Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-01
GENERAL NEWS,

not been good one this year. The season
was too wet.
A monkey fred pistol in street exhibit
ton in Rome, Ca, and the rupaways that en-.
sued resulted in damages to the amount Of
$500.
DR.. W. Ii. Rockwell, Jr., Superintendent
Of the Insane Asylum at Brattleboro, VT,
has resigned.
A girl in Cambridge City, Indiana, is the
posscssor of a half finished bed quilt already
Containing s1oO pieces.
a performance will take place in the New
York Academy of Music on the 9TH Of Janu-
airy, for the benefit Of the sufferers by the
fire at Barnum's.
Boston has now fr.t-e floating fire en-
CINE, capable of doing great service in case
of fire on the city whsrves or among the ship
ping.
Minnesota proves this year, TO be the third
State in the Union in point of wheat produc-
ton, aggregating twenty-six millions of bush
els.
1t is stated on Staten Island, where Mrs.
Sinclair, the wife of Edwin Forrest, resides,
that she will make application for widows
dover from the estate of the deceased actor.
United States Judge Strickland of Utah
rendered his resignation, last week, because
the position does not pay, and the court is
dead because sufficient funds are not appro-
priated to enforce Its decisions.
Six-of nine young ladies examined for as
socil;e of arts won first honors at an educa-
tional exhibition in Austria.
The Christian Church at Lynchburg, Va,
uses IN sacramental service a wine cup which
once belonged to George Washington.
1t is thought in Salt Lake City that Brig
ham Young will never pass another summer
above ground. When lie dies thirty seven
widows will mourn his loss, and lG7 children
will be fatherless.
Senator Sumner is in better health than he
was at the time of the adjournment Of Con-
gress, and takes his usual outdoor exercise
daily. The report telegraphed that his health
was SO precarious that his physician visited
him twice day, is without any foundation
whatever
A school girl in one of the rural districts
of Pittsfeld was overheard trying to convince
a schoolfellow that she liked him better than
she did some other urchn of whom he seemed
Jealous. 'Of course like you better than
do Bill" said she, "for don'tI miss words in
my spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be
down to the foot Of the class where you are"
Disasters on the lakes and the St. Lawrence
have caused d loss this year Of nearly 49,
25o, 600, one .third of which. 81, 035, 900, oc
Cured in the month of November. The num-
Der of vessels destroyed is 100
Miss Clara Remington, of St. Louis, has
come :n,o possession Of a Cuban estate worth
more than half million, left TO her by a
Spanish officer, Colonel Muncos, to whom
she had been engaged for some time. Span
ish officers will now be quoted rs above par
by American 'mars.''
The national capital is suddenly furnishing
the country with the accommodating horrors of
many murders. Within a few months there
have been fourteen instances of this crime In
Washington.
The Mobile Register says THAT experience
has pretty clearly demonstrated that sugar
cane may be grown with decided profit on all
the pine lands of all the lower South"
The Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn,
of which DIR. Storrs is pastor, narrowly es-
capped destruction by fire on Friday. DR..
Storrs, who happened to be sitting in his study
which adjoins the church building, saw smoke
issuing from the main doorway, and quickly
giving an alarm, succeeded in getting about
him enough help to put the fre out before 1t
had gained much Roadway. When discover
ed, several of the main beams Of the flooring
were burning. The cause of the fire was
defective flue.
The death of thousands Of the little spar
rows that have done such good service in
New York was one of the effects of the great
snow storm in that city on Thursday. They
were unable 10 find a resting -placc for their
feet, such was the violence Of the storm and
the depth of the snow.
The St. Louis Republican says that Gen
eral Grant, who has just paid brief visit to
his aged father at Covington, Ky, urged the
latter to resign his position as postmaster on
account of the increasing iniirmities of age.
The latest feminine justification for homi-
eide is from New Orleans, where Mrs. and
Miss Ingraham are excused for shooting at
one John Kaiser in the open street, on the
ground that he committed q "breach Of eti-
quette.''
The vote in Cincinnati authorizing the city
to issue one million and quarter in bonds to
aid the Cincinnati and Chesapeake Railroad,
was carried on Saturday by nearly 1000 ma
iority, being over 1000 above the necessary
two thirds required by law.
PO1lTIC4L.
The Washington Republican states that a
project for the annexation of Santo Domingo
will he brought forward in the House soon
after the recess, and that it will originate on
be democratic side.
The President, it is said, does not approve
Of the appointment Of a special commission
to distribute the award Of the Geneva Board