Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-27
GENERiil .NEti.S.

ENfRiI W ~.
TX. Representative John Hickman is ,lsn-
eerously i'll at his home in Pennsylvania
The New Jersey Pharmaceutical Societv
have passed resolution requesting druggists
not 10 allow liquor To he drank ON the
premises.
a Milwaukee woman torger, on being con-
Hicted, applied to one Of the newspapers for
situation as pententiary correspondent.
The report of the stopping of train on the
Missouri and Pacific road by a gang of rufians
was untrue.
The affairs of the Philadelphia morgue are
undergoing examination, and the driver OF
the coroner's wagon has been committed.
Five wives attended the funeral of sup
posed German bachelor at Hnhoken recently.
|! broke up in fight.
Judge Colvin OF St Louis has decided that
the social evil ordinance of that CITY is I'M
constitutional, and contradictory to the Bill
of Rights.
What" said teacher TO II pupil, makes
you feel uncomfortable after you have done
wrong:' ''My papa's big leather strap
feelingly replied the boy.
4 hundred fruit canning establishments
have million of dollars invested in the BUSH
ness in Baltimore. One firm puts up $500
cans daily. The peach canning season is at
its height now.
| Rochester, n. Y, has new club of six
members. They call themselves the Dismal
Six, and their presiding officer is styled the
| Doleful Grand.
| Forty thousand dollars were deposited with
the Freedmen's Saving Company at Jackson
vile, Florida, in one day.
a judge of Montgomery, Ala, recently in
my dear sir. Don't 60 any higher! You are
already out of the jurisdiction of this court"
A list of drinking saloons in the City of
Milwaukee covers three pages of the city d.
rectory, and 400 barrels of beer are dealt out
daily to the city's inhabitants.
The arrangements for the meeting of the
Evangelical Alliance in New York on the I'd
of October are being systematically made,
and it promises to be one of the most impor-
tant religious gatherings ever held in the
world.
1t appears that the engineer OF the Wawas-
set varied his employment by tending bar &C.
! casionally. This will go far in the minds of
some people to Justify Norman WIZARDS theory
that the boat was lost in consequence of ''su-
perheated steam"
Charles Nordhoif, who has been looking
into the question of Chinese labor on the Pa
ciGc coast, says he doesn believe there are
hundred ''decent men, who work for living"
engaged in the present crusade against the
Chinese.
Contributions are solicited at the South to
pay for a colossal equestrian statue of Stone
wall Jackson, for the Virginia NJ ilitary Insti-
tute, which has just been completed at Nu-
remburg, Bavaria, at an expense of s25, 900.
The charges OF fraud against the General
Land office in regard to the entries of the
Sioux haf-breed scrip, in Carson City, Neva-
da, are without any foundation
A negro in Montgomery, Ala, who was
brought up for contempt of court, said II
didn't mean to whistle; dat whistle went off
Five members of the New York Fertlizing
Company have been arrested and the boat
containing their works seized by order of the
State Board of Health.
Hayden's Geological Survey has made
careful exploration of the Three Tetons, and
find traces of the former presence of human
beings on their summit of IL $50 feet above
the level Of the sea.
Judge Thos. r. N elson, late of the Supreme
Court of Tennessee, died Sunday at Knox
Vile of the cholera.
Remington daughter, whose domestic
nature il equal to her natural simplicity, was
invited by an advent exborter to join his sect,
get her white robe ready, and prepare to
ascend. II can't" the maid REPLIED ''father
and mother are going up, and somebody must
stay to stay to see to the cattle"
The break in the Chesapeake and Delaware
canal has caused serious damage to the vessels
and barges; IL schooners and Is barges were
hopelessly wrecked, and 20 schooners, 81
barges, tugs and propeller steamer are
stranded. One of the vessels lies 400 yards
from the canal.
The report of the Board of Visitors to the
West Point military academy shows that out
OF one hundred and thirty -four appointees for
cadetships during the past year, forty nine or
more than one-third were rejected because
they failed to pass the literary examination
On the strength of this the Beard discourses
upon the lack of thoroughness in our primary
! education
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