Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-10
General News.

Men wearing green badges attacked the
Salvation Army at Montreal, Sunday.
A six-dsy go-as-yOu-pl-ase match began al
Baltimore Monday morning
An old sailor says sudden sense of danger
will put an end to all sea-sickness.
Nearly $4,000 women are engaged in CIV
ing musical instruction in England.
The New York Sugar and Tea Exchange is
to be wound up for lack of business.
There is no truth in the report that the
Au,eer of Afghanistan has been assassinated
Hell,bore will kill currant worms Just ne il
did before the new version Lowell Courier.
A cloud of mosquitoes from Delaware is
reported a. lowering over New Jersey, north.
ward bound.
The French man-of-war Renard, with q
crew of so. is believed to have foundered in
the Red Sea.
Employees on the passenger trains of the
Lehigh Valley railroad have been forbidden
to use tobacco in any form while on duty.
The increase in the duty on beer and spirits
was denounced at a mass meeting in London
on Saturday.
The American Base Ball Association has
amended its rules 80 a. to allow a pitcher to
deliver the ball as he pleases.
The pension bureau proposes to make a
careful examination of pension lists of the
entire country, with the view of cutting of
all illegal pensions.
Cairo advice, state that Ambukol has been
re-captured by the Mahdis forces and MANY
prominent natives killed. The entire British
force in the Soudan has reached Dongola.
A visitor says to the Cincinnati ENQUIRE,
that the decorations of the house and senate
chambers at Harrisburg are in hardly better
taste than one finds is German beer saloons.
A stock company, it is said, has beer
formed at Charleston, the little West Virgins
village where John Brown was hung, to man
ufscture and sell relics of the timber from
which his scaffold was bdilt
General Pope says the Indian troubles are
very much exaggerated and AYERS that there
are hut "a Apaches on the war path, G.ner
nj Crock saws he wants no more men, aut
the newspaper reports create unnecessary
alarm
An English clergyman in London recent,
made the following extraordinary announce.
ment 70 his congregation "There will be an
amature concert and ballet under distinguish
patronage: the ballet will be danced entirely
! by the children of ladiesv'
The English admiralty has ordered that al
the guns of every sailing vessel leav
ing Chatham shall be supplied with arrange
u,euts for being discharged by electricity
and that several of the larger ships will b,
provided with the electric light.
| The occasion of his marriage was cele
brated by Big Rapids Peunsylvanian, by pre-
senting to his bride his teething ring, the firsl
,ock of hair cut from his head, and the frs
tooth he cut. and receiving in exchange on
halt interest in a prosperous grocery store
the other half belonging to his wife's sol,
man."
| The house in which General Washington
mother lived and died is still standing il
Fredericksburg, and in good state of pres
ervation. A horseshoe was hung over tn,
doorway leading into the parlpr, and an old
fashioned knocker surmounted with an espl
was fastened to the outside door. The floor
| ing is much worn, but the nantes an,
wainscoting are in as perfect state as wheu
Mary Washington lived there.
At Otao, about twenty miles from Suskim
stands q huge boulder about 100 hundred fee
high. Advantage IL taken Of the eminence
this rock for posting sentries; hence il
known as the Tower Rock" On the fac
of this rock huge advertisement, two hun
dred and fiftv feet square, in letters of fou
and half feet high. Indicates that certai
brand of soap 'is the best"