Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-10
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GENERAL Ne VS..
Fernando C. Willet, Secretary of the American
Legation in the city Of Mexico, died on the 18th
ult., at Cordoba.
Propositions of marriage in Nevada are written
on postal cards, and the answer comes by return
mail; Come on with your preacher"
A Salem lady glores in a collection of buttons,
strung on cord AMI eight yards long. They are
the collections of years. and mlny Of them have
history
The business manager Of base ball club visit
ing at st. Louis has absconded, leaving the base
ballists in that cold-hearted town without cent to
get home with.
The common fault Of all books intended for
school or college in the United States is, says the
Saturday Review, that of extreme specifically
and incom pleteness.
A young man bathing in Niagara river on sun
day made a dive into the water in such way as
to strike the back ofhis neck, when his entire body
was psralyzed, and he died in short time
New Haven is opening its eyes and staring at
pair of $4,000 diamond earrings which gentle
man has bought to give to his wife at their golden
wedding. These are the most valuable earrings
ever brought into the State.
Willis Russell, prominent witness against the
Owen county QKy.) Ku Klux, and at times
special baif of the State and Deputy United
States Marshal, was assassinated Friday night by
some unknown person, who fired a load of buck
shot at him through window.
1t is anticipated that the hay crop will be very
materially short this year. Just how much the
deficiency will be cannot yet be estimated. The
Hartford Times estimates for Connecticut about
two-thrds of an average. The value Of an aver
age crop is from Sl2 100000 to $lj 900 000 so
that the loss to the State will be from 81 900 900
to S., 000,0 900.
| II is said that among those who went Into the
newspaper business last year and lost heavily were
275 merchants and Adventures, 3l5 school teach
ers, 81 lawyers, 4 backsmlths, 80 plastcrers, 10
farmers, 200 fanatics of various classes afflicted
with literary leanings 100 ambitious, but visionary
young men, who drew upon their fathers, and
lottery men.
Spritualism has worked out one of It's sad but
too common results upon Robert Dale Owen
learned, cultured and gifted. The Katie King ex-
posure gave terrible shock to this somewhat re-
markable man, and his dazed brain broke down
nnder the excitement. lie is under treatment at
Dansville. Should he fail of recovery, another
great light in the mystic circles Of spritualisn
will have passed away.
Plymouth Church has given Mr.. BeeCher a
present of eighty thousand dollars to enable him
to pay the expenses of his trial This is practi-
cal illustration of the devotion felt for its pastor
! by the church. Mr.. Beecher will now be enabled
to pay off the mortgage on his house that enabled
Moulton to supply "gracc mercy and peace, to
Theodore.
| In another article in the Independent on the re-
malkable Bowdoin College Glass of 1925 the Rev.
j. S. c. Abbott describes the elegant home in the
| Wilderness founded at Ilallowel, Maine, about
the beginning Of the century by DIR. Benjamin
Vaughan, with his brother and bro,her-in-law. A
library Of 10000 choice volumes lined nearly all
the rooms Louis Philippe and Talleyrand had
the family married Mr.. Jacob Abbott, and became
the mother Of Austin Abbott, lately engaged in
the Beecher trial Benjamin V. Abbott, also a
lawyer, Lyman Abbott, editor Of the Illustrated
Christian Weekly and Edward Abbott of the
Congreg ationallst. DR.. George B. Cheeyer, also
member of the Bowdon Glass Of 1925, received
his first training in the Vaughan Library.
| The chronometer lock has again check mated
the Bowdolnham game, this time at Barre, VT
About midnight on Tuesday night the cashier of
the Barre National Bank was aroused fro his
sleep by four men, who, after binding and gagging
his wife and daughter and putting handouts on
him and halter around his neck, forced him to
90 and open the bank. The bank vault having a
chroncmetcr lcck, set 10 open at nine o'clock in