Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-09-13
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Secretary, is seriously ill at her home in
Germantown, Pa.
! Heenan, the once celebrated prize fighter
| has found it necessary to go to Colorado for
| his health.
The defalcation in the Hoboken Savings
Bank may possibly reach $3.50, 900.
The working population of the United
States is estimated at 10 ,OoO, 0OO-one- third
of the population.
Secretary Richardson has selected a COM
mittee of competent business men to decide
the seal locks question.
Roman Catholic priest has been sent to
prison for fortnight in Prussia for publicly
preaching that marriages among Protestants
is mere concubinage.
The twenty-second anniversary of Calfor-
MAS admission into the Union was celebrated
at San Francisco on Tuesday.
Mr.. John P. Hale, who was thought to be
at the point of death a fortnight ago, is now
so much improved that his friends anticipate
his recovery.
The tract ceded by the Crows the Uni
ted States amounts to between six and seven
million acres, Il great portion of it being ex-
ceedingly fine land.
The rebel General Johnston writes to the
New York Herald thus: "Not being a citi-
zen of the United States, do not publish my
political opinions" He is ''the man without
country"
Deputy Collector Smith has been arrested
at Springfield, ILL.,, for completely in Collec-
tor Harper's frauds. Warrants are out for
several other persons implicated.
Four men supposed to have been smothered
in the Lincoln mine in Amador county, Cal.
have been taken out alive after thirty. six
hours of imprisonment.
Mr.. George G. Cannon, the Mormon dele
gate to Congress, has according to current
report, secretly obtained divorces in the Ter
ritorial Probate Court from all three of his
wives.
1t is said that during the Shah's visit to
England the Duchess of Sutherland prevailed
upon him to promise that he would depart
from his practice Of making it a capital offense
for Persian to embrace Christianity.
An inmate of the Utica Insane Asylum has
had 800 needles extracted from different parts
of her person. How or when they got there
it was impossible to tell. Suffice it to say
she was dressmaker.
Just twenty-eight years ago Buffalo man
said to his wife: miranda, I'm going down
to Tins after BEDFORD" That was the
last seen of him until the other day, when he
entered the house with bed cord, and said
he'd fix the bed now.
The Alexandria Gazette says that a lady
who the other day bought a barrel of cabba-
ges in the Georgetown market found live
baby in it, we'll dressed, with milk bottle IN
its mouth, and so protected by the manner in
which the cabbages had been arranged as to
prevent suffocation.
The Richmond State Journal ventures the
assertion that the farmers of Virginia never
worked cheaper or more reliable labor, when
promptly paid, than they do now; So and $40
per month Gin orders on country stores in
most cases., being the ruling price.
Victoria Woodhul's lecture so disguised
the people of New Albany, Ind, that in order
10 suppress her, steps were taken to arrest
her on charge of open adultery with Col
Blood. The necessary affidavit was made
and a warrant placed in the hands of con-
stable bat Vic. left town before it could be
served.
When Horace Greeley visited Yosemite he
picked up IN the trail a horseshoe, and hung
1t on the knot of an oak tree for whoever
might choose to use it. No one took it, and
in time the knot grew over the horseshoe,
and recently the portion of the tree contain.
ing it was cut out and brought to San Fran
cisco As memento Of Mr.. Greeley's econo-
my.
The memory of Philip Embury, the found
er Of the Methodist Church in America, is to
be honored by the erection of massive gran
lite monument over his grave at Montpelier,
Vt.