Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-20
GENERAL NEWS.


go out of the world is by committing suicide.
Some have not the courage to live.
1t is generally admitted that the release of Wins
low puts the British government in an unenviable
situation. 1t is generally conceded that by law
| and precedent he ought to have been given up to
our government. The correspondence between
this country and Great Britain has not yet closed
Winslow looks well and is well dressed. lie says
he has been kindly treated in the House of De
tention His family allowed to supply him
with food and to see him twice daily through a
grating, two persons being so admitted for twenty
minutes each, which exceeds the time ordinarily
permitted to visitors. He, however, contradicts
the sensational stories about himself and purport
ed interviews with him published in some papers
in America, among others the statement that his
family were allowed to remain with him for three
hours at a time. lie seems to contemplate re-
naming in London for the present.
Mrs. Mary Lincoln, wife Of the late President,
has become fully restored to health, and is now
able to manage and control her own estate.
A house at Putnam in Connecticut, in which
there was a sick negro having been struck by
lightning the other day some of the neighbors
went in to see how he stood the shock and he,
peering out from under the bed clothes, covered
with splinters of wood and pieces of plastering,
coolly inquired, Are dar ,soin' to be 'nudder
shower?
Mrs. Nancy Pence of Joplin, Missouri died
last week, aged l04 years. She leaves behind her
five children, averaging from forty-fve to sixty
five years of age, ffty-four grandchildren and
nearly 100 great q andchildren, or total living
descendants at the time of her death of nearly 100
souls. There is little doubt but she was the Old
est woman in the Southwest.
Senator Burnside is said to be i'll from disease
of the brain, and fears are entertained of his COM
pete recovery.
Anatomis:s say that a lsdys foot should equal
in length one-seventh of her hight, but there are
good many ladies who would not be at all proud
OF such perfect foot. According to this rule a
lady who wears No. 8 boot should not be over
five feet in hight.
The papers left by Daniel Webster were pre-
scented to the State Historical Society of New
Hampshire on Wednesday. They include many
hundreds of letters, documents and papers, some
of them relating to John Adams, James M onroe,
and most Of the prominent statesmen who were
cotemporaneous with Webster. The correspond
| ence relating to the difficulty between Webster
and Randolph the eulogies in manuscript upon
Adams and Jefferson, and the complete original
draft of the IIulsemann letter and papers kindred
to it are among them. There are also many pa
pers containing the original notes Of Webster 5
most famous Senatorial and forensic arguments.
Since the death of Mr.. Fletcher Webster the doc
uments have been in the keeping of the Hon.
Peter Harvey Of Boston, an intimate friend Of Mr..
Webster, and they were presented by him to the
Society.
Two married ladies, said to be respectfully con-
nected have been committed for trial at Sheffield
on several charges Of "shoplfting." They had
purloined from various diapers shops articles to
the value of over f2oO. When caught one of
them offered the shopman fl0O to say nothing
about it; the other attempted to strangle herself
with her bonnet strings.
The forty-fifth annual session of the New Hamp-
shire Universalist Convention " i'll begin at Nashua,
June 81.
This bank is bad place for colds, said pun
ming cashier; $50 many drafts passing through it
all the time" check shoNld be given to jokes
of that kind.
A massacre by Sioux Indians of fifteen settlers
in the Platte Valley is reported as the latest de-
velopment of the war on the Plains.
Mr.. Blaine was stricken down at the door of a
church. Yet religious papers will keep right on
encouraging the dangerous practice Of going to
church.-Chicago Times
The Baptists in Sweden number ten associa-
tons, 234 churches, and over 10000 members.
Some of the late Sultan's best wives cost him
$50, 900 apiece.
Nothing will make woman so mad as to have
her husband pull straw out of a brand new
broom to clean his pipe with.
Among the graduates of the Boston Theologi-
cal Seminary (Methodist), whose Commencement
was held last week. was one woman. Two more
women are members of the school.
The latest defalcation in New York in the Meth
odist Book Concern affords some astonishing rev.
lations. Henry Schroeder, the alleged defaulting
clerk, is in Ludlow street Jail, being unable to OBJ
tain bail. 1t is thought that the deficit will not
amount to over $4,000, although there is pos
sbiliy of its being double -thst sum. 1t is stated
that Schroeder specialized in Wall street with money
belonging to the Book Concern, and that his de-
falcations have been going on for year or more.