Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-29
GENERAL NEWS.

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There are thirty eight female preachers in
this country.
Archbishop McCioskey of New York and
Bishop Bacon of Portland sailed for Europe
Saturday.
This is the ministers leap year August,
their vacation month, has five Sundays.
The young folks of St. John, N. B., must
be rather phlegmatic. A local paper Of the
24th inst notices the ''frst picnic of the sea-
son."
Wall street operators are growing over
what they deem the unnecessary delay in
making the awards upon the bids for the new
loan.
Crews from St. John, N. B., ST. Stephen,
N, B., and Portland, will compete in four
cared races at regatta on the St. Croix
River, August t.
Mr.. John Harper, of the publishing firm of
Harper & Brothers, is dangerously ill, and it
is thought he cannot survive.
There is TO be a meeting of the manufac-
turers of Ontario, to discuss reciprocity, at
Hamilton, on the II III and 18th of August.
The Rev. w. Il. Shipman of Tufts Col
lege has been chosen to deliver the Grafton
before the alumni Of Middlebury College in
1875.
The shoe business is waking up--15, 900
pairs were shipped from Haverhill last week.
II never was better in this city than at pres
emit Neuburyport Herald.
T., 81. q D.
Young, by his wife, Ann Eliza, at Salt Lake,
the demurrer of the def, ndant to the juris-
dietion of the court was oyerruled and thirty
days given to answer.
A smoke-stack that eats up its own cndefs
is on trial, and lovers of open windows on
railroad trains feel an interest in its success
The Secretary of the Treasury decides that
under the revised statutes articles for churches
cannot be imported free OF duty.
Foreign insurance companies have taken
the alarm, ard either have Withdrawn bust.
ness from Chicago or doubled their rates. 1t
behooves that city to take more efficient
measures to prevent fires, or its business will
be driven to rival places.
A London correspondent says Mr.. Glad.
stone is understood to be engaged on Esprit
ual matters" more particularly upon the sub
Get of eternal punishment, on which he is
said to be questioning the casusts and theo-
ogians of every creed.
The cremationists OF New York State met
in convention in New York City Saturday
evening, and listened to an address by the
President of the society, who dilated on the
for dsposing of the dead.
1t is said that Mrs Tilton (of the Beecher
scandaD is daughter of Mr.. Joseph Rich
ards, native Of Salem, who was for many
years tenor singer at the old North church.
then standing on the corner of North and
Lyude streets. Mew5urypou Herald.
The bridge over the Merrmac River, on
the Rochester and Nashua Railroad is nearly
completed. 1t Is thought the road will be
open for travel in about six weeks, as the
grading is all done and but twenty miles of
rails are to be laid.
On the fifty eighth anniversary of the Bat
tie Of Waterloo, which occurred about month
ago, there were living fity-nine men whose
names are still on the army list, who were
| commissioned officers under Wellington in
,hat battle.
| dangerous counterfeit ilve-dollar note
has been discovered on the Traders National
Bank Of Chicago, and for the purpose Of
Withdrawing all the genuine notes and pre-
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the Treasury offers a premium of one-hslf
per cent for the return of the genuine notes,
and will pay, the expense of returning them
-Four young men of Chicopee Falls, repre-
seniatlves Of Yale and Harvard, returned
home Saturday morning from hundred-m mile
pedestrian tour through Hampshire, Franklin
and Berkshire. They were five days about it,