Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-04
GENERAL MEMS

Gen. Barry has prohibited the sale of spirit
Gus ard malt liquors at Fortress Monroe
The Scientific American says that sin less
than twenty years, most of the heating and
cooking will be done by combnstble gas
To an incautious use of a so-called hair
restorative is attributed the recent death of q
woman in Illinois.
Fine old farms on the eastern shores of
Maryland are selling dirt cheap. Places
which, in 1866, sold quickly at 800 per acre.
will not bring half that sum now.
The Orleanists in the French Assembly are
seeking an alliance with the Lief. Centre, hav-
ing refused to form a coalition with Legiti
mists and Bonapartists. The Left Centre,
however, have declined to entertain the prop
osition.
Mount Desert Island and the other resorts
Of Maine promise to be more largely patron
lied than usual, this summer.
The theft of 5000 worth of tickets from
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad within the
last few months has been discovered Mt s..
Louis.
vessel was recently loaded with 80, 900
bushels of corn, from 4 Chicago elevator, in
less than two hours
More immigrants have reached Amarica dur
ing the last three months than during all the
year of 1872, and not third of those who in
tend to come, this year, are yet here.
A Stamford, Conn, man claims to have
what is left of the flag that foated over Fort
Sumter in April, 1861, and it was carried in
the procession on Decoration Day
A despatch from Rome says that His Holt
ness the Pope has intimated his approval and
support of Cardinal Bonapartes candidate as
his successor in the papal chair in event of
of his death rendering it vacant.
In Rhode Island, evil-disposed strikers who
disturb those wishing to work are row liable
to a fine of 800, or imprisonment for ninety
days.
a drunken man emulated the famous ex-
plot of Sam Patch few days ago, by leap
ing from the bridge at Passaic Falls into the
cataract some eighty feet below. He came
out alive, but sober, and thoroughly fright
ened at what he had done.
Private advices from Norfolk, Virginia,
state that under the recent statute Of the City
Council there all travelling traders from other
States are arrested for selling by sample.
George Francis Train has begun suits for
$50, 900 each against Judge Davis and a doz-
en- others concerned in his recent trial.
y lady in Reading, Penn, who put out sew
oral pieces Of lace on the grass, was mystitied
by their strange disappearance. They finally
were discovered in a tree, to which robin
had carried then to weave into its nest
\ revolution, under the leadership of Io-
PEI Jourdon, has broken out in Entire Rios,
province of the Argentine republic. The
rebels captured the towns of Onalequay, Vic |
tora and Colon, but subsequently met with a
check at the hands of the Argentine forces.
letter from the Fejee islands states that
the mountain sayages killed a family of whites
named Burns and some Polynesian laborers,
altogether sixteen whites, whose bodies were
found horribly mutilated. Some of the bod
les were carried away for a cannibal feast
The Governor of Mexico has arrested
number of Monks on the charge of maintain
ing improper relations with each other in pri-
vate houses, where they have lived as relig.
ious communities since the adjustment of
converts. The nuns are released, but the |
monks are held for punishment.
The Missouri editors at their late conyen-
ton formally resolved that man has the |
same right to walk into a grocery store and
order barrel of sugar or sack of coffee, or
into law office and demand a legal opinion |
from its occupant, or into an uEdertaker's and |
request coffin, without expecting to pay for |
their respective wares or services, as into
newspaper office and demand the use of its
brains and muscle and type, without though,
of recompcnsc.