Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-18
GENERAL NEWS.

The State Treasurer Of Wisconsin reports
that State as being practically out Of debt.
The German Government subscribed 3d..
000. 900 marks to the new Hungarian loan.
man who was found asleep in q coal bin
said he was only laying in his winter fuel.
Memphis, having recovered from the fever,
now complains Of defaulting official with
$4,000.
The war note will resound In Utah about
Christmas time. Brigham is going to give
each of his boys drum.
The church of England now proposes pill
grimage to Jerusalem, which will last about
Ave weeks.
Prof Agassiz died on the seventy fourth
anniversary Of the death of Washington, and
almost at the same hour Of the day.
Mr.. Arch announces that 500 more emf
grants will sail for New Zealand in few
days.
A New York dyspeptic has announced his
intention oftrying the bread found at Pompeii,
which is about 1900 years old.
The Prince of Wales has founded scholar.
ship in one of the English county schools,
giving it his own name and endowing it with
$3.50.
John l.. Pennington of Alabama will be the
successor of Mr.. Burbank, who has resigned
as Governor of Dakota.
A Philadelphia of the old school objects to
paying gas bill for the frivolous reason tina.
he has no burners in his house.
The Coast Survey has ready for publication
coast pilot, or sailing directions for all har-
bors, and the coastwise navigation between
Eastport, Me-, and Newport, r. l.
Chicago is ashamed of the want of tact
shown by its county authorities, who have ac-
tually leta new court house be built for $780,
600 less than the estimated cost.
1t is stated that Mr.. Thomas Carlyle is
writing a pamphlet on the controversy be-
tween the German Emperor and the Pope--a
subject in which he takes profound interest.
Soon as a man dies and leaves money to
establish public institution, somebody dis
covers that he is insane. 1t is said that the
will Of Seth Adams is to be contested upon
this ground.
The Grand Duke Alexis having been or.
dered on another trip around the world by
his royal papa, there is prospect of some
New York mules making another display OF
their ears.
Vice President Wilson passed through New
York city Monday, en- route for home. He
is as well as when Congress assembled, but
his physicians advise rest until his health 10
entirely restored. He goes to a water-c cure
in New York State after attending Agassiz's
funeral, and to Florida in January.
The Rutland (Vt.) Herald says that only
two months time and s25OOOO more are re-
quired to put the whole New York, Boston
and Montreal Railroad in working order.
Even if work is not again commenced until
April, the cars will be running by the LIST Of
July.
Hon. Reverdy johnson, at the age of sew.
enty- eight, recently spoke two hours without
notes in case at Raleigh, N. c. 1t was up
on the question of the legality of certain bonds
issued by the State of North Carolina. His
eyesight having failed him to such an extent
his secretary read the authorities to which he
referred.
The Philadelphia Ledger has reputation
for printing good deal of unique "obituary
poetry" Lately one of It's contemporaries
reported that subscriber wrote the editor of
the Ledger asking what the policy Of the
Government toward Spain should be, where
upon this response was made:
'On little James too brief career
The curtain sadly drops,
She waltzed away to Paradise
From eating celery tops"