Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-26
General News.

The steamer j. b. Walker, with $4,000, 600
worth of arms and munitions Of war for Turkey,
sailed for Consta ntinople from New Haven on the
23rd.
correspondent telegraphs from Ragusa that
the inhabitants of the Wassoivich district. Mon
tenegro, Numbering q 900, are stricken with fam
inc.
A special despatch from Vienna states that Rus
STA has ordered the mobilization Of all the Cos
sacks not yet in active service. These will amount
to ninety regiments.
A Richmond paper reports that Miss Lizzie Van
Lew, late Postmaster Of that city. has associated
herself with business man in the manufacture
Of pillow points and castings.
A Boston school teacher ran so eagerly after q
street car on Friday morning, on her way to
school, that she burst blood-vessel. and died in
q few hours. She was "a years Of age.
According to Spanish sdvices from Cuba the
imperial forces have captured the President Of
the Republic, the Secretary of the Chamber OF
Represe ntatves and several members of that
body.
A fresh complication has arisen in the Splague
bankruptcy case. Suits in equity have been
brought by the grandchildren, who allege they
have been unjustly dealt with in the management
of the business.
An extraordinary matrimonial hoax was recent
ly perpetrated at Dundee, Scotland. A man about
forty years old, inserted an advertisement in q
paper asking for female correspondent with
view to ms,rimony. A letter was received in re-
ply and meeting arranged, but when the amor
Gus swain went to the appointed rendezvous he
was seized by . number of young men, who Sc
curely bound him and smeared him all over with
molasses. concluding the pleasantly by filing his
pockets and the inside Of his clothing with the
same saccharine substance. The police are inves-
tigating the affair and some arrests are threatened
glimpse Of General Sherman waiting for
breakfast at q Cincin railway station Bright,
searching eyes, whiskers almost white, q pleasant
smile lurking about the corners Of his mouth, and
hair which. when he dotted queer shaped head
covering. . cross between Scotch cap and tur-
ban, looked - though the mice had been playing
at hide-and-seek amid its thick Businesses, and
stood straight up il in rebellion at the oPpres
sion of that blue travelling cap. The General
says that we have the best army in the world, con-
sdering ito strength-but that we need more SOL
diers.
War has made the once beautiful Vale Of Roses
and neighboring valleys south of the Schipka
Pass, a desert filed with horrors. A correspond
ent Of the London Times writes Gan the way
from Schipks to Yen Ssghra, At which place we
took the rail. the air is polluted with the remains
of the killed. The bodies OF men, women and
children are to be met with in all stages of decom-
position at the rosdsides in the cornfelds and gar
dens, on the banks Of streams and in the beds Of
rivulets. Some hundreds were choking the shall
low river within quarter of mile from where
we camped at Yeni Saghra. Desolation and ruin
appeared along the whole way. The remains Of
formerly prosperous villages, which it was impos-
sible to pitch tent even near, ripping mountain
streams in which our horses refused to drink, the
bowling Of wolves around Us at night. brought
down from the mountains earlier than usual BY
the horrid feasts prepared for them (the largest
have ever seen lay dead. evidently recently shot,
BY the side of the road) not far from Yeni Ssghra
and, worse, the occasional shIieks from human be-
ings, followed BY solitary rifle reports, which
made one shudder more than the damp night cir
all these sights and sounds went to form one
great horrible phantasmagoria, which none of us
are likely to live long enough to reminder with
out pain"