Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-09-30
GENERAL NEWS.

| power before November.
| The American Board OF Foreign Missions
closed its session at Minneapolis on Thurs
| day.
The grand jury had found an indictment
| lottery advertisements.
The Carlists In Spain are disheartened.
They are unable to move for want of money,
artillery and ammunition.
a gentleman lately refused to celebrate his
silver wedding on the ground that he was rot
yet reduced to beggary.
Mr.. Henry f. Brown of Baskerville, one of
the richest and best known manufacturers in
New England, died on Tuesday night at
Marthas Vineyard, Mass, where he was
stopping for his health
The whole number Of students in the Yale
University is 93i, not counting those in the
department of art and medicine The fresh
man class of the academic department now
numbers 100.
Alexander II. Stephens has contributed
$500 towards the building of the Roman
Catholic college III Georgia. Robert Toombs
is said to propose making similar contribu-
ton.
Ann Eliza, Mrs. Brigham Young No. Il,
intends to bore such audiences as she can
find willing to welcome her to the lecture
platform. Her divorce suit was an extensive
advertisement.
Over ST., 600, coo worth OF bonds having
been purchased by the Treasury Department
since the beginning of the panic, the annual
saving of interest to the Government will be
about $3.50, goo in gold.
On the 23th of October next will occur the
3Slst anniversary Of the discovery of America
by Columbus. 1t is proposed by the Italians
of the country to celebrate the event with
great eclat.
President Grant has signed the Postal Con-
venton between the United States and the
Government of Newfoundland for the ex-
change of postal cards by the addition Of one
cent postage.
Jacob Diakar, a German, won't be likely
to drive horse with lame back through
Boston streets very soon again. He paid $50
and costs in the Municipal Court on Friday
for having been so careless and cruel
Fredericton, n. b., is agitated over an &C.
clesiastical quarrel. 1t appears that the bish-
op Of the diocese has appointed rector to
the living of Christ Church, and wealthy
parishoner has procured an injunction against
the clergymans induction into office.
1t is dangerous thing to squeeze a lady's
hand in Brooklyn, N. Y. A man there never
proposed to young lady, but he pressed her
hand, kissed her and was generally attentive,
and SO the city judge gave her $4,000 for
what was inferred to be breach of promise.
A man at Oswego, Kansas, getting ready
for party, dropped pockesbook, contain
ing $1,000 in the cistern, recovered the money
and got on his clean shirt in time for the
party.
novel application of ice was made at St.
Louis, the other day, when forty-fve tons
were used to cool and thus contract the iron
tubes of the mammoth suspension bridge
across the Mississippi, to allow the insertion
of the competing tubes.
The newly sewn wheat along the line of the
Michigan Central Railroad is already up, and
the Detroit Press says that should the weather
prove as favorable for the next two weeks as
the last two weeks, there will be nearly one
half more acres sown to wheat than was put
in last year.
In Brooklyn stands house that is proba-
bly, one of the frst if not the first built in
that section of Long Island. 1t is known to
be upward of $50 years old. The sides are
built of irregular cobble stones, placed to-
gether in the same manner as stone wall or
fence; the ends are shingled. The interior
wood work of the house is massive and all of
hard wood.
A lad employed in ST. john y. b., drug
! store, fell dead in the street, in that city,
| Wednesday evening. He was.in the habit Of
tasting drugs, and once came near losing his
life BY eating camphor. II ia supposed that
his death was caused by aconite bark, his em-
ployer having been pounding some on that
day. He had made some enquiries in regard
to it, and probably swallowed Eome unthink-
ngly.