Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-15
GENERAL NEWS.

| Washington as the land of laziness and
| ladies.
| A San Francisco mare, Lady Mac, has just
made the best iye-mile trottting-time on
| record-thirteen minutes.
An effort was made by the bears to create
a panic on Saturday among the stock gam
blers of New York.
San Francisco claims the third lowest
death rate in the world Zurich and Geneva
rank first and second.
The long strike at and near Harrisburg,
Penn, among the iron workers, has termi-
mated in the defeat of the strikers.
James H. Banker of New York has COM
| menced suit against Commodore Vanderbilt
for 81 500 900, growing out of the recent
panic.
Most of the prisoners in the United States
Penitentiary at Albany, for violations Of the
KuKlux law, have been pardoned, having
served from eighteen months to two years.
Mrs. Livermore lectured to a very large
audience at fremont Temple Sunday evening
on the temperance question. Previous to
her lecture LIZ persons signed the pledge.
Business is very dull in France, and the in
dustrial establishments are reducing oper-
atoms. There is consequently much suffer
ing among the working people.
The recent gales and hail storms have
caused serious destruction to the crops in the
West Indies. The potato and tomato crops
are almost destroyed. There are no hopes
of an abundant harvest.
The Duke de Broelie, who manages France
and its President, has Italian blood in his
veins. His great grandfather was guillotined,
and his grandmother was Madame de Stael.
The Rev. Florence McCartby's new church
is to be called the Amity Baptist Church of
the City of Chicago; one of the rules is that
there shall be as few deacons as possible.
There is farmer near Flushing who owns
Ken,ucky-bred mule that has, within the
last thirty days, kicked in seventeen barn
doors, unroofed a dozen chicken coops, and
tramplea the life out of four of his faYorte
pigs. He calls it Ben Butler.
The Chicago Tribune says that first class
carpenters in that city, who were employed
year ago at SO per day, are now glad to get
$3.50 per day, and tina. this decline in the
cost of labor runs through the whole scale of
employments.
The St. Louis Democrat has information
that Arthur Mccoy, who has been connected
with the notorious James and Younger
brothers, was shot and killed in Arkansas six
weeks ago, and Frank James was wounded in
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them.
Sidney Smith has taken the trouble to write
caution to all people against attempting to
squeeze out of human nature more emotion
than it can afford, and yet after reading it,
woman will go on fainting, if anybody sits
down on her bonnet, just the same as ever.
Professor J. Laurence Smith of Louisville
is said to have been the first person to bring
the subject of cremation before the American
people. He delivered lecture in New Or
leans, twenty years ago. in which he favored
cremation, and described plan for furnaces
in which to burn the dead.
General Joseph Johnston, an ex-leader of
the rebel army, and ex.Confederate Sscreta-
ry of the Treasury Memminger are engaged
in quite heated dispute over the question as
to what caused the death of the rebel Confed-
eracy. Almost any one of Uncle Sans boys
in blue could give them an answer.
In recent lecture on Liquids" at the
Royal Institute, Professor Tyndall mentioned
that he had learned from Captain Shaw, the
head of the London Fire Department, that a
- a., &c, 2ra Il,
pipe, which an ordinary workman might over
look, will reduce the throwing power from
200 feet to $50 feet.
The comptroller of the currency has made
calculation of the amount of reserves that
the banks in the interior will be obliged to
keep in their vaults in case the senate bill
passes. He fixes it at about S43, 0OO, 900, and
estimates that of this sum $25, 900, 900 will be
held by banks outside of any large cities of
the West and South.
Mr.. Robert c. Winthrop was elected Pres
ident of the Massachusetts Historical Society
on Thursday last, and the Hon. Charles Fran.
els Adams and ex- Governor Emery Washburn
were chosen Vice-Presidents. The Society's
new building has cost $685. 900. During the
past year 1900 books and 5000 pamphlets
have been added to the library.
A citizen of Chicago tells us that he recent
" travelled two thousand miles in Ohio, and
that everybody he met called potato "tater,'
except one young lady who called it "perta-
ter" This evidence of superior culture on
the part of the young lady would seem to in
dictate that she had recently graduated from
some frst-class boarding school.