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


Andrew Moore Of New York, lad bat 4
years Of age, who stabbed little playmate in the
heart, the other day, killing him instantly
TO be possessed of the same spirit that character
lied Jesse Pomeroy.
"While "skylarking," George Hopper, young
man, was pushed out Of the fourth story window
of an armory in New York, by his companions,
and killed.
In areccnt prayer meeting, Mr.. Bcccher claimed
that men hide themselves under the thought of
their own sinfulness when they pray. 1t is not
well to use METAPHORS, the figures Of the Bible, to
too great an extent if do, before long the
mind comes to dwell upon the symbol rather than
upon the thing sysnbolizcd. Regulation prayers
are pre- -eminently barren and worthless. While,
then, we should know and keep always before us
upworthincss, let fill our prayers with the
expressions of sinfulness. And if we feel the
need of divine help to overcome some special ten
dency to sin, let us express our want simply and
directly, and that may Find grace to help"
While it is reported in the papers that steps have
been taken to protect Amer leans in Turkey, moth
ing has been done yet to protect turkeys in
America.
Mr.. Moody, who is going through the South
like blessing in disguise, got into a conversation
with Georgia evangelist the other day, who
asked him what he thought Of the religious situa
ton in that section of the country. so, the field
is ripe for the reaper" returned Mr. Moody, 'but
it's awful dung to the scythc."
The new Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children has established active branches in
most of the large cities of the United States, and
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ferngs Of those most wretchcd and helpless of
human beings-ltle children, who under the rule
of drunken otherwise cruel and irresponsible
parents or Inscriptions guardians and masters,
have heretofore had no protection, defender or
advocate. There is not city in the Union in
which branch Of this society could not do
blessed and paying work.
Thousands of bushels OF potatoes will it is said,
this year go to waste in Michigan for lack Of a
market.
DR.. Hilary Wilder of Raleigh, n. C., killed
twenty three robins with twenty -four pistol shots
lie must have felt hilarious, if not wilder, after
that feat.
Sixteen hundred young women Of Cleveland are
| pledged not to associate with young men of tip
ping habits. They feel lonely and say that girls
| company is no good.
Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, has
appointed the 2Sth of June, the centennial of the
battle of Fort Moultrie, public holiday.
The greatest feat of rairoadng rccord-from
| New York to San Francisco in SO hours and 81
minutes has been accomplished. The train
reached San Francisco Sunday morning at 9 :25,
San Francisco time, or II IL New York time, and
the travellers were warmly welcomed.
Danbury News: "The rural piano is fiantically
writing beneath the touch of the amateur, as the
open windows publicly proclaim"
Ole Bull will visit this country in the fall.
1t must make man feel mean to pay an old
debt because he thinks he is going to die, and
then have the doctor pull him through all right
| Western paper said "Talk about the wind
blowing the grasshoppers away One of them
faced Mondays gale for an hour, and then yanked
a single off house for fan, saying it was awe
fully sultry."
Judge Taft writes shol thand.
We have the gratifying intelligence that Theo-
dore Tilton didn't get drunk at Madville, Pa, the
other day.
The Rev. John S. C. Abbott is dangerously i'll
at his home in Fair Haven, Conn.
| Vassar has at present 205 students in the col
| lege and l66 in the preparatory department.
POLITICAL.
The "Great Unknown" who was to prove such
| formidable candidate against Mr.. Blaine. is now
| put down at only l6 votes on the first balloting
Worcester (Mass) Gazette: "There never was
| such an original person as Mr. Samuel Bowes of
| Springfield. His last invention is to have Mr.
| Conkling rise up in the Cincinnati Convention
and nominate Charles Francis Adams If any
thing of the kind happens our readers will be
| promptly informed by telegraph
| The World calls 1.-THE sun" disguised demo-
| cratic journal. The disguise is extremely thin.
The indications are that Aroostook county will
support Hon. Llcwellyn Powers as the republican
nominee to Congress. The Wing says that "the
| republicans the re taking hold of the Congress
sional matter in earnest and the election of dele
| gates thus far indicates a unanimity in the pur-
| pose of presenting Mr.. Powers as the Aroostook
| candidate for Congress. AS the Convention last
year conceded the candidacy to Aroostook for the
remaining four years Of the decade, the election
of delegates in that County is invested with special
| interest" A despatch from Aroostook 10 the Wing
says: "Thirty delegates have already been cho
| sen in Aroostook to the Congressional Convcn-
! ton. Every one for Llewellyn Powers for candi-
date for Congress. Aroostook will come out in
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