Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-17
jeremiah Daley, in that city, was arrested by
City Marshal Bolton of Bangor in the Eastern
Eynress office in that city on Saturday

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City Marshal Bolton of Bangor in the Eastern
Express Office, in that city on Saturday.
California shows no signs of giving out as a
producer of the precious metals. New gold
and silver mines are frequently reported.
Vessels arriving at Halifax and other Nova
Scotia ports report passing an unusual num-
Der of icebergs.
William McDougal of Three Rivers, a
member of the Canadian Parliament, has been
arrested for perjury in an important lumber
case.
Detroit has a model hand organ that can't
play single tune, and the ungrateful De-
troters make fun Of it instead Of being thank
full.
New apples are one dollar and ten cents a
quart. Ten cents for the applesanl dollar
for doctor.
A Baltimore bride, according to reporter.
wore Gala lilies in her hair. Seven Gala
lilies in a neat cluster on the top of a lady,
head would look we'll.
In Germany, when the vote Of the jury
stands six against six, the prisoner is acquit-
ted. vote of seven against five leaves the
decision to the conrt, and vote of eight
against four the prisoner is convicted
Tobacco is likely to prove valuable yege-
table to California, for it is stated that the
shipments East will average at least l5O,0oo
cigars and 1000 pounds of smoking tobacco
monthly during the next year.
Captain c. J. Cahoon, prominent business
man of Providence, was accidentally drowned
Saturday night between Montreal and Quebec.
A large frog whose age is placed in round
numbers at 1000 years, was recently found
ten feet below the surface at Sodus, N. Y.
He jumped away quite lively as soon as he
could remember how he used to do it.
man who was seen coming out of Texas
newspaper office with split nose, with one
eye and one ear, explained to policeman
that he entered the Office simply to inquire if
the editor was in. "And he was ill.," the
victim mournfully added.
A certain Rev. DR.. West has publicly de-
clared that ''the crimes of Cincinnati have
well-nigh made Sodom and Gomorrah respec-
table," This occasions the general remark
from tit Louisville Courier journal that the
charge "is not strictly true"
Redpath has engaged Beecher for all the
New England lectures he will deliver next
season. He pays the largest amount ever
given to lecturer, and will charge lyceums
from $500 to $1,000. Mr.. Beecher will lee
ture but once in Boston
Two men have died this year in the Man
chester and Liverpool hopitals from mere fear
of hydrphobia. "Perhaps," says writer in
an English paper, ''these are not the only
instances of the unntentional but fatal mis-
chief done by panic mongers. Such persons
have loss of life and the anxiety of thousands
to answer for"
A negro boy was driving mule in Jamaica
when the animal suddenly stopped and re-
fused to bulge. "Won't go, eh?' said the
boy. "Feel grand, do you? | spose you
forget your fader was jackass."
The project of building tabernacle for
Prof. Swing in Chicago has been abandoned
lOI Ut lcuSt u yeai' ~ 10 az" PiooooAS sH"' -
large hall will be leased for year in which
DR.. Swing will hold morning services, an as
sistant minister being engaged to hold even
ing services in the church belonging to the
Fourth Presbyterian Society.
A New York correspondent gives the fol-
lowing questionable information concerning
the Herald of that city. 1t is for sale, though
its price is higher than can be raised by any
company at present. Probably million
might purchase it, but this sum is hey ond the
reach of any of our ambitious editors. Ben
netts heart is in other matters than journalism.
The paper is maintained in first class style in
order to command high price, but it must
sooner or later be sold. Bennett has more
irons in the fire than almost any other man.
and some of them must burn. He has yacht
ing, the property at Fort Washington, the
Herald and the Bennett building. beside other
matters which, as the phrase goes, are too nu-
merous to mention.
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