Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-05-08
GEVERAL VIEWS.

Fears are entertained for the safety Of the
steamship Metropolis, q days out from Bermuda
for New York.
It is said that wreath Of flowers is placed
every week, upon DR.. Livingstoncs tomb in West
minister Abbey by some unknown hand.
The Salem Post thinks that if George WASH
4 ;ppton had only been cross-examined by Judge
Fullerton before he died it would have turned out
that he really lied about the cherry tree, after all.
The Young Mems Christian Association of Day
ton, O., has established smoking room for those
visitors whom higher tastes will rot attract to
their building.
The inquest at Melrosc on the death of Levi c.
Turner, who was killed by the Boston & Maine
Railroad cars on Tuesday, resulted in verdict
that the employee OF the railroad was culpably
negligent in not closing the gate in season.
| A fellow in New York stole diamond ring on
| Tuesday. and swallowed it to make the aiIcsting
officers believe he innocent, although 1t
choked him badly. lie is valued at one thou-
| sand dollars.
A writer in the London Globe says There arc
| only three nations who use slang to any extent
| viz: France, England and America. OF these
| France is by far the wittest, America the most
forcible and obscure
A gentleman in Europe writes Il see IN the
American papers notices of bank bills altered from
| from one denomination to another. This is i'm
possible in this part of the world, through the
very simple device of having bills of different
values made of different sizes"
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, at
| tending church in Memphis, recognized in the
gray headed old vestry man who carried round the
contribution box the President of the Southern
Cenfcderacy. lie says; SIN all my intercourse
with people Of all sorts here, had not once heard
| his name mentioned"
A Young girl who had an offer of marriage
which she wished to accept submitted the matter
| to her father, who advised her against maiimony'
using as an argument the quotation from ST. Paul.
"They who marry do well, but they who do rot
| do better" "Wen," said the damsel Il love TO
| do WE'LL let those do better who can
| In reply to an invitation to attend the Cen'en-
NAL, Gen. Garibald has sent an autograph letter
in which he SAYS: 81 will certainly make every
possible effort to have my country participate in
the magnificent celebration which is 10 be held in
Philadelphia. l deeply regret that shall not be
able to come myself
Interesting relics of all kinds are coming to
light rapidly as the Centennial approaches.
valuable contribution has been made from New
Jersey to the National Museum in Philadelphia.
1t consists of the original chain and compass used
in laying out the Quaker City. 1t is authenticated
by BENJAMIN p. Howell, NJ. D., of Woodbury., n.
j., descendant of the surveyor IN whose family
i has been handed down from generation to gen.
Grafton a. precious heirloom DR.. Howell says
that the compass and chain were owned and used
by his great grandfather, John Ladd, in assisting
VIM. Penn in laying out the city. Ladd and a
| number of other Friends landed at Burlington, n.
j., about 1878, and Was one of the Council of Pro-
prietors He died in March, l740, giving to his
Youngest son, John Ladd, Jr., his property, in
Guiding the compass ard chain. Ladd, Jr., upon
his death in l770, bequeahed the heirloom to his
wife, Mrs Hannah Ladd, who died in l191, leav-
ing it to her nephew, the late venerable Samuel
Mickle, distinguished surveyor. Mr.. Mickle
died in $780, and by his will left the compass and
chain to Samuel Ladd Howell, NJ. d. trustee of
DR.. Howell, the correspondent At his death they
became the property Of his only surviving son,
the depositor Samuel Harrison Howell of George
town. u. c.
TOLI7ICdL.
Warmoh is announced as a democratic candi-
: date for Governor of Louisiana.
The Louisville Courier-Journal announces that
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