Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-30
GENERAL NE VS..

The gold product Of Australia fell off largely in
1876.
Two of the scoundrels implicated in the massa-
ere of Cinnamon in Chico, California, have con-
fessed.
A female was detected in Baltimore, last week,
in an attempt to smugge five violins, purchased
ia Europe. She had concealed them in her pull.
blck.
Mr. Tennyson has been stopping in London
and early risers about Cavendish square have
caught occasional glimpses of him taking his
morning walks.
The newest fan suspenders for evening toilets
are a mixture of silk cord with gold or silver
thread, and finished with tassels to match.
Mr.. Walter Bagehot, editor of the London
Economist, and author of various books on Eng
lish government and finance, died in London on
Sunday.
The suit brought by q widow in Connecticut
against a young man for the value of fuel lights
and food consumed while be was counting her
daughter. has been settled out of court by the
payment of the amount demanded.
The present style of weather calls to mind the
remark of sable BROTHER that "he has mos al
lers noticed if he lived fro de month of March, he
lived fro de year."-7ribuns.
"Rev." Rees Pritchard vicar in Welsh town,
was recently fined fifty shilling for swearing, this
being at the statute rate Of five shlngs per curse
lie got into an alteration with another passenger
in railway car and swore pretty roundly at him.
Mrs. Hayes, it appears, does not dress expen-
sively enough to please the fashionable ladies of
Washington. She receives them attired in plain
black silk gown, with her hair simply dressed and
wearing no jewelry, and they don't like It.
A table.keeper, who invariably cautions his
patrons against driving fast, repeated the pjunc-
ton to a gentleman who was hiring team Of him
the other day, and received the following response
81 am going to funeral, and must keep up with
the procession if it kills the horse" He was per-
mtted to drive on.
The Fiske University Jubilee Singers have re.
Gently been in Holland, and were received by the
King in the Royal Palace at Low. His Majesty
was highly pleased with their singing, and gave
them handsome subscription to the fund they
are attempting to raise.
Discovery has just been made at Eure, France.
of young woman whom her parents have kept
confined in cavern for nineteen years, during
which time she has been fed only on the refuse of
vegetables and stale bread. The unfortunate crea.
turc had lost nearly all semblance of humanity
and had completely lost the power of speech, ut.
tering only unintelligible groans and cries An
investigation has been commenced.
Admiral Porters eldest daughter, Miss Lizzie,
Is to be married in Washington, on the evening
of May 10, at) the Church of the Epiphany, to
Lieut.. Logan, U. S. N. The procession will en-.
ter the church according to the latest English
programme-frst, the ushers; then eight brides
maids, in pairs, eight feet apart to make room for
their trains, and then the BRIDE alone, who will
be received at the chance rail by her father, the
Admiral, who will take her hand and place it in
the hand of the bridegr ,om. The bride will wear
dress of white satin and pont-lace, nd the
bridesmaids will wear dresses of white tulle over
white silk-all the waists to be low neck ed, and
each lady to wear string of pearl, around her
throat, withou any other ornament.