Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-29
GENERAL VIEWS.

| A railway from Ilindostan to China, via Bur-
nah, IS one of the inviting enterprises of Great
Britain
The Catholic clergy of Troy, N. Y, have pro-
| claimed to their parishoners that Ground dance"
| is not the square thing.
| Six hundred sheep passed through Missouri
valley ON Wednesday morning, on their way
to the Russian settlement near Yankton, Dako-
ia.
The London Times, in a sis-line report Of the
College Regatta at Saratoga, informs its readers
that "the Channel University boat came in
first"
Nearly 81 900 vessels, belonging to about every
nationality, traded through the Bosphorus in
1874. OF these the greater number were Brit
ish. -
Alabama farmers talk Of making the best crops
this year that they will have had since 1860. Corn
promises an unusual yield, and cotton is excel
lent.
Carbonized tablets of wood, with written char
acters on them, have been lately found at Pom
pei and are believed to contain important rec
ords.
The Turkish Government has made strong eff
fort to suppress the insurrecton in Herzegovina,
and a battle has been fought, the result of which
is unknown.
4 lady visitor at Minot Ledge Light House on
Sunday fell from the chair as she was leaving the
light to the water, distance of thirty feet, and
narrowly escaped death.
the fishery regulations of New Brunswick are
amended so that the annual tax on every 200
pounds of salmsn caught by net shall be forty
cents, and every 200 pounds of bass twenty cents.
1t is an established axiom with nurses that trip
lets seldom live, and in verfcaton thereof is
cited the recent death of one of three Pennsyl-
vanian triad-born sisters at the age of eighty
seven.
At a religious revival of the colored people now
in progress at Palestine, Texas, song is sung Of
which these two lines are specimens:
"What kind of shoes is dem you wear,
Dat makes you walk so light an quare :"
Between flood and famine the people Of Europe
have met with great misfortune this year. In
Portugal the crops in the provinces of Mimic and
Agarve have been destroyed by the drought and
the inhabitants are suffering from hunger.
1t is stated that strange discovery has been
made at Buckingham Palace. While some work
men were engaged in pulling down wall, a large
the time of George III, and supposed to be worth
several thousand pounds, was found,
Tie descendants Of John Eliot, the apostle to
| the Indians, are to have family reunion at the
| Gulford Point House, Guilford, Conn, in Sep:
| tember. A committee has been appointed to make
arrangements, and the occasion will be, without
doubt, an exceedingly interesting one.
| One of the Siamesc ambassadors on returning
home from Europe, gave the following description
of pianofor as he called it, "a great trunk
set upon legs" He said, "a woman sits in fiont
of this and tickling sort of tail II has with hei
toe, produces variety of sounds by beating rap
idly with her fingers number of little bits Of
ivory in front of it.
Simeon Bouiiard, the famous rag-pickor's bank
er Of Paris, is dead. lie was over eighty, and
for more than forty years had pursued his allng
of lending money to rag pckers at fifteen per cent
! interest, taking whatever rags they might posses