Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-21
GENERAL NE us.


| The London Standard understands that
| Queen Victoria will go to Russia in the au-
tumn.
| The steamer with the new Atlantic cable
has sailed from Gravesend, Eng.
The firm of Harris & Co, shoe dealers,
Concord, N. II. suspended Saturday, with La
bilties to the amount of $l4 900.
| Senator Summers furniture and household
effects will be sold at auction, in Washington,
on June 3.
| Gen. Webb's son says just hold on, and the
old gentlemen will unravel this strange web Of
scandal about the Brazilian claims.
The mania for big pedestrian feats is still
alive in New York. A man is about to try
and beat James Gordon Benefits ten mile
time.
A contempary looks upon the adoption of
the compulsory education bill in New York
as death blow to Tammany Hall.
A labor mass meeting was held in Faneuil
Hall Monday evening, and another Of SINH
lar character in Cooper Institute, New York.
| Gerrit Smith is convinced that the Bible is
emphaticaly for total abstinence, as in fact
everything else is, except ignorance and
wickedness
| young lady in Indianols, Iowa, having
contracted bill of $l2 for chewing gum, her
unreasonable papa refuses to liquidate the
same.
| In a lot of stolen property awaiting claim
ants in Clesvland, Ohio, is or was satchel
containing about 200 extremely rare old coins.
The last effort of personal journalism is
to give to the. world the thrilling fact
that Mr.. Alexander Stephens weighs seventy
two and three quarter pounds.
Customer to barber; 81 say, don't (hic)
put any bay rum (hic) on my face. cause it'll
make (hic) my wife think I've (hc) been
drinking"
vignette of Charles Sumner has been or
dered to be prepared for the use Of the cur
rency printing bureau, and will probably be
used on some of the new issues.
1t is wonderful how two men who know so
little a. Sanborn and Prescott could so get
the start Of our great Government as to make
so mucn money out OF IT,
A near-sghted hen is rep orted at the West.
She mistook sawdust for Indian meal, partook
thereof heartily, and then laid a nest full of
pine knots.
The Grand Jury of Plymouth County, Mass,
have found three bills of Indictment against
VIM. f. Sturtevant for the murder of Simon
and Thomas Sturtevant and Mary Buckley at
Halifax in February last
Arrangements have been made for holding
at Montreal next October a conference of the
Canadian branch of the Evangelical Alliance,
to which the leading clergymen and laymen
Of the various provinces of Great Britain and
the United States have been invited.
The Cunard Steamship Company have
again reduced their rates of steerage passage,
so that prepaid tickets can now be bought for
$27, and round trip tickets from Boston to
Liverpool and return for $50, curr ency, re-
duction of $l2 from the usual rates.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is residing at
his country residence near Psekskill and ap-
pears on the streets of that village nearly ev-
cry day, driving the fine span of bays re Gently
purchased by him, one Of which is half sis.
ter of Dexter.
| According to the Wilmington Gazette,
there is a woman in Pencader Hundred, New
castle county, Del, who has been married
twenty-iour years. and who last week gave
birth to her twenty third child, which makes
her record one child per year since her mar
riage.
| The Portsmouth Chronicle reports that one
of the conductors discharged from the service
of the Eastern Railroad on charge of en-
bezzlement, will sac the off ,ers of the road
for defamation of character, estimating his
damages at $25 900.
Samuel Wadsworth, one of the few surviv-
ing veterans of the war of 1912, died at Lex
ington on Friday morning. Mr.. Wadsworth
was born at Winthrop, Me-, on the 3lst of
May, 1875, and was almost seventy nine years
of age at the time of his death. In the last
war with England he served in the Twenty
second Infantry, and shortly after his dis
charge, in 1916, he purchased a large farm in
Milford n. H., upon which he lived and toiled
for upward Of fifty years He was, during
all these years native citizen of that town.
About five years ago, becoming weak with
the infrmites of age, he removed to Licking
ton, this State, to reside with his sou-in- law,
Harmon Reed, Esq. Deceased leaves a wild
ow and four children. - Boston Globe.