Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-25
GENERAL NEWS.


burg has been countermanded.
The corn crop is represented to be larger
than last year by at least two million acres.
| An orange county farmer has been stabing
his COW in 40 ice house 10 make her give ice
cream.
The G. A. Il Posts of New Hampshire will
participate in grand reunion at Manchester
on the 18th and lGii of September.
Mayor Stokoly of Philadelphia la, offered
reward of $1,000 for the capture of tie ab-
ductors Of the Ross child.
Utah correspondent of the Baltimore
American says that ambition was the cause of
Ann ELIAS troubles.
| BY the opening of the new railway from
Montpelier, VT, to Wells River, the White
Mountains are brought one day nearer to
Saratoga Lake.
A company of Colorado potato bugs have
taken possession of Long Island, and threaten
to clean out the biped population.
The grasshoppers believe in reciprocity,
and have gone over the line in order that the
Canadians may have an equal share of their
attentions.
| The redemption agencies estimate that there
will be at least one hundred millions of ma
tional bank currency annually renewed I'M
der the new law.
That meeting which Mr.. Parkhurst said
was TO occur between the comet and our plan
ct on the 22d of July must have been una
vodably pos tponed.
Mr.. Spurgeon celebrated his arrival at the
age of 40 years, at his tabernacle, the other
day, in the presence of a congregation Of
nearly COCO devoted admirers.
Here is a Japanese recipe for keeping
meat fresh in hot weather: ''Place 1t IN
clean proclaim bowl, and pour very hot water
over it so as to cover it. Then pour oil upon
the water. The air is thus quite excluded
and the meat preserved
The New York Post learns that Mr. John
Lothrop Motley does not recover his health as
his friends expected. His physician has ad-
vised him to abstain wholly from literary
work, and allow his nervous system entire
rest.
The Advertiser Republican Of Savannah,
Ga, states for a fact that trade in rattle
snakes and moccasins is springing up in that
city. The colored people catch the reptiles
alive and sell them for from fifty cents to a
dolas each to dealers who in turn ship them
to Europe.
Jules Jann is reported to have said, few
days before his death, as he lay on sofa in
his dining room: ~ suppose | am great
writer; | am member of the Academy l
would renounce all that glory to walk-to
walk around this room without assistance"
Liverpool is to have grand musical fesi-
val from September 30 to October 3, for
charitable purposes. Patti, Mdlle. Albani,
Miss Wynne, Sims Reeves, Santley and other
great artists are to assist, and Sir julius Ben
edict is to be the conductor.
Johnathan Walker, an abolitionist of the
days before the war lives near Detroit, Mich,
and is II years old. He is a native of
Massachusetts,. Branded into one of his
hands are the letters rs. S." (slave stealer).
punishment inflicted upon him at Pensacola,
r. Ia, Oh account OI HIS having asSisttu Iuud-
way slaves. The Marshal who executed the
sentence was native of Rhode Island,
named Ebenezer Dorr.
A correspondent of the Providence Journal
tells an amusing story of a man who saw a
thief enter his room when the moon shone
brightly upon him. He lay quietly as if in
sound sleep for time as the examination went
rapidly on. At length he was convulsed with
laughter, which started the miscreant peering
into his desk. Seeing he was taken at a
disadvantage, the intruder turned and
asked what occasion there was for such
an outburst. He replied, 81 was thinking
how extremely ridiculous it is for you to be
searching for money in the night, when am
unable to find any in the day time"
One of the oldest inscribed tombstones in
the country is that of Ephraim Hewett, who
died in lG44. l. stands in the quiet church
yard at Windsor, Conn, and bears this in
scription -
Epup,tu HpwUrr