Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-26
GENERAL NE VS..

The pine apple crop is short and the fruit
small this season.
Gen. Butler rode out Friday morning, and
is somewhat improved in condition.
Speaker and Mrs. Blaine were among the
invited guests at Nelly Grants wedding.
Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen, otherwise
known as Florence Percy, will spend the
Summer at Portland.
The hot blast is now used in dentistry.
Noting will dry cavity of the gum so quick
ly. 1t is blown in by means of a syringe.
Congressman Rainey, colored, of South
Carolina, has purchased Summer residence
in Windsor, six miles from Hartford, Conn.
On Thursday, 40 immigrants, mostly
Welsh, arrived at New York, and left, Friday,
for Salt Lake. There were but few women
among them.
The Barnes House, less than two years
ago one of the first of Chicago hotels, has
passed into the bankrupt court, and is to be
sold under the hammer.
According to last advices the press and the
poets were too hasty in making Collins Graves
hero, and the attempt to Revere him and
Cheney is likely to fail.-[Lowell Courier.
Judge Blodgett of Chicago has recently
rendered decision, maintaining the right of
married women in Illinois to compensation as
agents for their husbands.
Rev. DR.. Falsenthal, the learned Jewish
Rabbi, says tina. 'drunkard among the Jews
is a very rare and very exceptional person"
Chinaman thus describes a trial in our
courts: Zone man is silent, another talks
all the time, and twelve wise men condemn
the man who has not said word
The names of the young American students
recently drowned in Lake Geneva. near
Lausanne, are now given as William Wood
bury, John Crane, aud James Crane.
About a year ago lad named Arthur Lilly,
of Lowell, was struck on the leg by base
but he gradually sank, and died Friday
from the effects of the blow.
One of the Chicago papers lately spoke Of
"Socrates and his dear Penelope" The same
writer will probably next tell US about Wash
ngton and his dear Aspasia, or Grant and his
dear Cleopatra.
The Congressional Committee on Ways and
Means are opposed to the restoration of the
10 per cent. duty taken off the manufactures
of cotton, wool, iron ard steel metals, etc.,
ETC., included in the tariff act of June, 1872.
The St. Louis Prison Reform Congress has
appointed committee to report on the FEAST
bility of adopting free labor system in prisons
making labor optional with prisoners, and
paying them for the work they perform.
A despatch from Texas announces that the
wheat crop of that State will be the largest
ever produced Harvesting has already be-
| gun, and some of it will be in the market by
| the first of June.
Three years ago three colored men bought
200 acre farm in Tennessee for $780, to be
paid in three annual instruments. Their only
capital was five mules, and yet at date they
have paid the whole sum beside having sup
| ported themselves and families. They did all
| their work themselves.
The removal of ice from the St. Lawrence
| river in the spring by the use of nitro glyce-
rine is proposed. The method suggested is
to plant the explosive all over the river bot
tom, having wires connected with the charges
by which all would be exploded simultane-
ously by galvanic battery. The charges
would be planted before the ice formed, in
order to avoid the necessity for making holes
A Scranton despatch says that the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal Company of that city
suspended work on Saturday evening at their
pudding furnaces. rolling mills and mines
thereby throwing about 700 men out of work.
The cause is depression in the iron market.
The companys yards are crowded with thou
sands of tons of rails and other products Of
their work for which they cahnot find SALE