Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-04

Elder Knapp made money enough during
his life to leave $4,000 to Madison University,
$4,000 to the Missionary Union, and $4,000 to
the Home Mission Society.
John c. Breckenridge was taken with hem
orrhage of the lungs at Lexington, Ky, last
Friday night, and lay in critical condition;
he is somewhat recovered now.
conference of the steamship lines run
ming between Great Britain and the United
States was held in New York Thursday for
the purpose of promoting uniformity Of pas
senger and freight rates.
A topper at Dubuque, Iowa, attributes the
flood in Louisiana to the woman g crusade. 81
alters were afraid of water" said he, "and
too much of it is very dangersome."
The Cincinnati Gazette, reviewing the f.
nancial situation, says; "There is positively
nothing at this time, save the uncertainty Gre
ated by currency agitation in Congress, to
prevent the steady recovery of trade and in
dustry on sounder basis"
An old lady with large family, living near
a river, vas asked if she did not live in con-
slant fear that some of her children would be
drowned. ooh, no." she replied, 1--WE have
only lost three or four in that way"
Coy. Alexander r. Shepherd, of the Dis
trict of Columbia, is a victim of a "wicked
partner" who, without his suspicion, has been
receiving brides from city contractors. The
firm was dissolved wednesday. The offend
err VIM. G. Moore, was once Andrew John
sons private secretary.
Reconciliation is progressing at the South.
On the occasion of the recent Confederate
memorial service at Mobile the guns used in
firing the salutes during the day were loaned
for the purpose by the United States authori-
ties.
81 expect" said a worthy Quaker, "to pass
through this world but once. If, therefore,
there is any kindness can show, or anything
l can DO for my fellow men, let me do it now.
Let me DO it now. Let me not neglect or de-
fer it, for | shall not pass this way again
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher makes this
comprehensive reply to an anxious questoner
who is DESTROYS of knowing whether man
can love his second wife as we'll as the first:
"That depends on what sort of a wife the first
was and what kind of life the second leads
him"
~ fear said country minister to his
flock, "when l explained to you in my last
charity sermon that philanthropy was the love
of our "species," you must have understood
me to say "speeie," which may account for
the smallness of the collection"
woman in Lapeer, Michigan, took her
husbands knife few days ago to open fell
on shortly after her husband used the knife
to extract a silver from his hand and inoculat-
ed himself with the virus of the fclon his hand
began to swell, and in four hours lie was a
raving maniac, and in less than forty eight
hours he died.
Dubuque, Iowa, had boy and girl at work
in livery stable for quite time, who repre-
scented themselves as brothers, and who, when
found out, stated that they were forced to as
sumo the disguise, as the boy was unable to
support his sister unaided and did not like to
trust her away from his care.
The American Geographical Society will be
represented at the millennial celebration in
Iceland by DR.. Hayes, the Arctic explorer
DR.. Hayes will take his departure from New
York about June l, and leave Dundee. Scot
land, in vessel specially chartered for the
voyage to Iceland.
The students at Tufts College have decid-
ed to publish college paper and have
perfected their arrangements so that the
inatory number will appear in June. 1t is
to be monthly, eight pages, the size of the
New York Nation, and will have crcula.
ton of 1000. The success of the paper, liter
airy and financial, seems to be beyond doubt.
Albert Z, Wing, son of the late DIR. Wing
of Auburn, Me-, was murderd and robbed,
for the paltry sum of $50 or $50, it is sup.
posed, by Samuel Colwell, few days since,
near Minneapolis, MINI. Young Wing wen:
out to drive with the murderer, and was
knocked down by him and robbed and left on
the roadside Wing lived four or five days,
and related the facts in the case, identifying
the murderer.
A man named Tucker was married last week
in Woodford country, H., and the 'bovs,'
presuming on his good nature, gathered to
give him grand charivari. They were pro-
crossing finely when they discovered the |
bridegroom in their party pounding on an old
tin pan as hard as any of them. The subse- |
quent proceedings interested them no more.