Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-10-13
GETERAL NEWS.

| Orty cigars neau VIC uHhpSi
every year in this country. Some of them arr
smoked by proxy.
| The Golden Age has suspended; but this is M
indication that the Greenback Age is to succeed
| Billy Emerson, the negro minstrel, makes S25,
900 a year. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philoso
pher, makes $500. The latter has frequently de
p,ored the fact that he couldn't get his head to hi
tambourne right in the middle.
| The survivors Of the six Hundred" at Balakla
va, of whom there ere fifty, are to have banque
| Oct. %, in London.
| Canova chose 500 beautiful women from whom
to model his Venus, and among them all coulc
| not find decent set Of toes.
"Pa, guess our man Ralph is good Christian
GLOW so, my boy why. Pa, read in the
Bible that the wicked shall not live out half his
days; and Ralph says he has lived out ever since
he was little boy
Massachusetts, is putting in claims for both ora
tor and poet at the Centennial Exhibition. The
Springfield Republican has reason to believe that
the choice for orator will fall upon Charles Francis
Adams and that for poet on Mr. Iongfellow or
Mr.. Lowell.
The census of Charleston, just completed, shows
UO,Dtu SOuisy fo,ooo III iof " al W
7, 5S4 in five years. The colored population is
80, Ol2 ard the white 24.52s, the increase Of the
former having been much the greatest
Rapid transit is foregone conclusion with New
Workers. Before long, the visitor to the great
metropolis can be carried from the Old Battery to
the Harlem River in abou. fifteen or twenty
minutes.
Theodore Titon wen, to the Parker House in
Boston on Friday, (Which was his fortieth birth
day and the twentieth ar anniversary Of his mar
rage as welD, and occupied by singular coinci-
dence the same room ID which he was installed on
his wedding day, twenty years before
Sixteen Chinese women were sold at auction IN
California, the other day, only Chinese being al
lowed to bid So was the highest price, and one
sold for 65 cents, her nose being out of plumb.
| The one hundred and fifth anniversary of the
FIRST sermon preached in this country by John
Murray, the founder Of Uniyersalisn in the Uni
| ted States, was celebrated at Good Luck, New
Jer:sy, on Sept. g. The attendance Of people on
the occasion was very large. 1t was proposed to
erect church on ground within the grove near
Good Luck, owned by the New jersey Colven-
ton Of Unvcrsali>ts.
! 4 few Sundays ago young Unitarian became
drowsy ct church. and, putting his head 10 his
fathers lap, closed his eyes. Just cas- he seemed
to be fairly gone, the preacher said Every
man has at least orc drop of Adams blood in his
veins" and at this the small boy rose up to whs-
per: "Papa, Adam must have been a Mighty big
man.
| despatch from Montevideo announces that
| oil law bacb hoe procl m :hprp
The new postal cards are being issued at tt t
rate Of over a million PER day.
| Schuyler Colfax is to be one Of the ju iges at Il
baby show to be held at Niles, Mich.
Gen. o. O. Howard has been supplying the pal
pit Of the Congregational Church at Portland,
Oregon, daring the vacation OF the pastor.
| The Citizens Bank CT Chi ago, small concern,
has gone into liquidation. Its capital stock is
| $50, 900, and It's liabilities 800 900.
A Boston paper says that since February, 1870,
there have been forty-eight murders in Boston
and its immediate vicinity; and in all but three
cases the murderers have been arrested by the
! Police force. Nine murders were committed in
1870, three in 1871, eleven in 1872, ten in 1873,
eleven il 1874 and four in S.5.
Ma observed Blobb's little child rehectively
the other night as the first stars came out, don't
you think that when those stars twinkle that way
| they must tickle the angels feet =
| One of the most interesting personages in the
procession which will take place at Lucknow when
the Prince Of Wales is there WILL it is said, be the
identical State elephant that carried the Marquis
of Hastings when he visited Lucknow as Cover
nor General a century ago.
Anna Connect, pretty girl over in New jersey.
was acquitted of the charge Of burglary, where
upon she threw her arms around the Judges neck
and kissed him. And now all the lawyer around
Plainfeld are candidates for Judge.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a guest of the
Boston Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany on its recent visit to Concord, and respond
ing 10 their toast said that he quite unable to
address them, aiding; "a year or two ago--l
think three years ago-I should have ven.ured to
give my views and endeavored to speak to an au-
deDce like this-so rare as this-with some cour-
age that might properly express myself; but |
have ceased to speak in public. | was always un-
equal to the task Of sudden address"
The new constitution OF Alabama effects ma
teria saving TO the State in the matter of salaries.
Members of the General Assembly will be paid
four dollars per diem, instead Of sin and their
mileage allowance is reduced from forty to ten
cents. The salaries Of all State officers are re-