Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Two of the Supreme Court Judges OF ar
kansas have been arrested by order OF bax-
ter.
A citizen of Vincennes, Ind, bears the
good name for dry time OF Weicome
Sprinkle.
Edward payson Weston, the pedestrian, be-
gins his great walk at the American Institute
building at ~ o'clock on Sunday night next.
steamer, with a section of the American
cable to be laid from Para to Demerara,
sailed, Sunday.
Senator Mor.on's health is so poor that he
has not been in the Senate since the Presl-
dents veto message was read,
Over 1000 men have been thrown out OF
employment at Troy, n Y, by the suspension
of the iron works.
An Iowa Judge lately began charge to the
jury with Gentlemen of the jury, you must
now quit eating peanuts
Intelligence from FIJI is that the King and
people are unanimously in favor of the ees-
sion of the islands to Great Britain.
A special from Portland says that the Hon.
Charles 7. Kmball has bought an elegant
mansion on Deering street of Mr.. S. II. Lib.
by, at cost of Sl2 900.
circus has already left SO many unpaid
bills "out West that an editor ventures to
hope that the world s not all "feeting
show"
Mrs. Sarah +. Ames, the sculptor, widow
of Joseph Ames, the artist, intends to adopt
the profession of the stage, and will make
her first appearance in the part Of Lady Mac
beth.
'Wh bonnets are there for old ladies p
asked customer of millinery magnate in
New York. ave have none," was the reply,
.you must go to Boston for those; in New
York all ladies are under forty
| The Freemans Journal strikes blow at
St. Patrick's Day celebrations by wholesale
condemnation of the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, whose members compose so large a
feature of those celebrations.
The engagement Of the Rev. DR.. W. Bel
lows of New York and Miss Annie Peabody,
daughter of the late Rev. DR.. Ephraim Pea
body of Boston. is announced. The lady is
about 3s, and the clergyman about CO. Both
passed the winter in London
A petition is in circulation at Boston re-
guessing the City Government to invite Wen
dell Phillips to deliver another eulogy on
Sumner, in Music Hall, on Decoration day.
We have often heard Boston commended for
the thoroughness of its public funerals. -Ne~
! York Erenin1 Post.
Messrs. Carleton and Russell, natives of
New England, three years ago established a
pronounced "a California Eden" Mr.. Garlic
ton has in his orchard over 100 900 orange
trees, besides thousands of lemons, lines,
walnuts, figs etc.
NJ. d. Conway is some what indignant that
Darwin should be considered an illustration
of his own ''missing link" and says that the
philosopher is a man of most impressive APP
pearance, reminding one who sees him more
Moses, in Rome, than of any inferior being.
Commencement at Cambridge this year
will occur June "a, that being the last We'd
nesday of the month. II is expected that the
Association of the Alumni will dine all to-
gether in the Memorial Hall. This has not
happened for many years, as there has been
no hall in Cambridge large enough to accom-
modate them.
A traveller writes that nothing remains OF
the American colony that went to the Holy
Land severa. years ago to reform the Turks
and rebuild the Temple but the site of their
emburg, which followed the American, was
more practical and successful. They mum
Der sixty families AMI have converted the
waste land near Joppa into garden, having
hundreds of orange and lemon trees