Daily Kennebec journal., 1873-12-19
GENERAL NEWS.

A woman suffrage meeting was held IN New
York Tuesday evening.
Tea, coffee and chickory have advanced in
price in New York within few days.
M. Theirs has received legacy from Count
Hector de Roy, an old family friend, the an
nual income from which will be 5000 francs.
1t is believed that the bankrupt law will re-
main unchanged until after the holiday recess
of Congress.
Agassiz for copyright was received by him in
Boston from the old firm Of Gould, Kendall
& Lincoln.
| The Lake Superior miners are reported to
be in very destitute condition, and much
suffering is likely to ensue.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, the children of the
miners are taken down into the shaft OF
mine when attacked with whooping cough,
and in short time are entirely well.
wife in Chillicothe, Ohio, has demanded
a divorce upon the specification that upon one
occa sion her brutal husband "put her to soak
in the rain-water barrel.''
1t is marked as general rule that wherever
the Democrats have gained a victory they
have forgotten to mention civil service re-
form as one of their guiding principles. The
sins" must go out, whether they are good or
bad.
1t is stated that Thos. s. Bocock of Vir-
ginia and John II. Reagan of Texas, whose
political disabilities were removed by Con-
- l,y. Ln,,
respective States for the United States Sen
ate.
A Vermont youth who desired to wed the
object of his afIe ctions, had an interview with
her parental ancestor, in which he stated that
although he had no wealth to speak of, yet he
was ''chock full of days works" He g 1T the
girl.
In Cincinnati on Monday, six or seven hun
dred workmen went in procession, with a
band of music and a banner inscribed "We
want work, not charity" to the office of the
Mayor, and asked that the city authorities
should do all they could to assist them.
Postmaster General Creswell is not pre-
pared to state that the mails are carried any
cheaper since the abolition of the frankng
privilege, but he is decidedly opposed to any
change; neither is he willing that the privil-
ege enjoyed by his department of sending
documents and letters free of postage be ex-
tended
The Albany Journal warns lovers of buck
wheat cakes that there is an injurious syrup
in the market called the "golden drip" made
from common starch, suphuric acid, ETC.
Its impure character can be detected by pour
ing small quantity into little strong tea,
which it Immediately turns as black as ink.
paper published in the Kentucky district
which Congressman Grassland represents,
says he ought not to be asked to give up his
back pay after serving four years in the Con-
federate army without any pay at all
The Selma (Ala.) Times of the 10th inst.
says that during the preceding two weeks not
less than 500 negroes have crossed the west
ern boundary of Alabama en- route for Miss
issippi cotton plantations. Nearly all these
negroes have gone from what is known as the
Canebrake region of central Alabama. The
same paper in its issue for the llth inst. says
that on a single day Saturday, 9th inst
about 250 negroes boarded the train at Demo-
polls, Ala, bound for Mississippi.
Hugh Miller, whose fame is worldwide,
was first brought to the notice of scientific
men by Prof Agassiz. At a meeting Of the
British Scientific Society, Miller, who was
then common day laborer, approached
Agassiz with specimen of rock in his hand,
and began to make certain inquiries concern
ing it. During the conversation that ersued,
Agassiz discovered that this common day la
borer was possessed of a large fund of geo.
logical information which he had acquired by
personal investigations, induced solely by his
mate love for the science. Agassiz was de-
lighted at meeting him, and introduced Miller
to the members of the society, explaining the
manner in which he had become acquainted
with him. The friendships thus formed con-
tinued through their lives, and Agassiz wrote
the introduction to Hugh Millers first pub
lished work.
despatch says that an attempt was made
some days ago to burn the Virginius as she
lay at anchorage. The perpetrators were a
doctor and few sailors who were discovered
in the attempt and arrested. The fire was
put out Immediately, without doing any other
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