Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-31
GENERAL Ne us.

In round numbers it costs the British pco-
pie S3,000,00 annually to support the royal
family, and one princess yet TO he married
off.
In London churches they are giving notice
that Give minutes after the bells cease to
ring all pews are free
A stout old woman in Detroit got mad late
ly, because photographer wouldn't let her
fan herself while she had her picture taken.
The Winsted, Conn, Herald abounds in
sensational local items, Of which the follow
ing is specimen: Crew Blake has new
pair Of pance.'
Newport, Il. L., has sensation. a fellow
has been buying liquor of the large dealers
in that city and then entering complaints
against the men he had been patronizing.
Hon. w. f. Gladstone recently appeared
at the Old Bailey in London as a witness in a
libel case His evidence was given in dry
way that caused much amusement.
Noble lords are scarce at the watering
place hotels, and cruel Western man &C
counts for it on the ground that il is not time
for the BARRIERS to take their Summer vaca-
tons.
A Minneapolis letter says that the reported
rayagcs by grasshoppers have been much ex-
aggerated Some six counties have suffered
terribly, but relief is now organized in the
other portions of the State, SO that the pe0-
pie are provided for.
Anselm Roths child, member of the Aus
TRAN branch Of the Rothschild family, died
| Monday in ' Jenna. He was descendant Of
Meyer Anselm Rothschild, five Of whose sons
settled in different cities Of Europe and
amassed great wealth.
A Missouri paper says, Yesterday we
counted eleven able bodied farmers, whose
grass and oats needed cutting, sitting on dry
goods boxes complaining about hard times. "
Chicago paper sadly sobbeth: The
twang of the guitar, the squawk of the tomb
stone and the exhilarating squeak of contigu-
Gus catgut is no longer heard in our patrician
halls, reared with the profits of mess pork
and Michigan slabs
General Sherman, accompanied by his son
Thomas, left Washington day or two ago
in two-horse buggy, for long trip over the
battle fields of Virginia, where he will devote
much time to the study of the positions of
the two armies, and endeavor to get some in
sight into their manoeuyres, merely to satisfy
his own curiosity.
The President has issued his proclamation
ratifying the treaty with Peru, which was con-
cluded and signed at Lima by the Plenpoten-
tiaries of the two governments, the 18th of
September, 1870; also treaty of friendship.
commerce and navigation with the same gov
eminent concluded and signed at Lima on
the 9th Of September, 1870.
Two painters jumped from the St. Louis
bridge into the Mississippi River, distance
of sixty-three feet, to win wager of ten
dollars, and the leap was successful They
were under water over two minutes. A man
recently applied to the police authorities of
Buffalo for permission to leap from the
top of an elevator into the creek, but leave
was refused.
The Peoples Fire Insurance Company of
Philadelphia has suspended by reason of the
dishonesty of its Treasurer and Manager.
The total loss of life by the Pttsburg fl bod
is said to be 2l9.
Two hundred consumptives in New York
resort to the slaughter houses a. daybreak to
drink the warm blood of animals. A market
baneft is said to result in every case.
The Prince Edward Island Railway is ex-
pected to be formally opened in September.
The Dominion Government has not yet TAX
en- possession of it. When finished it will make
very complete railway system for the Island.
The northern express noon train on the
Boston and Maine Railroad met with singu.
lar accident at the "Know Nothing" eros sing
at East Summerville, Tuesday. The hanger
under the forward end of one of the cars
broke, causing the running gear to fall to the
track and the car to careen one side. The
train was at full stop at the time, or serious
consequences might have ensued.
There are more persons in Washington
without employment than was ever before
known since the close of tie war. Govern
ment offices and workshops have largly re-
duccd their forces. The District works en-
ploy only about one-tenth as many persons
as they did one year ago, and many private
establishments have cut down the number of
employees.
1t is claimed that the Palace Hotel, now
building at San Francisco, will be the largest
in the world. 1t will contain 700 rooms and
80 bathrooms, and 1900 guests will be ac-
commodated. 1t will be completed in Au.
gust, 1875, and its estimated cost, including
half million dollars for furniture, will be
S2,750 600.