Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-09
GENERAL VIEWS.

Ernest Renan, after one defeat, has been
elected an Associate of the Lisbon Academy
of Sciences.
The Macomb (Ill.) Eagle has new method
of chronicling death from old age; ga. B.
dried on the 18th inst"
Rev. John U. Parsons, an old Congrega-
tionalist clergyman, we'll known in New Eng
land as revival preacher, died recently, of
paralysis.
The Grand Lodge of Masons of the State
of New York have taken action looking to
checking the too rapid growth of the order.
1t is announced that Miss Adelaide Phil
lipps proposes to retire from the stage after
next season.
A Philadelphia youth was recently married
to girl who had refused him eighteen times.
He wishes now he hadn't asked her but seven
teen.
This is the season in which persons who
live in the rural districts leave the delights Of
home, and rush into the city to eat strawber-
ries and cream.
The New York Express says: "In answer
to the correspondent who asks what manner
of man Tom Collins is, we would reply that
he is no manner Of man. He is a dam SELL
expenses by voluntary subscription. They
amounted to over fl50O
Ann Eliza's father publicly calls on the Salt
Lake Herald to retract its ISLANDERS upon his
4 and tharaby sovo a1 from a Iha1
suit.
"Parasoled" is an elegant euphemism for a
young lady's batting a gentleman over the
head with her sunshade in Kentucky.
The Norfolk, Va, steamboats, are trans
porting to Baltimore immense cargoes of
strawberries, peas, beans, potatoes and other
kinds of vegetables.
Chicago hopes to build up trade in prairie
hay with England, one carload having
already been sent to experiment with in the
manufacture of paper.
The high bids at the auction sale of Sena-
| tor Summers household effects are thought
| by the New York Commercial Advertiser to
substantiate DIR. Hammond's theory of "more.
bid impulse"
The peach crop of Delaware and Maryland
will, it is estimated reach this year upward OF
100000 baskets, an increase of 100000
baskets over the crop of last year.
Detroit paper, noticing the fact that a
man lately dropped dead while combing his
hair, says: "And yet there are people who
will persist in this dangerous habit"
1t is reported that the Mexican Ministry
has ordered all the ports OF entry on the Rio
Grande, except Matamoras, closed, but col
lectors have postponed action and written for
| further instructions.
| "A reporter, in depicting wreck at sea,
says that ''No less than thirteen unfortunates
bit the dust"
| The women crusaders of Philadelphia have
established Drunkard's Home, which already
has eleven inmates, nine men and two women
saved by the praying band These are mos
tenderly and thoroughly cared for.
The Hartford Times says: So complete is
the base ball furore that even the Connection
river shad are taking a turn at the natona
game. We see that at Holyoke, yesterday
three shad that were in the river were caught
out on flies.
In Myron, Allmallee county, Iowa, little
child named IIaslip fell in well recently
Its mother, hearing its cries, worked her way
to the bottom of the well, caught the child's
clothing 10 her teeth, and climbed with it to
the top.
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