Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-05
GE'NERIL NEWS.

The Choctaw Indians refuse to aliot any of
their lands to their negro slaves.
1t is said that John b. Cough has lectured
in Boston 500 times.
There was good sleighing in the vicinity of
Austin, Minnesota, on Monday last
Stokes left quietly for Sing Sing Saturday
morning, handcufIed to a forger.
The treasury has just issued the seventh
call for the redemption of $40 bonds of 1862.
Political matters in Canada are Of the
greatest possible uncertainty. Both parties
await the result with the utmost anxiety.
An enthusiastic Chicago critic thus writes
Of a new novel: ''The incidents follow each
other like shovelful of hot Goals
Sir William Bovill Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of Common Pleas of England, is
dead. He presided over the frs. Tichborne
trial.
Mrs. Jay Cooke displays true heroism.
She promptly reliuquishes her dover right to
meet the pecuniary liabilities of her husband.
The result of the investigation of the TIL
ton-Beecher SANDER case BY the Plymouth
Church committee is the dropping of Mr.. Til
tons name from the church rolls.
Louise Alcotts mother says ~ am sew
enty three, but mean to go to the polls before
l die, even if my three daughters have to car
ry me-
There is some excitement in San Francisco
over the report that Roman Catholic priest
the Rev. Father Dugan, is to publicly abjure
his old faith and embrace Professionalism.
Rather than consent to reduction of ter
per cent. on their wages the operatives of the
blast furnaces at sPittsburg have determined
TO remain idle.
During the past year, ending with the frs,
day of September last there were l 800 rail-
road accidents in the country, at which 81
persons were killed, and l, 40 injured.
Carlyle is living at Dumfries, Scotland,
and wears horrible old suit of clothes which
don't fit him by a mile, Eor become him either
any better than he becomes the clothes.
Sir Samuel Baker says that in the slave
holding district of Africa, which he recently
visited, the current price OF a girl was two
cows. 1t is needless to add that woman suf-
trage is not under discussion in those regions.
j. NJ. Price, Grand Master OF the Masonic
Order in Kansas, has decided that "a Master
Mason who keeps a dram-shop should be sus-
pended or expelled, and saloon keeper is
not suitable person for the degree"
The Philadelphia people want everybody to
drink tea on the 10Th Of December, the cen
tennial anniversary of the throwing over
board of the tea in Boston harbor. Extra in
voices from China and Japan will be required.
Milwaukee servant girl has abandoned
her place because for six whole weeks she
never went to but three circuses, four prayer
meetings, seven picnics and two steamboat
excursions. She says she wants to have a
little time to herself
Father 'Phelan, a priest of st. Louis, Mo-,
having publicly expressed the opinion that
the pupils in the public schools graduate to
become horse thieves and blaspheu.ous scoun-
drrls generally, is pertinently reminded by
the Democrat Of that city that he himself re-
ceived his instruction in one of the St. Louis
public schools.
The Young Mems Christian Association OF
Colchester, England, have unanimously de-
cided that Mark Twains books are improper
reading for young Christians, and have igno-
mniously banished them from their library.
1t is not supposed that this will entirely de-
stroy the sale of the book, however.
Only thirty of the hundred Chinese at North
Adams have resumed work, and the rest will
probably leave the place. All Mi, one of the
rioters, was so badly hurt during the scrim-
mage on Monday that his recovery is doubt
full. The life of Charley Sing, the foreman,
has been threatened, and he keeps very shady.