Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-01
GENERAL NEWS.

try where the whites exercise civil rights.
GENERAL NEW
Women can practise law in Maine, Missouri,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
There is some agitation in Lowell on the sub
ject of another strike of spinncrs.
The skin of shark recently caught on the Eng
lish coast weighed one ton and quarter.
| The employment of women clerks has been
sanctioned by the officials of the British Treasury.
| The revival preachers who opened a movement
in Liverpool on Sunday were stoned in the Irish
quarter.
A couple, short Of money, gave clergyman in
Cedar Springs dog and an ACCORDION for marry
ing them.
The Cologne Gazette says there is no truth in
the report that Bismark will be made duke of Lun-
enburg.
Story, editor Of the Chicago Times, has been
sentenced to ten days Imprisonment for contempt
of court.
The report of the Chinese commission, recently
sent to Cuba condems the coole trade carried out
by the Cuban authorities
A royal decree has been issued at Madrid re-
storing to the Duke de Montpenser his military
rank, his decorations, and other honors.
i The wool interest now ranks only second to
gold in the industries of Australia, and vast guam
titles are exported annually.
Charges preferred against Hugh Flood, painter
of the new Boston Post Office, Architect Bryant
and Postmaster Burt are being officially investiga-
| ted.
George Z. Tyson formerly assistant navigator
on the steamer Polaris, has been appointed cap
tain of the watch at the Navy Department, Wash
ngton.
The guardian of the tomb of Napoleon l. Pierre
Hendier, died recently at the age of76 years. He
fought under the man whose ashes he guarded
for many years.
The Dominion Government has set aside several
townships in the Northwest for all French Cana
dams who wish to return from the United States
and renew their allegiance to the Queen.
Great preparations arc being made for the inau-
euration of monument at Trieste in memory of
Macmillan. The ceremony will take place early
in April. All the companions Of the Emperor in
Mexico arc invited to attend.
Giles Codet, who started the first two cent
restaurant in Paris, died recently. He called his
saloon the California, and the price Of everything,
soup, vegetables or meat. was two cents. The
place became very popular, and Codet retired
some years ago on large fortune.
In Switzerland there was marriage by proxy.
A woman there was married to man in America,
the proxy being a neighbor and a man already
married. The authorities are discussing whether
this much married man has not committed bigamy
Farm hands for the season, says the Springfield
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from hour to hour. There will be, this season, a
reduction of about twenty per cent. from last sea-
sons wages, and the farmers expect to get good
hands at $50 month.
The prices of ice will be nearly fifty per cent.
less than last year. The Boston Ice Company,
which has stored 900 tons for the present sea-
son, will charge for ten pounds daily, Sc; and
for thirty pounds daily, $l6 for less than season
ten pounds daily month, $50, and thirty pounds
daily, SO -Boston Adrertiser.
A Sydney, N. S. W., letter of February 18th
says another corps of l6O communists have arrived
from France in a wretched condition, and were
sent to the interior of New Caledonia. The gov
ernor of the French colony has been instructed
by MacMahon to crush out Freemasonry, and
several eminent merchants have been arrested and
sent to France on suspicion of being either Free
Masons or communstic friends Of Rochefort.
1t is gratifying to learn that there sections
of the country where the past winter has been re-
garded with satisfaction. A Sacramento cores
pondent reports that it has been one of the finest
winters ever known in that region. More acres
of grain are in than ever before in California /;
there have been rams, and fogs that were like
rain; and the fruit prospects are good
An Indiana paper thus speaks of an improved
method of fishing at the lakes in that State at
consists OF a small house, built on runners like
those of sled, in which is placed small stove,
while in the floor small aperture is left through
which to drop the lines Holes are cut in the ice,
the houses are moved over them, and the fisher
men sit by warm stove while drawing in the fish.
| Several Of these houses are now in use."
The Popes encyclcal letter of February 3, 1873,
seems likely to divide the German Catholics, who
have hitherto supported the Pope in his conflict
with their government. Ten Catholic Deputies
publish their protest against the assumption of the
Pope to declare invalid and nulify claws consttu-
tionally enacted" Indeed as this pretence justi-
ies the ground taken against the Pope by the
Berlin government, it is likely to do the church
great harm.
| The Paris correspondent of the New York Times
says late news from Spain represents the young
King in the midst of many troubles, and some Of
his admirers nearly discouraged. The Kings
military campaign was a failure, and the Carlists
gained signal victory at Lacor. These things
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