Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-30
GENER4L NEWS.

Mitchell Dawes, nephew of Senator Dawes
has welded Ida VI. Colfax, niece of Schuyler Col
fax.
A sister Of the Eddy Brothers, whose perform
ances have mystiGed the gullible public, it is al
legged, has exposed the humbug.
The schooner Sunshine from San Francisco for
Coos Bay has been wrecked at the mouth OF Co.
lumbia river and forty persons are supposed to
have pershed
As the Board Of Aldermen i'll city in our most
neighborly State burst into laughter the Presi-
dent rose and said, "Gentlemen, we will not per-
init longevity in a grave and reverend assembly
-Ne,r York Herald.
The capital in the Suez Canal Company Is divi-
.ed into 400, 900 shares. 1t is alleged that Great
Britain has purchased Of the Khedive of Egypt
his interest in the Canal, amounting to ln,ooo
shares, for fonr million pounds sterling.
Ann Connolly, of San Francisco, aged seventy
three has sued for divorce from her husband,
Henry, aged seventy-f7e, because he had failed
to keep the promise he made to her before they
we're married and give up tobacco
The policy of muzzlng the press has not yet
been abandoned in France. The Paris journals
we're officially warned that they would be prose
cuted if they reproduced De Cassagnac', speech
to the Bonapartsts of Bellevillc.
John Alfred. of Rome ga, as he paid his taxes
las: week, remarked to the Collectors IL am Ill
,v-two years old and don't owe dollar; haven't
bought bushel of corn or pound of meat since
the war: never had cross word with neghbor
in nv life, and never swore all oath; never buy
any clothing-have them spun, woven and made
at home never had lawsuit with any one. and
never was witness in court
A despatch to the Chicago Tribune from Nash
Vile says Vice President Wilson was engaged
to be married to Mrs John A. Jackson of VIII
liam son County, Tenn, and the marriage was to
take place the recovery Of his health. Ii was
mainly to see her that he visited Nashville last
spring They met first at Washington, and had
kept up constant correspondence ever since.
Mr.. Jackson was one of the most distinguished
and higtly-cultured ladies in the South
A Massachusetts girl left lcr band-box at de-
pst in Nashua, n. H., 10 be forwarded to her.
When she was miles away, the baggage man
looked at the direction. 1t was occult. 1t was to
be sent, this handbook, to Ezra Gun, Mass "
The baggage man couldn't make it out. lie called
in several Massachusetts, men, but they couldn't
help him. Then, in his despair, he applied to an
old post-ofice clerk, who read it in minute
aver Junction, Mas" ltwas like a conundrun
easy enough fyou only knew.
Plymouth churce had quite exciting and i'm
portant business meeting Friday night Several
letters of withdrawal were received from men,
hers and also one from Mrs. Fanny West, asking
that her name be dropped. The latter letter was
finally referred to the Examining Committee, as
was also the case of her husband. But the i'm
portance Of the meeting was found in the action
taken bv the church in relation to Mrs. Emma e.
Moultons letter of defiance. A lengthy docu-
ment was submitted, reviewing the question from
Plymouth aspect, and deciding to grant her re.
quest for council to judge Of the case in all lis
bearings The 'answer' was finally adopted and
the details left for the Examining Committee to
arrange.
The suggestion that it is now in order for Eng
lsh admirers of John Brown to put up statue OF
that hero at Harper's Ferry does not seem to some
Virgnans by any means SO appropriate as the
gift of the Stonewall jackson statue The Peters
burg Index works itself into an especial fervor or
the subject 1t cannot understand the degree Of
fanaticism which blinds men to the difference be
tween great warrior, dying of wounds received
in open and honorable field, at the head of an he
role army, and horse thief, kidnappcr and
assassin"