Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-06-15
GENERAL NE us.

The New Hampshire legislature wants President
Hayes to visit Concord on his way to Vermont.
The sensation at Wiamsbough IN. " on Sun
day was boat race between females.
The cotton mill at winooski, Vermont, which
cost $780, 000 has recently been sold for S27 900
The Hon. George F. Talbot Of this State, the
solicitor Of the United States Treasury, resigned
Tuesday, to take effect on the lst of July.
The circulation of the London Telegraph is now
about 100000. The Standard comes next, about
100000.
This time 1t is Philadelphia girl who died from
taking arsenic in mistake for magnesis.
The Boston Globe suggests that Mr.. James Rus
sell Lowell may have some literary object in view
in conseutng to 60 to Madrid.
Governor Morton will address several political
meetings in California and earnestly advocate the
reelection of Senator Sargent.
The two parties to q suit which has been pend
ing in the Supreme Court Of North Carolina
for 10 years past died on the same day last week,
and were buried within 20 feet Of each other.
Max Adeler says: We observed in the pa
per an item to the effect that mother in
Maryland bit off her child's toe in her sleep
We have so often demonstrated with mothers
against the practice of sleeping with their
childrens toes in their mouth, that we have little
sympathy for this woman. Sooner or later the
catastrophe is sure to come.
The novel now running in Blsckwood's, "a
Modern Minister" is attracting general attention
in England as the work of a promising new writ
er. 1t is said that, as with the first novel Of
George Eliot, the publishers themselves have no
clew to the identity or even the sex Of the writer
1t requires the services of "a Knights of the
Lead Pencil to jot down the doings of the British
Parliament for the London papers, the Times
leading with Is.
The Mayor of Pittsburg, Pa. has scandalized
the whole town by sending to the workhouse for
90 days lot of young "roughs" who belonged to
the first families. They had plenty of money to
pay fines, but fnipg such fellows is no punish
ment.
Frederick Pursh, German botsnist, who passed
the FIRST twenty years of this century in investi-
eating the vegetable productions of North Ameri-
ca, died 10 Montreal in 1920, and it is now pro
posed TO erect monument over his remains.
At an autograph sale in New York, last Thurs
Richard B. Sheridan. $425, King George /. and
Nine. de Stael, $3.50 each, while George Francis
Train was knocked down for cents and Theodore
Tilton for cents.
A remarkable case of suicide occurred in Hold.
en-, Mass. last Wednesday night. The wife of Fred
erick Bryant, arising in the middle of the night,
kissed her four children and babe them good by.
She then left the house aud walked into a neigh
boring sawmill-pond. where her body was found
the next morning. She was subject to attacks Of
insanity.
A Norwich man who went to the Black Hills a
year ago has written home that he has been cap
tured by the Indians, and probably will be unable
to return for fifteen or twenty years. His wife
believes it, and is trying to get the government to
organize an expedition to save him from torture
and death. Woman's confidence in man seems at
times too beautiful to be exposed to the rude crit
icsm of the world.-Erchange.