Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-12
GENERAL NEWS.

London dispatch says that Lady Trey
elyan is dead.
miser worth nearly a million died at
Philadelphia Thursday.
1t is claimed that the advance in coal has
not tended to produce any difficulty with the
miners.
A two-thousand-dollar lawsuit has grown
up in Troy over dispute about five inches
of land.
There have been twenty-four cases of chol-
era at Columbus, Ohio, of which eighteen
cases were fatal.
Hon. John A. Bingham, minister elect to
Japan, will sail, with his family, from San
Francisco in the steamer Japan, September l..
A temporary injunction has been issued re-
straining certain counties in Nebraska from
taxing the Union Pacific Railroad.
The Emperor of Austria will visit the
Emperor of Germany at Gastein, after the
distribution of prizes at the Exposition.
The first bale of cotton Of this years crop
was shipped from Valdosta, Georgia, Friday,
to Savannah. 1t weighs $40 pounds.
France has completed the payment of the
third quarter of the last miliard of the war
indemnity to the Prussians.
The Indians on the Mexican border have
invaded the town of Trio, near San Antonio,
diers are after them.
The returns of railroad earnings for the
past month embrace larger number of roads
than usual, and the comparison of earnings
with July, 1872, is generally favorable.
Ven some man slaps me on der shoulder
unl say, II vas glad to hear you vas so well, "
und den sticks behind my back his fingers to
his nose, half my opinion of dot weller.
Vice President Wilson is the guest Of Hon.
John B. Alley. at Lynn. He proposes to take
an airing on pleasant days along the beach
road.
His Excellency Lord Duflerin, Governor
General of Canada, is absent from Ottawa, the
seat of government, and the Toronto Globe
hints very strongly that he had better be at
his post attending to his business.
"Why do you set your cup of coffee on the
chair, Mr.. Jones?" said worthy landlady
one morning at breakfast. at is SO very
weak. mann, thought would let it rest"
Mrs. Charles S. Stratton, Crom Thumbs
wife, fell down flight of stairs at her home
in Middleborough. Mass, on Thursday, and
badly injured her spine and head.
Texas town was recently visited by a
clergyman for the first time in its history, and
the hospi:able inhabitants proposed getting up
q horse race for his entertainment.
A gigantic swindle has been brought to light
in the preparation for the sale of over 5000
chests of damaged tea, part Of the cargo Of
the steamer Petersburg, wrecked off Bermu-
da.
A very pretty young woman in Saratoga
had been in the habit of receiving on an aver
age three flower baskets and five bouquets
day until it was found out that her husband
was in business in Baltimore, after which she
did not get even buttonholer.
The documents of the United States Senate
are being classified according to sessions.
Few of the files are complete, and there are
few documents prior to the Sixteenth Con-
gress.
The condition of Hon. John p. Hale, of
New Hampshire, has lately much improved,
and is now more hopeful than at any other
time since the fall by which he fractured his
hip.
There is considerable excitement among
the Mexicans at Tuppan, caused by an Amer
lean eunboa: anchoring in that bay, taking
soundings and refusing to allow Mexican
pilot to come on board.
On Tuesday afternoon barn at Moncton,
N b., was destroyed by fire, and another one
partially destroyed. When the fire was extin-
gushed the body of a little girl four years old
was discovered in the ruins. 1t is also sup.
posed that she had been playing with matches
ana thus caused the fire which led to her
DEATH
Freeman N. Blake, for several years past
United States Consul at Hamilton, Ontario,
was entertained on the lst at testimonial