Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-24
GENERAL NEWS.

The Battle of Lexicon" still RACES all over the
country, says the New York Herald.
1t is rumored that Prince Bismarck has ad-
dressed q note to Luxemberg similar to those
sent to Belgium.
The ex-Confederate General J. B, Hood, who
lost the battle of Nashville, has just begun farm
ing in Minnesota.
Being asked what made him dirty, an un-
washed street Arabs reply was: II was made, as
they tell me- of dust, and suppose it works out. :"
"Does the Lord love a man who spends at a
church festival the money he owes his washer
woman !" is a question asked by Pennsylvania
paper.
Joseph II. Sadler, the champion oarsman OF
England, was recently defeated in a match ON the
Tyne by man named Boyd, who won by half a
length.
President Grant has been invited by the Bunk
or Hill Monument Association to be present at
their celebration on June H. but has given no
definite answer Gen. Sherman has announced
that he will be present.
A complimentary dinner, rendered by q large
number of prominent gentlemen in different parts
of the country TO ex-senator Carl Sehurz, is to be
given at Delmenicos on the evening of Tuesday,
the 9th inst.
The express companies of the United States
have made an al rangement with Ex-Governor Big
ler under which their agents are authorized and
requested to sell the stock of the Centennial Board
of Finance.
The Moniteur says there is no doubt that Pres-
dent Theirs will be elected to the Senate by many
departments, and may possibly be chosen to pre-
side over that body, in which event he is sure to
hold the position for life.
The experiment of transfusing blood has just
been applied to Gen. Frank Blair, who has for
some time been Frustrated with paralysis at his
home at st. Louis. Six ounces of blood were in
iected into his veins and the result is said to be
favorable.
The ship Hagerstown of Richmond, Me- was
struck by lighting on Wednesday while lying at
the port of New Orleans. The vessel was set on
fire and sank. A despatch at the Merchants En-
change states that she had on board 800 bales of
cotton bales of cotton destined for Havre France
The Hagerstown was new ship of 1905 tons,
built last year at Richmond, where she is owned.
The cross-examination of Mr.. Beecher was
closed yesterday. If it has seriously damaged his
testimony the fact has yet to be made apparent by
the ingenious arguments Of counsel No such i'm
preston has been made, either upon those who
listened or those who have read the questions and
answers from day to day during the protracted
| ordeal-1Tbune
The workmen on the Valley Railroad at Rocky
Hill, Conn, unearthed skeleton last week which
is supposed to be that Of negro, owned by a Mr..
Boundikee in l764, who, being offended at his
master, went into garnet, and sitting upon a half
barrel of powder, struck fire into it with flint
and steel, and was blown up with the house. His
body was buried where it fell
A lady entered street car in Richmond, Va,
not long since. The emily vacant seat was by a
matronly looking colored woman. The latter po-
litely drew away her skirts and made all the room
possible. The other declined the seat with a
scornful toss of the head end tip up Of the nose
more than nature had given it. "Lor' bless we
honey, said the colored woman, smilingly, "If ye
owned me you'd sit in my lap"
Some Que writing to the st. John, n. b., Tele-
graph, says that while looking down in the waters
Of the Bay of Fandy from the lantern Of the light
house at Digby, N. s., height of ninety feet, he
saw flock Of wild ducks, known as sheldrake,
which suddenly Owed down to an apparent dis.
lance Of fifteen feet, spread out like fan, aud
began literally to fly through the water, using
their wings with quick, intermittent motion