Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-29
General News.

The superlatively fashionable young lady
has the buttons on her boots match those on
her dress.
There are now fifty girls among the stu
dents of Cornell University, and thirteen of
them are freshmen. Michigan University
has 1874 women students.
1t is estimated that the fashionable society
of New York--that is, the persons who
habitualy entertain and 20 to parties-does
not number more than two thousand per-
sons
There is considerable excitement in Nor
wich, Conn, respecting the death of a little
girl who was punished by her teacher at
school, and on attempting TO run home had
her hand jammed in the door, which was
pulled shut by the teacher.
Purple is one Of the colors that has long
been tabooed and has been restored to fav-
or this Water. Ii comes in all shades from
deep purple to the palest lilac, all of which
are extensively used in costumes and milli-
merry.
Prof Nordenskjold announces his inten-
ton, in a letter to NJ. Sibirakof the we'll
known Russian patron of Arctic research, of
undertaking shortly n fresh journey of ex-
ploration to the Siberian Polar Sea. He will
start on this occasion from the river Lena,
and make the New Siberian Islands his base
of operations.
The British authorities are going to try to
burst the mate of the big gun that exploded
on the Thundercr. for the purpose of finding
out what the matter was. The Woolwich
officers said to be amused at the eXpen-
sive performance, as, If the gun bursts, it
may not be from the same cause that occa-
stoned the disaster, and if it refuses to burst
nothing will be proved
SATURDAY.. at farm ten miles north of Nir-
ginia, Kane county, H., two brothers, named
Eicherand, were husking corn. John n and
Robert Taylor, brothers, came along on
horseback and dismounted, saying they were
going to settle an old fcud, and Immediately
began stabbng one brother, who fell with a
knife thrust through the lung The other
Eicherand, being unarmed, attempted to es-
cape. They caught him. plunged knife in
to his neck and severed the jugular vein.
Both brothers died
DIR. b. w. Richardson in reply to some
structures in the London Telegraph, on his
opinion regarding the use of alcohol, SAYS
an the dispensary of the apothecary and in
the laboratory of the chemist alcohol is n
good agent when it is used with scientific dis
erection by skilled men: beyond this hold it
to be mischevious chemical. which DESTROYS
its tiers of thousands year, diffnses misery
and vice in all directions, engenders con-
stitutiona condition of body altogether I'M
natural, and does no mortal service in return
for all the evils it originates, susiains. and
transmits from one generation to another"
The closing scene of the sea-fght off Me-
iillones is described by Young United States
naval officer in letter to the Hartford Cour-
ant. The Cochrane and Blanco closed with
in sixty or seventy wards. and, stopping the
FRI, hair rant, mad, i, ,,1
arms and Nordenfelt Gatlings, and kept up
such hot fire that everybody on the Huas-
car was kept below decks. The fourth officer
of the Huascar, who had become command
er, seeing the impossibility of escaping, or
dered all the sea-valves to be opened. One
was opened. but she made water so slowly
that he ordered everybody on deck and di
rected that the magazine be fired. The gun
ner of the ship would not allow this to be
done. He locked the scuttle leading to the
magazine and hid the key. Then, standing
on the scuttle with loaded revolver i'm his
hand, he threatened to shoot ANYBODY who
attempted to carry out the order. The maya
zine was not fired. Two prisoners who had
been captured from the Chilian ship Coquim-
DO day or two before, and one of whom was
an American, hearing the order to fire the
magazine, tied a towel to a broomstick, and
with this for a flag of truce, ran on deck.
They were answered by the Cochranes Off
GERS, and soon boat from the Blanco
Encalada boarded the Huascar. Lieutenant
Commander Castillo took command, the
sea-valve was closed, and she was towed into
Mejillones. The action terminated at 10 :55
a. m. Several Intellectual attempts to ram
were made by both parties. The Huascar's
flag was shot away twice. The first time it
was rehoisied by Frenchman, who left his
gun to do it, and succeeded in getting back
to the turret. He was killed soon afterward