Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-17
GENERAL NEWS.

Marshal Bazaine is to be banished to the
Island of Sainte Marguerite Of Cannes.
No man who paid regularly for his news
paper was ever bit by a mad dog.
President Grant declines the resignation Of
General Sickles As minister to Spain.
Wine is to be abolished at many of the
esding new.year receptions in New York.
Ashes on the sidewalk are not put there
to sit down on. People with new boots should
remember this.
1t is estimated that 200, 900 raccoons and
10000 offers are caught and killed for their
fur in this country every year.
The associated banks of New York have
refused to adopt the proposed reforms in the
banking system Of that city.
Justice Samuel Nelson, late Of the United
States Supreme Court died suddenly on
Saturday, at his residence at Cooperstown,
N. Y, at the age of 90 years.
The price of girl is quoted at two cows in
the slave districts of East Africa, according
to Sir Samuel Baker.
Steamer Alaska, from China. and Japan, il
several days overdue at San Francisco.
A turkey being baked at a Cincinnati hotel
exploded the other day, and scalded the cook .
face 80 that he will be ugly for life.
The obituary notice in a western paper
contained the touching intelligence that the
deceased chad accumulated little money
and ten ceildren."
Ninteen brothers Of General Ryan, who was
one of the victims of Virginins affair, have
already put in an appearance for public SYM
patty.
Following 10 the wake Of royal advertisers,
q corn doctor Announces that he has ere
moved corns from several Of the crowned
heads of Europe"
Dinners are again being supplied. in London
to poor childaen, at two cents per head.
Last winter the number of dinners given on
this plan was l04 1856.
King George, of Greece, has numerous
hobbies, conspicuous among which are
number of trained magpies, who are allowed
to perch upon the royal Uranium.
An engineer was killed, fireman and
several other persons injured aud two freight
cars demolished by the explosion Of the boiler
OF passenger engine at Columbus, O., Sat-
urday afternoon.
A lady in Rochester has a dress with seven
hundred buttons ON it, and she is unhappy
because her husband won't buy her the one
dozen more needed to make her fashionable
woman.
The Connecticut prohbitionists have called
State Convention to meet at Loomis's Tenn
pie Of Music, New Haven, January Is, for the
purpose of nominating State officers for the
spring campaign.
The Vermont chancery court has granted
an injunction on the Vermont and Canada
railroad company, restraining it from holding
by trustee process any of the funds belonging
to the Central Vermont as a receiver.
An Indiana farmer don't pay any tolls. He
shoots the gate keeper, and joys right along
They have tried him twice, but he gets clear
since one of his aunt's cousins used to ao
"fighty like"
Secretary Robesons bill, which was passed
by the House, appropriating four millions o.
dollars to meet the recent extraordinary nava
expenditures, will probably have another mil
lion of dollars added to it in the Senate.
The late Seth Adams, who died from hypo'
chondra, beg ueathed sufficient sum to es.
tablish an asylum within fifteen miles of Bos.
ton for the treatment of persons suffering from
the same mental malady.
Queen Victoria has interested herself in the
youth O'Connor, who made an attempt on her
life some time ago, and he now employs his
spare time in Australia in composing letters
in verse to her expressing his gratitude.