Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

There is considerable snow i'll Montreal,
and sleighs are used by the horse car lines.
Bankruptcy proceedings against Jay Cooke
& Co. have been begun in New York
A terrific storm prevailed throughout the
South and Southwest on Sunday. Much
property was destroyed.
There are 50 railway corporations in this
country which are now in default for non-pay-
ment of interest on their bonds.
One of the latest vagares of the Patent
Office at Washington is the issuing of pa
tent for persimmon coffee.
Tilley Brothers. large lumber firm Of
New York, have suspended. Other suspen-
sions are also reported in the lumber trade.
Mr.. Samuel Adams, organist at the Central
Methodist Church, Brooklyn, died Sunday
evening Of teart disease while presiding at
the organ.
The new City Council of Chicago is made
up of seventeen Irishmen, nine Germans, and
fourteen Americans.
The American fiibustering steamer Cen
eral Sherman has been seized at Aspinwall
by the United States steamer Wyoming.
High mass was celebrated at St. Peters
Church, in Memphis, Sunday, for the repose
of tine souls of those who died of yellow fever.
In Indiana on the 9TH inst. the newspapers
report the presence of the real Indian sum
mer, and insist that it is to this month that the
sweet season rightfully belongs.
severe encounter between Arabs and
Turks, in the district of Ell Asia, Arabia, is
reported, in which the former had three hun
dred and the latter seventy men killed and
wounded.
Israel Brown, a Georgia negro, who is to
be hung next month, has sold his body to a
doctor for $40, and is investing the money in
hair oil, cuffs, and fine shirts.
Gen. Sherman declares that it is absurd to
talk Of going to war because Of the Cuban
massacre.
Elder James Hammond of Wexford, r. l.,
was thrown from his carriage Saturday after
noon and killed.
sentimental Miss residing in New Bed
ford has braved her parents anger and the
scandal of the community by marrying her
fathers hoster. Her parents are wealthy.
1t is alleged that the British Government
reserves its decision relative to the executions
at Santiago, but will hold all concerned for
any further bsrbarities which may be inflicted
on British subjects.
Rev. De Witt Tallmage draws a great moral
lesson from the panic, and recklessly, but
firmly, informs his congregation that the loss
Of heaven will be found much worse than the
loss of the Northern Pacific bonds.
In the Berks county, Penn, poor house,
they have adopted a system which works ex-
tremely well. Every tramp who receives a
nights lodging is obliged to pay for it by
working two hours in the morning.
The young ladies of the Wheaton Seminary
at Norton, in view of the panic, have resolved
that they will spend upon themselves "no
money not impera,ively demanded by honesty,
health, tidiness or mental improvement, and
will carefully avoid every species of waste
fulness," which is a very sensible resolution
to make and to keep.
Rear Admiral Sands, commanding the naval
observatory in Washington, reports that the
comet discovered at Marseiles recently by NJ.
Cozzia was observed there on Saturday even
ing. 1t is a faint telescope object, and on
account of its rapid motion toward the south
will soon disappear from the evening sky.
In 1871 the Emperor William, when at
Constance, was examining the celebrated
fresco by Peclt, in which is portrayed the
triumphant progress OF Pope Marten. at which
Emperor Sigismund performed the humble
office of holding the Pope's bride. The
Kaiser WAS overhead to say, Il have had to
accept his heritage, but shall never hold the
bride"