Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-10-31
GENERAL NEWS.

1t is generally considered that the Union
Trust Company is hopelessly bankrupt.
The New York Common Council has ap-
propriated $50, 200 to aid the Memphis sui.
ferers.
The supply of postal cards is now greater
than the demand, the Government having sew
eral millions in reserve.
The Exhibition building to be erected in
Philadelphia will cover an area equal to that
of Boston Common.
H. B. Eaton, of Plainfeld, Conn.,, had his
pocket picked Monday night. at the Eastern
Railroad Depot, in Boston, of 81, 200.
The French Government has prohibited the
circulation of the Vienna New Free Press,
because it published attacks on President
MacMahon.
The first lunatic asylum established in this
country, was built one hundred years ago in
Williamsburg, Va.
DR.. Gordon Russell, of Hartford, Conn.,,
has presented to the Retreat for the Insane
the sum of $40, 900 toward the erection of
memorial chapel for the use of its inmates.
1t is stated in St. Louis that the Atlantic
and Pacific, and St. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern Railroads will reduce the salaries
of all their employees, from President down,
ten per cent.
1t is reported that DR.. Balfour, q Madras
surgeon, has discovered that the oil of the
gurjan tree is a sure cure for the loathesome
disease of leprosy.
The consumption Of coal for the purpose of
gas illumination in Great Britain is estimated
at IA .O00, 900 tons per annum, valued at $780,
OOO,OO The total annual production of coal
ir England in 100. OOO, 900 tons.
The Treasury service is to be replenished
with clerks taken from groups gathered at St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Savannah and New York.
| These are to be formed by issuing invitations !;
and the best men are to be selected from the
competing candidates.
| The statement for October will show a con-
siderable increase of the public debt. This
increase is, of course, occasioned by the dim
mutton in the revenues incident to the panic
1t is not impossible that the statement may
show an increase of three millions.
A correspondent of the Scientific Ameri-
can says certain cure for nose bleeding il to
extend the arm perpendcularly against a
wall or post, or any convenient object for .
support. The arm on the side from which
the blood proceeds is the one to elevate.
The Republican Banner of Nashville thinks
that Tennessee, so rich in its yet undeve loped
agricultural and mineral resources, is almost
certain in q few years to become the work
shop of the great Southwest. 1t therefore
calls for schools, for the mechanic arts and
sciences, for lecture rooms and manufacto-
ries. "Too many of our young men," il. SEN
sibly says, "are educated for professions
which are already overcrowded.
One good result of the panic is said by q
| New York paper to be the perceptble falling
| off in the number of bottles of wine that were
formerly opened in the course of an evening
| at the club rooms, and even the record of the
sale of the cheaper beverages shows that
economy and temperance have suddenly un-
folded attractions that have hitherto been de-
spised.
Colonel Thomas Baker died in Austin,
4cAab, io1t "ccA3 ~ tuc uko VI clAty-scVcu
years. He was the first superintendent of
schools in Gloucester, Mass, from 1850 to
1855. He was born in Durham, Maine, and
was an aid to the governor during the Aroos-
took war. He was a graduate of Bowdoin
College, and devoted his life to educational
labors, mainly as q teacher in Maine, Glou-
cester and Boston. In 1856 he emigrated to
Texas, where for several years he was prin.
cipal of the asylum for the blind at Austin.
The low price of silver has brought q large
amount of it into circulation. Silver dimes,
half dimes, quarters, half dollars, and even
dollars, are given out a. change for currency
over bar and restaurant counters with the ut.
most nonchalance by the attendants. People
go about blinking the silver coin in their
pockets, feeling that they are possessed of
money the solid value of which is unmistaka-
BILE, and it is paid out again more reluctantly
than the paper currency in vogue 90 long.
The coin is generally fresh from the mint,
and it is examined critically and with curiosi.
| ty by many who have never seen American
coin before. 1t is bought by the restaurant
keepers for circulation among their custom
ers, and serves - good advertisement of the
! places issuing it.-Ns~ York Times.