Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-24
GENERAL Ne VS..


Exhibitions Of human monstrosites or de-
formed persons have been prohibited in
Japan.
A company with capital of 100000 has
been formed for the manufacture of peat fuel
near New Haven.
The annual meeting OF the New England
Freedmen's Aid Society was held Friday and
it was voted to wind up its affairs.
The estimated expenditures to relieve the
sufferers by famine in India up TO the end Of
February are sl2, 100000.
Carl Schurz has accepted the invitation of
the City of Boston TO deliver a eulogy on
Charles Sumner in Faneuil Hall.
A new county just created in Iowa has
been called Belknap county, in honor Of Cen
eral Belknap, the Secretary of War.
An Oshkosh judge lately received four bars
of soap for a marriage fee. Could this be
considered clean cashI
The total number of cases of shoes shipped
from Lynn for the week ending March - was
1902, against 1921 for the corresponding
week, last year, a decrease of All cases.
The colored citizens have invited Wendell
Phillips to deliver an address on Charles
Sumner, before them, in Faneuil Hall, en-
tie 10Th of April.
Inscription on a tombstone in Columbia,
Tenn; Escaped the bullets of the enemy
to be assassinated by cowardly pup-a kind
husband, an sffectonate father"
During the Easter recess it is intended to
give banquet to Mr.. Disraeii by the mem
bers of the Carlton Club. The Prince of
Wales is expected to be present.
\ Western reporter was angry because a
young woman would not waltz with him, and
in his report of the ball he called her "a
graceful little toad"
The first prize-a handsome case OF surg-
cal instruments-has been awarded in the
Iowa State University to Miss Rebccca Han
ma, for the best specimen of anatomy
The Democrats of the Massachusetts Leg
islature have nominated Judge Il. b, Curtis
for Senator Summers successor.
Indianapolis claims to be one Of the fastest
growing cities in the West, having gained
nearly 10000 in population during the last
three years. The whole number of inhabitants
is 1000.
Mr.. =. Il. Barnum is advertising in the
London newspapers for estimates for the con-
struction of his transatlantic balloon, which
he intends to have finished early in the Sum
mer.
Arthur Orion, the Tichborn claimant"
on being weighed at Newgate in accordance
with the rules of the prison, was found to
turn the scale at $50 pounds. His arm
measured twenty-seyen inches round, his
chest fif;y-six inches.
Senator Sumner in his will has made a be-
quest Of one thousand dollars to Harvard
College, as prize for the best dissertation on
preserving international peace. The bequest
is made il very striking and impressive terms.
"If," advertised a philosophical victim,
"the person who took fancy to my oyercoat
was influenced by the weather, then all is
serene but if he did go from commercial con-
negotiations for its return"
The China Mail reports that a dreadful
sentence had been passed at lrddo on
woman who connived at the murder of her
husband, and married his brother, the muir
derer, viz, that of being torn to pieces by
bulocks. The man is to be cruclfed and
then tortured with spear wounds
The New Hampshire returns from all the
towns in the State, except Cambridge and
Wcntw0rths Location, which held no election
last year, make Weston lack 60 votes Of
an election by the people. The iootings
are; McCu,chins, 3i,l3S; Weston, 35 500
Blackmer, 2091; scattering, ~.
The Pittsburg papers, as Spring opens,
speak in rather more encouraging tones of
the manufacturing interests Of that section of
the Commonwealth. Nearly all the iron and
nail mills are running double time, and the
daily consumption of pig iron is estimated at
about Rftten hundred tons. The manufac-
turers of steel are well supplied with orders.
There will be another International EX
hibiion in Paris next year, but neither the
site nor the form of the gasometer of 1867
will be used again. The Palas de l'Industrie
is to be enlarged for the purpose, by the ad-
dition of Luilding surrounded it in the Champs
Elysees. Speculative persons may wonder
shat dynasty will patronise the opening of
the Exposition Of 1875. There have been
changes since they built the gasometer in the
Champs de Mars; there may be one or two