Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-19
General News.


the New York Tribune for 100000.
Thirty thousand Philadelphians have signed the
petition to Congress to pay the letter-carriers
81 200 year each.
The State of Minnesota has recently bought
30 600 small trout for distribution in waters of the
State.
Loring Pasha, late commander Of the Egyptian
army, is expected to meet with his old Confeder-
ate regiment, the lst Tennessee, at Nashville, on
the 2jth inst.
A Californian has invented pill by which the
squirrels, those pests of the farmers in that State,
can be destroyed by wholesale, and he is now en-
gagged in Riding the farms of their presence.
The democrats of Pennsylvania appear TO have
decided that Secretary Shermans resumption poll
cy was one of the main elements of democratic
success in Onio, and have printed large edition
of his Mansfield speech for campaign document
in their State.
| An Oregon paper has this decidedly personal
item: "A great lot of young ladies welcomed
Gen Sherman at Albany. The old warrior went
right in and kissed the whole of them, while his
son, cowardy young fellow who had never been
through the wars, stood back and looked sheepsh
ly on"
| The Presidents host 10 Richmond will be the
Rev. DIR. Curry, distinguished Baptist clergy
man. and the head of Richmond College. DR..
Curry and the President were college chums
During the war the clergyman was a devoted
Confederate; but he is as ardent now in support
of his old friends Southern policy.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips is sixty, and says he be-
gins to feel the weight Of years. and as he has
enough worldly goods he is now glad TO leave the
lecture field to younger people He will lecture,
this winter, only in places whence he can get
back to Boston the same night
Prince Pierre dArenburg, who recently died at
Brussels at the age of 81 years. was one Of the
last survivors of the Grand Army with which he
made the Moscow campaign. He was the pos
SCISSOR of large estates in the Jura, won by the
Marodes after famous lawsuit with the House Of
Orange, which began in 1921 and was only decided
in 1882.
1he United States Consul General at Calcutta
has forwarded to the Department of State circu-
lars issued by the government of India offering
prize of 5000 for the best and 81 900 for the
second best machine or process for the preparation
of the iheea fame fiber. The Indian govern
ment is anxious that full publicity may be given
to these offers in the United States. with the hone
that American competitors may enter the list for
the prizes.
King Alfonso has ordered at Paris a cask by
way Of a betrohal present to his future wife, the
Princess Mercedes. 1t is in lapis-lazuli, mounted
on four lions claws, sixteen inches high and thir-
ty square, ornameuted with garlands of golden
roses which are miracles Of delicate workmanship.
The hues of the flowers all faithfully present.
ed. The key is golden full blown. The
interior of the casket is lapis-lazuh studded with
tiny nails, diamond headed. The casket is in
tended to hold the lovers love letters but it goes
to the Princess in the first place with but one note
and a necklace of eight rows of pearls
When the head of Bulgarian family perceives
that he is about to die he sen Is for the priest and
begins to bargain with him about the cost Of his
funeral. The moment he dies all the pots, pans
and kettles in the house are turned upside down
to prevent his soul taking refuge in any of them,
and great care i. taken to prevent either man or
snimal--especiay cat or dog from stepping
across bis body, as otherwise, in the opinion of his
family, he would turn into vampire and be a
continual nuisance to them and to their neighbors
The body is buried without any GOTTA in a shall
low grave and left there for three years Outing
which time many offerings Of food and wine are
placed upon it. At the end Of the third year the
bones of the dead man are dug up, carefully
washed, put in a linen bag, laid before the altar
| in the village church: and after receiving the
blessing of the priest, are finally buried for good.