Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-20
GENERAL NE VS..

The fast trains to the West are TO be Withdrawn.
It's estimated that 100 900 New Workers visited
Central Park last Sunday.
Sir w. H. Norman, Msjor-General command
ing the British forces 10 India, arrived in Chicago
asst Thursday, direct from Australia and Califor-
MIA.
A London dispatch SAYS the Emperor and En-
press of Brazil are there, but the furore about
Gen. Grant causes but little attention to be paid
to the former.
In Iowa a servant girl has sued her employer
for $40 900 for intmating that she poisoned his
wife.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons has refused
to commute the death sentences to life imprison'
ment in the cases of the convicted Molly Msguires
who are to be hanged next Thursday.
AT last it has been appropriately proved that
copper is normal constituent Of the blood, nc
only Of man but of the lower animals
1t is expected that Moody and Sankey will open
a season of revival work at Baltimore next Sep
tember to last month, after which the evangel-
lists will resume their work in Boston.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell has accepted the post
of United States envoy extraordinary and minis
ttT plcuipotShti"iy v" ~R"'st ~~~ -
to enter upon his duties.
A butcher sold sailor ham on credit, but ind
ing in few days that he bad gone to sea, he
growled, "If Id known that he wasn't going to
pay for it, Id charged him three pence more
pound for it, the rascal"
An alligator eight feet long, slain 10 the Twin
lakes, Florida when cut open was found to con-
tain turtle six inches across, as lively IS II he
had never been swallowed.
Wendell Phillips found a pocket-book contain
ing SS in Boston street the other day, and soon
seeing the owner, young man, searching
for it, handed it to him. The grateful youth
promptly rendered him 81 as reward.
| Chief Justice Waite, who has recently returned
from professional visit to South Carolina, says
he was really insulted by the chivalry. He thinks
that white man could not be convicted there for
an offence against . negro.
Gov. Wade Hampton has appointed Lieut.. w ..
Cathcart, of the Richland Rifle Club, as one Of
his aids, and the Charleston News says; "Lieut.
Cathcart's services at Fort Sumpter during the
siege of Charleston, and the position he has sus-
tanned ever since, render him in every way deserv-
ing the honor which the Governor has conferred
upon him.
The late John S. c Abbott had visited almost
every State in the Union and many countries Of
Europe, but was moved to say only q few months
ago that the rock-bound, silent bays which fringe
the seacoast of Maine, her mountains, forests,
lakes, "this combination Of the sublime and the
beautiful, can scarcely be surpassed, If equaled,
in any other country on this globe.
Sixteen sea lions arrived in New York on Sat-
urday from the coast of Lower Californ ia, eight
of which go to different parts OF Europe and the
remsinder, including female with yonng CUB,
are divided between the New York Aquarium and
that at Coney Island. The seals were caught by
Capt. Muett and party of Mexican rancheros.
The method was to surprise the seals when
asleep upon the bench and capture them with the
iasso. Fifteen men were sometimes needed to
secure an able-bodied sea-lon. In struggle
with one fierce lion Mexican named Lopez was
hurled over bluff and killed, while the captain
was bitten in the shoulder.
Mile. Chanzy, the daughter Of the Governor
General of Algeria, has just been married to the
son of another French official and one detail Of
the ceremony is interesting. The young couple
signed the marriage register with pen which had
once belonged to Plus TX. When quite child
Mile. Chanzy was presented one day to the Sow
ereign Pontif by her mother. "Holy Father, "
said the little girl with the simplicity of her age,
II should like to take away with me a souvenir of
Rome" The benevolent old man smiled at the
iniantine demand, and taking up pen lying on
the table him, presented it TO the child, after
hlasetpu II and said NTaka this pnon anfaut II
will serve to sign your act Of marriage"