Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-09-01
GENERAL Ne us.

Government gold to the amount of 81 000, 600 is
to be sold during September.
The people Of Armenia are getting into trouble
by utilizing the telegraph wires to hang clothes on
Great commercial distress prevails at Buenos
Avres and Montevdeo at last advces.
The Board of Education has abolished all the
separate schools for colored children.
The New Jersey Evangelical Associ alton has
passed strong resolutions against the Roman Cath
olc Church.
The daughter of General Schenck is said to be
engaged to Mr.. Roderick Duggan, rich Scotch
man residing in Glasgow.
Since jeff Davis has been invited to speak in the
North, it is suggested that General Butler ought
to be invited to speak in Louisiana.
1t is rumored that consolidation has finally
baen effected between the Western Union and
the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies
There are rumors that additional light draft ves-
sells have been ordered to the Rio Grande. All
the light draft vessels are to be made ready for the
same destination.
The birthday of Goethe was celebrated by a
grand concert at Gilmores Garden Saturday night
when an immense crowd was present, numbering
some Is 900 people. VIM. Cullen Bryant delivered
an Grafton and Bayard Taylor poem.
The Taunton Gazette makes this record at
was good and prayerful old lady of this city
who said she had stopped praying for her husband
because 81 have prayed for that man so long with
out effect that think the Lord has just as poor
opinion O that man as have.
| The Alaska Herald says the epidemic of measles
which recently caused such mortality in the FIJI
| Islands has now broken out in that far northern
region, and is spreading with fearful rapidly
Few children die with the disease, the fatality be-
ing mainly with adults. Sitka has thus far been
free from it, but OF Kodiak, Woody Island, Afrog-
max, Allovia, and Eagle Harbor its ravages have
been terrible. At the latter place there are not
enough we'll people to bury the dead The disease
| is of that stamp known as black measles.
Great Britains trouble with China is that the
latter country treats with contempt the demands
for compensation on account Of the murder of
Mengary.
1t is reported that in some parts of Arkansas the
public schools are in so poverty stricken condi-
ton that sand and pointed sticks are used instead
of blackboards in illustrations.
Frank Yates, 3 disguised and disappointed
miner, has arrived at Cheyenne from the Black
Hills. He exhibit. s.. 20 in gold dust and says it
was washed out by three men in ffteen days
| In consequence of the decline in prices for
breadstufs several Boston ships have been char
tered in San Francisco to load for Europe on pri-
va,e terms, but supposed At an advance on recent
rates.
In Chicago library book on "self-culture'
never got reader. The librarian had it rebound,
and christened it "a Young Man on his Muscle,
and anxious readers had to wait for weeks before
they could get it.
1t is reported in Los Angeles that number Of
Chinese working ON the Southern Pacific Railroad
grade, near the Colorado Desert, have died from
the intense heat prevailing in that region. 1t is
= common thing for thermometer to mark l2O in
| the shade, when shade can be found.
| recent advertisement contains the following
startling information: "If the gentleman who
keeps the shoe store with red head will return
the umbrella of young lady with the ivory
handle, to the slate.roofed grocer's shop, he will
hear something to his advantage, as the same is
the gift of deceased mother, now no more, with
the name engraved upon it,"