Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-01
GENERAL NE MS.

GENERAL NE MS.
Sir Henry Holland, Physician in Ordinary
to the Queen of England. is dead.
1t is reported that Carlsts have fred on a
British war vessel, killing one of the crew.
Mrs. Chubbuck, of Hamilton, Madison
county, has been appointed to the new posi-
ton of "searcher' in the New York post-of-
fce.
One hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars in specie was shipped from Liverpool
for New York on Tuesday, by the steamship
Calabria.
The Lowell Courier says that national bank
currency is like an umbrella also, ''becsuse
it is something to be laid up for rainy day
The bale of cotton contributed by an Ar
kansas planter for the Memphis sufferers was
sold at auction in Boston Wednesday, and
brought S4O0.
The total amount invested by the German
Government in the United States Funded
Loan is $4,000, 900, of which S8,O0O,O0O
was negotiated during the present month.
The consumption of iron of I'LL kinds in the
United States in 1879 is estimated at 4,31l.-
500 tons, of which the railroads are put down
for 2,478, 500 tons, Pennsylvania alone made
7O2, $40 tons.
man of Corinne, Utah, with ears like gunny
sacks and a voice like the howl of northern
blast, thinks he has ''corner" in one of thu
suburban villages.
1t is said that an admirable way to preserve
autumn leaves is to iron them fresh with 1
warm-not hot-iron upon which spermacet
has been lightly rubbed.
Legal proceedings have been taken against
some tobacconists residing in the Rue de Ia
Madeleine, Lyons, for exposing for sale sew
ton Of the republic, ornamented with the
Phrygian cap, painted red.
Prof James Allen, a veteran aerOnaut OF
Providence, R. L., has nearly completed ar
rangements with some persons in San Fran
cisco for a transcontnental voyage with a
balloon which will have capacity of 200, OO(
feet He will make the attempt about the
frst of May, 1874.
The Post Office Department has compiled
= table of distances for the regulation and ad'
justment Of telegraphic rates for Government
messages. The first edition contains list o.
more than 1000 places, comprising all the
more important points in the United States
The Queen of Portugal and two of hel
children came very near being drowned re-
Gently while walking on the beach of Cascaes,
huge wave suddenly surrounding and near
ly engulfing them. A lighthouse keeper,
seeing their danger, rushed to their assistance
and saved them. He has been handsomely
rewarded.
Malta paper says the traffic in human
flesh, principally negro girls and boys, con-
tinues with impunity between Tripoli and
Smyrna and C0nstantinople, via Malta. where
several scores have, within the past month,
been imported by Turkish, and re-expo rted
by British vessels, for the markets of the East,
just as if they were ebony, ivory. or other ar
ticles of traffic.
The attack upon the public school system
by the atholic societies assembled in conven.
ton at st. Louis has attracted wide attention
all over the country, and created anything blu,
friendly feelings toward that denomination.
If there is any one institution which the
American people will uphold and defend it is
the public schools, and the sooner all classes
and sects understand it the better.-Aloany
Journal.
An exchange says that an Office boy in Bos-
ton, during the absence of his employer at a
watering place, hung hdeous efagy from
the gas-b burner in front Of the office, its face
hidden by black cap, its throat gashed and
crimsoned, its belt an army of dirks, blud-
geons and revolvers, its hand fourishing a
sword and jug of poison, and then, his ghast-
ly work accomplished, advertised for servan,
girls to apply at the dimly-lighted room, up
on the door of which they read: "Walk in
back in five minutes"