Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-22
GENERAL, Ne VS..


Indiana has just redeemed State bank bill !
issued in 1910.
Lake Champlan is shown by recent sound
ings to have water 40 feet in depth.
The ODD Fellows of Massachusetts, send
$4,000 to their suffering brethren in Memphis.
Petroleum v. Nasty loses Sic, 900 by one
of the recent failures in New York.
A Memphis woman who was afraid of the
yellow fever sold piano for s25 in order to
get means to leave town.
scientific Virginian has made himself very
unpopular by demon s.rating that kerosene oil
is as eficacious as whiskey in curing snake
bites
AT a Boston restaurant supply of live trout
is kept in a tank, SO that epicures may pick
out which fish they will have cooked.
Bismarck's wife, who lately died, was her
husbands secretary, clerk, and messenger.
All private dispatches were first read by Frau
Bismarck.
a woman 81 years old, at Blackburn, Eng,
has just performed the extraordinary feat Of
walking nine miles in three hours and three
minutes.
Timothy B. Snow, a clerk in Westfield post
Office, was held in $4,000 for trial on Saturday
on charge of stealing registered letters pass
ing through that office. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Foote, of Wisconsin, while visiting the
Winona fair, patronized lung-,esting ma
chine The cxertions made his lungs bleed,
and in four hours he corpse.
An effort is now being made in England to
demolsh, finally, the lass remnants of that
stronghold of semi barbarism-the debtors
Jail.
George Peabod, laid the foundation of his
great fortune during financial panic in Eng
| land, when American securities were sold at
very low rate.
During last Winter 425 bird cages for spar
rows were made and securely fastened to trees
in the public grounds at Washington. The
birds have increased rapidly and seem to be
perfectly acclimated.
The report issued by the Monarchial Bureau
of the French Assembly of negotiations with
the Cuun. de Chambord, confirms the state
ments Of concessions made by the Count.
A lawless newspaper published at Lexing-
ton, No, has the boldness and audacity to ex
press hope that President Grant will be
assassinated before the 10th of April, 1874.
The herosm of the clergy at Shreveport
during the epidemic has reached a sublime
degree of sclf-sacrifce. The same is proving
true at Memphis. In the former place no less
Al. = ~ A. L., r
to their brave and dsinerested devotion.
! Senator Roscoe Ctnkling has sold his resi-
dence on Fourteenth street, Washington for
S27 900, or $4,000 more than he paid for it
about ten years ago. The purchaser of the
property is Mr.. Samuel Hooper of Massa
chusetts, who will add it to "Wormley's
! House"
a New Haven lady, wife of a State street
merchant, followed her husband, who had
gone out to Hamburg with his neighbours wife.
She disguised herself, approached the guilty
couple, threw pepper in the woman's eyes,
and then went home and applied for a divorce.
The Patrons Of llusbandry, bind themselves
never to go to law but to have all disputes
settled by arbitration. First the case comes
on without delay, and each man telling his
story, jury of picked neghbors and mutual
friends decide what is right.
At Il recent fire in Camtridgeshire, Eng ;,
| a drunken farm labo1er threw himself into
the burning mass, saying; he was sure of
going to hell when he died and he wished to
have a taste of it before he went. lie was
pulled out by main force, and made almost
superhuman efforts to again throw himself
in, He was dangerously burnt.
|, The Dominion Government have arranged
for the establishment of storm signals in
New Brunswick at ST. Andrews, Point du
I Chene and Chatham, and in Nova Scotia at
4 Halifax, Pictou, Yarmouth, Sidney Cow Bay
e and Little Glace Bay. These stations, if put
0 IN Geographic communication with the Wash
f ngton Signal Service Bureau, will give ad-
: diuonal value to the predictions for the East
+, crn coast