Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-15
General News.

There was fatal case Of sunstroke in Aurora
ILL.,, on Tuesday, ID inst, The Thermometer stood
at 90 degrees IN the shade at the time.
Canaris, the Premier of Greece and its greatest
hero of modern times, died in q room unexpected
and unpapered. so poor that his grandchildren bad
to attend inferior schools because there they could
get free tuition.
John T. Delsne, editor of the London Times.
has retired. In 1899 he became connected with
the paper as assistant editor, and in lS4l became
editor-in chief position which he has since held.
He is 60 years of age. ADD i'll health now forces
him into retirement.
A Massachusetts young lady lately went to visit
her brother, and falling in love with her brothers
wife's father, married him, thus becoming her
brothers. mother-in law, and cxssperating him be-
yond measure.
A couple of men who attempted to eStort money
from young lady in London, by threatening to
publish letters sent by her to one Of the two dur
ing an engagement of marriage between them,
were sentenced to seven years penal servitude.
One of the men member of a wealthy Greek
family of Constantinople.
Parson Newman writes to Senator Morton
"Your devotion to principle, your eminent abii-
ties, yonr powerful leadership, inspired the wish
that you might be spared the Republic. You are
the last Of the heroic Statesmen who stood firm in
the hour Of the nations peril, and who to-day
connect the glorious past with our uncertain fu-
ture"
eve had many generals in the war;" says Gen
Grant. "who in all other important respects were
we'll fitted to take command of the army but 1t
L., Al. r. -
them that they were afraid to assume daring re-
sponsibiliiies. They would not improve their OPP
portunities or push their chances, from apprehen-
sion of disaster that might possibly follow al
though altogether in their favor"
An ingenious use of carrier pigeons is on re-
cord. They were employed in Belgium to snug
gle tobacco into France. Each bird carried from
ten to fifteen grammes of the weed, and two dozen
pigeons per day were regularly dispatched. How
long the new industry has been established is not
stated; but one day it came to grief. A bird was
too heavily loaded. and he dropped with his bur-
den, exhausted, into the Seine. A police inquiry
resulted, and the whole business was exposed.
French scientists are now discussing the question
whether the bird was merely overloaded, or wheth-
er the tobacco, heated by the warmth Of the AMI
NAL, poisoned it.
In the midst of life we are in death. This was
aptly illustrated recently in Nevada. While a
crowd Of men were sitting around blazing fire
in Virginia City bari Dom, one of the members
suddenly died, but renamed in a natural sitting
posture. The men continued telling stories aud
singing songs without discovering that death had
stepped into their midst and made fast victim,
until one Of the party asked the dead man to
drink and he failed to respond. As it is not Gus
tomary to refuse drink in Nevada suspicion was
at once aroused and upon investigation the party
addressed proved to be corpse. The story-tel-
ers became silent. the songs ceased, and the har-
ty of the evening was changed into the solemnty
of novel and impressive death scene. 1t has
long been supposed that fortunes were made easy
in Nevada, but the cases rare where
passes into eternity without getting out of his
char.