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

GENERAL NEWS.
| 1t is said that mocking birds and canafies
sickened and died in Tennessee towns where
cholera prevailed
| Fluvanno county, Va, claims acentenarlan,
Mrs. Jane Graves, who lives near Scottsyille,
and lately celebrated her hundred and first
birthday
There was a tremendous rain storm on
Monday at Salt Lake city which did .consid-
cradle damage
Rev. Charles II. Malcolm Of Newport has
declined the profcssorship in Bates College,
! Lewiston, Me, to which he was recently
! elected.
John b. Stckney has been appointed
United States Attorney for the Northern Dis
trict Of Florida, vice Knight, resigned.
Lorey s. Brown has been appointed United
Mississippi
The Town Hall building in Webster, Mass,
valued at $40, 900, was burned on Monday
partially insured.
The expedition on the western slopes of the
Rocky Mountains have discovered peak in
tiIS idHst hHlNI II tOiEpultu ~ DC IL s''D
feet high, making it the highest mountain in
North America.
1t love feast in New Haven. en- Sunday,
sister publicly thanked God that she had
outliyed her husband because he would not
let her be immersed.
1t is said that half OF the COMMITTEES in Illinois
are in search Of feminine candidates for the
office OF School Superintendent. Miss Eliza
Liyermorc is named for Madison County.
An Indian family is living in a cave in the
river bank to escape cholera, and the wife
congratulates herself on the fact that her hus-
band is 'home" by eight O'Clock every nigh.
The Rev. Mr.. Bond, who recently refused
a professorship in Colby University, has re-
signed the pastorage of the Baptist Church in
Agawam, Mass, to become principal OF
school in New Jersey.
The daughters of Mr.. Greeley have been
deceased father in real estate sn: in the
Circuit Court of Buckingham, Va.
The new Atlantic cable is said to he the
best yet laid. 1t will transmit messages fas-
ter than either Of the others.
The Danbury News man is confident that
one of the things woman never will learn is
that she cannot saw wood.
During the thunder storm a, Weston,
Mass, on Friday, +. +. NJ. Patch was in
stantly killed by lightning, while playing
with his child in the house. The mother,
child, and three others in the room escaped
unframed
Miss Fargo, to whom Mr. Hops, the young
Baptist clergyman. recently drowned at New /
port, was engaged, received a letter from her /
mother on the day of the accident, asking
them to come home, as she had dreamed few
nights before that one of them was drowned,
and she was fearful that something had hap
pened to them
One of the mos. interesting bits OF inteili
gence from Vienna is the announcement that
Bayard Taylor is advertising for proposals
from dentists to supply the place of seven or
eight front teeth, which the distinguished
traveller and linguist lately lost in giving
birth to the word "W eltgemuethlchkeit.
monument of quite respectable cost and
appropriate design is to be erected over the
remains Of Colonel Ellsworth, the story of
whose tragic death is so well known His
grave is at Mechanicsville, Wisconsin, where
the monument will be formally dedicated on
or about the lst of September.
Two hundred ladies', thinking the men are
backward in the promotion of temperance
paraded the streets of Janesvlle, Wis, on
Lost in f,rp Y ,bl
and then appeared before the City Council
with petition signed by $50 ladies in favor
of prohibition Their reception by the
Council. are told. was courteous but not
warm.