The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-03-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A Baptist preacher recently died at Penssco-
Ia, Florida, whose age was 10 years.
A liquor dealer in Bennington, VT, has been
sued by one of his steady customers for selling
him two hundred drinks, each one requiring o
separate indictment.
Mr.. Rogers, proprietor Of the Boston Journal
Is said to be hopelessly III. ..r.. .t..
A French paper states that every seventh day
ex-Quecn Isabella receives q small parcel con-
tanning the chemisc which Sister Patrocinio has
worn during the preceding week. and that she
wears the dirty garment for the next seven
days. .....f.. fr-,f .rr. ri
"Ps, viii you get me pair Of new skates II !
will prove to you that q dog has ten tailsr'
"Yes, my son." swell. to begin, one dog has
one more tail than no dog, hasn't hers Eye"
"wcll, no dog has nine tails; and II one dog has
one moro tail than no dog, then one dog must
have ten tails" He got his skates.
A Chicago Jury Lately acquitted q murderer
on the ground that he committed the crime In
anticipation Of going into m epileptic ft, which
came on an hour after the deed was done.
Ten houses were consumed by FIRE In New
York Sunday night.
Twenty-one murders have been committed In
Indiana within the past three weeks. In ten OF
these cases only were the murdcrcrs arrested;
In Ave others they were we'll known TO the au-
thorities. but succeeded In making good their
escape; and In six cases the assassins arc not
even known, and all efforts 10 detect and APP
prehend them have been fruitlcss. One Of the
most mysterious Of these murders was that Of
Theodore N. Corwin, conductor on the Toledo
and Wabash Railroad.
A enc armed soldier boy, named Walter Had
lock, Of Harding city, Iowa, has challenged any
man In the West to chop wood with him. lie
considers himself champion, and Of oil cham
pionships that Of being the best wood chopper Is
about the most sensible and useful.
A revere earthquake has occurred In Santan-
dor, an interior State Of Panama, which lasted
two days, knocking over churches and even
breaking up rocky hill overlooking the town
Of La Robada.
A waggish schoolmaster, afler logging pu-
Pill for fbbing, addressed the lad as follows:
Harvey, wish you TO understand that hayn't
whipped yoa for lying, but because you didn't
keep probability in view.'
Some planters In Georgia, Alabama and
Southern Tennessee, have ploughed up magni6-
cent fields Of wheat, for the purpose Of putting
the ground in cotton.
The New York Board Of Health has ordered
the universal vaccination Of all unyaccinatcd
persons.
II has been found, by careful measurement.
that Lake wnncpesaukcc Is exactly 700 feet
above the level Of the sen.
A young lady at Allegheny, Penn, died
icW years ago, and her mother has just been
sent TO an insane asylum, having become raw
ing maniac In consequence Of evidence lately
obtained that her daughter was buried alive.
Springfield, o., q city Of $1,000 inhabitants,
has just completed q 500, 900 opera house.
The President has signed tho papers for the
pardon Of Arnold and Spangler. Also he has
pardon two cotton thieves and . post Office
thief EET r-r
The famine has returned 10 India, and ID
spreading fast In many Of the most Populous
districts. The Government 10 doing what Il
can 10 relieve tho distress by furnishing food
anil employment 10 the really helpless, and
there are some Of the states which posses sur
plus crops large enough 10 export quantities Of
grain to the destitute districts; but II b feared
that before relief systems can be fully organ
irci, starvation will make sad rayages among
the people
A vein Of silvcr yielding forty.seyen per cent.
Of pure metal has been found In Kentucky, ON
the Cumberland River.
While Senator Brownlow Of Tennessee was on
his way 10 Washington. last week. gang Of
rowlics entered the car at Charlottesville, Va,
and commenced 20 abuse him. One drew n
pistol and threatened TO kin him. they were
put out and the truin proceeded. The Lynch
burg papers reviled him In tho most abusive
terms. ,t.t, rt.rr.. rf
Not long ago man In Milwaukee WAS arrest
ed for beating his wifs, and a. he was put In q
cell, was heard to say Il was the first time he
was ever locked up, and he 'thankci God
II wasn't for any mean, dirty crime like get
ting drunk" fet
Lansing, Michigan, has young female bar.
Der. aged fourteen.' She u very popular WIN
the Michigan Legislators.
Gold bracelets, aukleh and rings were ~
Gently found in the stomach Of . crocone ~
Agra. The animal evidently had an aPps''e
or ouns Indian girls.
A Mississippi editor apologies ior as
graphical error Of the prccciing ay, ~"
made him refer With p'ca.urs 70 us .,.;,.h,.
n. .osL.r, az Major Eggicstons hospiiao'e
board" "OysrAowins beaken v" "h" NC
wrote.
An ala English colonel has jast. had . bullet
an Oh FINN hh body which he received at
-. h..,i. az victoria, over 6fiy yean ago. This
minds ~ Of Armss Wards hero, who LIN, |
rsrsIi IN ! lonely Dungeon Cor hf'esn year, until
: iaskv thought struck him one day. when he
opened the door and walked out !