chopped ten cord.
of wood, dug fifty bushels of potatoes, ant
then danced all night This is told in an eff
fort to beat the Cleveland Herald.
The first American newspaper issued GU
of New England was Andrew Bradford,
American Weekly Mercury, first printed De
cember %, l7l9, at Philadelphia.
Barnum is the great educator. Little boyi
who hate to learn their letters in the ordina
ry way are found applying themselves will
assiduity to his nice, large, highly colored
bills, eager to find out the names of the 'crit.
tiers" from caravandemonsland, and how high
is the admttance fee gee. islander.
The tea market in New York is greatly de-
pressed and several heavy failures in tina,
line are reported. All grades have declined
from 10 to 90 per cent in value. Oolongs
have fallen off most, the losses on those
qualities averaging from so to so per cent,
with an immense stock, sufficient for eighteen
a. hu hop
ers have suspended importations, and will
endeavor by this means to average their los
ses over longer time, SO that they may be
sustained without entire suspension of bust
ness.