Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-19
GENERAL NEWS.

Inc late Dlsnop W HIteHoust was puiieu III
Greenwood Cemetery, New York, on Satur-
day.
Gen. Mcclellan is to address Pennsylva-
mia regiment at Altoona Sept. II.
A black fellow in New Jersey has been de-
tected in cruelties similar to those practced
by the Pomeroy boy
Boston had 220 deaths last week, Of which
eighty Ave were from cholera infantum and
eighteen from consumption.
Miss Adelaide Miller, Hawaiian, young,
but possessing remarkably fine voice, is de-
lighting the people of San Francisco.
Thirteen tors of barnacles were taken from
the bottom of the iron ship Milliceti after a
voyage of six months from Bombay to Liver
pool.
There is said to be deficiency of $4,000
in the account of the Second National Bank
of Boston. Nos one suspected of dishonesty.
The suit of New York city against the
Broadway Bank to recover six million dollars,
bids fair to expose more of the viliany of the
Woodward and Tammany ring
In England they have started a Railway
Travellers Protective Society to prosecute
railway companies, through whose careless
ness accidents and loss Of life occur.
Ex-Postmaster General Creswell has been
retained by the government to represent the
United States interest before the Geneva
award commission.
They have a minister in Mound City, Kan,
who attracts people to his pray er meeting by
the music of brass band.
By remarkable mirage near auckland,
Va, recently, the whole city of Washington,
forty miles distant, with the Potomac flowing
by it., became visible in the clouds The en-
chanting scene lasted but few moments.
When they told an Indiana woman that
her husband had been sliced up by reaper,
she impatiently replied; "Well, take the
pieces to the barn; | can't leave the goose
berry sauce just now"
Tunnel lately, was not able to put on the No.
10 rubber boots which are provided for
visitors.
The Empress Eugene has given $4,000
for new church in London near Covent Gar
den, which is to be erected by way of expia-
ton for all the "outrages" which have been
inflicted on the "Blessed Sacrament since
the Reformation.
In view of the coming discussion of Cana
dian reciprocity by Congress, arrangements
have been made between the two governments
by which full statistic, of the imports of each
country by the other are to be mutually fur
nshed quarterly.
The Louisville Commercial gives dark list
of murders and murderous ARRAYS which have
occurred in Kentucky within the past four
weeks. The list is incomplete, but it en-
braces eleven homicides and twenty-tw other
ARRAYS, most of which resulted in the death
of one or more of the parties concerned.
The manager of a country theater, peeping
through the curtains between the acts, was
surprised by glimpse of the empty benches.
"Why, gracious = said he, turning to the
prompter. "where is the audience!" He just
stopped out to get a mug of beer" was the
brief reply.
The smallest post office in the world is kept
in a barrel, which swings from the outhanging
rock of the mountains overhanging the Straits
of Magellan, opposite Terra del Fuego. Ev-
cry passing ship opens it to place letters in or
take them cut Every ship undertakes to for
ward all letters in it that it is possible for
them to transmit. 1t hangs there by its iron
chains, beaten and battered by the winds and
storm; but no locked and barred Office on
land is more secure. 1t is not in the track OF
mail robbers.