Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-07-02
GENERAL NEWS.


During last winter the noble dogs on Mt st
Bernard saved the lives Of 40 persons.
Thus far in 1877 it is stated 81 persons have
been executed in the United States for murder.
The Legislature Of New Hampshire asks Con-
gress to repeal the Bankruptcy act.
The Seligmans twenty-five years ago were dry
goods dealers in WATERFOWL, n. Y. Thence they
went to California.
| Last November 100 900 votes were cast in Geor-
gia for President. The number cast at the elec-
tion on the Constitutional Convention question
was 81 ,23S.
The New York courts have decided that wo-
man cannot be arrested for the non-payment Of
costs in a suit at law although man be.
| The Cincinnati Gazette says that while Judge
Taft will not accept the Governorshp, it is Sc
cret that he will be a candidate for United States
Senator.
The members of the Phi Beta Kappa Fratern j.
| ty Of Harvard College held their annual meeting
Thursday. The Grafton was by Senator Bsyard
of Delaware, and the poem by Edmund C. Sted
man of New York.
Memorial Hall on the Centennial grounds i;
now occupied by the Philadelphia School of In
dustrial Art, and is to be opened to the public OF
Sundays as well as week days, that the working
people may profit by the collection.
Some one facetiously remarks that Chicagoan.
go to bed nightly with fear and trembling les
they may wake up in the morning and learn tina
some other place has had bigger fire than their
Flora Temple, once Queen of the Turf, is dy
ing near Philadelphia. She is gsunt, lame, ant
decrept-s shadow Of her former self. She il
now 80 years old, and it is Is years since sh,
knocked the seconds out of 220.
A business man in Trenton, n. j., says that Tho
women Of that city own all the real estate, ant
their husbands do all the running in debt anC
beating their bills. lie announces that he will no
trust any husband without a written order from
the wife.
There have been twenty three college Com
mencements in Iowa this summer, says the Hawk
eye Man. And we have seen in the local paper
synopses of twenty-three graduation essays, fem
mime, entitled "Night Brings Out the Stars.
Sweet awful sweet but a mistake. Sometimes
the stir come out at the mstnees.
Since the burning of the Brooklyn Theatre
large black dog has made the ruins his nightly
resting place. In the daytime the dog, whose pc
culiar actions have attracted much attention, fol
lows the policemen who feed him around The
streets in the discharge of their duties. The
managers of the theater have recently placed
silver collar around the dogs neck. 1t is though
that the owner of the dog lost his life in the grea
fire.
THAT brute don't ride in this car" shouted tn.
driver. "Vell, l like to know de reason" re
sponded the owner. "He is quiet animal ant
don't bide; besides paid my licenses on dot toy
and he is got so much rights now as anybody
Cleveland Leader.
A miner named Gardiner was killed in Lack
awana coal mine some weeks since. Whe n hi,
body was taken out the next day, they found hin
with his right hand thrust inside his vest and
clasping a little pocket-book. There was moth
ing in it save card, on which was fastened, with
drop Of seang-wax on the stem. all that re-
NAMED of rosebud and two geranium leaves
Underneath was written, in a womans hand
"Mrie-Toute to-June 4, 1867" Just below
was written, in a mans hand, "June, lS70-Al
withered-except the thorn"