Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-07
GENERAL NEWS,

4 Western paper speaks of duel between
two ''jackasperated individuals"
Carl Schurz has been journeyins in Swift.
eCland and the Tyrol.
Mr. Jefferson Davis is still engaged at in.
tervals on his "History of the Confederate
States, though suffering frcm defective eye
sight.
Mr. Dent, the Presidents father n-iaw. is
dying of dropsy and asthma, at the age Of
eighty seven.
There are over ten Thousand watering, place
hotels and Summer boarding houses in the
Northern and Eastern States
The Knoxville Press and Herald says no
families remain in louosboro, Tenn. except
those in " hieh some OF the members are sick
with cholera.
The personal effects OF Jesse r. Grant,
the Presidents father, were sold =, auction in
Coyington, Ky, last week, tue ar,onnt
realized being 500
Milk restaurants continue % multiply in
New York Most Of them are named after
popular breeds OF COWS, such ss Aldern. y"
Jersey" etc.
The experiment oil Restocking the waters
OF Vermont with salmon promises TO be sue
cess. Those put into the Winoos<i last
spring, have grown to lie three or four inches
long, and have begun 10 run into the lake.
Am;domono chloro- henzenesu lphon;c acid
has been discovered. Il is very powerful,
even in Minute quantities, bat they have to
in Ii,r irus hoy IL, iAl,5t
on.
An American recently met an old school
fellow in Flornce. .You herei' '.Yes, my
dear fellow, have Just been married, and am
come to pass the honeymoon in Italy" And
your wife," My wife. Oh! left her in
New York"
The Sultans second son, Prince Mahmoud
Djeleleddin, has been promoted to be Rear
Admiral in the Turkish Navy. The new Ad-
miral is eleven years old
The break reported on the mountain diyis-
ion of the Union Pacific Railroad has been
fully repaired.
Ex-President Hopkins, of William College,
has been appointed provisional professor of
mental and moral philosophy at Bowdoin
College.
The Car is so thankful for the benefit to
his health from the waters of Ems, that he
has given 5000 thalers toward the building of
Russian church here.
murderer confined in the Vermont State
prison has been so terrified by imagining
visits from his victim to his cell that he re-
fuses to eat, and is in great danger of starv-
ing.
| He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he
that hath calling hath an office of prof.
and honor; but then the trade must be
worked at, and the calling well followed, or
neither the estate nor the Office will enable us
to pay our taxes.
Mrs. Macarthur of Los Angeles, CAL, pre-
pared breakfast for her husband, herself, and
five children the other morning. Her hus-
band, when he came to the table, found fault
with something upon it, whereupon Mrs. Nc
Arthur arose and swallowed bottle of strych-
nine. She died in about ten minutes.
Workmen are engaged in widening the
Newburyport tunnel on the Eastern Railroad,
preparatory to extending the double track
from Ipswich to Newburyport, which will be
over an easy and inexpensive grade. Next
winter and spring the double track will be
extended to Portsmouth.
Brigham is reported to have offered Ann
Eliza the house and lot where she lived
(worth 500 O00), and $4,000 in cash if she
would call off her dogs and omit stirring mat
tiers up. Ann Eliza won't; but Joseph Young
says his parent has not made any such prop
ostion to his fractional stepmother.
A shoemaker in Long Island city, L. L.,
while asleep last Friday evening, rolled over,
causing needle in the lapel of his vest to
penetrate his heart. In the attempt to ex-
tract it the point was broken off. Medical
aid was summoned, and the man has since
been under the influence of chloroforn. There
is little hope of his recovery.
The Vermonters propose to have their
usual celebration this year of the battle of
Bennington. This action, which was an inn
portant one in its effects on the colonial war
was fought, as will be remembered, on the
10th OF August, l777. between the Green
Mountain Boys, under Gen. Stark, and a
large force of Hessians in the British ice,
near the town of Bennington, in the southern
part of Vermont.
A London correspondent tells new story
of the Shah. The King of Kings was very
much charmed with the paintings at the In
ternational Exhibition. and finally bought e.
900 worth. He admired one which had three
donkeys in it, but declined to pay the price,
! EGO, because he had been told that live
donkey could be bought for 81, and if that
were true, EGO was too much to pay Tor three
| painted ones.