Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-13
GEAER1iL NEWS.

GEAERdL NEIVS.
Photography is to be taught in the Girls
High School in Boston.
The Delaware bank robbers were publicly
whipped at Newcastle Wednesday,
Baron Reuters contract with the Shah Of
Persia has been annulled
Gen. Mcclellan has been visiting his form
er aii-de-camp, the Comte De Paris, at Chan
lilly
Manufactures throughout the country are
resuming operations, and ere long trade will
be as brisk as before the panic.
The San Francisco Chronicle heads the an
nouncement of Senator Casserly's resignation,
''Dont shoot; I'll come down"
A fearful slaughter menaces the rats at
Red Oak, Iowa, the authorities having offered
a bounty Of two cents for every rats tail de-
livered to the Marshal.
Queen Victoria has had magnificent stone
sarcophaaus made to contain the remains of
Napoleon III.
Germany is getting out a new gold coinage,
and has the large sum of $3.50, 000, 900 locked
up in gold coin. The supply elsewhere is
running short.
The New Hampshire prohibi,ory State con-
vention was held Wednesday in Concord.
DR.. John Blackmer of Sandwich was nomi-
mated for governor and David Head of Mil
ford for railroad commissioner.
Owing to the dense fog in London and vicin-
ity on Tuesday numerous accidents occurred,
the most serious of which was a railway col
lision, whereby thirty lives we're lost.
The excuse of young lady to her minister
who caught her mapping was, "Dont you
think ladies had better be fast asleep than
fast awake
In describing trial at court, New Orleans
reporter says of the defendants "During
the recital both demons occasionally smiled
in hellish, sarcastic way
Mr.. Disraeli, in a recent speech at Glas-
gov, jestingly attributed the recent panic in
this country TO burst of speculation occa.
stoned by the unexpected reception of the
Geneva award.
The creditors of an Ascending Yankee
found, on opening his safe, that the only thing
he had laid up for rainy day was an UNI
brella
A Fort Bridge dispatch says II. L. Mitchell,
a telegraph operator, froze to death Tuesday
night while trying to find the way to the fort
for party of which his wife was one, which
had been lost in a storm.
Prominent Southerne express the opinion
tina, General Sherman's endorsement of n.
b. Forest has done more to heal up old
wounds than all the peace proclamations for
hundred years.
Banning, elected to Congress from Cincin-
natl as a Liberal has cut loose from his Dem
ocratic allies and cast in his fortunes with the
Republicans. He participated in the Repub-
lcan caucus and voted for Blaine for Speak
er.
California paper notes it as among the
congratulations of the season in that State
that "there is no see-sawing of a paper cur
rency, and nobody is just now clamoring for
that kind of currency to make better times"
The post-offiee at Manassas, Va, was SIM
UNANIMOUSLY nOuSht oy u inNl anu u WOmaI.
Finally, the matter was referred, both cand-
dates consenting, to popular election. The
vote has just been taken, and the woman is
ahead
The Supreme Court in the case of the
Northwestern Railway, reaflirms the decision
of the lower court, that the laws of Iowa reg
ulating railroad freights we're valid as within
the police powers of the State to protect the
people from imposition. The road was
charged with imposing double rates for fur
niture from Chicago to Marshalstown, Iowa.
AT Lynn, Wednesday, the second days ses-
sion of the coroners jury summoned to in
quire into the cause of the death of the late
Mrs. Holman, who died on Thursday last dur
ing the performance of a surgical operation
while under the influence of ether, revealed
startling facts. A sister testified that the de.
ceased struggled against the administration of
ether, and was forced into taking it against
her will. The fact was also made public that
the deceased was alive fully an hour after she
was pronounced dead by her physicians.
10 rs(N -, 90 Ill r.