Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-05
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Culpeper, Va, boasts that it has not had a
case of consumption for more than forty
years.
Neenah, Wis, organized yacht club, and
now advertises for sheet of water for prac-
tce.
The authorities of London, after careful
scientific investigation, have concluded to
pave the streets with wood and asphalt ex
clusively.
Senator Schurz is confined to lis room
with an attack of malarial fever, His ply
sician insists that he shall do no more work
at the present session.
An insane woman in Brooklyn Tuesday
killed her three children and fatally wounded
her husband
Judge Lowell refuses to compel the Pacific
Railway to show cause why it should not be
thrown into bankruptcy.
A new Summer hotel has been built at JEFF
ferson, N. H.
The Viceroy of Egypt is said to be some
thing of an author, and he is credited with
having originated the plot and text of the
opera of "Aida."
Prices at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga,
have been reduced from $35 week to S2l a
week during June and September, and $2S
week during July and August.
"What are you doing there, you rascal?"
'Merely taking cold, sir cit looks to me
as if you were stealing ice." "Well, yes,
perhaps it will bear that construction"
1t is reported on good authority that
Marshal Serrano will soon order general
election in Spain, and if the Monarchists are
in the majority he will propose the enthrone-
ment of the Prince of the Asturias under his
own regency.
Recent frosts in England caused great
damage to early vegetables, and even shrub
berry of the hardy American varieties suffered
severely, and fruit trees, oaks, laburnums,
&C., were in many cases killed back to the
old wood.
Receipts for the preservation of furs abound
in all the papers, but the old plan promul-
gated by Punch long ago is the best This is
to pull out all the hairs with tweezers and
varnish the skin. In the Spring remove the
varnish and carefully stick all the hairs in
their old places.
Orders were received at Fort Griswold,
New London, to leave certain guns, that were
being removed for shipment, "where they
were," and one which had reached the centre
of the gateway, was dropped in that partic-
ular spot. There's nothing like obedience to
orders.
A telegram from Waterford, Ont, says that
II. Rays pony trotted on the lst of June, be.
fore sulky, on the Waterford course, 81 miles
in IL hours and 20 minutes, in one continuous
straight heat. A large amount of money
changed hands in betting.
One element of Bismarcks success as a
strategist is indicated by an anecdote con-
corning him which is quite current in Europe
On certain occasion, being asked to explain
his extraordinary luck at whist, he replied
"When get an opportunity invariably look
into the hand of my opponent"
post-mortem examination has been made
of the body of George Cordes, who died of
trichina at Harrisburg. powerful micro
scope made visible thousands of trichina NOV
ing like snakes and resembling boa constric-
tors. In the space of an inch G5 were counted,
and there were doubtless millions in the body.
He suffered terribly before death,
On Monday, there was a mutiny of convicts
at Jefferson City, consequent upon the bad
quality of the provisions. The President of
the prison company took a committee of the
convicts and inspected the provisions but tie
latter were not satisfied and they began
second revolt, when an armed company of
citizens filed into the yard and threatened to
fire on the mutineers, VIII en- the latter sub
siied and went to their cells.
The Brooklyn Argus tells sorry tale of
Bunker Hill and Cincinnati man. The lat
ter, it says, marched up Bunker Hill, one
afternoon, last week, and asked the kee per of
the monument if he would be kind enough to
show him where Joan of Arc laid down her
life for the liberties of her country. The
keeper whstled for his dog, and the admirer
of Joan of Arc left specimens of his clothing
scattered over space several acres in ex-
tent.
The railroad men between Summit Valley
and Tamarack, near Trrckee, are treated c.