Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-19
GENERAL NEWS.

The song of the ladies' temperance bands
"Going thro' the rye"
It's claimed that San Francisco has 90 900
more inhabitants than the census shows.
Providence grocer placards ''Eges %
Adussen-Carosc 6 centes pinte."
1t is stated that Henry Wilson is soon to
leave for the Arkansas Ho. Springs for his
health
The consumption OF hay in Boston has
doubled in five years, being now on an ay-
erage, SEQ tons day.
The work on TIE new railway from Sidney
to Louioburg, Nova Scotia, has been begun.
Marshal Serrano, President of the Spanish
Republic IS to receive salary of 500, 900
per aunum.
The grangcrs of Missouri are following
those Of Iowa in establishing manufactures
for agricultural implements.
A large portion of the crust of the crater
Vesuvius is reported to have fallen lately,
and an eruption is feared.
The repor; that Prince Frederick Charles
Of Prussia is to make tour of the world next
Summer is contradicted.
A despatch from Washington says that
Judge Dent still fingers with no apparent
change. but he is evidently in an irrccoverable
condition.
At and around fernando, Mississippi, last
Tuesday night substance was rained down
which an analysis proved to be pure brim-
stone.
A Georgia paper has for its motto; 1T is
not rank, nor birth, nor state, but get up and
get that makes men great"
The Times despatch announces that the
prime minister of the Ashantee king and his
captain general have been brought prisoners
to Cape Coast Castle.
There are BOW 5000 postal money order
officers and the Senate Postal Committee is
not in favor of extending the system to small
offices which do but little business.
Some fellow, with no respect for the dig
nifty Of butter, remarks of the lady who models
busts in that article of food that her talents
would have reflected credit upon Greece.
The remains Of DIR. Livingstone are to be
brought TO England, and when they arrive
the worst of sceptics will believe he is dead,
or else they would not believe even though
one should come from the dead.
1t is vain to put your finger 10 the water,
and, pulling it out, look for hole; and
equally vain to suppose that, however large
space you occupy, the world will miss
you when you die.
Nine hundred persons signed the temper
ance pledge at the Church of ST. Frances de
Sales, Boston Highlands, Monday, ct the
close of an earnest discourse on temperance
by the Rev. Father Hennebery of California.
One hundred and eishty-six small pearls
are said to have been among the contents of
an oyster recently opened in Portchester,
New York. The number Of other gems it
contained is not stated.
The Ouumway Uowa) Courier has abol.
ished the belligerent rooster as Indicative of
triumph at an election, aud substituted an
ear Of corn, sandwiched in. the sentence.
"Pretty near clean shocking" The gran
gers consider it concession,
For an instance of remarkable presence OF
mind, says the Brooklyn Argus, commcnd us
to the sagacous Illinois woman, who, when
her husband was bitten by mad dog, drew a
pistol and promptly shot the man.
1t appears that the statute of Limitation does
not run against the collection of the arrears
of tax mentioned in the Sanborn lists in FIVE
years, as was stated by General Butler. The
period Of five years is the limitation upon
bringing a criminal prosecution for wilful
negligence in making returns.
Mr.. Lowe, the ex. chancellor of the Eng
fish eKeheauer. says that ''the man who pre-
fers custom to Law announces a principle
which would stereotype every abuse and SUB
stitute blind guesses of barbarism for the clear
and well considered conclusions of a civilized
age"