Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-30
GE.NERAL NELKS.

ANiems for the kitchen-Things rubbed
against CRATER become less.
1t is said that the wife Of Attorney General
Williams is completely Frustrated by the lam
daulet scandal and its results.
The number of failures in the United States
for 1872 was 4069, total liabilities, Sl2l, 056,-
o00 for 1873, 5lS4, total liabilities, $685.
400, 900.
The House Committee on Territories are at
work on a bill to create h new Territory to be
called Pembina.
Phil Sheridan SAYS he would be much bet
ter Fenian if his parents hadn't hurried over
from Ireland and had him born in Ohio.
The wife of Rev DR.. Blagden died in Boston
Sunday morning last. She was the youngest
daughter of the first Mayor of Boston and
sister of Wendell Phillips.
That was a sensible old chap in Delaware
who, dying tie other day, said "Dont
write any poetry about me, and don't tool
around about monument
The fifty fifth anniversary of the establish
ment of the order of Odd Fellowship in
America was celebrated very generally Mon
day throughout the country.
Lieut. Gen P. II. Sheridan, President of
the Cavalry Corps Association of the Armies
of the United States, has issued circular for
a reunion of that organization at Harrisburg
on May II.
An Irishman remarked to a companion, on
observing a lady pass, pat, did you ever see
so thin woman 40 that before? Thin -
replied the other; 'sbotherashun. I've seen
one as thin as two of her put together,
have"
A juror in a criminal case recently tried at
San Francisco said that he would ike TO
agree to verdict of acquittal, but was pre-
vented from doing so by his oath, which re-
quired him to render verdict according 10
the law and evidence. To show his sincerity
however, he offered (being a man OF means
to draw check for $500, to be applied towards
paying the fine, and to request the Judge not
to impose any punishment. Several other
Jurors who agreed with him offered to in
crease the sum to $1,000, so that the prisoner
and his family would suffer no pecuniary loss
by reason of the verdict. The majority oil
the jury weuld agree to nothing but verdie'
of acquittal. A disagreement was the result,
and the prisoner " ill have to undergo another
trial.
A st. Louis paper announces that General
Frank Z. Blair has joined the Presbyterian
church.
Epu ri .h ro1i nf ('lUrCH
proclivities pr otests against the burial of Dr.
Livingstone in Westminster Abbey because he
was Presbyterian.
A little Troy boy, who was worrying over
piece of shad, at dinner lately, demoralized
his mother by asking, "Mamma, where did
God find all the bones to make the first shad
Off"
A Col. James McClurg of Augusta county,
Va, lost the power of speech suddenly about
year ago, no adequate cause being known.
Within few weeks his speech has returned
with equal suddenness.
Bayard Taylor, after twenty-five years alb
sence, has revisited Egypt and there found his
old dragoman Achmet. The latter was hap
py to see B. T. and appears to have promised
him free entrance into the heaven CT the
Egyptians.
Four young men went out fshing in the
Ammonoosuc river in Lisbon on Thursday
night last, and by the tipping over of the boat
James Brown was drowned. Two of his
companions who were good swimmers, were
in the water an hour trying to save him His
body has been recovered.
correspondent of the Winchester News
says one of the most important acta so far
passed by the Virginia Legislature is ian act
for the protection of deer in Frederick coun-
ty," and adds, "Gen. Washington killed the
last deer in Frederick little over hundred
years ago"
Secretary Richardson was to have loft
Washington Saturday for Baltimore, where
he will take steamer for Charleston on a
brief trip for his health. lie will visit sew
eral prominent ports during his absence from
Washington, which will, however, be of short
duration.
Mr.. Dsraeli has given notice that persons
taking office under him must cease from
guinea pigeing." To guinea-pig is to re-
ceive dictatorship in joint stock company
with the object of helping to form the com
pany by adding an influential name to the
prospectus. Such practices have been known
in London for some time and are now alto
gether too frequent.
San Francisco is shortly to witness an ex-
hlbition on grand scale of the electric light,
which, it is said, will be so intense ms to be
visible for a distance of 200 miles. The ma
chine for the purpose has been imported from
Europe, and will be run by steam engine of
tour-horse power.
The statue to Rosseau in the vaults OF the
Pantheon, at Paris, is one Of the most re-
markable things of its kind. The vault is
about ten feet square, with tie tomb in the
centre. 1t consists of a plain panel on each
side, and out OF the hcavy slab which covers
the top the right arm of the concealed stature
is represented as having burst open the tomb,
and grasping and holding up the torch of truth.