Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-16

The Massachusetts Press Association makes its
annual excursion this year to Philadelphia leav-
ing Boston on Thursday, June l.
JB. Chase, a largs farmer and dairyman at
Hartford, VT, has gone into voluntary bankruptcy
with liabilities amounting to $4,000.
Mr. Carl Rosa, who is now in London has been
presented by the members of his company with a
beautifully carved 5ato,. in ivory and god.
Col. Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad has
placed special car al the disposal ofthe widow OF
President Polk for tie purpose Of visiting the
Centennial.
The hotel proprietors in Philadelphia, who made
extravagant preparations for the accommoda-
ton Of every body and his family, are likely 10
lose money. Some of the large carayansarits arc
not half full.
Gen. Jubal Early, James Meelker and Billy
Smith made speeches at tho decoration services in
Gordonsville, Va, On Wednesday, eulogizing Tie
"lost cause"
The Emperor OF Brazil gives thirty minutes 70
his dinner, and insists that everything shall be
placed on the table at instead Of being sci ID
in courses.
The Great Salt Lake of Utah has been steadily
rising for the past fifteen years. and the ople are
afraid that it will submerge all the low-!ani' and
swallow up the Hot Springs lake. Thousald, OF
acres have already been rendered useless
The report that expires idcn; Dominique q llayt
is dead proves to be untrue. a large number 0
the Barbados rioters have been arrested, and
great destruction Of property there IS reported.
The Washington Republican, with tears ii i:scyeS
SAYS: cone of the saddest things to contemplate
Jus. now is the large number Of persons in this
country who have relations in Philadelphia
The bones of a mastoion have been found in
San saba county, Texas. II i, estimated that The
animal when alive must lave been twenty feet
high and twenty-eight feet !org, WITH tG,hs siN-
teen feet in length.
"Who was the first man = asked ,cleol teach
err of little girl. She answered That she DID not
know. The question was put 10 the n-Nt, an
Irish child, who answered londly, Adam, SIN
with apparent satisfaction. LAW, said the ftst
scholar CONTEMPORARY, "you needn't feel 50
grand about the wasn't an Iri,hmau!'
Sometimes YOU see a sun Drowned man with q
slouch hat and with the end. of his fingers turned
down as if he inasired himself about to strike
the keys of piano. He is not pianist; he IS
base ball player, and his tingers will always stay
that way.-EGchange.
A wonderful curiosity has just been issued by
the Oxford University Press in the form Of the
smallest prayer book ever printed. 1t is bound in
leather, weighs just under an ounce, is three
and half inches in length, two and an eighth in
breadth, and quarter of an inch in thickness. 1t
is intended as companion volume to the small
est Bible in the world, lately issued from the same
establishment.
A flash of lightning was seen to strike flock
of wild geese at st. Louis the other day. snd one
of them fell to the ground. Ga being picked up
the goose was found to have SCARED and burned
hole extending from the back down through the
body, there being question but that the electric
bolt passed through the flying bira. The feathers
were somewhat singed