Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-02-02
GENERAL NEWS.

senator-elect Davis of Illinois is a millionaire.
1t is declared that the Gar is positively averse
o war.
The day Victoria became Empress boss pris-
oners were liberated.
NJ. de Cassagnac predicts that with in three years
Prince Louis Napoleon will return in triumph 10
France.
The Oldest of reignng sovereigns is William
German Emperor and King of Prussia, who COM
pletes his eghtieth year the 22d OF March next
The falling off in Mougolian immigration at
San Francisco still continues, the excess OF de-
partures over arrivals from China during Decem-
Der being COO.
Annie Louise Carey will leave for home from
England on the eth of March, and has already
been engaged to sing at the commencements OF
Bates and Bowdoin Colleges.
Dero Chambers, the child wonder OF Barren
county, Ky, is dead lie six years DID, and
weighed over 200 pounds, and younger child OF
the same parents shows similar abnormal
growth.
Mr.. Montgomery Sears is the young Bostonian
who has so much money that he doesn't know
what to do with ii. After he has been graduated
at Yale he is going into a lawyers office to learn
how to take care of MS property lie has Just
bought a beautiful house in Boston for about
100000.
The white whale is dead. The New York
aquarium is in mourning. Last Saturday even
ing, little after nine o'clock, amid the gaslght
and music, the death struggle came upon the cap
tive monster lie did not swim in circles, as
usual, but dashed the water into foam At last he
sank. lie never rose to breath again, and thus
he died. The body lay in state on Sunday. 1t
will be embalmed and placed on exhibition, and
autopsy will be held to determine tie cause OF
his sudden dropping off.
Ex-Postmaster General Jewell, while minister
to Russia, investigated the business interests OF
the country, and was rewarded by the discovery
Of the secret of making Russia leather. There
is secret in the tanning but the peculiar scent
OF the genuine Russia leather is what troubled the
aukee tanners to initiate. Gov. Jewell found il
to be impaired by the use of birch bark tar in
dressing the skins, Instead Of tallow or other
grease. 1t is not an expensive article, costing
about $40 barrel, and Mr.. Jewell sent ten barrels
of the tar to various leading leather manufactur-
ers 10 this country, with instructions, and the re-
suit is that genuine Russia leather goods are now
made in America, and doubtless W i'll soon be sold
at nearly 50 per cent. below former prices
Mr.. Hem. the conductor who was in charge of
the train wrecked at Ashtabu'a, returned to his
duty last week, As his train neared the new
bridge he grew so az tated that he grasped a seat
nervously for support, and, as it passed of the
bridge, said, Thank God I'm over! And now I'm
not afraid to 60 over it q thousand times"
j. II. Carpenter Of St. Louis has invented an
Improvement in the steering apparatus Of screw
9 Gamers 1t changes the motive power of the
screw so as to enable the vessel to turn around
within her length almost on her keel, and so COM
pletely controls the vessel that collisions are i'm
possible except through the greatest carelessness
1t does away with the necessity of employing tugs
ia order to turn vessel and the apparatus raises
or lowers the screw at will.
Great suffering is reported to have been occa-
oned among the cattle in the freight cars i'm
prisonel by the late blockade and break down on
the New York Central Over 1000 head were absn
doned by their owners and thrown upon the COM
plny, which Of course has them to pay for.
Many of the poor brutes have died from the cold
and exposure, while others have had their tails
and ears frozen so that they dropped off. Thir-
teen horses were taken dead from the cars at Syr
acuse in single day. and hogs have been found
eating one another in their hunger.