Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-07
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
1t is estimated that the Tichborne trial in
England has already cost upward OF 81 ,ooo,-
600.
Connecticut decided by popular vote yester-
day whether she will have one capital here
after, and that one Hartford.
Senator Sumner has yielded to the solicita-
tons of his friends and decided not to risk
impairing his recovered health by lec.uring
during the coming Winter.
The Italians resident at Vienna have re-
solved to present King Victor Emmanuel, on
the occasion of his visit to that capital, a
wreath of oak leaves in gold.
Women have been admitted to the Postal
Service of the German Empire. The last
issue of the official Post ANTS BlaIt contains
the appointment of a Post Agentin (female
Post AGENT.
The Hon. John Il. Baldwin died at Staun-
ton, Va, last week. He was an inspector at
the outbreak of the war, and was afterwards
Speaker of the Confederate House of Repre-
sentatives After the war he was Speaker Of
the House Of Delegates of Virginia, and in
1868 came within one vote of receiving the
Conservative nomination for Governor
An Ohio editor publishes marriages under
the head Of Attachment Notices.
Yellow fever has existed in New y ork since
the first of last June. There have been g.
cases, of which IA proved fatal
"a, T Il
to New York shipments of specie for the lat
ter city amounting to f244, 900 were taken.
Intense excitement exists among the settlers
and stock raisers in the Arkansas valley by
reason OF the depredations by Cheyenne In.
dams.
Some interruptions western farmers are
rapidly increasing their revenue and damag-
ing their reputation by selling their wheat
mixed with sand.
The Rev. f. d. Kinney, one of the oldest
Congregational clergymen of Connecticut,
died Thursday night at his residence in Daren
aged seventy-four years.
Too much cholera medicine raised the
choler of an Indiana Judge the other day, and
as natural result he had to pay fine tor
being disorderly.
Five persons were killed on Friday in the
village of Northfleet, England, by the falling
of a chimney 22O feet in hight.
Missouri clergyman's fees for marrying
fourteen couples amounted to fifty pounds OF
dried apples and duebill for eighteen BUSH
els of buckwheat.
The President issued orders some DAYS ago
tor the communication OF the sentences of So-
LUX and Bancho, of the Modoc prisoners, from
hanging to imprisonment for life.at Alcatraz
Island, San Francisco harbor
There are but two living anmals-:he man
eous change from Arctic cold to tropical heat
without suffering deterioration or losing
health.
Intelligence is received of severe fighting
in Central ASIA the Afghans being engaged
in war with the Persians. The former were
severely defeated by the latter recently. The
Afghans are accused of design to conquer
and annex Bokhara.
Professor r. c. Kedsie, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, has analysed the air of a
greenhouse which had been closed for twelve
hours, and found it better than pure country
air. This seems to be strong argument in
favor of plants in sleeping rooms.
The Oldest railroad conductor is Edward
Robinson of Utah Territory. He is now sixty
six years old, and at the age of twenty-five he
was the first Of the six men selected to run
trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail
way, the first passenger railway ever built.
1t is said that glycerine mixed with the
water in steam-engine boilers prevents the
deposition of lime salts, and consequently
protects the boiler from incrustaton. About
one pound of glycerine to every 800 or 400
pounds of coal burnt is sufficient for this pur-
pose.
A very superior quality OF champagne, it is
said, is now fabricated with petroleum as the
chief ingredient. 1t is rapidly taking rank as
a native wine, and the oil region of Pennsyl-
vania bids fair to become the champagne
district of America at an early day.
new use for patent pills has been discov-
cred. A farmer living in Kansas village
was abruptly visited by robbers one night not
long ago, and having gun and powder, but
no shot, loaded with box of fever pills, and
blazed away. The result was as satisfactory
as though the rascals had swallowed the pills
One of them was killed outright and another
dangerously wounded.