Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-11
GENERAL NEWS.


"Boss" Tweed is summarizing at Narragan.
set Pier.
Some of what are called the ice caves in
the Catskill Mountains contain six feet of
snow.
The London journals contradict the report
that Prince Arthur is betrothed to Princess
! Thyra of Denmark.
The Worcester police are not allowed TO
smoke while in uniform, and smoking in the
station is prohibited
veteran observer declares that the people
who spend the most money at the watering
places are the old men with young wives
Three years ago a person was privileged to
view all parts of the Falls of Niagara by pay
ing fifty cents to cross the bridge to Goat
Island. Now II costs SLIGO.
Within the past two years a Detroit report
er has shaken hands With thirteen "Buffalo
Bills, all displaying the same houniiful sup
ply Of shooting irons" but every one with a
different "phiz"
The Joliet (lll.) Conference OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, by unanimous vote,
have granted to Mrs. Jennie F. Whiting
license to preach the Gospel and to perform
the marriage ceremony.
A milk pitcher thrown by his wifi. az Nell
son street man on Monday noon, missed the
aim and ruined handsome frame which en-
closed the words God bless our Home -
IDanbury News.
Counterfeit half eagles, coinage of 1872,
have recently made their appearance in Bos
ton, which 80 closely initiate the genuine as
to almost defy detection.
The Rev. Newman Hall is seeking divorce
from his wife in the London Divorce Court
on the ground of marital inidel,y. The rev.
erend genteman's married life began in To-
nance, Mrs. Hall having become attached to
him while he was her tutor.
The total loss by the fire in Portland, Ore
gon, IS now given as 81, l5s.675 which is said
to be comparatively greater than the great fires
in Chicago and Boston. Rebuilding will be-
gin at once. and aid will be asked of other
cities.
The Southern Fertilizing Company now
mix their various compounds in Libby Prison,
while the famous Castle Thunder, used dur
ing the war as a prison for Southern desert
ers is now the mandatory and warehouse
OF a tobacco firm
A man who was discovered asleep among
lot of tombstones in a stone cutters yard in
Binghampton said, on being awakened, that
he had come in to buy monument for him
self, and having picked out one, made up his
mind he would try it one night before pur-
chasing.
There is An insane man in San Francisco
whose regularity is that he imagines that his
enemies blow sulphurous odors in his face,
and place poisoned mosquitoes, flies and other
| insects into his ears, whence they find their
way into his stomach, and hold concerts and
anti Chinese meetings.
A Prussan amazon, who commands bat
talon Of volunteers, is the latest sensation in
Spain. She is WE'LL grown, hardly twenty
five years old, has a rather pretty face and
blonde hair. wears long upper garment, long
riding trousers and Phrygian cap, and car
res a cavalry sword.
a promising young student of nature in
| New Orleans amuses himself with a stuffed
rat, which, from his place of concealment, he
| draws across the sidewalk when people are
passing Women shrek when they see the
rat, and men violently attack ii with sticks
and umbrellas.
The Bishop of New Orleans (Catholic) has
written pastoral letter calling for iridium
of prayers for the deliverance of the Pope
I IN, - 70 for
the restoration Of the temporal power. Seven
years indulgence is granted to all who par
ticipate for one day in this iridium.
There is young lady living in Highland
County, Ohio, whose lot. in her matrimonial
aspirations, seems to be peculiarly severe
one. She was engaged to be married to a
worthy young man named Moses Patton, and
last Saturday afternoon, as he was on his way
to visit her, violent thunder storm arose,
and he and his horse were killed. About tvs o
years ago, a brother OF young Patton, who
was at the time engaged to the same young
lady, while on his way TO visit her, with his
marriage license in his pocket, was thrown
from his horse and killed.
The Christian Union has department de-
voted to answering 'inquiring friends" To
a correspondent who asked the editors opin-
ion of croquet- playing, was returned; 1--WE
think it is amusing to women, agreeable to
men, and fascinating to ministers. For all
persons who need gentle exercise, it is even
better than billiards; indeed, it is Il kind of
field billiards, - billiards gone to grass l..
Anybody that is too pious to play croquet,
ought to be done mp in starched linen, put in
bag and hung up like suit of Sunday
clothes, and not let out till meeting time"
The Sublime Porte has just signed con-
tract for raising loan of seventy-fve million
dollars. This looks like business. What,
with the Khedive and Shah and the Sultan in
the money market, it does seem as if the Mo-
hammedan world were awaking from the sleep
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