Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-08
General News.

i The Pope is carried daily in his chair to the
Vatican gardens.
Senator David Davis has entirely recovered
| from his recent severe illness.
Henry Ward Beecher lectured in Detroit on
| Hard Time "-admsson 81; but as the times
were hard there was a small audience.
| More than 20 per cent. of those who died in
Massachusetts, last year were under one year of
age, and more than 80 per cent. were under five
years.
| Silver has been discovered on ar island in the
river st. George, New Brunswick, and sew
en- United States citizens have secured the prop
| erty.
The bell punch for securing tax on the liquor
imbibed in Virginia has proved so successful
that Louisiana aud Arkansas are likely to adopt
it.
Miss Nellie Thurston, of Utica, n. Y, made a
balloon ascens ion few days since, at Baldwins
vile, and landed IN McFranye, 60 miles distant,
n So minutes.
At Landau, n H., is the grave of a Mrs. Bron-
son, who lived in three centuries, she having beer
born in 1899, and d. ed in 1901. 1t is said that
there are but three such cases on record.
A tram on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga road
was stopped on Monday at Canes voorts, by two
ladies', who rushed toward it with frantic shrieks.
The engineer whistled, the air-brakes were ap
Piled and the train broug to standstill. They
wanted to mail letter the train!
! A New York correspondent tells of curious
case Of iniatuation 10 Brooklyn, in which young,
beautiful and wealthy girl, extremely pretty and
petite, with iose-leaf complexion, plump yet
delicate form and proiusion of golden brown
hair, has fallen desperately in love with an old
man of sixty, who is poor and even dependent.
| A lady passenger the New York train which
colllded with some freight a side track at
Warren, Mass, on Thursday afternoon was so
grateful to the eng neer and fireman. whose BRAY
cry and fidelity averted severe catastrophe, that
she grasped their hands as they emerged from the
wreck of their engine, and after thanking them
warmly, gave each $50.
| DR.. John BroDte, whose grandfather and Char
lotte Brontes father brothers, states that he
well remembers hearing it discussed among her
friends about the many difficulties Charlotte first
encountered in finding publisher willing to risk
the responsibility Of bringing out Jane Eyre, and
sometime afterward, when the book had succeed
ed, he remembers hearing of letter coming to
her uncles and aunts in the little Irish town with
sum OF money as present to be divided among
them out of the proceeds of the sale.
pous pilgrim roamed from village TO village
In Italy, bearing heavy wooden cross on his
back, in fenance for some sin. Whenever he
found church, he halted; if the doors We're open
he went in and passed hours in lamentation and
prayer; if they were closed he gave the commu-
nifty no peace until they were opened unto him
Three weeks ago be arrived after dark, a. church
adjoining a convent, and finding the door closed
began to hammer with his cross. The monks
alarmed by the racket, and thinking that robbers
were besieging the holy place, besought the por-
ter to defend them. Selling a gun, and raising q
window, he blazed away at random. There was
an immediate silence. One monk fsncied he
heard in the air weary and wandering sound
but they all crept back to their beds, and it wa:
not until morning that they discovered the pious
pilgrim sire ched ON the ground beside the wood
en- cross, wounded and moaning.