Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-20
GENERAL NEWS.

An abortive attempt was made Thursday to
wreck a train on the New York Central Rail-
way.
| Seven persons are known to have lost their
lives by the recent Chicago fire.
| Advices from France state that NJ. Magne,
ton to President MacMahon.
A quantity Of prairie hay has been received
in Liverpool from Chicago. 1t is to be used
| for the manufacture of paper
Gloves must match the dress in shade, I'M
less it is black. Then the palest pearl tints
are used by the most elegant people.
At Saginaw, Mich, Thursday, Goldsmith
Maid heat Judge Fullerton. making the re-
markable time OF 2. lG in one heat.
The old story about the ignorance of The
boundaries of Connecticut comes up again,
and the State means to pay sic, 600 to have
itself surveyed.
Foolish fathers who send boys into the
country with fowllng pieces and pistols are
the best friends the undertakers have during
vacation season.
Private dispatches say that the French
Government has dismissed from service Cap
tain Lemaric, late commander OF the steamer
Europe, and Captain Rousseau, late of the
steamer Amerique.
man in Cedar county, Iowa, being i'll,
dismissed his regular physician and employed
"faith doctor" The first dose ofthe faith
medicine" caused him to die in great agony.
The ratio OF deaths to the population in
Boston for the first eleven days of July was
only one third Of the average for the past five
years, and less than one-half that of 1872.
| The New York Custom House authorities
have seized $4,000 worth of diamonds be-
longing to Solomon C,iohagen, passenger
on board the Westpha(a who is charged with
the attempt to smuggle them in his baggage.
The champion hand ball match at New
York Thursday for $1,000. and the champion
ship of America, between two Aldermen
of Chicago and two of Brooklyn, was won by
the Chcagos.
Naval officers who have recently returned
from Cuban waters represent the conditions
of Spanish rule in Cuba as now very uncer-
tain, and that our navy in the Gulf may be
needed at any day.
Two young girls were abducted from.
Nicholson, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania,
last Monday by attaches of circus company.
In one OF the Wisconsin counties hundred
of acres have been sown with mustard seed,
which was mistaken for flax seed. Where
were their eyes?
Up to date the comptroller of the currency
has received applications aggregating 81 O00,-
600, from the West and South, for portions
of the national bank currency to be redistri-
buted.
A prominent boot and shoe dealer on Court
street, whose windows have for some time
been daily blocked up by number of oafers,
had plscard stuck up yesterday, which read
"Wanted-from to 20 loafers to stand in
front of these windows all day" Upto late
hour yesterday afternoon he had not been &C.
commodated. = Boston Adrertiser.
Tomatoes were first used in this country as
an edible in the year 1919, by the late Hon.
Baily Bartlett of IIayerhll, but they did not
come into general use until more than twenty
years subsequent to that date. In letter
to Joseph Harrod, Esq, of Portland, Maine,
Sheriff Bartlett said, "Cut up and dressed as
you would cucumber, the tomatoe makes a
good salad"