Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-31
GENERAL NEWS.

Trees are scarce, the streams muddy and the
nights cold on the Black Hills.
| The trial of Miles, the Barre bank robber, was
commenced at Montpelier, VT, Tuesday.
A heavy snow and rain storm prevailed Tuesday
night quite generally throughout the West and
South.
"Big long-legged man don't always sometimes
got ahead of little boy" is Chinese for "the race
| is not always to the swift
Sturgeon says: "With some persons perversity
passes for profundity; and if man differs from
everybody else, they are persuaded that he must
be an original genius"
A Wisconsin woman recently tried sailing the
feed Of her hens to make them lay. The expert
ment was so successful that seven fat hens soon
lay dead.
| Senator-elect James b. Beck of Kentucky is to
be presented with testimonial by the sportsmen
of that State as a recognition of his services in Sc
curing protection for fish and game.
''Be social with your cattle" says the American
Agrculturist That's so there's nothing like
dropping in now and then for ten minutes chat
with the cows, having the pigs in to lunch occa-
sonally.-N y. Com. Adv.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Richardson re-
ceived intelligence Monday of the death of his
wife in Paris, where she arrived short time ago
on her way home from Egypt. Her disease was
pleurisy.
The bill legalizing the marriage between Mr.
James Parton and his step-dsughter, Miss Ellen
Willis Eldrdge, in spite of the adverse report Of
Committee, was passed to engrossment in the
Massachusetts, House of Representatives on Mon.
day by a vote of 81 to Sc.
The stone dam of the Mddesex Mills on the
Concord river at Lowell yielded yesterday to the
great pressure, and about twenty feet gave way
letting a large volume of water loose, which cut a
large piece of Wall street and nearly washed away
dwelling house.
A problem in the mining regions of the Pacific
coast relates to the disappearance of the quick
silver used there. During fifteen years past hun.
dreds of tons have been used in Nevada. 1t is
supposed that as the rocks are porous the mineral
sinks through it and probably accumulates in the
lower and harder strain.
A case of remarkable interest is before the Cir
cult court in Poughkeepsie. 1t was entitled "Jo-
sephine Ash by guardian VS.. Henry Astor." The
defendant is one oft the noted Astor family and re-
sides in the town of Red Hook. The complaint
AYERS that in September, 1869, in the town of Red
Hook, the defendant assaulted the plaintiff, who is
thirteen years OF age, and thrust her from chair
in which she was sitting; that the plaintiff being
then of the age Of four years, by reason of such
violence became and will remain for life unable
to walk or to engage in any pursuit by which
livelihood can be obtained; wherefore the plain
tiff demands judgment for 100000. The plaintiff
demands judgment for 600. The plaintiff and
her father testified TO the facts contained in the
complaint. The father said that the girls back
bone was around her hips, and that she was COM
PEELED to 20 around the house on all fours; also
that MIR. Aston made him promise not TO tell any
body, saying he would put $4,000 in the bank for
the child. which he never did. The defence Is
DISCRIMINATION of every charge.