Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-15
GENER4L NEWS.

Treasury Is unusually small
1t is rumored that the Court Of Appeals has de-
cided that Boss Tweed ought to be released.
Senator Ferry of Michigan, who has been very
dangerously i'll with the typhoid fever, has re-
covered.
Paul Boynton is known as daring diver and
coast life-guard who has saved scores of lives on
the beach at Atlantic City.
There was panic in Dr. Talmage's church,
Brooklyn, last Sunday evening, the people sup
posing that the galleries were giving way.
The Beecher trial was resumed Monday. Mr.
Beecher explained his interviews with the Moul-
tons, and fatty contradicted Mrs. Moutons test-
mony.
Somebody sent to lady in London an Easter
egg which contained an African scorpion, by
which interesting insect the laly was bitten so
that she will probably die.
Mr.. Carruth, the editor who shot in Vine
land two Or three weeks ago, is recovering slowly,
and is thought to be nearly out of danger.
The Empress Of Japan has decided on the cree
ton of college for young girls who wish to de-
vote themselver to teaching, and has given a lib
eral sum from her private purse toward the ex-
pense Of construction
The Detroit Free Press announces that
Susan b. Anthony is in search of the man who
described her as occupying an improper attitude
| toward Mr. Tilton, and adds that she proposes to
| be a mother-in-law to him with all that the
name implies.
| Disraeli, being questioned in the house Of COM
| mons concerning the course of England IN case OF
peril to the independence Of Belgium, said the af
| fair between that county and Germany had been
exaggerated, and that he believed the question
was closed.
| DR.. Bagshawe, the new Roman Catholic Bishop
Of Nottingham England revived on Good Friday
a ceremony in commemoraton of Christ washing
the feet of His apostles before the Last Supper
dozen boys dressed in white and having bare
legs, were ranged in a row, and the bishop with
great ceremony, washed each boys foot and then
kissed it.
While our thermometers were recording all the
way from ten to forty degrees below zero the OPP
poste extreme was experienced in Australia, the
weather in the vicinity of Victoria having been
hotter than for dozen years. The mercury
reached llle in the shade and 1902 in the sun in
January. The heat was so great that the country
was burned over for hundreds of miles, destroy
| ing grass, fences and in many cases buildings
One man lost a thousand sheep from this cause.
In the Lynchburg (Va.) News there is an obitu
airy notice of Mr.. Charles Henry Lynch, who, it is
stated, was the grandson of Charles Lynch, the
originator of the lannon's Lynch, law" The old
tree is still standing in the yard of the family
homestead from which Judge Lynch's victims
were suspended. This statement is confirmed by
the authority of Webster, who says, ''the term is
derived from Virginia farmer named Lynch,
who thus took the law into his own hands"
The Virginia New Chronicle relates the fol-
lowing incident: capt. Stearns, real estate agent
residing at the corner Of d and Carson streets, is
the owner of fine Newfoundland dog. He is also
the possessor Of large green parrot, which is said
to be at least seventy years of age. Within the
last few months very strong attachment has
sprung up between these two creatures, and they
are almost inseparable The parrot talks all day
long of the dog, and keeps calling him by name
while he is away. The dogs seems very uneasy
when the parrot is out of sight, and wanders
about evidently in a unhappy frame of mind.
lie has licked all the feathers off one of the par
rot's wings but still the latter seems rather to
court his strange caresses 1t is decidedly inter
esting to witness the manner in which the two
play together. The parrot walks along the dogs
back, out on the tip of his nose when she gravely
pccks that member and as grayely walks back to
the rear. This stately promenade is kept up for
hours, the parrot all the time croaking out its
canine friends NAME and applying endearing cpl
thcts to him, such as 'Oh you bum Jack. Jack,
you rascal and others which are frequently
hurled at the dog by the neighbors' boys
MORNING SONG.
| wake this morn, and all my life
| Is freshly mine to live:
| The future with sweet promise rife,
| And crowns of joy to give.
New words to speak, new thoughts TO hear,
New love to give and take;
Perchance new burdens may bear,
For loves own sweetest sake.
New hopes to open in the sun,
New efforts worth the will
Or tasks with yesterday began
More brayely to fulfil.
Fresh seeds for all the time to he
Are in my hands to sow,
Whereby, for others and for me, |
Cndreamed- of fruits may grow.
In each white daisy mid the grass
That turns my foot aside,
In each uncurling fern pass,
Some sweetest joy may hide.
And if when eventde shall fall
In shade across my way
1t seems that naught my thoughts recall
But life of every day.
Yet if each step in shine or shower
BE where Thy footsteps trod,
Then blest be every happy hour
Ehat leads me nearer God.-Chdm6ers' JoW"dL |
POIyTJT