Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-28
GENERAL NEWS.

The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee W III
be held in Washington, October Is and 10.
The Russian army can now be brought up to
$500 900 men. without counting the national IN j.
litia.
The ship Dardenony, bound from Melbourne to
Sidney, Australia, foundered on the 18th inst.
and sixty of the passengers and crew were lost.
The British ship Lammermur, from Calcutta
for Demerara with 300 coolies on board, is sup
posed to be lost, with all on board
A statue of Christopher Columbus, presented
to the nation by Italian residents, will be unveiled
in the Centennial Exhibition grounds Oct r.
The statue cost $4,000.
shocking affair occurred at Somerville, Mass =,
Monday. DIR. Charles E. Woodbury., one Of the
physicians at the Mclean Asylum, while amusing
patient in game of croquet, was suddenly
knocked down by the maniac and fatally beaten
on the head with a mallet.
Mr.. Broker, United States Minister to Russia,
will resign at the end of the year in consequence
of i'll health. The climate does not agree with
him or his wife, who is now under medical treat
ment in Germany.
An unwelcome visitor from the South, in the
shape of large scorpion, was captured in fruit
store in Merchants row Monday. 1t showed
signs of animation for two hours after being bot
tied in alcohol.-Bostoa Adpertiser.
The latest surveys relative to the proposed sub
mersion of North Africa by the Mediterranean
sea demonstrate through the existence Of rock
formations underlying the sands that the great
desert was not formerly arm of the Mediterra-
mean, but possibly an inland of itself.
There is on exhibition in Hartford tortoise
shell comb surmounted by coronet of gold, of
elegant design, which is one mass of diamonds
there being $50 Diamonds of various sizes used in
the ornamentaton. These are all Of the first water
and the comb is valued at about $1,000. 1t was
made to order, and is intended as wedding
present
A visitor at the Exposition, dining at French
restaurant, meekly intimsted, when his bill was
presented, that his boiled egg contained chick
en-. The polite waiter said that he would have
the bill corrected, and soon returned with new
BILL upon which the charge of thirty cents for
legs had given place to an item of sixty cents for
chicken.
At Ceylon, the headquarters of pearl fishing,
the shellfsh are sold by the thousand to small
spectators, who either open them themselves or
retail them to all who inc lined to try their
luck. gene raj sale of fish taking place every
evening when the boats arrive, as there are few
persons at the fishery who do not speculate more
or less.
1t. Col. John Newton, who has had charge of
the Hell Gate improvements, is n native of Vir-
ginia and was graduated at West Point in 1912.
lie was second in his class, entered the engineer
corps and was Assistant Engineer in the construc-
ton of Fort Warren in 1876. He constructed the
defenccs of Washington, and took active part
In the battles Of South Mountain, Antietam, Fred
erieksburg, Siege of Atlanta, etc.
The construction of a pipe through which to
force oil from the oil regions to tae Atlantic Ocean
such is the scheme of the Pennsylvania Trans
portation Compsny's officers who have signed con-
tracts for the ppe and expect to lay it at the rate of
three miles day, breaking ground for the enter
prise at Brady's Bend, Butler County, Penn, this
week. The pipe will extend to Philadelphia and
to Baltimore.
Five young gentlemen. students at Princeton
College, have left the college and gone home be-
cause colored theological student in the divinity
school, which is not connected with the college
proper has been allowed to attend Or. McCosh's
lectures on psychology. Four of them Mary
landers and one is Nirginian. These young
Southern bloods have no idea of sitting in lect-
ure room with = black student, 80 they quit their
studies and go home. This is unfortunate, as
they are evidently in need of education.