Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-10
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Ex.President Baez of San Domingo has
sailed for Porto Rico.
The Emperor of all the Russias is no bet
ter speech maker then Gen. Grant.
The price of gold on Saturday dropped to
ITO SIS, the lowest point since last January.
Henri Rochefort sailed for Europe on the
steamship Parthia on Saturday morning.
The Rangely Lakes, in Maine, claim the at
tention of the piscatorially inclined.
| Chicago reporter touchingly alluded to
man who was .'killed and otherwise injured"
| The Indian Peace Commissioners have re-
signed, owing to disagreement between re-
ligious denominations.
Chief Justice Waite is to be honored by
having a hotel named after him in his native
town of Lyme, Conn.
Wisconsin has been experimenting with
maple as a substitute for steel rails, and is
not altogether satisfied with the general re
suits.
| Alta fire in New York on Saturday man
named McEntire by remarkable heroism
rescued his wife and four children, while
another child perished in the fames.
| Hundreds of hunters are gathering for
grand slaughter of buffaloes west of Fort
Dodge, whittier the animals are moving in
immense members.
John Cozzens, of West Point, lessee of the
Grand Hotel, Saratoga, pays $4,000 rent
this year and still larger in the future.
The principal agricultural problem in Min
nesota and Iowa is, whether the settlers will
1 drive out the grasshoppers or the grasshop-
pers drive out the settlers.
The New York Observer (religious) COM
pliments the police Of that city by saying
they are the lawless, dangerous class of the
city and by warning the people to look out
| for them!
During the first four months of this year
ASP ships, with an aggregate tonnage of S24,-
06s tons, passed through the Suez canal. In
the same period last year the number OF
ships was 453, making 729 907.
Germany has sold her needle guns to China,
not because she has no more need Of them,
but she has found another kind which can kill
twice as many Frenchmen.
A generous husband permitted his wife to
carry a large baby from one depot to the other
recently, while he bowed beneath the weight
of a little willow basket.
mole cricket, an animal having the head
of mole and the body of cricket, has been
caught in Jefferson, Ind. Only four of the
| IL hao ;nt1 p,iptrv
The British and Foreign Bible Society ex-
pended last year little more than 81 ,0O0.-
600, for which they issued 2 ,G54 ,os9 copies of
Bibles, Testaments or portions of the Scrip
lures.
A Southern paper mentions that Gen. Breck-
inridge is SO much better that he has Grid
out" on horseback, but he is not so ridoutable
as before his sickness.
June l6 and 81 are the dates of the ami
versaries of the election and coronation of
the Pope. The American pilgrims expect to
participate in ceremonies on those dates in
Rome.
The Cunard Steamship Company has again
reduced rates of Storage passage SO that
secured for $40 currency, and prepaid certifi-
Gates from Liverpool to Boston for $25 cur
rency.
1t is said that the young lady who was en-
gagged to Col. Ellsw orth, and vowed eternal
celibacy for his sake, was not present at the
dedication of his monument, because it was
not convenient for her to leave her husband
and children.
The Detroit Free Press tells of a country
editor in Michigan who some time ago en-
twenty mine pers ons, oil dead-hesds, and the
Courier-J Journal thinks che must have felt
that it was the proudest day of his life"
Within the past ten years the screw has
replaced the paddle in translate navigation,
the weight of marine engines has decreased
one-half, the steam pressure has quadrupled,
and the consumption of coal has diminished
two.thirds.
Mr.. Hammond the revivalist spoke to man
standing in a crowd at Quincy, H., short
time ago, inquiring how he felt ''Do you
see anything green?" said the man pointing
to his eye, as much as to say he was not sub
ject for conversation. "No, my FRIEND" Mr..
II. replied, 'but see something red-your
nose, and it cost $500 to paint it if paid for
the drinks
One day last week young couple went to
justice of peace in Osceola, Iowa, and were
married. On the way home the groom took
occasion to lay down the law to his young
wife, and informed her what she must and
what she must not do. A row ensued, and
''the bride of an hour" returned home to her
fond parents, while the groom started West
to grow up with the country.
Under the head of Humorous" an ex-
change publishes the following, which to the
initiated possesses far more of pathos and
suggestive misery:
Tell me, ye winged things
That round my pillow roar,
Is there no favored spot