Daily Kennebec journal., 1873-10-11
GENERAL NEWS.


Brigham Young was elected Wednesday,
president of the church of the Latter Day
Saints without dissent.
1t is now believed that the total loss to the
Merchants National Bank of Lowell, by the
defalcation Of its Cashier, will not exceed
$4,000.
The American Social Science Association
held its annual meeting in Boston, Wednes-
day, and elected George William Curtis Pres
ident and F. B. Sanborn, Secretary.
Queen Victoria recently held a sale of fat
stock at Claremont Park, and gave free
lunch to purchasers before the sale com
menced. The total sales footed up $4,000.
Pin money.
| Unfaithful cashiers in England get severe
ly dealt with. An employee of the new Brit
ish iron company, who grabbed $500, has
been sentenced to five years penal servitude.
OF eighty-nine teachers at recent State
institute in Vincennes, Ind, only one spelled
correctly a list Of twenty words in ordinary
use and one missed them all.
The London Saturday Review speaks of
the descriptive reporter, as "a new, curious,
and possibly to persons of a fastidious taste,
not very agreeable product Of modern civii
zation."
One Of the smart exchanges thinks that the
near-sighted hen that ate sawdust. supposing
it to be corn meal, then went and laid nest
full of bureau knobs, set on them three weeks
and hatched out a complete set of parlor fur
niture, was a pretty fair hen. We should
say So.
A young lady in Rochester wanted some
bristles to use in making artificial flowers
She decoyed hog with doughnut, and was
pulled into the pen. Shril screams and
hoarse grunts were loudly Mingled for time,
but the young lady got her bristles.
Among those who have fallen victims to the
yellow fever at Shreveport, La, is Hon. Sam
, uel Peters, who last Fall was elected to rep
e resent the Louisiana Fourth District in the
3 National House of Representatives. Mr.. Pc
q ters was a Northerner by birth, a Republican,
!. and possessed of a liberal education.
q Young lady, to beau of whose compan,
she is getting tired-"I hope you are not ner
v0us, because that clock has queer effect or
people. All my gentlemen acquaintance
k start when it strikes ten and it's just going t.
in strife; SO if you are nervous perhaps you ha,
T. better go home before it begins" He went
,e One Of the little jobs that will be urged up
i. on the Government at the next session of Con
a. gress will be the improvement of the Ohio
r river, at an estimated cost of twenty five mil
lions of dollars. Then there will be some :
thing asked in behalf of the Allegheny river,
the Monongahela. the Wabash, the Kentucky
and its three forks cup as far as practicable. >
Three hacks and eight horses stolen from a
livery stable in Boston las. year, have just
been traced to Portland. The marshal is able
to place his hands upon the carriages when
ever he sees ft, and also upon about one-halt
: Of the stolen horses. The rest of the horses
i are dead. The property was stolen by an OF.
e ganized gang Of scoundrsls, and when the
l. chief of the gang is arrested, revelations are
n promised that will astonish the public.
n Few persons are aware to what an exten
q the arrangement with Great Britain for an ex
~ change of money orders has grown. TIL,
q Post-office department find that there is ar
=. average weekly balance of about twenty thou
~ sand dollars. or one million dollars per an.
mum, due Great Britain on account of the
payment Of money orders issued in the Uni
ted states in favor of British subjects.
y Yesterday young woman about 25 years
9 Of age appeared at the City Marshsl's Office
> in this city and acknowledged that the infant
u which was left on the doorsteps of Gov. Straw,
q on Saturday evening last, was hers. She
l. gave her name as Nelly Sherman, formerly
l. of Eastport, Maine. She said she had been
It at work at Lowell and that the child, which
It was illegitimate, was born in Boston abou
II eight weeks age. When the child was foul
weeks old, she took it with her on . visit to q
friend ut Nashua and from thence to the Or
phans' Home at Franklin. She was told there
that she must stay with the child if it was al
the Home. She finally brought the child
here, and she said some persons had advised
y her to leave it at the door of some wealthy
man. She said that she had repented of her
error and wanted the child to be given back
to her. Her request was granted Boston
Journal.
The celebrated pacing mare, Pocahontas,
died laat week at Providence r. L. the nrop.