Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-07
General News.

| Knoxville. Tenn. boasts OF a woman with
beard II inches long.
| Carl Schurz will probably be male presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific railroad.
| The demand for sailors in San Francisco
exceeds the supply.
The German Emperor's health is causing
much uneasiness He sutft RS from infuen-
"a.
| The President rides in saddle every even
| ing after office hours. and usually goes alone.
| lie rides leisurcly and uncommonlv we'll.
The arrest of Henry Ward Beecher for
breach Of contract TO make an address before
an agricultural society. in MARYLAND. was
evidently inspired bv malice.
A Florida grower. who has been shipping
cucumbers North for two weeks past. re-
ceives 81. 80 per dozea for these incendiary
vegetables.
There have been placed in the waters OF
South Carolina. 10000 California salmon.
| 5000 land-locked salmon, 1850, 900 shad
and $500 California trout.
1t is said of Sophie Perrow skaia, the Young
woman who was executed for completely in
the murder of the Gar. that the law officer
who interrogated her and prepared the in
dirtmeni, was Constantine Muuraiwief, her
first lover.
Over sixty Western and Southern steamers
have adopted the electric light which has
greatly reduced the danger of steamboating.
A steamer does not have to load by great far
ing torches and the cabin lights would in no
case kindie fire.
Carlylc's niece sends To the press copy of
Carlyles instructions, dated ls66. solemnly
forbidding the publication of his remnis-
cences without the strictest editing. She adds
that she never understood that he had revok-
ed these instructions by oral declaration, as
Mr.. Froude alleges.
\ Michigan girl went to the parsons with
her young man To get married. but just before
the knot was tied she was called to the door
She did not come back. and then it was found
that she had gone straight to another parsons
and married rich widower who had sent
word he was waiting for her there.
There is proposition before the legisa-
ture authorizing Judges to exclude minors as
spectators from the court room during the
trial of any civil or criminal cause hen their
presence is not required as witnesses or par
ties. This is an excellent move. and we
trust it will become an act for reasons so OBJ
vions that we need not state them.-Bost
journal.
Is DE Lesseps deceiving the French public
about the Isthmns Canal! All reports agree
that no digging has begun yet. although the
season for outdoor work is fast drawing to
close. tonslderaDle surveying Il beng
done, and small force of laborers are at
work cutting brush. and that is all. There
are by no means the energetic operations
which the great engineer promised the sub
| scribers to his canal stock.-N. y. Tribune.
The trial of monk in the Province of Pull
| tova for the murder of brother monk throw
a vivid light upon the morals of Russian mon
| asteries. and particularly upon the monastery
| of Pereslof. 1t wa~ proved in the trial.
which resulted in the sentence Of the mur-
derer to lifelong imprisonment in the Sibe-
rian mines. that the brotherhood were in the
| habit Of palming Oh upon the peasants at ex.
orbitant prices. relics of various saints.
secondhand images which had been bought
; for trifiing sum at the Great Fair. Instead
| of using proper bread for the communion
they employed the refuse from their own ia
bles, and fabricated sacramental wine by mix
ing tea and vinegar. But these examples OF
frand and peBurionsnes. fade into nsignif-
csnce when compared with the drunkenness
| and debauchery which prevailed in the mon.
! asttry. These disclosures have fortunately
| aroused public opinion in Russia, which
will not be satisfied. the Goios says. unless
. immediate action i tsken to purify the mon
. as;ic institutions q. the Empire.