Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-28


has conferred mark sf distinction npon Lord
Beaconsded, by present Of flowers aud straw
berries from the new Palace nurseries at Pots
DAM"
An enterprsing journal in Rockford Ill., imi-
tating the example of certain Chicago newspa-
per, on Sunday morning last printed an extra edi-
ton, which detailed in the most startling fashion
"a Ferocious Outbreak of the Communicative
Government ashington, New
York, Chicago, St Louis, San Franc lsco, and all
Large Cities in the Hands OF Howling Mob
President Hayes and his Cabinet Assassinated-
the French Revolution Rs-enacted in all the
Chief American Cities" The paper containing
tins sensation was put upon the streets just as
people were going to church, aud may well be
mag ned, created the widest excitement. After
time, however, the Mayor discovering the ma
ture of the trick, ordered out the Police, drove
the newsboys oil tue streets, and caused the own
ers of the "enterprisng" newspaper to close ITS
doors. 1t is pity that the law did not allow hi n
to take any further proceedings against the per
peuators of the outrage.
Captain Boyton has written to French paper A
most amusing account of his swim across the
Straits of Gibraltar. He says that the feat was
far more difficult than swimming across he Strait.
of Dover, for the currents carried him so far that
he traversed fifty miles in doing the journey. lie
adds 81 saw several sharks. but none of them
made meal Of me, and | owe them my best ac-
acknowledgements. suffered much from the sun
and the salt water which came into nv eyes, and
| wa, almost blind when landed As was not
expected at Tsngiers, blew my horn as ap-
preached the town. some Moorish guards came
down to know what the noise wa,
about, and seeing me emerge from the
sea, they ran back to arouse the town, declaring
that the devil had just come ashore. | left them
the same day by steamer"
Cleopa.ra's Needle has been stripped of its suit
OF mail After the monohth ship had reached her
berth on the cradles at the Adelphi steps of the
Thames Embankment, the plan of raising vessel
and cargo together abandoned. as involving
a needless addition of sixty tons of iron, as well
mass Of timber to the load. Ii was deter
mined instead to strip off at once the plates of
the Cleopatra down 10 her waist, to remove as
much as might be necessary of her Diaphragm
frame, and obelsk packing, and to manipulate
the monolith itself. Timber lunettes fashioned
like the rockers of a cradle, were cut so as to fir
the bottom of the CLEOPATRA. On thes, rockers
will be land balks Of timber, and on them other.
crosswse with just enough space for the hydrau-
lie jacks between the timber surface and the
granite. The obelisk having been lifted, another
layer OF balks will be inserted, and so on, until It
the proper height the four travellers will be
brought into play to drag the monoth on to the
steps. This lateral movement, effected by means
of four steel screws, four inches in diameter OF
worm, and each worked by two pairs of men tug
ging at the levers, viii begin loog before the top
Is reached, 50 tlst as soon as possible the steps
may bear part OF the weight, thus econom zing
the timber baiks la this way the Needle with
It's scuptured hierogyphics Will be carried to its
final resting place before the eyes of London.