Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-07
GENERAL NEWS.

the month of May next
Both passenger and freight steamers have
commenced running to all points on the Hud-
son river.
A Kentucky lady compromised $40, 900 |
breach of promise suit by accepting So and
new chignon.
The congressional transportation commit
tee is expected shortly to issue report on
the cheap transportation question.
Senator Boutwell, has resumed his seat in |
the Senate, but he is still pale and weak from !
his recent illness.
The Rev. DR.. Stone says that nine -tenths
of the persons whom he has married in San
Francisco were aged upwards of thirty four
years.
San Francsco's new Palace Hotel will COW
er 5000 square feet. and use up eight mill
lion bricks in its construction.
The House Committee on Territories have
agreed to recommend the passage Of the bill
for the admission of New Mexico as a State.
To Pacific coast route agent the remark
from the superintendent, 'You will find pa
per and ink in the other room" is a sufficient
hint that written resignation is expected
Two Congressman from Indiana have an
nounced that they will not be candidates for
reelection-Jasper Packard (Rep.) and
Simeon X. Wolfe (Dem)
Susan Benton, the youngest daughter of
Senator Benton, and the wife of Baron
Boileau, late French minister plenipotentiary
to Peru, died in Paris on the sth of March.
The Postmaster General sent to the house
post-ofIi committee Friday statement of
all moieties paid by that department. The
total is less than $1,000.
1t twas proposed at recent meeting held in
Plymouth Church to erect a new and more
commodious sdifce, and grant to Mr.. Beech
er leave of six months absence.
Notwithstanding cows are so plenty in
Texas, genuine fresh milk sells for a dol
lar a gallon in Galveston. The native ami
mails do not take kindly to dairy practices.
The surgeons Of the Confederate Army and
| Navy are to hold Convention at Atlanta,
Georgia, on May 20, for the purpose of en-
bodying in permanent form the important
medical and surgical facts brought out by
their war experience.
A new company, with capital of 81 ,O0o,-
600 in shares of 500 each is to be formed to
take charge of the Manchester, N. H., print
works, recently sold. Most of the old stock
holders ut Manchester will join the new COM
pany.
Tho amusing blunder which started the
story that Longfellow was to spend the sum-
mer in Canada had the effect of calling out a
| of the Dominion, Lord Dufferin, to the poet to
visit Ottawa and partake Of his hospitality.
Miss Phoebe Cozzens filed her first case in
the circuit court in St. Louis last week as
counsel for Mrs. Charlotte Smith, the editor
of the Inland Monthly Magazine against L.
U. Reavis, the illustrious capital mover.
A dispatch from Melbourne says Henri
Rochefort and his companions refuse to dis
close how they succeeded in escaping to the
vessel which brought them from New-Cale-
donia, for fear of duplicating friends.
During the recent freshet in Connecticut,
an editor telegraphed another at the scene of
action, "send me full particulars of the food"
The answer came, "You will find them in
Genesis"
The fine ship Magellan, 1913 tons, in COM
mand of Capt. Benz. F. Sherburne, arrived at
Valparaiso March 4, in the remarkably short
time of seventy three days from Boston, which
is one of the shortest trips ever made between
the two ports.
A young lady left her home in Wilmington,
Del, in December. to meet her betrothed
husband. who is a captain in the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, in San Francisco. He
could not get leave of absence from Yokohama,
however, and the lady made the long voyage
to Japan, and was married two days after her
arrival there.
The greatest bell in the world, the EN-
peror William bell, destined for the Cologne
cathedral, has just been finished. 1t weighs
about &C, 900 pounds, is eighteen feet high and
fourteen wide. The first moulding of the
bell proved failure, and considerable diff.
Guilty has yet to be overcome in transporting
the immense mass from Frankenthal, whore
it was cast, to the top Of the tower of the
Cologne cathedral.
A Washington despatch of tie 3rd says:
USpeake r Rlaine did a yerv haDpy thing this