Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-10
GENERAL Ne vs..

Cholera is steadily creeping up from the
Southwest towards New York city
An Iowa town held grave yard bee" last
order.
\ local journal proudly chronicles the fact
Of the courthouse at kittaning, Penn., hay
ing been cleanscd "for the first time in ten
years"
Worcester, Mass, thinks it ought to have
board of trade. Portsmouth n. H., re-
spends, through the Chronicle that il has one
it will sell cheap.
The Texas Legislature has abolished the
common school system in that State. Where
education is most needed, it is least cared for.
Terre Naute complains OF grinding monop-
oily, there being but one scissors sharpen
er in the place.
Queen Victoria lately discharged a number
of laborers on her estate at Osborne for ask
ing sixpcnce day additional pay and an hour
| less Of work.
| Two Raleigh, y. c., murderers had their
sentences commuted to Imprisonment for life
on Friday, just one hour before they were to
| have been hanged.
Samuel y. King, the aeronaut, declares it
impossible in his opinion to cross the Atlantic
i'll balloon.
The trial of Simmons, who murdered Mich.
olas Duryea in New York. has been postponed
on account Of the illness of John Graham,
his counsel.
The National Brewers Congress at Cleve-
land, o., closed by passing resolutions against
the Temperance party.
| A negro acrobat in Costa Rica, few days
SINCE attempted mock hanging to delight
his spectators, and while they applauded he
choked to death.
Some leading democratic politicians ofOhio
have been sued by dealer in Columbus for
pay for fireworks furnished them in the Presi-
DENTAL campaign of 1868.
A Missouri railroad quarrel has led to the
advertising by Gov. Woodson of the Iron
Mountain Railroad for sale.
Frauds of over 100000 are reported in
the Croton Aqueduct Department at New
York. Men were sent to personate the fic-
titous names on the roll and draw their pay
1t will be noted quite in harmony with the
spirit of the times, that the President has ap-
pointed a lady as member of the National
Board of Immigration Commissioners provid-
ed for by the last Congress.
The captain, his wife, the first mate and
four seamen of the British bark Monarch, per-
ished in the wreck of that vessel off the coast
of Florida.
The heaviest brain On record has been late
ly found in the skull Of London brickayer.
who was unable either to read or write 1t
weighed siXtyseven ounces.
Pttsburg coroner makes no charge where
he sits on young man who parted his hair in
the middle. He says that his personal salts
faction is enough without the fee.
Hon. John Prentss, the Oldest printer and
newspaper publisher in New England, and
perhaps in the United States, died Friday af-
ternoon in his 9Gth year at Keene, n. Ii. He
established the New Hampshire Sentinel in
1899, and conducted II for - years.
Gen. Rosecrans, who has been railroading
in Mexico for a number of years, thinks that
the MeXicans are "braye, generous, docile
and ,hriity-much more easily led than drv-
en-, and more susceptible to and appreciative
ofkindness than any people in the world"
Nashville, Tenn, correspondent says
that Andrew Johnson believes most religious
ly that he will be the next President Of the
United States, and that the people are rapidly
acquiring true appreciation of his charac-
ter. If the last statement be true his faith is
vain. people who truly appreciate him
will never elect him President.