Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-08-18
GENERAL VIEWS.

GEAERAL v l. W..
The sale Of the Northern Pacific Railroad IS al
legged to have been huge fraud
The first bale of cotton received at Charlie s.
ton, S. c. eight days earlier than usual this year.
Another encroachment on His IIolness's do
mnion is to take the form of a Methodist chapel
at Rome.
The colored men at Norfolk, Va, are going into
the business of raising singing birds for shipment
to the Eastern and Middle States.
The Redemption Agency at Washington has
completed its first year, and has has done large
amount of business.
Hon. Horace Binney of Philadelphia, who died
on the 18th inst, the last of llarvard's grad
yates of the eighteenth century.
Hugh Miller's son has just appeared as an au-
thor and in form of the biograrher of his fathers
lifelong friend Sir Roderick Murchison.
At Johnston, r. l.. on Friday night, couple Of
tramps, who had been fed, showed their gratitude
by firing a revolver at their benefactor because he
| refused them liquor.
A Kentucky court lately sent man for two
years to the penitentiary for murder, and second
culprit for four years to the same place for steal
| ing hogs.
As a corellary to cremation and osier-cofins, an
association is organizing in England to abolish
widows caps and all other pomps and vani,ies OF
mourning.
Three old women and lame man constitute a
debating society at Dubuque. The three old wo-
men live together, and their chickens scratch up
the lame mans garden. The debate IS held
across the line fence.
On Wednesday Wm f. Brook of Trenton, n
j., went under the Horse Shoe Fall on the Cana
dian side of Niagara Falls, when huge piece OF
rock, weighing at least two tons, fell, narrowly
missing the guide, grazing Mr.. Brooks shoulders
and crushing his foot.
Mr.. Andrew johnson, son of the late ex-Presi-
dent johnson, denies all knowledge of the report
cd insurance on his fathers life, though he says
he has not yet been able to look over all of his
fathers papers. The estate of the ex-President is
estimated at between $l50,000 and $4,000.
The Women's Journal claims that "women
printers were known half century before the
Revolution. A woman, Margaret Draper, of Bos-
ton, conducted the first newspaper in America.
The original Declaration Of Independence was
printed by Mary Catharine Goddard"
ONCI u tSdt Has INV paSsCu siuSS lhc
ance of Charlie Ross, and not the remotes clue to
the hiding place or even of the existence of the
child has been found. One Westervelt, brother
ln-law Of one of the rufian burglars killed near
New York while attempting to rob house, is to
be tried Aug. 80 for supposed connection with
the abduction.
ExQueen Isabella desired to go to one of the
ports of Spain TO take the sea baths ordered by her
medical adviser, but was forbidden by the Madrid
Government to land anywhere on Spanish territory.
Don Carlos, being informed of this, offered her
hospitality in any part of the Basque Provinces
that he occupies.
On Friday morning DIR. |. Flitner, native of
Maine, g. years old, and practicing physician
and apothecary in Ipswich, Mass, for twenty
years, was taken i'll, and being alone,-h family
ut the White Mountains-called for aid from his
window, but before physician could reach him
he was dead of heart complaint. He was highly
esteemed by large circle of friends.
Recent efforts to introduce American cotton
fabrics in the Manchester and Liverpool markets
by merchants of Boston are likely to lead to prac-
teal results, as sufficient encouragement has
already been received to make ventures in that
direction. The intention is to sell by sample there
and ship from Boston direct to any point where
the goods are wanted. 1t is said that with i'm
proved machinery and low wages, our manufac-
turers are in position to successfully compete
with those of England for a full share of the East
India and China trade. The export trade of do
mestc cottons was lost during the war, but there
is now fair prospect Of gradually rcgaining this
impOrant traffic