Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.

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| white elephant is on its way from Siam
to this country.
! The wife of Attorney General Williams is
quite i'll With nervous prostration.
Ipswich promises to elect colored lady on
the School Committee, at the annual town
meeting. next week.
| London has AZ theatres and 265 music halls,
the latter including minstrel performances
and variety theatres.
Detroit women begin to think that the panic
was a blessing after all, as the men have grown
economical in keeping dogs.
Rumors as to the retirement of Judge Rich
ardson from the Treasury Department are
again very positive, though of uncertain
origin.
Mr.. A. T. Stewart is said to be unwilling to
have his portrait taken, and none Of the illus
trated papers have been able to give it.
Pithole City, Pa. of petroleum renown,
which once boosted a population of 5000,
now numbers only nine families.
The lumbernen in Montcalm county, Mich
gan, are causing serious disturbances; the
military has been called out to preserve order.
The Pope has intmated that Archbishop
Manning and nine other archbishops will be
created cardinals at the next COnsistory.
A couple of lovers at Cairo were married
by telegraph the other day, the clergyman be-
ing in Memphis.
The London Morning Post says that it is
l.. A. YYoIu. 4 4 -:.t
the rank of Major General and pension of
$500 per annum.
Let US be thankful that we don't live in
Kentucky, where every man that writes a
room, accompanied by shot gun.
Philadelphia people are beginning to be
anxious about their finances. The debt Of
the city now amounts to $50 600, 900 more
than double that of the entire State.
High tide in the Bay of FunJy, Friday,
caused great damage in King and Hauts
counties, N. s., and carried away a portion of
the railway wharf at Windsor.
A girl seeking new place, owned up to
having left seven places in year, and added,
live been looking fer place with an old
couple with prof. er,y, who would consider me
like daughter"
In many of the foot hill counties skrtng
The Serras, genuine native coffee is growing
in abundance. The plant is indigenous to the
coil and grows luxsrisntly.
/ Two Detroit girls have been arrested for
getting on locomotive, opening the throttle
valve, and starting the machine, They then
jumped of, but the engine ran through q
freight train, doing 500 damage.
The schooner Maine, fifty years old, ha,
just made the round trip from Portland to
Boston and back, through five bridges, loaded
with lumber, in 1874 hours and ten minutes
the quickest recorded tim; with lumber.
The executors of Elwin Forrest have eff.
ected a settlement with the divorced wife of
The deceased by pay ing her sos 900, she agree
ing to forego all her claims for this sum.
1t is reported that the trustees of the First
National Savings Bank Of Concord, N. H.,
have sued all ,h- bon6smen of the late treas
arer, w. w. Sterrs, on both bonds, but it is
hardly probable that a trial will be reached
before the fall term Of the court.
John d. Sanborn appeared, by counsel,
before Judge Benedict, and entered plea Of
not guilty to the indictment for conspiring
with Lucian Iiawley and Alfred Vanderwer-
ken to defraud the United States. Assur-
ances we're given that the accused would ap.
pear for trial on Monday next.
Rochester people are fairly enlisted in fight
Ing the gas company. About one thousand
houses or stores have abandoned the use Of