Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-16
GENERAL NEWS.


Esdisaa and Minnesota have ast refused sa pass
compulsory education laws.
The Eastern Railroad has reduced the wages Of
its employees in Portland s. man per month.
Gerritt Smith is credited with having erected
the first ten perance hotel in the United States 1t
was located at Peterboro', his home.
All the teachers in the San Francisco schools
are to be examined under oath as to the means
used to obtain their positions.
The Centennial State" is the name suggested
for Colorado, which, in 1875, will be admitted to
the Union as the thirty eighth State.
1t is reported that the fare between Portland
and Boston on the railroads is to be reduced 81
the coming summer, in competition with the boats.
The cold weather cracked apple trees in North
ern New York from the roots nearly to the limbs.
so that q person may see completely through
them.
A fashion writer says that flowers will be the
principal trimming for hats this season, but that it
will be well to stick any portable article that
happens to be lying about while you are dressing.
Captain General Valmaseds of Cuba has issued
proclamation, in which he says that, with the aid
of the people, under the battle cry of "Spain, re-
lgion and the king" Cuba will be saved.
Hiram Revels who was the fiji st colorsd man
admitted to the United States Senate, is now a
preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Mississippi, and is Doctor of Divinity.
Oysters have come down to 81 per gallon, owing
to the large quantities which have lately arrived
from Virginia. Other Lenten delicacies have like
wise been reduced in price.
~ Al. r..
of the Adirondac Wilderness is dead. The guides
of the region about Raquette river brought the
body some thirty miles down the stream, and there
laid away all that was mortal of one of their best
friends.
The Rev. Robert Collyer told friend in Boston
that if he were a member of the School Committee
and were asked to give his views the subject of
primary school education, he would say, "less
study and more fun"
party of Harvard seniors are planning Pc
destrian tour through Ireland England, France,
Switzerland, Germany and Italy. They propose
to start Immediately after commencement, and be
absent about year. They will take passage over
by steerage and return by cabin.
In Spain rooms are not warmed by stoves or
freplaces, as there are not brains enough in that
country to understand these contrivances. They
use braziers brass dishes full Of Goals, and all the
gas remains in the room. Alfonso's room was
warmed this way at Avila, and His Majesty was
partly asphyxiated, but recovered.
A block of granite, which is to serve as a mon
ument to Prof. Agsssiz, has arrived in Cambridge,
Mass. 1t was taken near the lower glacier of the
Aar in Switzerland, where Prof. Agsssz made
explorations, and will be placed over his grave in
Mount Auburn Cemetery in the spring, without
material alteration other than the cutting of an
inscription.
Punch furnishes this inscription for the front of
the idiot asylum founded by Mr.. Holloway, who
made his fortune IN "patent medicines :"
"Not of is fate so jsst-see wealth restored
Back to the simple source from which it poured"