Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-08
GENERAL NE US.

A drunken Scotchman shot his wife dead at
Dudley, Mass, Tuesday.
Prof Smell of Amherst College says the
late mouth Of April was the coolest for Sc
years.
The University of Michigan recently sus-
pended thirty mine Sophomores and forty two
Freshmen for hazing.
The Inauguration of the new President o.
the United States of Columbia took place at
Bogota on the LIST of April.
Gen. Joe Hooker is attending the reunion
of the Third Army Corps, now in progress at
Newark, N. J.. Gen. McMichael presiding.
An eminent British officer recommends that
| the army for the defence Of England should
consist chief of mounted infantry.
Bertha Daniels, seventeen years old, COM
mitted suicide Tuesday at her home in Wood
street, Philadelphia, by eating sulphur from
the heads of matches.
A Missouri jury, ID the case Of e man found
with ten bullets in his head, decided that she
had been shot, or met some bad accident in
some manner not just now known"
contract for 1000 tons OF best Cumber-
land coal for the East Boston ferry boats has
been made at sc 81 per gross ton. This was
the lowest lid, the highest being s735.
New York is a nice State to be Governor
of. The Legislature left 400 bills for Cover
nor Dix to sign when it dispersed most of
which need careful reading to discover the
| little Jobs concealed about them.
Among those who graced with Their pres
ence the opening entertainment of the Handel
and Haydn festival were Governor Dinsley
and wife of Maine. Governor Dingley is en-
route to Hartford and Washington, whittier
he goes on official business Boston Journal
The news from Lima to the l4th of April
further confirms the report of the discovery
of new and immense deposits of guano in Pc
ru. 1t is calculated that there are at least
| 1850, 500 cubic metres Of guano in different
localities.
Kalamazoo woman raised to the third
power of widowhood has the photographs of
her three departed lords in a group, with a
vignette of herself in the centre, and under
meath is the inscription, 'The Lord will pro-
vide"
Another adjourned meeting OF the bondhold-
holders CT New York and New England Rail
road was held in Boston, Tuesday, when a
loan Of Sl0 900, 900 was recommended, and a
statement OF the condition of the road was
made. A further adjournment Of one week
was then made.
A Detroit boy, twelve years DID, who was
made a cripple by an accident, amused him
self by training a rat which comes at his
whisiling to it. He derives quite an income
now from semi-weekly exhibitions of his pet,
waich performs a variety of feats.
James Gordon Bennett won a wager Of
SO 900 Tuesday in ten mile walking match
from his residence on Fifth avenue to Jerome
Park, distance of ten miles. He accomp-
lished the feat in one hour and forty minutes
and fifty five seconds beating his contestant
by FIVE minutes.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, sailed on
his return to Rome last week. He took with
him orders for five public statues, among
which was that of William King, the first
Governor of Maine, to be placed in the Ma
tional Gallery at Washington. He had also
several private orders, including busts of Ad-
miral Porter, and John Carter Brown of the
famous house of Brown & Ives in Rhode
Island.
| Vice President Wilson expects to bring out
the second volume of his history of the Rise
| Fill th, in, y
within few weeks. 1t will be larger than
the first volume, and will extend from the
admission of Texas to the election Of Presi-
dent Lincoln, A large portion of the work
The pride of mankind is great A night or
two ago family living on Seventh street,
New York, was awakened by unusual noises
| in the house, and en- turning out saw the ED.
est hopeful rushing about 10 his suspenders.
brandishing new Weston, and shouting,
"There is a man in the house" A long
search failed to show any foundation for the
young mans warlike demonstration, when he
mildly informed the breathless and exhausted
tribe that it was his birthday. He was TWEEN
ty-one,
In late number of The London Figaro
there are some observations on spring that
will be read with appreciative sympathy just
now in this latitude.
"How beautiful is the Spring.
| At least, there are many who say so;
But preserving ones headgear's "a troubles ONE
| thing
| When the east wind is blowing away so.
| II you're never without a great coat,
| And fasten your hat with a string
And wrap warm scarf round your throat
| How beautiful is the SPRING.
POLITICAL.