Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-19
GENERAL NEHS.


Jewell in St. Petersburg.
Macon, Ca, boasts of a mocking- bird that
calls the police when it gets into fight with
another of its kind.
"Sapphires have been discovered in Col
orado." This is the way they try to get mar
riagesble young ladies to emigrato to that
State.
They are having the usual scare about the
Delaware peach crop. This by no means
proves, however, that the fruit will be scarce.
French wit said of man who was ex-
ceedingly fat, that nature only made him to
show how far the human skin would stretch
without breaking.
Cooking cement on boarding house stoves
is pcrilous business. An experiment in Wor-
cester resulted in burning woman almost to
death
The Hon. William Harmon, United States
Consul of St. Johns Province of Quebec,
died after lingering illness, at his residence
at Shelburne, VT. on Thursday afternoon.
Former students of the Theological School
at Canton, n. Y, will have reunion at the
American House in Boston, this week, with
speeches by the Rev. Drs. Fisher, Sawyer
and others.
The favori,e method in which the President
of Board of Aldermen in a Hudson River
town puts question is as follows "All ye
that are opposed to the motion will say aye
it's carried
The Manchester On. II. Pein. Works have
passed into the hands of new company, with
capital stock of $4,000, 900, one-half of
which has been taken by stockholders Of the
old corporation. The works continue in
operation.
1t is decided that Vice President Wilson
will 60 neither to California nor to Europe.
Still his health is too precarious for steady
work, and he will occupy the coming summer
and fall in short trips and other means of
recreation.
The Chatham Monitor tells little story
about whale who tried to run off with Cap
tain David Kent and his boat, the other day.
The captain cut the rope in which the whale
had entangled himself and left the leviathan
to pursue his voyage alone.
In the debate on the State police bill in the
Senate, yesterday, one of the grave and rev.
erend seignors impressively remarked; "Mr.
President, | don't want to be met as l walk
the streets, at any corner, by Jenny de Arms,
as would be in Europe That settled it
Boston Globe.
The coal shipments from Pctou mines in
Nova Scotia are dull this season in conse-
quence of the long blockade of ice in the; ST.
Lawrence. All the companies in the Pctou
districts have large stocks of coal en- the
banks.
A petition has been filed in the United
States district court by Henry w. Golding of
New York, seeking to have the Union Pacific
Railroad Company declared bankrupt. An
order of notice has been issued for hearing
on the ed instant, to determine whether
there is sufficient cause for the defendants to
contend.
The cleansing of cotton which has been
used for oiling machinery is now regular
business in Westville, Conn. By the aid of
machinery the oil is extracted from the cotton
and sold for lubricating purposes. The cot
ton is then subjected to bleaching process,
by which it is restored to its original white
ness. I
The ruins of an ancient city were recently
discovered in Arizona, on the ella river, sew
eral miles east of Florence. In places the
walls were found well preserved, standing to
the height Of twelve feet above the ground
A few metal ornaments and some rude stone
vases were found in the ruins.
Several thousand young French girls,
members of religious society, recently went
on pilgrimage to the cathedral of Notre
= Dame in Paris, the line of carriages reaching
over mile. Each pilgrim was robed in
white, and held a torch in her hand every
rank of society was represented. from the
grand dame to the poorest of the poor. Sim
liar pilgrimages have taken place in other
parts of France.
1t is alleged that when James Watson
Webb was u. S. Minister at Paraguay, the
Brazilian authorities seized an American
ship, and Mr.. Webb after time compelled
payment and sent what he stated rs the pro-
ceeds namely $4,000 to Secretary Seward
OF late Mr.. Fish has, after correspondence
decided that the vessel was rightfully held,
and SO turned over the sum which Mr.. Webb
sent here with the interest upon the same,
when it is said to have been discovered that
$4,000 was paid to Mr.. Webb instead of
$4,000, and that he had sent the balance to
London and deposited it to his private ac-
count. Mr.. Webb is out of service and is
now in London.
The most Wonderful Discovery of the
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