Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-28
General News.

About l25, 900 elephants are annually killed
in Africa to supply the ivory trade.
Women now serve on juries in Washington
Territory.
Cosmopolis, Wyoming, offers sl0O pre-
MUM for the first woman settler.
Mexican Congressman wear full dress suits
when in session.
A little five year-old girl in Maine said re-
Gently that there were two things she hated,
namely. Sundays and dying.
Miss Lulu Hurst of Georgia, who can move
furniture and things without touching them,
is giving seances throughout the country.
Ferdinand Ward occupies the same cell in
Ludlow street Jail in which the noted VIM.
NJ. Tweed was incarcerated.
John Browns scaffold has been lately taken
down from porch, into which it was built
after the execution, and cut up into relics for
sale.
The biggest thing in Boston is said to be
the city debt, which increases every year,
and is now about fifty millions Phiiadei-
phta North american.
The Boston Herald wants to know if states
manship is a lost art. Oh, no, il isn't lost to
any extent, but it has closed its Massachusetts,
office.-N Y Tribune.
friend of the Massachusetts, General,
says "We are not running Ben as an angel"
He probably thinks he will ''run like the
Devil. ."-Springfeid (Ohio) Republic.
The sales of the great breweries of Mil
waukee for the year ending in April amoun-
ted to the total of l,066. .030 barrels of beer
against 9S4, ,4SS during the previous fiscal
wear.
Examination at West Point begins the
second week in June. and then will come the
annual gathering of "sisters, cousins and
auntsr of tho pa1efs The customarv hall
will be given.
Capt. Webb's widow is exhibiting as an at
traction by playing the part of cashier at
Whirlpool Rapids Park, near Suspension
Bridge. close by the scene of her husband &
last foolish plunge.
An Indiana girl was swinging in a ham,
mock when man passed her on horseback
with gun across the pommel of his saddle
The horse stumbled and Jared the gun. Ii
went off and hit the girl in the hammock
Her mother, who was in the kitchen wash.
ing dishes, was not hurt. Boston Post.
Florida at this date seems entirely deserted
saws a newspaper correspondent. 'During
the past month a regular exodus North has
been kept up, until now it has empted almost
every hotel IN the Land of Flowers, and
made life for the few who remain here lone
ly and miserable. Everyone admits, however
that the past winter has been the most pros
porous and successful in the history of Flori,
da.
There has been a large decrease in Euro.
pean travel this year, possibly as much as II
or 20 per cent. according to New York ship
ping merchant. The tightness of money, the
anticipation of trouble in WALL street, ant
the presidential election have kept many peo
pie at home. People who did go abroad are
returning much earlier than usual, and agent.
attribute that to Wall street also. Travel ir
the United States, however. is on the increase
Many who used to go to Europe now go the
other way and take in Mexico, Alaska, Ore
gon. Colorado.
Miss Maggie Bonner of Nicholasville, Ky
went to Lexington on Tuesday to get an out
fit in which to marry young man who lives
in Missouri. While shopping around towr
she met an old flame, who took her out fol
ice-cream and sods-water. They talked ovel
old times and finally agreed they had beer
great fools not to marry a long time ago. A
his suggestion they concluded to be fools no
longer and went forewith to the nearest par
sonage and were married. She sent a mark
ed copy of the paper containing the notice t.
her Missouri lover, and Is in daily expecta
ton of a package containing all the | it'll,
trinkets she ever gave him.