Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-19
GENERAL NEVS.

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To celebrate the Fourth of July Boston has APP
propriated $4,000.
Colored visiting cards are fashionable In Paris
Ralph Waldo Emerson read his lecture on Bos-
ton, in the Old South Church Monday afternoon
man was GU lily of contempt OF Court III
London, recently, in throwing an egg at Vice
Chancellor Malin.
English newspaper correspondents are buying
coats of mail and through tickets for Constanti-
nople.-Bosfoa Giobe
The religious press will learn with regret that
Christian Layman was fined $40 at Rochester,
the other day, for violating the dog ordinance
The London Times is warm in its praises Of
General Grant, and bespeaks for him kind and
cordial reception when he shall have arrived in
England.
The anti-Mormon Inhabitants of Utah in con-
venton at salt Lake on Saturday resolved that
bigamy shall hereafter be a bar to citizenship.
Anna Dickinson has abruptly terminated her
engagement at the Eagle theatre in New York,
owing to dissatisfaction with the management.
a minister who had twice married the same
couple-a divorce ensuing between the two mar
risges-remarked that be didn't wish to add re-
pairing department 10 MS uusiuSSs'
A gentleman at Abingdon, Va, has pet fish.
He has kept in spring for five years and can go
and call it up at any time. 1t eats from his hand
and shows marked liking for its keeper 1t is
black perch twenty inches long.
The English steamship John Bramall, which
left New York on Monday for New Haven, Conn,
is to load the following cargo of munitions of
war for the Turkish government, to be delivered
at Constantinoplo: 100000 Of cartridges and
700 rifles. The cargo weighs about 700 tons.
This is the seventh steamship cargo taken out for
Turkey from this country. and five or six sailing
ships have taken out similar freights.
Edward Everett had an exceedingly good opiu
ion of himself. Nevertheless, he used to tell this
story Travelling in a crowded Massachusetts,
stage one day, before the time of railroads, a
school girl out of house and wished 20 get in.
They made room for her, Mr.. Everett offering his
knee for her to sit upon. She had sat some time,
when Mr.. E. thought she might like to know on
whose distinguished knee she had had the honor
of sitting and asked if she would like TO know
his name. EYES, Sir" she replied. lie said,
my name is Edward Everett" "Du tell"' she
replied. "Be you sailorman y
A remarkable case of apparent death occurred
recently in Hsosick, n. Y. DR.. Green apparently
died sud lenly about two weeks ago. His funeral
was attended and he was laced in vault tap.
pears that several years ago, he was supposed to
be dead for two days. but survived, and made his
wife promise that if he should die suddenly
she would have his body placed in a vault and
visit ii daily until there doubt of his being
dead. This request his wife complied with, and
last Saturday DR.. Green's body was found to be
warm and was removed to his residence. DR.
Goldsmith of Rutland, VI, visited him and pro-
nounced the man alive. but in a trance state.
| Governor Chamberlains marriage with Wash
| ington lady, seven or eight years ago, brought
him more directly TO the notice of those here, par
ticularly as his wife enjoyed well deserved fame
for great beauty, and as the 'beautiful Miss In
gersoll was looked to as the farest Of the fair at
the capital. She had one of those sweet picture
faces, and not of the insipid type, but face Of
perfect oval, with large gray eyes Of the order
"Irish lake." and features just enough of COM
promise between the regular and the nondescript
to be piquant; add to this complexion Of lilies
and roses, a slight, graceful figure and a wealth
of golden hair, which she always wore to display
its natural wavness most charmingly, and you
have a tout ensemble which all might admire or
envy, as the case might be- As background to
these charms, Miss Ingersoll had birth and supe-
rior education, but broken family fortunes drove
her to seek livelihood in the Treasury, and it
was there that Governor Chamberlain, the attor-
ney- general of South Carolina found her. Wash
ington Letter.