Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Messrs. Moody and sankey have declined an
invitation to visit Montreal. on account of the
| press of other engagements
| The sons and daughters of Maine residing in
Rhode Island are to have a reunion in Providence
this evening. The intention is to form perma.
nent association.
Elihu Burritt twenty years ago planted an
acorn of the famous Charter Oak, and now it is a
thrifty young tree in the garden Of his sister.
Mrs. Williams, of New Britain, Conn.
An ice famine is imminent at St. Louis, where
less than a third Of the usual harvest has been
gathered, and an advance in price from 81 to $l2
or even 1924 a ton is anticipated.
The Philadelphia Methodist Conference has de-
clared against camp meetings on Sunday, which
are held to encourage Sunday pleasure excursions
and to draw people away from their regular places
of worship
California salmon, asparagus, pineapples and
strawberries are found in goodly quantities in the
market, while as long ago as the latter part Of
March fresh rhubsrb was sent from Canada. Ma
Pile sugar is plentiful at ten cents pound.-Bos-
ton Adrertiser.
A Mr.. Williamson, of Little Rock, Ark, has
found in the southwestern part of the State sew
eral small diamonds, the largest Of which weighed
one a half carets, but lost about three eighths in
dressing.
The Charleston, Is. c. News of Friday last,
says "The era Of perfect bliss for the colored
population has at length dawned. With black
berries at three cents q quart, and mullet at ten
cents string, there is nothing left for the aver
age African to desire"
~ a.
year, that man when he is aroused by an alarm
of fire at midnight is liable in his haste and the
dark to get both limbs in leg, and run all the
way to the fire before he discovers that his trow-
sers are only half occupied Herald.
A Kentucky paper says that shortly before ex-
Senator Dixon died he requested that band Of
music should perform the air Of Home, Sweet
Home" over his grave. This wish was faithfully
carried out by the Henderson Cornet Band and
the ladies of the Presbyterian choir also sang the
last verse of the touching song.
An article in the last North American Review
sets side all the romance of Aztec civilization,
repeated by modern authors and Spanish authors,
says Montezuma was only an ordinary Indian
Chief, and that all stories of his grandeur, of his
marble halls and refined Injuries, are lies and
moonshine.
At one haul of seine in the Wethersfeld,
Conn, cove last week, over three hundred dozen,
or nearly four thousand, alewives and twenty fine
shad were landed. Alewives sell for five cents a
dozen and shad for from twenty five to seventy
five cents each, or ten cents per pound on the
spot.
An unusual case of death caused by fright &C.
Cured recently IN London. England. A man
who was seriously but not dangerously i'll took
some medicine at the hands Of his wife, who found
when he had taken it that she had mistaken the
bottle and given him prussic acid The alarm was
given at once and med cal aid ummoned, but the
patient died within half an hour. A coroner's in
quest was held, the when singular fact was dis
closed that the supposed poison had become en-.
tirely harmless through long keeping, and that
the mans death had resulted from heart disease
accelerated by his fright at having taken what he
supposed must be fatal draught. The verdict
OF the jury was rendere in accordance with these
facts