Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.

The leaders of the left in the French AS
sembly will protest against the suppression of
republican newspapers.
\ party Of American engineers raised the
American flag on the highest peak of the
Andes on the 4th of July in snow knee deep.
sermon by DR.. Chaplin was the cause of
the American church in Paris being crowded
to excess.
The Danbury News says no true woman will
ask man right after breakfast what he will
have for dinner, or just before dinner to put
up clo:hes-line.
Prof. Russell, Unknown teacher and
author in clocution, died at Lancaster, Mass,
on Saturday evening last. He was about
seventy years of age.
The Weed sewing machine and Sharp's
rifle have taken the highest award at Vienna,
and Geo. A. Fairfield of Hartford, CT, has
taken the highest award in the list of COOP
orators.
A Lima, Peru, letter states that the COM
mission which explored the Isthmus for q
canal route has returned and report the route
surveyed impracticable, but favor that sur
yeyed by the Americans under Capt Selfridge.
The Honduras government has declared the
republic in a state of seige, and armed against
the invasion of the northern coast by an ex-
petition Of filibusters and pirates. The in
vaders failed to take Omoa, and on the 9Th of
July were confined to Truxillo.
1t is stated that the opponents of the pres
ent national banking system will revive in the
next Congress the proposition first suggested
| by Gen. Butler of Withdrawing the bonds
| which are the basis Of the circulation in order
to save the interest thereon, and to issue legal
tenders in their stead.
| 1t is announced that Friday next the pres-
| dent will celebrate his silver wedding at Long
| Branch, on which occasion there will be pres
| ent not only the immediate relatives, but
| eral members of the Cabinet and host of
| friends from New York.
| Mr.. Langworthy, the Deputy Controller of
the Currency, returned from San Francisco
Monday night with the party of Treasury Off
Gals who recently conveyed $40 100000 of
currency to San Francisco. They brought
back six tons of gold coin, which was last sent
to the New York Sub-Treasury.
When the Shah presented to Earl Granville
his photograph set in diamonds the Earl ex-
planned that, much as he thanked him, his
position as an English Minister forbade his re-
ceiviny present from a foreign monarch. 1t
was rather tough, but he did it,
| In an editorial on the horse disease the
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well to sit at the feet of horse and learn
| humility. 'Just so" says the California News
Letter, "si, down OF the hind feet of mule,
and if he don't humilate you, pull his tail and
tickle the inside of his legs with stable fork.
Three fatal accidents, resulting from drunk
| enness, occurred Monday on the Louisville
| and Nashville Railroad. West Brown (col-
ored) attempted to get on morning train
while in motion at Short Line Junction and
was killed. John O'Mara, section hand, was
run over and killed while asleep on the track
| at Mudraugh Hill, his head being severed
from his body; another section hand, name
unknown, while lying on the track intoxicat-
ed near Boston station, was run over and in
stantly killed
| The special commission, Of which Cover
nor Campbell of Wyoming Territory was
president, appointed several weeks since to
investigate the circumstances of the Indian
massacre near Rawlins Spring, Wyoming, late
in June, have reported that no Utes or other
hitherto friendly Indians were engaged in the
| affair; that the difficulty was caused by par
| ty of marauding Arrapahoes who, leaving
| their reservation for a raid on the Utes, at
tackled white teamsters and were pursued and
| punished, four of their number being kill ed
| and eleven of their horses captured. The
commission exonerates the whites, saying that
they acted in self. defence, and decides that
the Indians have no claims for damages or
captured property.
An interesting discovery was recently ac-
cidentally made by an officer of the San Fran
cisco City Prison. He was engaged in re-
pairing cell, and had occasion to take up
some of the flooring Under the boards he
found tobacco pipe with cherry stem,
which he laid aside for future use. Suisse
quently he attempted to smoke it, and find
ing that it would not draw, sawed off a short
piece of the stem, when he found in it four
very small saws lying side by side in the STEM.
Some prisoner, who had once occupied that
CELL left or secreted the pipe there with its kit
| OF tools. Doubtless he was an old convict,
| and had taken this novel method of conceal.
ing those saws, designed, no doubt to cut his
way out of prison.
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