Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-27
GENERAL NEVIS.

| The keeping or raising of pigeons within the
city limits is prob ibited in Galveston, Texas.
Cincinnati, in proportion to her population has
fewer lawyers than any other city in the Union.
Postmaster General Key has decided to accom-
pany the Presidential party to Boston. Key has
never been in New Eogland
| Three hundred Mormons arrived recently in
New York, from England and wen. to Salt Lake.
| 1t is said that the steamer conveying the gigan-
tic Krupp gun to Russia has grounded near the
| island of Oassel.
President Hayes has signifed his intention of
making a tour of the southern States before the
October session Of Congress.
Those Montenegrins study economy. They kill
all prisoners captured BY them, and thus save ex-
ira surgeons, provisions, ambulances, etc.
VIM. P. Wallace, of San Francisco, died from
the bite of scorpion, at Cloverdals, Cal, few
days since.
A dispatch from Mount Washington says that
snow and sleet fell there Friday night and that
frost work is forming. The temperature in the
morning was $50.
The engineers of the Boston and Maine Rail-
road who struck last March are still in receipt Of
regular weekly wages from the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
Mesnly says the Albany Argus: Brigham
Young commenced celebrating his silver wedding
Monday, and it will take him about three years
before he finishes"
Mr.. o. ii. Platt's dog 10 Meriden, Conn, feel
ing Inundated by his muzzle paved ut it until be
got if off and then dug hole in the ground and
buried it.
The colored citizens of Philadelphia will
have meeting next Wednesday evening to
discuss the southern policy of The admnistI alton
The manager of Sanger's Amphitheater, Lon
don, was drawn on June in tub by four geese
from Batlerses to Westminster Bridge.
Norton Boy, who appears in the war reports as
commander of a brigade of Turkish light artillery,
served in the U nited States army during the late
| war as non-comm issioned officer.
Rev. Ii. w. Beecher's sermon Sunday night
was in relation to the Jews. upon whom, he said,
great insult had been put lie spoke of Selis-
man as an estimable gentleman, and said his race
was the last hat should be insuted.
Tho New Haven Palladium pertinently says
that ex-Gov. Chamberlain may have been car
pe-bagger, but his record for honesty is at least
as soou Us tDat oi w hue hampton.
The st. John On. b. Daily Telegraph was is
sued on the morning after the fire in a single
sheet about foot square, with two small adver-
tisements and description Of the disaster which
had oyertaken the city.
Tweny-seven boxes of Confederate archives
left at Union, S. c. by Jefferson Davis were re-
Gently destroyed by fire. The Federal troops were
pressing Mr.. Davis so hard during his retreat
| southwark that he was compelled to leave the
archives with Col. Young at Union. The latter
had carefully preserved them, and was about to
| send them to the Southern Historical Society at
Richmond, when they were destroyed.
Robert Dale Owen died on Sunday at his resi-
dence on Lake George. Mr.. Owen was well
known as writer ON socialistic and spiritualistic
topics He served three successive years in the
Indiana Legislature, and was active in passing
measures for popular education and the giving of
property rights to women. He was elected to
Congress in lSi3 and again in 1916. He intro.
duced the bill organizing the Smithsonian Insti-
tute, and was one of its first regents. In lS49 he
was President of the Indiana Constitutional Con.
yen,ion and in 1853 he was sent by President
Pierce as Minister TO Italy. He was a warm advo-
cate Of emancipation 10 the early years of the re =
bellion.