Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-03
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The Hon. George Bancroft is said to be mem
Der of thirty European clubs.
A State Senator of Tennessee has been sent to
prison for marrying his granddaughter
The Dominion is to have Supreme Court OF
her own thus avoiding appeals to the mother
country.
The twenty-ninth anniversary of Spiritnalism
was commemorated Wednesday in Boston by the
advocates Of this theory
The Smithsonian Institute has secured eight
Alaska mummies, taken from cave on one of the
Alcutian Islands.
Nine counterfeitcrs have been captured by
United States officers in Virginia, and lot OF
dies, plates, etc, secured.
Archbishop Manning is the eighth Englishman
who has been advanced to the rank Of cardinal
since the Reformation.
The Virginia (Ncv.) Enterprise says that Whit
tiers poem, barbara Fritchie" was not founded
upon an actual occurrence.
Encouragement Shcllabargcr of Ohio and Will
son of Indiana have formed law partnership and
opened an office at Washington.
Bishop Huntington evidently has no respect for
ritualism lie describes ritualist as "a modern
Anglican sentimentalist making postures in the
grave clothes of dead deusion."
1t is now estimated that the frauds on the reve-
nue. by Charles L. Lawrence and partners of New
York will amount to over two millions of dollars.
Lawrence is in prison at Queenstown
Mcssrs. John G.. Whittier, Wendell Phillips,
William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Curtis and
Frederick Douglass are expected to participate in
hn Centennial pf
Abolition Society, on April II.
Governor CASTOR has signed the IIoosac Tunnel
bill, establishing corporation under the control
five directors, appointed by the Governor, and pro
viding for the completion of the Troy and Green
field read west.
Down in Connecticut butter is being made at
cost Of three cents per pound. When an unfortu
nate man gets a mouthful of the compound, his
chief anxiety is to find good place to have fit.
Mrs. Malinski, a Western lady, who is suspect
ed of having poisoned several members of her
family, was diligent student of the memoirs of
Mrs. Lydia Sherman. The confession of the
Connecticut Borgia was found in Mrs. Malinskis
trunk. The force of example
Two Yale theological students returned to their
room, Monday evening and found man in it,
who held a pistol at their heads and demand
ed money. They handed over seven dollars,
whercupon the robber walked out, locking the
door behind him and leaving the students i'm
prisoncd for some time before they could gain an
exit and inform the police.
The "Pennsyvania society for promoting the alb
clifton of slavery and for the relief of free negroes
unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving
the condition of the African race Of which Ben
jamin Franklin was one of the original members,
will celebrate its centennial anniversary in Phila-
delphia, April H. with appropriate exercises, that
day being also the anniversary ofthe assassination
of President Lincoln.
The Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic does not be-
leve that Father Walker of New York said that
che would as soon administer the sacramcnts to a
dog to a parent who sent his children to the
public schools" but if he did, it says "t ought to
be publicly admitted, SO that his opinion may be
regarded as that of an individual, and not that
Of the Catholic Church" On the other hand the
New York Tablet, the leading Roman Catholic pa
per in the country, says "Most likely Father
Walker did say it, but it is only what has been
said by the Bishops all over the world over and
over again in their Pastoras. And we heartily
ndorse it,"
One of the great Quaker poets sweetest metr-
cal gems, "School Days is devoted to showing
the regret of brown-eyed New England girl at
having spelled down
the little boy
Her childish favor singled.
I'm sorry that spclt the word
hate to go above you,
Because-the brown eyes lower fell
Because, you see, love you.
Sil memory 10 a gray haired man
That sweet child face is showing;
Dear girl, the grasses On her grave
Have forty years been growing.
lie lives TO learn in life's hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament the triumph and his loss
Like her--because they love him.