Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-09-09
GENERAL Ne WS.

! young man az work near Indianola, In
diana stood OH a straw stack and boasted that
he could turn a triple somersaut in reaching
the ground. He made the attempt, broke his
neck and died instantly.
| The installation of the Right Hon. Ben
jamin Disraeli as rector of the University of
Glasgow, which was postponed in conse
quence of the death of his wife. will take place
Nov. 10.
There is some excitement among the piano
dealers Of New York, from the fact that a
prominent firm has been palming off some
cheap bankrupt stuff as their own manufac-
ture.
The strangest animal yet has tnrned up at
Clarksburg, Va, in the shape of a shepherd
dog with only two legs, and still is able to
jump the enormous height of ten feet, alight
ing on his breast without injury.
Andrew Carnegie, a wealthy resident Of
New York, has given 1925, 900 for the ere ction
of public baths in Duntermlne, Scotland, the
place of his birth.
Professor Child, of Harvard, the Chaucerian
scholar is in England hunting up old unpub-
lished ballads But he does not find many,
probably because the field has been 50
thoroughly CLEANED before.
Thirty lady tax payers and property holders
of San Francisco have formed themselves
into league and resolved TO pay no taxes
until they shall be recognized as citizens.
The very incest young man at Prospect
Park Hotel, in the Catskills, was arrested for
forgery last week, and carried off to New
York, forgetting to return three diamond
!, rings, that had been loaned him by as man y
young ladies.
/, "A. Howe of Great Falls the condu ctor
and w. j.. Hobbs, engineer Of the passenger
, train on whom fell the responsibility for the
recent accident on the Portsmouth, Great
Falls and Conway road at Ossipee have been
I discharged from the service of the company.
. A lady called on witty friend, and finding
,, the piano dusty wrote upon it "Slattern. u
The next day they met, and the lady said,
81 called on you yesterday" "Yes, saw
your card on the piano.
A barber at Lampasas, Texas, thought it
was queer he had never seen a white door
knob in that State, and he put one on his front
door. No sooner was the job finished than
the citizens began to fire at the choice target,
and the barber retired to the cellar until the
knob was shot off. His door opens now with
string running through bullet hole.
The remains of a chief of the Ottawa tribe
: Of Indians have been found in the road bed,
on the banks of the Maumee River, in Ohio.
Several arrow heads and tomahawk of stone,
r mammoth broach pair of silver bracelets,
It ana inuumerabls little trinkets, were found
" about the remains; and in the vicinity a stone
8 ha'chet and copper bucket were exhumed.
IS paper published in ST. Joseph, Mo-, is
i responsible for the following story, of what i,
u calls strange case, but nevertheless a true
:, one: Yesterday DIR. l. ii. Rogers, of ANA
i zonia, came down to the city and when he
got off tie train at the Francis street depot
he was robbed Of his gold watch and chain
Last night he dreamed that it was hid under
the depot, and this morning. he went and found
it, safe and all right and still ticking"
Sir Henry Holland, the veteran English
traveller, who is now over So years of age, has
just left London on his ordinary two months
tour for Mini NOvgorod. Sir Henry has
made eight voyages to the United States and
Canada and one to jamaica he has four times
travelled over the East; he has made three
tours to Algeria, two in Russia, and has sew
ersl times visited Sweden and Norway; yet
he says he has never lost a patient by his
wanderings.