Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-01-11
GENERAL We US.

CdlIlorua shipped oovuOCuu pounds q Wool
East lasl year.
The Hon. Vim. NJ. Eyarts is brilliant success
raiser of corn. This year he added to the
wealth of the country 2,20O bushels.
Oregon salmon caught by millions and
canned. The meat is redder, coarser and of high
er flavor than that of Eastern salmon.
While rain storm was in progress in Boston
Saturday night, the heaviest snow storm of the
season prevailed in New York and several New
England States.
The missing package ofmoney, containing over
81 900, stolen from the Treasury Department at
Washington several weeks ago, has been recoy
cred.
An intoxicated man told New y ork judge that
be had seven reasons for getting drunk. said he :
I've got six boys in my family, an last night
| it's girl, Judge" He got OIL.
Drift ice has accumulated at He'll Gate in such
quantities that drilling operations at Flood Rock
have been suspended, as it was found impossible
| to maintain communication with the works.
The sudden thaw and rain storm of Saturday
| night did considerable-dsmage in Boston. The
| frozen cutters many private and public build
ings refused TO do duty, and the consequence was
that disastrous leaks occurred, destroying thou
sands Of dollars worth of property.
The faculty Of Harvard College, it is reported,
have at last consented to receive applications from
women for admission to the full privileges of the
university. This question has agitated the pro-
essors since 1874, but not until recently has there
been any action aiken upon it.
| Laura Bridgman, the poor creature whom DR..
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blindness and deafness, and whose story ckens
told with such enjoyment, is now A. years old.
A writer in the Congregationalist describes her
as good looking and as very Industrious in spite
of her blindness knitting, crocheting, reading,
| writing, sewing and doing very well as pianist.
1t is alleged that Russia has 100 0o0 troops on
| the frontier ready to march on Turkey, and that
her naval preparations are also complete.
| new local Congregational Association has
| been formed in New York, composed Of Rev. DR..
| Taylor, Storrs, Budington, Scudder. Palmer,
Iiepworth and others, who do not believe in Rev.
| Henry Ward Beecher.
| The will of the late Commodore Vanderbilt was
| read in presence Of the deceased millionaire :
family in New York Monday. lie makes no pub
lie requests, and, after generously remembering
several personal friends, among them his pastor,
DR.. Deems, TO whom he gives 0000 his family
physician $4,000 an old and faithful clerk S20,-
| 900 and the wife ofGeneral Gordon Granger Sl0,-
| 000 he bequeaths the entire estate TO his family
making his son, William IT,. hi. residuary lega-
tee.
| The scientific American recently suggested that
the American custom of sitting on the right hand
side of the carriage, and of turning to the right
on meeting another vehicle, was wrong, and that
the English custom Of turning TO the left was
correct A correspondent of the Boston Trans
cript insists that the change made in New England
in the matter Of driving seat and turning out was
not without reason. The driver seated on the
| right and, always keeping to the right, can see
| the dangers and difficulties his side Of the
road; he can keep his wheels from running into
the ditch and perhaps overturning him, which in
a new county, with rough and unfinished roads
is a much more common danger than that of COLI
sions Moreover, he has the full command of his
whip, which he cannot have while on the left hand
side of the carriage, unless, indeed he is left
handed.