Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-09
GENERAL Ne us.

GENERAL NEWS.
During the past year the debt OF Connect
cut has been reduced S207 $40.
1t is now ascertsined by a Canadian that
rubber can be proftably manufactured from
milkweed gum.
New Zealand begins 20 demand the paper
collar 1t makes a whole dress suit in That
country.
John Nipper, of Pittsburg, Ind, tried to
shoot Cat the other day, and succeeded in
putting bullet into his own head.
The London Times says an Englshman finds
himself more at home in Virginia than almost
any " here else on the American continent
Mrs. Ada NJ. Hulet, the lady lawyer of
Chicago, has just won a very Important suit,
'unaided aad alone"
Puuchs advice to an amateur yioiinist
Rather than play ndifF-rent'y, wait till you
can y-differently.
Mrs. Sickles, wife Of The General, is men,
toned as being the most beautiful woman at
present sojourning at Paris.
| The steamer Ethiopia, of the Anchor Line,
from Liverpool for New York, is many days
overdue. and anxiety is felt for her safety.
Mr.. John Rogers the sculptor, whose statu-
cites in clay have been so much admired, Is
reported to be dying of consumption.
A Cherokee Indian, William Adair has
been admitted TO practice law at the bar of
the United States Supreme Court
Mr. r. d. Montgomery, of Lafayette, Miss
issppi, lost his wife and child by railroad
disaster, and the courts have awarded him
twenty five thousand dollars.
| Mr.. Ksvanagh, a member of the British
Parliament, has neither legs nor arms. He
holds his pen in his mouth when he signs his
name.
All hope has been given up of the ship Gar
den Reach of Boston, Captain Gilmore, 974
tons, from Boston for Liverpool, February
II. She had crew of twenty men and
cargo worth Sll6,7l9.
A St. townsville man, on his dying bed re-
membered that his wife was smoking some
hams, and he said, "Now, Henrietta, don't go
snuffling around and forget those hams"
| A contemporary mentions that nearsght-
meal, ate heartily thereof, then laid nest
full of wooden knobs, and in three weeks
Matched out a set of parlor furniture.
The newest female star in the religious
ornament is Mrs. Mary c. Lathrop, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. who breaches
in Baltimore.
New Orleans is wondering how it can pre-
vent the hundreds of drowned-out negroes
from focking to that city and drifting, as they
inevitably will, into larceny and burglary.
The can0nization of joan of Arc lie urged
with much earnestness by French ecclesias
tics. and Bishop Dupanloup is said to be in
Rome for the purpose Of completing arrange
ments for the event.
A Liverpool cotton broker recently broke
his engagement to marry young lady be-
canse she did not take sufficient interest in
the game of cricket, and paid, by order of
court, C.. 600 for his freedom.
The town of Bismarck, Minnesota, is the
place for wealthy tax payers 10 flee unto. 1t
beats Nahant. AT Bismarck there are no
taxes at all; all the expenses are paid from
fine and licenses. 1t is rum and rowdyism
that runs Bismarck.
Commenting upol the fact that General
Walker, the superintendent Of the census, de-
cl,nes pay for his services, the Louisville
Courier. journal says it has known men to be
sent to the lunstic asylum for eccentricites
far less glazing than thar!
Professor Tyndall, while staying with Sir
John Lubbock's party at Freshwater, Isle of
Wight, was missed, one day, ard, on search
being made for him. he was found up cliff,
where he had cl mbed in search of geologi, al
specimens. rope was procured and the
professor was rescued unnjured.
A curious story current in the London clubs
is to the effect that the son Of the late ex En-
peror was so aroused by the recent celebra-
ton at Chisehurst that he determined to go
to France, and, appearing suddenly at
Boulogne as his father did, start a popular
wave upon which he would foa to the throne
1t is sail that he got as far as Dover when the
better sense of faithful adherent checked
him, and probably saved him from present
danger, for future glory or disgrace.
POLITICAL.
The Oregon election occurs June LIST.
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