Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-22
GENERAL NEWS

Portland, Oregon, expects to put up 3,000,-
600 cans of salmon this season.
young man Of Brooklyn, N. Y. is report
ed to have committed suicide on account of be-
ing victmized by an employment swindle in
Boston.
Miss Abbie Hutchinson of the Tribe OF
ASA, was married to Mr.. Samuel G. Ander-
son of Lhchield, Mimi, on the 9th inst.
Prof Agassiz delivered an address in the
Hall Of the Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatiyes Friday on the interests of the Mu-
scum Of Comparative Zoology.
1t is very much the fashion now -a-days for
ladies to carry navy blue water proof cloak
neatly rolled and strapped.
John Bright declares letter-writing the
greatest burden of his life, and avoids it as
much as possible.
Natchez, Miss, which has a population Of
about 5000, boasts that it has recently passed
whole week without losing single citizen
by death.
Newark man, on his way to Jail for as
saulting his wife, thanked God that it was not
for any disgracefal offence, like stealing.
boarding house keeper in Lynn, Mass,
has been bound over to answer a charge of
libel, brought by young woman whom he
posted as "board- jumper" on her failure to
pay So due him.
1t is proposed to substitute tea for brandy
in the Russian army, and a committee of
specialists are preparing report upon the
comparative merits of tine two beverages.
The colored people celebrated, on Thurs
day, the ninth anniversary of emancipation in
the District of Columbia by procession, and
an Grafton by Frederick Douglass, terminal
ing with a ball at night.
Scotch Proverbs. DO nothing in haste but
gripping o fleas. Nothing comes of itself but
dirt and long nails. He that cheats me once
shame IA him: if he cheats me twice, shame
ia me. He was scant O. news that told his
farther was hangit.
One of Philadelphia's present aggrayations
is bad veal, and there is much i'll health con.
.sequent thereon.
The stock market in New York was very
feverish on Friday, Lockwood Co., brokers,
failed. There are hopes of relief by heavy
remittances from the West.
The official opening of the Vienna exhibit
ton will take place on the LIST of May, but we
are told that only portion of the great build
ing will be ready at that time. 1t will require
some weeks after the opening before the
entire structure will be suitable for exhibiting
purposes.
Colonel Emory, at New Orleans, has been
instructed to afford all necessary military aid
to the U. S. authorities in quelling the dis
turbance in Grant Parish.
The memorial services to VIM. II. Seward
occurred at Albany on Friday. The Legisla-
ture in n body listened to an able address by
Charles Francis Adams.
William Dubon, young man lately re-
leased from the Middletown, Conn.,, Insane
Hospital, stepped deliberately in front of a
train at Windsor, last Friday, and was run
over and killed, his body being horribly mu-
tiated.
There is considerable excitement in finan-
cial circles at Poughkeepsie over an attempt
to raise money from the banks to the amount
of $4,000 through supposed fraudulent
checks, the firm attempting to draw giving
the name of David w. Van Kleeck & Co.,
and the checks coming from New York
through the American Express office.