Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-28
GENERAL NEWS.


The sympathy of France. with the Carists
has attracted the attention Of English states
men.
A Massachusetts newspaper announces
"births under this heading: "Our Young
Folks for June"
Collins Graves is going to take to the road
again. He is one of the contractors for re-
building the highways of williamsburg
Mr.. Dawes doesn't seem to have got rich in
Congress- as he is only taxed $lGo in Pitts
field, or on little less than $4,000.
The fastest joke is, that in Chicago note
rious vagabond has been sentenced, it is said,
to the Common Council for two years.
The last sweet thing in hats has brm that
turns up behind and curves over toward the
front, forming sort of harbor in which
peck of flowers is placed.
Boring for water some three weeks since,
a man in South Chicago struck vein of gas,
which has been burning ever since without
dimnution.
The molar of mastodon was recently eX-
humed near Waterloo Ind. 1t weighs six
pounds, is eight inches long, and has four
prongs and four double crowns.
Rev. Andrew p. Peabody, ID. d., and Rev.
James Freeman Clarke, both Unitarians, re-
Gently occupied orthodox pulpits in Hartford,
Conn, on the same Sunday.
Mosquitoes are described in certain part
of Minnesota as ''thicker than the surround
ing foliage, with wings like Apollyon's, beak
like an artesian augur, and voice like the
sound of many waters"
Another attempt has been made to kdnap
children in Philadelphia in the same manner
as the Ross boy, who has been sought for so
unavailingy.
1t must be a very pleasant situation that of
Chancellor of the German Empire, when one
has to have eight detectives looking after him
at summer watering place to protect him
from assassins.
An Iowa paper reports the following as the
actual form of marriage service in town
in that State "Join your right hands. Do
you want one another?" (They both answer,
"Yes.D "Well, then have one another
You're man and wife,
check sent from North Adams to an AL
bany firm in October, 1869, was delivered by
the letter carrier on Monday last, having been
nearly five years on the way The post mark
showed that it had been duly sent from the
North Adams post Office Boston Journal
They tell of a landlord in Newport, r. l.,
who, lately, wishing to get rid of a sick ten
Al. IA, 9 81,
floor of room above, and allowed it to run
through upon the poor consumptive's bed.
Atterward, when the tenant had been removed
he hoisted flag upon the premises by way
rejoicing and to show his disregard of public
opinion. The tenant has since died.
At the adjudication of prizes at University
College, London, the first prize in jurispru-
dence was awarded to young lady who two
years ago, at the same college, achieved
like success in political economy. The sec
ond place in the same class was attained by
another lady. Another obtained honors in
political economy and prizes were gained by
three, and certificates by several in the fine
arts class.
The Prince Edward Island Lunatic Asylum
has lately been visited and investigated by
the Grand Jury, and their presentment of its
co ndition reveals the existence of most eX-
traordinary and disgraceful abuses. In I'M
derground cells, six or seven feet, they found
three women, entirely naked, and lying either
on the boards, or on dirty straw. The whole
place was iDtolerably filthy, and the odors
which prevailed were such that none of the
jurors could endure them more than few
moments, and some of them were sick for
hours afterward. Much the same condition