Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-12
General News.

As the Spring draws towards its close the
trees also begin to leave.
Low funds are an effectual barrier to high
spirits.
Clothes don't make the man, but good
suit goes a long ways with the car conductor
when he finds man who left his wallet at
home.
DIR. Innis of Houlton. sheared thirty Cots
void sheep, Thursday, securing three hun
dred and eight-four pounds of wool. Three
leeces weighed forty-eight pounds.
Tea stores are dropping the chrome and
glassware business, feeling that moderate
prices and honest weight are, after all, the
best things to draw customers.
Of the generous sum just given to Dart
mouth by Mr.. Benjamin p. Cheney. $40, 900
will be applied to the founding of Cheney
Professorship of Mathematics.
Nova Scotia advices are to the effect that
that the emigration to the United
States this season is much greater than in
former years, and that it includes a great
many farm hands az we'll as fishermen.
Mills & Co., of New York, contractors for
Yale Kamloop's branch Canadian Pacific
Railway, have advertised for 500 Chinese Ia
bOrers, there having been no conditions in
the contract prohibiting the employment of
such labor.
despatch from Cincinnati says that at
a meeting of delegates from the six New
England conferences on Saturday evening,
Rev. DR.. Mallalieu was nominated as New
England's candidate for bishop.
prisoner at the bar" said the Judge. sis
there anything you wish to say before SEN
tence is passed upon your" The prisoner
looked wistfully toward the door, and re
marked that he would like to say '.Good eve
ming fit would be agreeable to the CON-
pany.
The Boston and Maine Railroad open the
excursion season with tickets to Andover.
Me-, and the Rangely Lakes, at a reduction
from last seasons prices. They also make a
reduction Of thirty-three per cent. in both
regular and excursion rates, between Saco
and Biddeford and Old Orchard, and a reduc.
ton of fifteen per cent to all points on the
Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad.
Mrs. Valeria G. Stone Of Maiden having
donated $780, 200 with which to construct n
new hall As an addition to Wellesley Female
College, it has been decided to lay the corner
stone Of the building, which is to be known
as Stone Hall, on the eth inst. 1t is to be
used as dormitory principally, has accom-
modations for 100 students, and is to be fitted
up with every convenience. Prot. Porter of
/ Yale College will deliver the address Of ,bs
dav.
pilgrim band Of nine devout Catholics.
blind, deaf, lame and otherwise infirm. took
passage from Boston on Saturday for Ireland.
where they will visit the miracle-work;no
shrine Of Knock in County Mayo. The chapel
OF St. bartholomew, in New Orleans, has
recently attained the importance of shrine.
With the power to confer such benefits NJ con.
tentment, peace Of mind, harmony in the fam
iy' extirpation Of certain vicious incliua-
lions. and even wealth and the enjoyment NJ
temporal goods.
Two sparrows have built . nest and are
raising family inside the gong which an
nounces the departure of trains At Williams
Porf, Penn The gong is about eighteen
inches in diameter, and when struck BY its
hammer has . deafening sound, but notwith-
standing it racket and the roar and rattle of
engines and cars. the birds are unmoved. the
male, indeed, being frequently observed sit
ting upoa the iron knocker itself While !. !.
striking. = =
An enteEpsisias lad in Waterford, N. r.,