Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-11
GENERAL NEWS.

UENEhAL NE NO.
Prairie chickens are advertised as a remedy
for grasshoppers.
synonym for dentists.
Annie Louise Cary will pass a portion of
the warm season at the Isles of Shoals.
Ben. II. Hill of Georgia sweetly speaks Of
Alexander II. Stephens as ''life-long dema-
gogue."
They are boiling cucumbers in South Car
DINA, this summer, and say that they are ode
lightfully delicate"
The Grand Lodge of Masons at Phiadel-
phia have contributed 81 900 for the relief Of
the Louisiana sufferers.
The Louisiana Relief Committee is issuing
10000 rations daily to the sufferers by the
flood, and 10000 more are needed.
Prominent merchants of New York Mon
day met and adopted resolutions urging upon
Congress the necessity for passing the moiety
bill.
A new daily Chinese paper has been estab-
lished at Hong Kong. The other Chinese
tr. weeklies to dailies.
A Missouri husband wheeled his crippled
wife three miles the other day to let her see
funeral procession, 'the first she had had the
pleasure of seeing for seven years"
1t is good thing for housewives to know
that burnt coffee is one of the best of disnfec-
tants. Nothing is better for purifying musty
refrigerators.
the damages were laid at 1000, has been
compromised with present Of five dollars
and new chignon. 1t was in Kentucky.
A new comet was discovered at 10 O'Clock
P. M, Monday by Lewis Swift of Buffalo.
1t is near the Cameleopard's Breast, is quite
bright, and has tail about half degree in
length. Its motion is slow and toward the
earth.
1t is estimated that the amount of guano in
the northern deposits of Peru is sufficient to
cover in value the entire debt of Peru, leav-
ing the newly surveyed beds of the South as
vast fund of reserve.
The Prussian government has bought the
picture gallery of Messrs. Suermond, at Brus-
sells, for 100000 This is very little for the
2l9 paintings of one of the most celebrated
private collections in Europe, so that Parlia-
ment is expected to ratify the purchase forth
with.
Mr.. Sartoris is having steam yacht built
on the Clyde, in which the "happy pair" will
take cruise with party of American friends
in August. The company will probably in
clude one or two of Mrs. Sartoris's brides
maids, all of whom she has invited to visit
her.
The Hon. Luther S. Dixon, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, has re-
signed. lie has held the position for 10 years,
and resigns it now to return to the practice of
law, which he expects to find much more lu-
crative.
| Several persons were recently made i'll in
| Cleveland Ohio, by ice cream which they had
eaten, and one of the 'theories" is that the
milk was exposed to a dense poisonous fog
Friday night, when set for the cream to rise,
and absorbed the foul vapors of the fog.
A cobber in Michigan, John Golden by
name, having been advertised in Buffalo
paper as being wanted to take charge of lit
tie fortune in England, amounting to EGO, 900.
has turned up. He was in Strengthened cir
cumstances, and it to be hoped that his good
luck will not lead him into crooked ways.
An Athol school-teacher has invented a
new mode of discipline. Refractory pupils
are compelled to lie on the floor, face down.
wards, with their arms extended at right
angles with their bodies. This plan looks
like an expedient to avoid the use of the
much dreaded rattan, and must be blessing
to the laundresses OF Athol in the summer.
! NJ. A. Foran, president of the information
al coopers' union, has sent printed circular
+ to the coopers of Boston, appealing to them
u r.