Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-04
GENERAL NE VS..

flrglnlan 10 under arrest Tor paWnlng MS
wife's corset for quart of whisky.
Justice is blessed with blindness in Chicago,
according to the Times of that city.
The First National Bank of Norfolk, has
suspended.
The Tariff bill has passed the House and
now goes to the Senate.
The Moors in Fec, to the number Of $l2,-
900, have rebelled against the re-imposition of
the gate tax.
Gov. Dix has appointed Abraham Lansing
of Albany State Treasurer.
Twenty acres Of George Francis Trains
domain in Omaha are advertised to be sold to
pay taxes amounting to $500.
Massachusetts, papers say that if apple
blossoms keeps their promises, apples will
hardly be worth gathering next fall.
Mr.. Whittier has written a poem to be read
when Mr.. George William Curtis delivers his
Grafton on Senator Summer, in Boston, this
week.
A Missouri paper has undertaken noble
work, that Of discouragng deaths. 1t pub
fishes marriage notices free, but charges
heavily for obituaries.
Mr.. Beecher advises respondent people to
write down the things that trouble them, and
inspect the list every month or two, when
they will find that their great tribulations
have become very small.
Hon. George Brown, Canadian Commits
sioner at Washington, has sent partial draft
of the proposed reciprocity treaty to Ottawa |;
its features meet the appreciation of the gov
eminent
Woman's rights in Dubuque, Iowa. A
young lady, the daughter of prominent citi-
zen is the most efficient church sexton in the
city, performing all the duties of the office
without aid.
The number of pilgrims who visited the
tomb of Mahomet at Mecca this year is said
to have been l6, 900; and, owing to the pre-
cautions adopted by the Egyptian government,
their health has been unusually good.
The Chicago Times takes to task Georgia
editor, who says in reference to the wordy
war between Stephens and Hill that the fight
is "nothing to us, we are mere lockers on in
Venus"
The New York Central and Hudson River
Railway has leased land from the city
of New York at the junction of Sixtieth
street with the Hudson river, where it is pro-
posed to erect docks, large grain elevator
and make other improvements.
Washington correspondent says that Sen
tor Morrill, of Maine visited a church occu-
pied by colored congregation on Sunday,
and found that civil rights did not prevail
there. He received q hint that white folks
were not wanted there, and accordingly re-
tired.
Settlers in Iowa and Minnesota have been
impoverished by the devastations of grass
hoppers, and the House has passed bill al
lowing them to vacate their lands for one year
without prejudice to their titles, in order that
they may 60 elsewhere to earn living.
The Young American woman with whom
the Grand Duke Nicholas was SO desperately
in love that he stole his mothers diamonds to
give her, is said to be now in Paris with jewels
valued at 100000 francs.
The application for entrance to the Ander-
son school of natural history at Penikese num-
Der nearly $50, though only about one-third
of that number can possibly be admitted.
The school will continue from July to Au-
gust 20.
Six conductors on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road have been discharged for general ir-
Irregularities; seven more are anticipating dis
thraa hovo
Some Of the discharged men are among the
oldest on the road, having been in its employ
from 10 to 20 years.
bricklayer named John Blair lately MUIR
dered his wife and five children and then COM
mitted suicide while crazy with drink, at the
East End of London. The bodies were hor-
ribly mangled.
Between Thursday evening and Friday
morning two deputy United States marshals
and four officers of the Secret Service ar
rested eight men and two women at Cincinnati
Ohio, on a charge of counterfeiting. In de-
fault of bail nine of them were on Friday sent
to Jail to await trial this week. The tenth
prisoner gave bail in $500.
Liz WOulcu CEusducIS dSdlusb hluk dlCOuOl
have achieved one victory, and that of no
mean character. They have 80 thoroughly
alarmed the large liquor dealers of New York
for the prosperity of their business that an
address to the public is about to be circulated
denying the charges preferred against the
liquor traffic, and protesting against the
woman movement.
A Nevada man who was walking with his
brother to attend his wedding, was astonished
by proposition to take the bride elect off his
hands and marry her in his stead. He was
equal to the emergency and did so, to the
satisfaction of all concerned.
The reporter of the Chicago Times thus de-
scribes Rochefort: A light mustache and
imperial, and hair turning iron gray prom
inent cheek-bone; heavy eyebrow; q wide
forehead; a laughing dimple in the left cheek,
and pair Of brilliant, flashing eyes, showing
a reserve of passion and power, aud giving
in their fallness promise of geeat natural tai
ents of eloOuence made nm n tont ensemble