Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-09-21
General News.

Rev. w. II. II. Murray is now sole owner of the
Golden Rule.
Crazy Horse killed only thirty-four white men
and women, not including his victims 10 battle.
Finland has only one daily paper, which is
printed half in Swedish and the other half in
Finnish
Hartford young lady struck at a mosquito
and broke her arm. The fate of the mosquito is
not recorded.
Bostou's next excitement is to be a baby show
in Music Hail. Three sets of triplets and sixteen
twins have already been promised for the exhibit
ton.
The patriots of Virginia drink deep. The indi-
cations of the MoiIatt registers in that State show
that an income of 100000 will be realized by
the Treasury from this source.
The fall announcement of books is simply grand
and no season heretofore has been so promising
All the large publishers have long list Of works
with which they will tempt the literary palate.
A North Carolina paper reports that u North
families have left the vicinity of Chase City,
in Mecklenburg county, that State, within short
period, and returned to their former homes.
Jack Wilson, a negro of Meiweather county,
Georgia, has bought and paid for 700 acres of
land since the war. He has raised this year some
70 bales of cotton and 1000 bushels of corn.
Chief Justice Gray OF Pittsfed, Mass, the head
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,, has re-
yived an old custom by riding on horseback to
court from Pittsfeld to Boston-a distance of 100
mes-and back again, just as the judges used to
do a hundred years ago.
The "three witty things said in Boston," ac-
cordng to DR.. O. w. Holmes, are Mr.. Motey's
saying-"Give me the luxuries of life, and can
do without the necessares." Mr.. Appleton's-
GOOD Bostonans, when they die, go to Paris"
snd-'s remark-"After all, the feeling that
she is well dressed brings peace of mind to
woman which religion cannot give"
Gen. Grant travelling in Scotland the other day,
met on the platform at the railway station at
Marin, an American lady, Mrs. Donald M'Kay,
whose husband, scotchman, is in business in
Marin. During the war Gen. Grant and his staff
had their headquarters at Mrs. NJ Rays fathers
house, at Culpepper, Va, and Gen. Grant remem-
bered his hosts daughter at once. Daring the
short time the train remained at Marin. the Cen
eral continued to converse with the lady of the old
days in Culpepper, and expressed his pleasure at
meeting an old friend so Unexpectedly.
Dean Stanley, talking of Calvin and Burns not
long ago, asked who could doubt that there were
lessons of evangelical truth to be derived from
the wit and wisdom and generosity of the poor
outcast, which we should vainly look for from the
s.ern Professionalism teachings of Calvin "God
forbid" be said, THAT should exslt the dissclute
reckless manners of the wayward genius, above
the unblemished purity of the high-minded pas
tori yet still it may be that many and many Sc
cret sin of PRIDE of intolerance and untruthful-
ness, that has sprung up under the cloak of the
protessedly religious man and the stern, unbend-
ing divine, may be as hateful in the sight OF God
as the wild excess of which the other was so
mournful an example"