Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-09
GENERAL Ne VS..

Four Philadelphia newspapers are said to
be con their last legs"
The effect of the new currency law has
been to contract the currency.
The first meeting of the new Prov isional
Government of the District of Columbia was
held Monday.
Another centennarian. Mrs. Hull OF
Dale, Wis, is l04 years old, and on a recent
warm day walked distance of six miles.
1t has been estimated that within one week,
lately, forty persons have been killed by
lightning in Wisconsin.
All the operatives in the linen mills of Bel.
fast, Ireland, have struck work.
Boston Corbett works at the hating bust
ness on week days, and breaches in Metho-
dist church at Camden, N. j., on Sundays.
Fossil oyster beds have been found above
the snow-line on the Rocky Mountains, and
the natives are much astonished.
An explosion of fireworks occurred Mon
day night in New York, during the progress
of display, causing a panic in the crowd
and resulting in number of injuries.
A Kentucky widow has brought suit for
100000 against lodge of knights of Pythias
for having caused the death of her husband
by their rough initiatory ceremonies.
The Meth odists of Chicago are discussing
the propriety of abolishing camp meetings,
owing to the difficulty of keeping away those
who resort to them simply for sport and for
evil purposes.
The young woman who is collecting mil
lion postage stamps now lives in Mddletown
She has three months longer to work in, and
will have about 323 presents for her diligence
when her heavy task is done.
district schoolmaster in one of the upper
counties of Michigan was asked what algebra
he preferred, and he replied ooh, amt
particular-most any kind that will just peel
the hide when you strike"
correspondent says that the pretty rice
paper that looks so pure and delicate is made
in China from the pith of tree not at ali as
we make paper from poplar wood, but by
simply cutting it into thin slices.
Victor Piatt, son of J. J. Piatt, Congress
sional librarian, and Mrs. S. M. Is. Piatt
poetess, was killed by an explosion of gum
powder at Cincinnati, Saturday. The pow
der was in a bottle, and when it exploded
portion of the bottle was driven into his neck
He died instantly.
The time has come when the wearer of the
starched linen coat rises from his chair and
goes forth unconscious of the fact that the
lower portion Of his garment retains the posi-
ton which it acquired while he was seated.
The monitors Saugus, Ajax, Dictator, Man
haitian, Canonicus and Mahopac, which were
put in commission pending the Virginius ex-
element, will. with the exception of the Die
tator, be laid up at Pensacola. The crews,
for the greater part, will be sent to the North
Atlantic fleet to fill vacancies, while a suffi-
cient number will be retained on the IRON
clads as police for their protection.
jenkins Of the Indianapolis Journal de-
scribng recent fashionable wedding in that
city, says that the groom and his grnomsman
"were handsomely dressed in black satin
neckties, white vests, and their button holes
well filed with fragrant roses" The costume
must have been more picturesque than be-
coming. There is a noticeable incomplete
ness about it.
There is something worth thinking about in
what Henry A. Wise says of the shareholders
rebellion, as follows: "There are ninety
nine things out of hundred in that war that
you can't account for in any other way only
to say that 1t wasn't mans war at all it was
God Almighty's war. His time had come for
the abolition of slavery, and the war was not
to end till that was accomplished; and bless
God every day of my life that i. was accom-.
plished."