Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-16
GENERAL NEWS.

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The Brooklyn charity commissioners have
been sentenced to pay fine of 5000 each.
A Boothbay vessel is "manned' by a
father, his son and two daughters.
A Swedish sea captain named Anderson
was recently drugged in New York, and
robbed of SIG, 900 worth of diamonds.
American tourists this season complain Bit
terly of inciviity on the part of French rail-
way officials.
Thomas Fay of Philadelphia has been ar
rested at Burlington, VT, charged with muir
derng Mrs. Freese of Rutland.
"a city of pleasant homes is the pleasing
papers of that city.
ST. Louis boy half killed himself, the
other day, by swallowing concentrated I've,
and the Cincinnati papers improved the &C.
casion with puns.
Four passengers of the lost steamer AM
| cirque, who were missing, arrived at New
York Friday having been picked up and
carried to Canada.
The American pilgrims at Rome have pre-
scented 100000 to the pope and a Golfer of
gold nuggets from the American mines. They
leave Rome on the goth instant.
Mrs Darlington is so glad that DR.. Miner
has got back, for che wants to hear another of
his splendid bacchanalian sermons, over at
MIR. Tufts College.
disease has appeared among the sheep in
North Kirby. VT. from which some of the
farmers have lost over half their flocks. They
suddenly become weak, and discharge blood
and corrupt matter at the nose, and die.
Western farmers are quite excited over the
large importation of Norman horses. The
animals prove very valuable for the farm and
everybody wants one.
new process of "sweating" or initiating
the currency is in vogue. The notes are slit
lengthwise, in such a way that out of six bills
seven are constructed, slightly narrower than
the genuine.
John Key, an old man, who has been en-
gagged as shepherd for several years in Cal
ifornia, and who has often been put to It to
get a square meal, has fallen heir to fortune
of $5G, 900, now on deposit in Stockton
bank.
precocous boy of reight summers attri-
butes the death of pet gold fish-his sister s
| idol-to the fact that it couldn't take a joke.
He used to catch it occasionally with a bent
pin
The western grasshoppers are going to be
starved to death. A red-headed bug has
made its appearance, which eats up the young
grain plants before the grasshopper can get a
chance.
Chicago is preparing for grand celebra-
ton on the oath instant, when the corner
stone of the new Government building, to be
erected in that city, will be laid. 1t will &C.
cupy a whole square, and will include post
Office and other Government offices.
Naughty young Indianapolitans are i'm
mersed in water barrels by their fond mammas
until they promise not to go fishing with Bill
Jones again. This is called moral suasion
and doesn't break chld's spirit like whip
ping.
A sonnambulistic dry-goods merchant out
West, recently rose from his couch, neatly
cut the bed.quilt in two with his pocket scis.
sors, and then asked his terrified wife if she
couldn't be shown something else.
The Grand Duke Alexis took back to
Russia a remembrance of his visit to London,
in the shape of an English bull dog, which he
was compelled to lead on board the vessel
himself, the Russian sailors not liking the APP
pearance of the animal.
The Wilmington Commercial publishes a
statement showing that over 220 iron ships,
mostly steam vessels, have been built in the
yards of that city, and states that this is far
greater number than has been constructed in
all the other yards of the United States to-
gether. 1t estimates that the total number OF
iron ships built elsewhere will probably not
exceed fifty.
A school-boy being requested to write a
composition upon the subject OF "Pins," pro-
duced the following: "fins are very useful.
They have saved the lives of great many
men, women, and children--in fact, whole
families" GLOW so?" asked the puzzled
teacher. And the boy replied: "Why, by
not swallowing them This matches the
story of the other boy, who defined salt as
'the stuff that makes potatoes taste tad when
you don't put on any"
Avarice has its disadvantages. A colored
preacher and doctor in Memphis recently al
lowed this passion to carry him away to hi.
own discontinue. He was privately inter.
viewed by darkey, who volunteered to show
him where he could place his greasy palms
upon a trunk full of lucre. No other in.
ducement was necessary. When near the
orphan asylum the doctor was informed thai
it would be necessary for him to go bare
footed to the grave of the buried treasure
The doctor started while his guide and friend
carried the boots around by a circuitout
route. The doctor did not discover the
trunk, but is anxious to find his boots.
From the forthcoming "Poors Manual OIL
railroads which is invaluble to those who pro.
pose to keep pace with the progress of the
country an indicated by its railwavs il apnears