Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-02
GENERAL NEWS.


Mis-. Annie Louise Cary reached New York
Monday morning in the steamer England.
The Orangemen of Massachusetts, propose to
have a grand parade at Lawrence on the 18th OF
July.
The lumber trade is one of the first to show
signs of improvement The demand is greater
and the prices better than hitherto.
The prospects of in the East and rise in
the gold premium has given an unexpected activ-
ity to the New York grain trade.
Bailey of the Danbury News says that "a lie Is
like brush heap fire. it is easier to let it burn
out than try to extinguish it"
colored brothers opinion: "De women
oughter work dat's so; for eff it hadn't ben for
Eve we woulda't none of US ha' ben 'bleeged to
work tall"
1t is understood at Paris that if the European
Powers demand that Herzegovina shall be coded
to Montenegro, and Bosnia to SeIvia the Sultan
will acquiesce.
A dispatch from London alleges that the Eng
lish Government will undoubtedly surrender Wins
low, and is only waiting for an opportunity to DO
SO gracefully.
Old fishermen who hear that the rocks at Hell
Gate are to be blown up on the Fourth of July
are preparing to go out in skiifs and pick up the
great quantities of fish that will be stunned to in
sensibility and come to the surface Of the water
1t seems to be settled fact that a number of
the relatives of the late A. I. Stewart, living in
New York, have determined to attempt to break
his will, though on what ground does not appear.
Three lawyers have been engaged by them. Some
of the parties are the children of sister of Mr..
Stewart.
Miss Dickinson will bcsia tour of the prnci-
pal cities of New England the latter part OF this
week. She appears first at New Haven on Friday
evening, and aflerwaId at Hartford, Springfield
Worcester, Providence, New .d;ord, Fall River
and Portland. She declines to act. it is said, in
New York before next fall.
The overtures made by the Northern to the
Southern wing Of the Presb1 terrain Church have
been accepted, and Monday the two wings of this
large denomination, which were split by the war
of the rebellion, were reunited. and it is to be
hoped that nothing may again interfere to disturb
the harmonious relations of the Church North and
the Church South.
Three convicts wore discharged from the State
prison on Saturday who arrived at the prison on
the same day in 1865 each sentenced to term of
ten years for burglary. The men complied strict
ly with the rules of the prison and gained 600
days, which taken from their ten years shortened
their terms of Imprisonment to eight years and
four months.-Bostoa Adceyliser.
The Rev. John 8. c. Abbott is dangero lsly i'll
at his home in Fair Haven, Conn.
Fruit and eggs now shipped from Memphis
to cities North in large Quantities
The attendance at the Centennial Exhibition
Tuesday was larger than any day since the
opening.
Whi,tier's Centennial LYNN is to be taught the
scholars Of the New York public schools where it
will be standard song.
They are playing baseball now in every other
wise vacant lot within two miles of the State
House. Small boys predominant, AMI the one
named Til seems to be in every nine. The rest
are continually calling to him.-Rartford Gourant,
Nearly two thousand buildings erected in
San Francisco in 1875. and one thousand in
Oakland while the number for the entire State of
California was not less than seven thousand, ex
elusive of bridges and quartz mills. OF the build
ings put up in San Francisco only forty -four were
of brick, the others being generally of wood.