Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-10
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GENERAL NEE.S.

The Chicago Board of Trade raises its voice
against initiation.
The funeral of Judge Edmunds, the noted
Spiritualist, occurred in New York city Tues
day.
The office Of State Treasurer Of Virginia
has been declared vacant and new election
ordered
Mr.. Samuel Train. one OF the oldest re-
tired merchants of Boston, died at Medford
Tuesday aged IS years.
Bartholdi, the new French minister to this
country, presented bis credentials to Presi-
dent Gran. Tuesday.
| DR.. johnson didn't like to hear anybody
talk about the weather. Well i. is a disa-
greeabe subject about this time of year.
Livingstone was sorry to be obliged to de-
molish the empires laid down in the Portu-
guese maps of Africa.
The town of Concord, Mass, has voted to
anniversary of the Concord fight, April 10,
1875.
! In future the arguments of Louisiana law
yers will, by Supreme Court decision, be
/ limited to fifteen minutes.
Whittemore, the cadet broker, who was ex
PEELED from Congress for selling cadetships, is
member of the South Carolina tax delega-
ton.
Some Hartford men rendered Mark Twain
a welcome supper, and the bill, amounting to
sos, was sent to him. He paid it.
The portraits of Josh Billings and Miss
Nelson are exhibited side by side in the San
Francisco shop windows, and the papers call
them "Buty" and the "Billing."
When the late Judge n. X. Hall entered
Mr.. Fillmore's office in 1929 Us clerk and
student-at- law, he entered the following motto
in memorandum book: "Iutegrity, industry
and perseverance will lead to honor riches
and universal esteem"
"Hazing' has broken out in an offensive
manner again at the Naval Academy; but the
Secretary says neither personal friendship nor
political distinction shall interfere with his
determination to stop the practice.
Woman's faith was justified in the Ashantee
war. A native soothsayer had prophesied the
fall of Coomassie. His declarations were
not held in high repute by the men, but the
women believed his prophesy, and for weeks
before the arrival of the British troops had
been removing their treasures from the town
to safer quarters.
There is always a great deal of sport in
asb; sava tho Erophio of tho f1,,r mas
made by new members of Congress and their
families, who are unused to the demands of
fashionable life. Fancy the horror Of the
dipl0mates who were guests at recent State
dinner at the White House at seeing the wives
of several congressman present in black
dresses with high corsages. con- exclaimed
an appalled, diplomatic afterward, at was hor-
rible. Such a disrespect to the President and
his wife"
According to a Sacramento paper, a young
woman residing mountainward recently be.
came applicant for a teachers certificate. She
had undergone an examination and felt des-
pendent, and informed her mother that she
feared she would not obtain authority to teach.
And her mother, for the purpose of soothing
her nervous and troubled condition, suggested
that she sit down and sketch her feelings with
the pencil. Acting on this advice, the girl
drew tombstone bearing this inscription
dedicated 10 the memory of my ambition,
which departed this life, March II, 1874
The fact came to the ears of the examiners,
and they thought it pity not to strain point;
and they let her pass without much strain,
either