Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-09-18
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threw herself over the cliffs At Hsvre and fell up
| on the rocks lS0 feet below. The Mortified gen
dsrmes. who saw her perilous leap aud rushed to
the foot of the crags to pick up what they sup
| posed TO be a formless corpse, were recevd on
their arrival with volley of oshs and insults
| from the woman, who though seriously hart, is
! likely to recover.
MIR. r. o. Wickwire, widely known as the civ
ing skeleton" died at his home in North FAN fax.
VT, on the 10th inst, Of pneumonia. The ST. AL
bans Messenger says that having accumulated
some money while exhibited at Bsrnums Muse
um in y. Y, several years ago, he returned to
North Fairfax and was appointed Postmaster, and
held the office until his death He made visits to
St. Abans nearly every week for several years.
Mr.. Wickwire wa. regarded as a shire wd busiues.
man and competent Official.
Two "dime novel" reading boy. were sent to
the House OF Refuge in New York on Thursday
for stealing $50 with which they intended to 90
TO Mexico for the purpose of fighting Indians.
The Rev. Joseph Cook is 10 great demand as a
platform lecturer. He will not be able TO fl all
his engage ments before next June.
Barnum is ecpsed. Buffers circus is the great
est show earth.
The small boy has his ases. The defence in the
Siam. I'd murder case in Conn, explains the mi
croscopic blood stains on the clergymau's Jack.
knife in q most NATURAL way. His little hoy is said
to have got hold of the knife and cut hi, finger.
with it. In witness whereof, behold the scars on
| his hand, which should be photographed before
| they heal. The argument appeals to the practi-
cal experience Of every wife and mother.
The opium product Of China is Increasing so
rapidly that fear, are entertained BY the English
that the Indian article will be snppanted in the
| Chinese markets. In the opium producing dis
tricts of China, smokers estimated to comprise
Eve tenths of the native male population, and in
all China three of it. There have been
public edcts against the cultivation of opium, but
they avail little, t5e producer silences the off,
| cial with fee.
| A young man in London lately obtained q yer
diet for 10 shillings against q man who sat down
on his hat This furnishes valuable precedent
| A true bill of murder in the first degree was
found Monday by the grand jury in New London,
Conn.,, against Wesley W. Rishop and Kate NJ
| Cobb of Norwich Conn, who are charged with
the poisoning of the wife and husband of the two
respectively.
Eight children Of George Lynch were muir
dered by an unknown assassin in Hereklev Tex.
as. on Friday. The father was shot twice but
will probably recover.
The Grand Lodge Of Cd Fellows of the nj
tel States met nj Baltimore Monday From the
| report of the Grand Sire it appears the re are in
the country 1877 surb ordinate lodges an inc ease
Of 1893 during the year; .S35 subordinate en-.
campmeuts an increase of %; lodge membership,
4E,lS6; elcampment membership, 5i,7s7 or a
total decrease of nearly $4,000. There was paid
for relief 81 ,705 2667l an increase Of SIS ISL 10;
total revenue. 81 423, 05l. S3, decrease of SOC,
$50 81. The Grand Sire does not think the ex-
pertinent Of instituting lodges of the Daughters
| of Rebeksh has proved satisfactory.
The Democrats forced by political pressure from
all parts of the country. have at last yielded to the
demands of the Typographical Union and have
discharged all Rat" printers from any connec-
| ton with printing democia attic campaign docu-
ments. This was not because they loved the
laborng man, but because they feared the politi-
| cal power Of this organization. RAT" printers
were discharged Monday and Union printers have
| taken their places.
The Attorney General aud the Internal Revenue
authorities disagree ON the question of taxing the
capital stock of National Banks. The Attorney
General holds that the purchase price of securities
held by the banks should be allowed to repre- sent
| the capital stock.
James Broadbelt Of Indianapolis claim. that he
was robbed of $4,000 while on the cars asleep
between Chicago and that city.
The seventy first call for the redemption of s.
| pos had been issued. Five millions more are
l Cd he ;ntar vhi
| Der Is.
Seven dead babies in box were found in Lon.
| don undertaker's cellar, when the police we're
| trying to find where that horrible smell came
| from.
| A new feature OF the entertainments at the
| German festivals in New York is kind of modi.
| fed "cake. walk" the modification being that in.
| stead Of walking for n cake the company dance
for rooster. The noble fowl is placed in cage
on the top of pole, and beneath the cage is a
shelf hung hinge that allows it to move M.
ward and not downward. On this shelf is a glass
of water. and as each couple dance around the
| pole they jump and overturn the glass The most
successful couple wins the rooster.
The cornerstone of the Knox Memorial Insti-
tute was recently laid at Hsddington Scotland,
| the birthplace OF the re1ormer Ii will cost abon
$4,000. The Earl of Haddington, who presided
is a descendant of John Knox.
1t is reported that Kearney, having about ex.
hausted his stock Of billingsgate, has written to
Charles Reade to write him a new speech in his
most ambeidexterous style.
Millions of bushels Of wheat will be harvested
this year within the limits of the district that a
few years ago was called 1.-The Great American
| Desert"
81 don't like that cat; it's got splinters in its
feet was the excuse of four-year old for throw
ing kitten away.
The practice of economy in the Old World. not
less than in the New, is evnced by the decline in
first class passenger railway travel in Germany.
First class fares have been falling off for years in
Great Britain, and diminnton throughout Pruss
has been so great that the Minister of Trade has
directed that railways shall In order to stimulate
first class patronage, issue return tickets to first
class people, which has before been dones