Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-14
GENERAL NEWS.

of cotton this season than were received last
season.
A large fve-story bonded warehouse in
East Boston fell Friday afternoon, burying
large lot of East India goods.
By the capsizing of pleasure yacht at At
lantic city, N. j., Friday, four residents of
Philadelphia were drowned.
A Paris correspondent describes an opera
bouffe actress as having plumptitudinous
physique"
The greatest wheat crop Kansas ever knew
now waves in golden beauty on the broad
prairies of that State.
Coal has been shipped to Boston from the
ports in the ncighborhood of New Yorl; dur
ing the past week at 81 per ton, the lowest
rate for many years.
Advices from British Columbia announce
the defeat of the government in vote of con-
fdence, and the formation of a new Anglo
French coalition ministry.
The strike at the Brentwood, Ill, coal
mines, which has been in progress for some
weeks, is assuming threatening aspect.
tackled the bosses with clubs and stones.
A Brooklyn girl has just rejected a sutton
because his arm wasn't long enough to go
round her. She says if she's going to have a
lover at all she means to have good ft
The Court Journal says that Mr.. and Mrs.
Sartoris are in Europe 'Jor their honey
moon" and are "asked out a good deal to
Tyburnian dinners and Belgrayian balls"
Barnum intends to send his hippodrome
travelling through New Hampshire, by and
by and so he captured all the editors in the
State in New York and took them in to see
the show. Shrewd old fellow, Barnum.
1t has been decided that the Oconomowoc
Railroad case, involving the validity of the
Wisconsin railroad law, and appealed from
the Circuit Court, Milwaukee, shall be taken
up to the Supreme Court the latter part of
the present term.
The Central Vermont Railroad is refunding
the fares collected of those passengers who
started on the Montreal excursion, June %,
and were made to pay their fare over that
road from the point reached at midnight on
that day.
The switchman, upon whom the eoroner's
jury place the responsibility for the disaster
at Stony Creek, Conn, was also Postmaster,
station agent, express agent baggage master,
freight clerk, and occasionally did some tele-
graphing for the company, as in this emer-
gency.
rlon1 III l,l Pal Wall Co
zette complaining that clumsy counterfeits of
her fathers autograph are sold as genuine in
England, some persons having carried the
matter so far as to offer for sale poor articles
stolen from magazines, to which the vendors
have affixed Thackeray's name.
The Aurora, (Ill.) Herald says: "a gen.
tleman came into this office the other day with
one side of his face badly swollen and one eye
greatly infamed, caused by the poison of a
potato-bug. He struck a bug with piece of
lath, and some of the juice struck his face
near his eyelid. Physicians consider the bug
more powerful as a blister agent than Spanish
flies"
A lively sensation has been created among
the marriage of Presley j. Jenkins, son CT
Rear Admiral Jenkens of the navy, to one of
the ballot girls of the Theatre Comique, named
frankie Christie. Admiral Jenkins has been
sent for, and it is presumed that efforts will
be made to unmarry the young man, who is a
minor.
Notwithstanding the great food in the Mis-
sissippi valley in the spring, the New Orleans
Times estimates that the sugar and rice crops
will be abundant, the latter yielding 80, 900
barrels more than in 1873. In sugar, the
losses by floods will be about 10, 900 hogs
heads. The acreage devoted to rice culture
shows an increase of G000 acres over last
year, and the rice crop is expected to be no.
600 barrels.
A jury in Truckee, California, had been out
four hours, when the judge sent the sheriff to
learn whether they were going to agree. The
sheriff put an eye, then an ear, to the key
hole of the room in which they were located
for elaboration. Then he brought the Judge
and together they opened the door. On the
table in the centre of the room stood bottle
of whiskey, and around it the hilarious twelve
were marching in single file. The foreman
carried on his back bass drum, upon which
the man behind him was pounding. Next
came a juror, playing a snare drum, then a
shrill whistle initiating a fife, and the rest
were singing. eve couldn't agree on YER
dict, nowhow," said the tipsy foreman, in re-
ply to the judges reproof, and we didn't think
twas any hurt fur to have social time,
s'longs we was congen'l party"
Topeka, Kansas, despatch states that
there can no longer be any doubt that large
body of Indians are on the war path, and are