Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-09-03
land along the Mississippi river of great rich

land along the Mississippi river Of great rich
ness of soil.
A Newburyport man is accused OF having
sold his fathers skeleton.
The trial of Marshal Bazaine will be held
at Trianon, md will commence on the 9Th of
| October.
The Spanish Cortes has refused by vote
| of 10 nays to AZ yeas to grant amnesty to the
| insurgents.
Some one has been furnishing the Indians
| with the most improved firearms, and Gov
| eminent will make an effort to discover who
it is.
The six hundred Japanese students in Eu-
rope and America have been ordered home.
man interfered with an officer who was
arresting man in Philadelphia liquor
saloon Saturday night, and was killed by an
accidental discharge Of the officers pistol
The Germans of Chicago are very indignant
because the city authorities have prohibited
the sale of beer and wine at fair of the Ger
man Southern church, unless it takes out
saloon license.
Mr.. Huntington, who originally preferred
charges against the Dominion Government in
the Pacific Railway matter, refuses to appear
before the Commission appointed to investi-
gate them.
good many men who usually spend Fri
day evenings at the weekly prayer meetings
spent last Friday evening at their ward rooms
1t was the best place for them. Boston Jour
nal
Cakes Ames's brother and executor says
that his estate will not settle more than ST.
900 900, or about one third what was estima-
ted at his death. The net result of all his
Pacific Railroad operations and speculations
turns out positive loss.
c. C. f. of the Baltimore American states
that the stores of Paris are thronged with
American ladies who are expanding vast sums
of money. Paris is the only city in Europe
in which the ladies can do their shopping.
Detroit advices say that Norton Freeman,
peddler, arrived there Thursday to procure
medical assistance for fearful wounds re-
ceived in a fight with three dogs. He got
from his wagon to drink at a stream and was
attacked. Freeman has forty five separate
| and distinct bites.
| a contract drafted in part by Lafayette,
making over property in France to some Bal
timore merchants, has been discovered in the
Treasury Department at Washington.
heavy shock of earthquake was felt in a
portion of California Friday afternoon.
| A revised and corrected list of the mem
| bers of the Washburn family who have held
or are holding public offices contains two
Governors, two ex-Governors, one foreign
minister and one eX-foreign minister, one ex-
| Congressman and one defeated candidate for
| Governor.
A correspondent recently asked the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher if he approved of wives
spending their times at watering places and
leaving their husbands to the mercy of SER
want girls, and received this characteristic
reply: "No woman who values her domes-
tic happiness as she should, will leave her
husband thus unprotected"
Fashionable milliners inform US that the
winter bonnet will be 'charming modifca-
ton" of the head-gear now worn.
A man who arrived at Castle Garden, New
York, Friday, from Bristol, England, died
Saturday, and the physician is of opinion that
his disease was Asiatic cholera.
j. II. Horton, alias F. A. Vaughn, was ar
rested at Providence, R. l., on Tuesday, for
forgeries of railroad and other stocks cover
| ing $4,000, committed in New York in Nav
last.
family of four had bill of $3.50 for one
weeks sojOurn at certain hotel at Long
Branch. OF this sum $40 was for board and
lodging. The ''extras" footed up the bal
ance.
citizen of Rock county, Wis, is recorded
as saying; ~ can always tell water when l
cit, itlooks so much like GIN
Henry Page, young man who spent the
first half dozen years of his life in the poor.
house at st. joe, Mo-, whittier he was taken
by his stepmother after his fathers death,
came into possession of $4,000 left by his
mother, on attaining his majority, the other
day.
few days ago the fat men of Connecticut
had a grand clam-bake at South Norwalk.
There were six men present who "bobbed
the scale" over three hundred pounds, six.
teen who went over two hundred and seventy
five, and about thirty who reached over two
| hundred.
The response in full of Mr.. Richard Grant
White to the Graphic invitation is as fol.
lows.
''IfI could read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I'd bid farewell to every fear,
And with your gas arise"
How THE OLD AND INFIRM ARE SUPPORTED
BY Fellows CoMPoUND SYRUP OF HYpop-