Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-11
GENERAL NEWS.

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An illustrated journal is now published at
Yokohama, Japan.
Henry A. Wise of Virginia. who has been
very i'll, is rapidly gaining in health.
Minister Schenck arrived at New York on
Saturday and Mr.. Gushing sailed.
| The wife of President Mcmahon is quite
marked in her attentions to American guests
present at State fetes.
young Western poet sent piece to the
paper beginning, "Rcveel, begg, the madgic
SPELL"
Col. John s. Mosby has put himself in the
hands of his friends and consented to be can
didate for Congress.
Richmond, Va, thinks the sale there re-
Gently of 1000 bags of Rio coffee is the dawn
ing of new era of commercial prosperity.
A very remarkable revival of religion is in
progress in Foxboro, Mass, no fewer than
so converts having joined one church.
| A bill is before the Minnesota Legislature
max ing twelve per cent. the maximum legal
rate of interest in that State, and visiting with
severe penalties Its VIOLATION.
female compositor is now engaged on one
of the Memphis papers. She is the first
woman that has ever worked in q printing
Office in that city, and her appearance ''at
case" created sensation.
Apothe carries in some Of the Ohio towns
dodge the law in regard to selling liquor by
dispensing it by weight. and keep on hand a
supply of two ounce walls ready filled.
The bust of sleeping girl, modelled in but
ter, by Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, farmers
wife, in Arkansas, now on exhibition in Cin-
cinnati, is marvel of artistic execution and
beauty.
Mr. Sartorious, who is TO marry Miss
Nellie Grant in May, owns a farm in Wiscon'
sin, which he superintended until the death
of his elder brother made him heir TO the Eng
lsh estate.
A Custom House officer in San Francisco
having casually mentioned that there was
case of small pox next door to him, was
promptly given a six weeks vacation, to his
great satisfaction.
A Baltimore jury recently brought in YER
dict for the respondent in the. case Of will
contested because it was written partly in ink
and partly with lead pencil and was not
signed.
The Legislature of Pennsy lvania, under the
provisions of the new constitution, has passed
law providing for the election OF Lieu
tenant Governor of the State in November.
He is to receive a salary Of $4,000 per an
mum, and to be elected for a term Of four
years.
Gail Hamilton says, piously No man can
go into an airy, pleasant church, sit down in
peace among his friends and neighbors. and
fall softly asleep to the sound Of holy words
from holy lips, without great gain to the life
that now is, and, believe and trust, with no
loss to that which is to come.
The business arrangement between the
Eastern Railroad and Boston & Maine is at
last consummated in accordance with a state
ment made at the annual meeting of the for
mer road. What has now been done should
have been accomplished three years ago
Boston Journal.
The story is told of a Western woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confession to the priest OF
what she had done. lie gave her ripe
thistle top, and told her to 60 about in various
directions and scatter the seeds one by one.
Wondering at the penancc, she obeyed, then
returned and told her confessor. To her
amazement, he bade her so back and gather
the scattered seeds; and, when she objected,
that it was impossible, he replied that it
would be still more difficult to ga;her Up and
destroy all the evil reports which she had cir
culated about others.
The gold medal that Congress voted to
Mr. George +. Robinson, who saved Secre-
tary Stewards life VIXEN the latter was at
tackled by the assassin Payne, is now on ex-
hidition at Washington. 1t is of solid gold,
three inches in diameter and three eights Of
an inch in thickness. On one side is picture
of the recipient with wreaths of laurel and
oak intertwined above his head, and the fol-
lowing words around the edge: ITO George
+. Robinson. awarded by the Congress of the
United States. March l, 1871, for his heroic
conduct on the l4th of April, 1865, in saving
the life of the Hon. VIM. II. Seward, the
Sscretarc of State of the United States" Ca
the reverse side is representation Of Mr..
Seward lying on his sick couch, with Robin.
son and Payne in a struggle beside it.