Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-23
GENER1L NE us.

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closed.
The limit of the loss of life at the hotel fire in
St. Louis is now put by the city papers at 10.
A revival of Sunday night heatrcsls seems i'm
minent in New York.
Connecticut farmers are beginning to show 9
loss of faith in the proftableness of tobacco.
Four counterfeters-a brother, two sisters ano
niece-were arrested at osgood, Indiana OIL
"Wednesday.
The survivors of the Mass. "Old Sixth" cele-
brated at Lawrence Thursday the sixteenth ami
versary of their bloody march through Balti-
more.
During the month of March last 80 ships
passed through the Suez Canal The receipts OF
the company amounted to 5000, 900 francs.
Luvers will manage TO liv on luv for very
long time, with an ockashional chance at beef
stake and onions.-Josh Billings.
The Denver (Col.) News expresses itself very
much in favor of making stand on principle in
Louisiana, and it hopes that Packards pluck will
prevail.
There was narrow escape from another thea
tire horror in Brooklyn last Monday night. The
scenery of the Olympic caught fire, but was OPP
portunely e1tinguished. ..t..a
At the central criminal court in London Thurs
day, Charles Bradlaugh and Mrs. Annie Beasant
were held for trial charged with publishing an i'm
moral pamphlet.
The committee in charge Of the Revival Taber
nacle in Chicago have finally consented to allow
Mr.. Thomas orchestra to play within its walls.
Six Liverpool street-car conductors were re.
Gently fined twenty-five shillings each for allow
ing their cars TO be overcrowded.
DAnbury News-"There are now three persons
living in Hartford with bullets in their heads.
Considering the army of agents its life insurance
companies employ this is not large number"
Instead of the So 600 unemployed workmcn at
New York four months ago, there are now only
5000, the other 10000 having been furnished
employment by the revival of business.
At the close of 1876 the public debt of Spain
stood at nearly f470, 900. The manufacturing
industries of the country are comparatively iusig-
nificant, its natural resources almost undeveloped
and its population little more than 100000.
A runaway couple in Geo gia, on marriage bent,
came to toll bridge, and the bridegroom having
no money, took off his sleeve-buttons, left them
in pledge with the toll-taker, and hied away to the
Office of Justice of the Peace, by whom the
wedding ceremony was performed
Mr.. w. Aronsberg, Manchester optican and
philanthiopst, is supplying the aged inmates oil
British warehouses;. hospitals, inhrmaries, jails
asylums, ETC., with spectacles free of cost. Some
three years ago Mir. Aronsberg disposed Of 20 1000
spectaces in this manner.
A shOs time ago a lady residing at Clifton, Eng
land, having an income of e., 900 year, was so
struck by the devotion of ayoung crossing sweep
err to his mother that she proposed to him, placed
him in the hands of tutor for couple of months
and when he had been intellectually veneered
and polished, married him at Wells Cathedral,
The experiment was not success, and the lady is
now suing for a divorce.
A burlesque journal has been started in Paris
called the Other World. and printed with silver
colored ink on jet black paper, ornamented with
pictures of skulls, bones and skeletons. 1t pro-
fesses TO be issued from the internal regions, and
to be edited by His Satanic Majesty and the grim
ness and rreverence of its wit are fairly charac-
teristic Of modern Partisan society.
A portion Of the great meteor which passed over
northern Vermont few weeks since is reported
found near the town Of Jay, embedded about
four feet in the earth. 1t is said to have the APP
pearance of iron ore, lava and soapstone, and to
weigh about two tons. Report says this is the
largest erolite ever discovered in this country.
M. Blanc, the celebrated gambler of Monte
Carlo, pays the Prince of Monaco, who owns the
property which he employs. $4,000 per annum
and yet, in spite of the vast sums which he spends
in addition in improving the attractions of the
place, be has amassed fortune of over S3j 000.-
600. Much of his income, however, he derives
from Legitimate trade, he controls nearly all the
industries Of the place.
Miss Anna Dickinson has attracted the distin-
guished attention of The Nation which says o!
her: "Where she errs is in falling to perceive iha,
not only have the times and the manners chang ed
since she began her career as public speaker
but that in trying to become actress and play.
wright, she places herself before an entirely new
public, in a new atmosphere, and under new con-
di.ions."
1t is related that the late Ross Winans secured
a whole square in Baltimore, on which he built ar
elegant house. lie laid his grounds out in fine
taste and filed them with statuary and ornaments
0hANh hS thic" OpSh " thS Fuoh-' toofliE Vi NJ,
neighbors, not being accustomed to unrohed stat
uary, made a complaint against Mr.. Winans
Thereupon he went to work and bu lit strong
close wall ofbrick, high enough aud strong enough
for peniientary, which turned the whole of The
delightful ncghborhood into dcformiiy, The
wall remains standing TO this day.
Take the Forest Tar" for all kidney complaints
1t will do the work well. apllS-t&wiw