Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-02-03
General News.


Boston proposes a national cat show for
the first week in March.
The Western Iron Association met al Pitts
burg. Friday, and advanced the price for
( iron four cents.
! The trouble in the Shenandoah Valley,
has been adjusted by the employers agreeing
not 70 employ any black men.
/ Cheyenne has voted To issue $500,
worth Of bonds to extend branch OF the
! Cnion Pacific Railway 10 the Black Hills.
/ Gen Robert Toombs, has been selected tn
deliver the annual Grafton before the literary
societies Of the University If Mississippi in
/ June next, by the unanimous vote Of the
/ students.
I 4 despatch from Rome, to the Pail Mail
I Gazette says the condition of the Pope's
health il causing anxiety. He suffers from
I fits Of shivering and great prostration but
! persists in his usual occupations.
Report comes from London that dozen
/ extra constables have been put on guard at
Osborne TO protect the Queen from assassi-
nation. Also that similar precautions have
been taken at Hughendcn, Beaconsfeld hav
ing received threatening letters.
The lifeless figure Of the late young Louis
Napoleon, stretched on the ground partly
covered with a military cloak, and about 10
he crowned by an angel, is the subject of an
alto-relievo design to be executed by the En-
glish sculptor, Boehm.
\ meeting Of colored people has been held
a, Dallas, Texas. to discourage the exodus
movement to Kansas. call has been issued
for State convention on thelGth and 18th of
February for the purpose of establishing a
colony for colored people in north Texas.
Henry l.. Clinton, the principal counsel
for W. II. Vanderbilt in the Vanderbilt will
case has sent in his bill to his client. The
bill Mr.. Vanderbilt is called upon to pay
and each particular service is specified. Mr..
Vanderbilt has refused to pay it, and it is
said that Mr.. Clinton has given the million
aire just one week to make up his mind.
Judge Bradford of the United States cir
cult court, mt Wilmington, n. c., has denied
the application of the greenbackers Of Sus-
sex county, praying that supervisors of r, e
istration be appointed for them instead Of for
the republicans, the latter having had no tick
ct in the field at the last election. The judge
has confirmed the democratic and republican
supervisors for the whole State.
Thirty-four years ago a large pot Of butter
was suspended by a rope in the well on the
faru. Of Abraham s. Mylin, in Lancaster. Pa.
The rope broke and for thirty-tour years the
butter rested securely in the bottom of the
well. One day last week the well was
clcansed and the butter was again brought to
light 1t was found to be as white as snow
and hard rs stone.
Queen Victoria has Just presented $3.50 to
Private George Dodd of the British Army. in
recognition of his gallantry in saving a child
+ from death under the wheels of tram-car in
Dublin The car was going down a steep de-
cline, and could not he stopped. Dodl
sprang forward 10 snatch the child. and
would have paid for his bravery with his life
had not the pole struck him and Knocked
the rail.
There took place few DAYS ago at one of
the synagogues in Baltimore. the solemn re-
ccption of copy of the 'Shephar Torah.' a
parchment containing the five books of
Moses. This sacred scroll is present from
Sir Thomas Montefore of England. 1t was
written in wilma, Russia. and the penman-
ship is of rare excellence, and work of
great time and labor. The utmost care was
taken in the transcription, and at every re-
currence of the name of God or Jehovah the
hands of tho scribe were washed The scroll
is covered with a mantle of crimson silk vel
vet, richly embroidered with gold and sur
rounded with ornamental gold fringe silver
bells. The srcred scrolls are regarded with
great reverence by orthodox Israelites, who
have tradition that manuscript copy of
the Ave books has never been DESTROYED.