Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-10-31
GENERAL Ne US.

| The Italian newspaper directors propose to
raise $40 900 as national gift to Gsribsldi
| 1t is proposed to raise loan of one hun
bred million francs in France.
The annual meeting of the Grand Division
| Of the Sons of Temperance Of New Hampshire
| convened at Concord, Wednesday.
A Communistic experiment on the island Of
Valcour, in Lake Champlain, has proved a
| miserable failure.
The Detroit Free Press says that the next
thing to perfect bliss is eating Lake Superior
raspberry jam on warm biscuit.
A thousand ducks in one season from the
eggs laid by twelve ducks is good yield.
| 1t is reported by one William Van Fleet OF
Stockton, California.
Lord Dufferin arrived in Washington on
Monday. He will call on the President and
other Government officers before leaving the
city.
The manufacturing of watches in the coun-
try employs capital Of nearly $4,000, 900,
the number of watches made annually being
about 200, 900.
A man at Nashua, N. H., who the other
evening listened to lecture Concerning
Husbands" BY a prominent lecturer, went
home and committed suicide.
The chance of work for laborers on new
buildings in New York is not encouraging
Little work is under way, the principal build
ers having none in prospect.
At a meeting Tuesday evening of the New
York Society for the Suppression Of Vice,
startling statements were made relative to the
exten. of the trade in obscene books, pictures
etc.
Partisan ladies are so overburdened with
beads and bugles on their costumes now that
they go tnkling and jingling through the
streets like the celebrated old lady who had
rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
The advertising columns of a dramatic
journal contain some curious and, to the un-
professional reader, startling cards. Witness
the following: "Wanied-A lady capable Of
playing Frailty and producing the Cancan."
Governor Beverage of Ohio has written to
the Mayor of St. Louis that dixie construct
ed by the city of St. Louis, has so changed
the channel of the river that it is now en-
croaching largely upon the Illinois shore,
much to the damage and loss of the residents
thereof He consequently asks that the diff
fculty be removed without unnecessary de.
lay.
1t seems to be fashionable to allow wild an
finals to escape from custody, just now, and
the same thrilling account is doing duty for a
bear that roamed at large in Ohio for two or
three days, and for a panther that did the
same in Michigan; and Indianapolis is the
proud possessor Of stray leopard.
A squaw sat down on the curb in front Of
the post office at Austin, Nevada, the other
day, and, unrolling bundle of calico, began
the manufacture of dress. In less than an
hour the dress was finished, and putting it on
over her old clothes the squaw pulled out a
pin here, a peg there, and united string in
another place, made one step and presto !
the old clothes lay in the gutter. Gathering
up the rags just shed, the noble daughter Of
the forest cast one look of triumph on the
spectators and skipped gracefully of in the
direction of the Indian camp.
At Mingaut Valley, N. Y, few days ago,
pedler entered the dwelling of a citizen, and
endeavored to sell some of his wares to the
lady of the house. In the course of the con.
versation she remarked that her husband,
who was in the next room, was a cripple and
had not been able to move from his bed in
many years. On learning this the pedler
made dastardly assault upon the lady, who
struggled with him bravely. but was about to
be overpowered, when by a superhuman eff
fort, the husband leaPed from the bed, seized
crutch, and felled the scoundrel to the
ground. Reaction Immediately set in, how
ever, and having saved his wife's honor, he
fell to the floor dead. The pedler escaped
and great excitement prevails in the neighbor-
hood. The whole affair reads almost like
romance Of chivalry, when men laid down
their lives for ladye faire.
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