Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-15
GENERAL NEWS.

! received by the Recorder of Deeds at Wash
ington, d. c., for record.
The navigation of the Hudson to Albany is
still open, though much floating ice is in the
river. Several steamboats, have renewed their
trips.
+, The man whose hair turned white in single
night is surpassed by the Boston girl who lost
hers completely in one dance.
! The Camanche Indians have made a muir
| derous raid upon the settlers in the Nueces
valley. Thirty-one persons are reported
killed.
One hundred and sixty young ladies are in
| attendance upon the Cincinnati Wesleyan
College.
| The New York Evening Post has seen a
| private letter from high treasury official,
which says the treasury and leading men in
! Congress are opposed to imitation.
BY vote of 209 to 81 the printers of Chi
cago have reduced the price Of composition
ten per cent, and also abandoned the claim
for extra compensation for holiday work.
Senator Sumner has indicated his purpose
to oppose the passage of the House universal
amnesty bill, until his civil rights bill shall
have been adopted.
The Russian lady students who some time
ago had the doors of the Zurich University
closed upon them have at last found an asy-
lum in the University at Berne.
Why, asked governess of her little charge,
do we ask God TO give US our daily breadY
Why don't We ask for four days, or five days,
or a week? 1--WE want it fresh" replied the
ingenious child.
Prot. John Bascome, for long time Prof
of Rhetoric and English Literature at Will
liams College, has rsgned that position, and
accepted the Presidency of Madison Univer-
ity, Wisconsin.
A barber in London, to attract ustom, had
on his sign picture of Absalom suspended by
his hair from the boughs of the oak, aud
underneath these lines 0 Abasom, my
son, my son. had you but worn perwig you
would never been undone.
Preston Powers, son Of the late Hiram
Powers, possessing the artistic genius of his
father, has been spending some time in Bos.
ton. where he has made several models for
execution after his return to Rome.
The Fat Boy in the "Pickwick Papers" has
been regarded as an improbability but there
is now living boy in Vermont, fourteen
years old, who weighs les pounds. SO young
and so large, he may be classified, we sup
pose, as one Of the Green Mountains.
There is a lady in New Bedford who in her
life has been on board only two vessels, and
both OF these were wrecked on the next sue
ceeding voyage. She is said to be willing to
stay ashore hereafter if the insurance CON-
panies will come down handsomely.
Charles w. Moore, venerable Free Ma
son OF Boston, who is thought to be near his
end, has been made an honorary Past Grand
| Master by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts,,
an honor rarely known in the order, but which
was conferred upon the Prince of Wales, in
England,
Spiritual medium named Warren is said
to have been detected during a seance in
Northampton, Mass, receiving decidedly ma
terial assistance from his confederates in
working miracles. The audience got most
unreasonably angry and might have lynehed
of safety.
The panic seems to be pinching some of the
daily newspapers in Connecticut. The office
of the New Haven Press was attached Mon
day, by the compositors, who brought suit
for their pay, and the forms were locked up
by the sheriff instead Of by the foreman. In
another Office the men struck for their back
pay, and the proprietor struck down the wa
ges.
We have never heard of anything more
beautiful than this story of married woman
whose will has been proved in England. She
gave all her estate to Mr.. Van Haurigh her
husband; directed her clothes to be sold TO
pay her funeral expenses, and added: at is
also my earnest wish that my darling husband
should marry ere long nice, pretty girl, who
is good housewife, and above all, to be care
full that she is of good temper"
Somebody remarked to Senator Hamlin at
Washington, the other day, that never before
in the history of the country had there been
two former Vice-Presidents in Congress at
the same time. After cogitating awhile, Mr..
Hamlin remarked that he knew he had held
that office, but who the other Vice President
was he could not imagine. alexander II. |
Stephens of Georgia. late Vice President of
the Southern Confederacy," was the answer
of his friend.
Rev. DR.. Cheney, of Christ Church, Chica-
go, has accepted the position of Associate
Bishop in Bishop Cummin's new sect. Be-
fore doing so, he laid the matter before his
church, which unanimously resolved that we
regard it "as the duty of Rev. DR.. Cheney to
accept the responsibilities of the Episcopate,
provided it will not prevent his continuance
in the exercise of his pastorate among us"