Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

OLNGAdG I'VE " Ne
A New Hampshire apple tree bore forty-six
bushels. What borer!
IT'S sweet to know that there is enough
sugar in Paris to last long while yet Elk.
Davenport, Iowa, supplies the lack of other
amusements with ''shiverees.
French balloons, with fair wind, travel as
fast as an express train.
A Pennsylvania oil man lost set OF tools
in we'll, year ago, blu. the earthquake
threw them out.
The largest farm in England contains 5000
acres. The live stock is valued at SCI 800.
The custom revenues of Havana during the
past wear shows an increase of 100000
over last year.
Bradford N. Stevens. who was elected to
Congress in place of Ingersoll in Illinois, is
very ill, and his friends have little hope of
his recovery.
..Give me your chunk of licorice before
YOU 20, Johnny" has succeeded the Button
String ballad in the affections of Western
warblers.
The opening of the theatres in Paris is
military provision, to prevent the troops and
the populace from dwelling too much on their
situation
The Canterbury Shakers have just put a
cabinet organ in their worship room-the first
musical instrument they have ever owned.
A Hillsborough Bridge (New Hampsbire)
farmer named Wellington has made at his
cider mill the past season one thousand six
hundred barrels.
A Troy paper lately got two headings ex-
changed, and an obituary of long time patron
was heralded as "a Good Joke" and funny
story was called "A Sad Announcement"
In Harrisburg the policemen regard it AZ
beneath their dignity to light and put out tho
street lamps. The Mayor tells them that they
must perform this duty or be discharged.
The British Guardian states that the BishsI
of Gloucester makes frequent use of the half
penny postal cards in his correspondence will
his clergy, and that most bis communica
tons are written in Latin.
1T is pleasant thing to reflect upon, say
Dickens, ''and furnishes a complete answe
to those who contend for the gradual degeu
GRAFTON of the human species, that every bah,
born into the world is finer one than tn
last"
maiden has fallen in love with Mr.. Joh
L. Owens, the comedian, who follows hir
from place to place, and complains that Will
he is ready to make engagements with every
She says to John, ''whle live must Low
you"
The late Silas T. Burrows, Of Mystic
Conn, left a will which covers over fort,
pages OF fools cap. The cost of making thre
copies will be about fifty dollars. Severa
executors were named in his WILL all Of whom
have declined to serve, and the Court Of Pro
bate has appointed an administrator.
The famous Flint Coolidge dressmakinl
case at Boston is finally settled. Mrs. Flyn
abandoned her exceptions TO Judge Reed
rulings, on which it would have been possbl
to carry the case 10 the Supreme Court, an
has accepted from MIR. Coolidge the amour
ofthe verdict OF the jury and the legal cost
belonging to her in addition.
Nilsson as a flower seller at the New Yor
French fair was as great success as Nisso
in music. In her hands little nosegay whic
on the street corners may be had fot tt n cent
was considered cheap at five dollars, an
certain, flowers worn in her beautiful hair wer
carried off as prize at the price of fit
doliars.
The pstIos of war correspondents extend
even to the description Of carrier pigeons th'
reach Paris "blood-stained and weary.
Surely some special providence watches owe