Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-26
GENERAL NEWS,

Four deaths have resulted from tue railroad
accident in Ohio on Thursday.
Wood and concrete pavement both prove
failures in New York
Two hundred Nova Scotia girls are expect
ed at Morgan Chapel in September, to do
homework in Boston.
Mr.. Niblack of Indiana says he would glad
ly turn over his share of the back salary if
there could be ga general refunding and cam
collation. all around"
Adyices from the north of Spain state that
the Carlists are disheartened.
A new oil region has been discovered near
Titusville, Pa.
Smutty Nose Island received its name about
two hundred years ago, somebody thinking
that projection of rock at one end of the
island bore resemblance to a nose
The Italians have a proverb that SHE who
takes an eel by the tail or a woman by the
tongue is sure to come off empty handed"
Benjamin Osburne, a wealthy white man of
Louisville, has been fully committed on the
charge of numbering negro. A civil suit has
been begun against him for 10000 by the
widow.
Proceedings are to be brought against Cap
tain Wenner by the German government, for
taking two Spanish war vessels from the
Carthagena insurgents.
Gen. Underwood said in speech at Law
renee that he thought the late war had short
ened the life of each participant in active
campaigns from five to fifteen.
The contract for constructing the wooden
sloop-o Of war, bids for which were opened at
the Navy Department on the eth inst will be
awarded to Thomas Stack, of New York,
whose bid was $l48,000.
suspended Catholic priest who is now
practicing medicine in Chicago has brought
action for damages against the Bishop of the
Diocese on the ground that he was Irregular
ly suspended.
A steamer bound from Singapore to Lon
don is reported wicked in the Red Sea. The
captain, officers and some Of the crew were
lost and thirty survivors were taken pris-
oners by Mohammedan tribe.
Her husband would never walk with her
as he said she had too short step for him."
was the testimony of wife in a divorce case
recently. Another man who could keep step
put in an appearance and hence the trouble
which ensued
In Athol, Mass, there is a sect called "Hol.
landites." They are about 20 in number,
and they employ themselves in tilling the
earth. As to coats and hats, they follow the
Quakers AS to faith, they are partly Adven-
lists and partly "Spiritualists'- is they
expect to go up, and they also expect to come
down.
We have yet much to learn in America
about the subject of education. In most re-
spects the city of Vienna is far ahead of all
American cities in the matter of education.
You can guess, then, how very far ahead of
us are the cities of Berlin and Dresden.
A. T. Stewards Home for Working Women.
IS to be given up and the building erected for
1T will be used for some other purpose. Mr..
Stewards advisers consider it impossible to
establish such home as he proposed
The telegraph reports that a Mrs. Camp
bell and Mrs. Chambers Of Madison, Ca,
have received notice from Judah p. Benia.
min, that they have fallen heir to twelve mil
lion dollars in France, and have started to
claim the inheritance. The property is inher-
tied from the estate of Rennaleau.
Early Friday morning, in New York, man
named Boderick, who was under the influence
Of liquor, quarreled with his mother-in-law,
and being interfered with by one of his two
sons, stabbed him to the heart twice. The
other son attempting to restrain him was
severely wounded. The father is in custody.
The verdict Of the jury in the case OF the
fatal accident on the Marietta and Cincinnati
Railroad. was that the deceased came to their