Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Rear Admiral Collins, commanding the South
Pacific fleet, died at Callao on the 9Th inst.
The late Franco German war has caused in
Germany a surplus of million of women.
The failure of the calico print works of W illiam
II. Locke causes considerable surprise in New
| York. *
| A Chicago paper says that Maggie Mitchell is
spending her hundredth season at Newport.
Best rhyme Of the seasons "'Tis sweet to wait !;
but 0 how bitter, To wait for girl, and then not
git 'er"
The investigation into the King County Or. H.
Insane Asylum develops large amount of bru-
tally on the part of the keepers.
1t is alleged that Russia, Germany and Austria
propose to appeal TO other European powers to aid
in settling the Turkish troubles. ..---....-.
Anthracite coal, in large quantities, has been
discovered in the Shenandoah Mountains, in Nir-
GINA, nineteen miles from Harrisburg
Arizona is tired OF greenbacks, and seeing the
prosperity of her hard-money neighbor, California
is thinking of adopting the gold standard.
The London Spectator says that "Good By
Sweetheart" is the second silliest song in the IAN
guagc, 'eThen You'll Remember Me" being the
| first. 2
I The New York Commercial Advertiser thinks
that the President must have enjoyed his Rhode
Island clambake, rs he always did like to be where
the shells were bursting thickest.
| 1t is stated that domestic creditors of Duncan,
Sherman & Co. are accepting the proposition of
SO cents on the dollar made by Mr.. VIM. Butler
Duncan.
A musket which Aaron Burr captured while
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storming of Quebec, on the night eff Dec. 81,
l775, is on exhibition in Owego. The gun is OF
the Queen Anne pattern, and weighs p pounds.
The Rev. L. b. Andrews of Beverly, Mass, has
been elected President of Dcnson University,
Granville, Ohio, and will probably accept the Of
fee He is a graduate of Brown University, and
served with honor in Virginia during the war.
A twelve years old lad at San Rafael, Cal, aided
by his pet goat, attacked and killed badger
weighing q tslbs,, short time since But for the
goat the boy would probably have found the battle
an unequal one.
Although imprisonment for debt has been abol-
were arrested for debt in 1873 one-fourth of
whom went to prison rather than pay. They
were committed, however not for inability but for
unwillingness to meet their obligations.
The st Adams Messenger unkindly says The
bass and pickercl in Lake George think of calling
meeting to formally express their gratitude to
Seth Green for 10 600 young trout which he plant
ed there. The trout are nearly all gone, and
every little while hungry pickerel puts his head
out of the water to see if Seth is coming with
more.
| A curious incident in the career of Gutenberg,
the inventor of printing. not mentioned in any OF
his biographies, has been discovered in an old
Italian manuscript, recently brought to Paris by
monk. The manuscript states that Gutenberg
was tried at Mayence in l422 for the assassination
of his uncle, and was only acquitted after long
Imprisonment.
Josh Billings gives the following advice -
"When you hear man say Life is but dream,
tread on his toes and wake him up. Life is real,
life is earnest If he is poet subscribe TO get
rid of him, and have him deposited in the far est
with a gun and ammunition, and blanket for
sole covering; he will know very soon whether
life is a dream or not" #i
The owners of coastwis vessels who have been
expecting to escape the payment of one dollar per
ton, owing to the sion of the statutes, will be
disappointed. The Secretary Of the Treasury
supposed that the revised statutes changed the
law SO that only thirty cents could be collected
per ton on undocumented or coastwise vessels
The subject has, however, been referred to the
Attorney General, who decides that a tax of one
dollar and thirty cents per ton must be collected
in the same manner as before the passage of the
revised statutes.
| The Boston Traveller is assured by gentleman
who is in communication with Mr.. Tilton, that he
has no purpose Of having new trial of his suit
against Mr. Beecher. The recent acts of his
counsel have been with reference to the costs OF
the former trial. for which the plaintiff would be
responsible, should he withdr aw his suit from the
courts.
A hunter named Brigham, living near Melrose,
Mimi, was taken i'll, probably a month since
while in lonely shanty, into which he had
locked himself at night with his two dogs
Whether he died first or the animals, maddeued
by hunger, killed him, cannot be determined, but
when his body was found last week but little more
than the skeleton remained.
The New Orleans Picayune says that "never be-
fore in the history of Louisiana have so many
white men taken active part in the practical de-
tails of agriculture, and it is at least singular CO.
incidence that seldom if before has there been
crop so promising in all respects" as that now
on the ground. 1t concludes that white men can
endure field labor in that climate.
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