Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Boston has now forty frst-class grammar
schools, exclusive of Dorchester.
"A Cincinnati druggist declares that there are
no less than one thousand arsenic eaters in
that city.
The cotton crop in Georgia and Florida Is
said by the local papers to be unusually back
ward this year.
The theatre at Pompeii, after an interval of
1900 years, has been reopened with 1.-The
Child of the Regiment"
Georgia fruit growers are indignant that
they have been buying young poplars for
peach trees.
A wealthy man in Brooklyn hanged him
self because he had chronic rheumatism, and
despaired of getting well.
More than $4,000 packages of teas were
landed at Boston wharves week before last.
young fellow in Illinois broke his neck
as he was unloading the furniture for his new
house, and was buried on his wedding day.
A man in McGregor, Iowa, to be revengcd
on his neighbor, went to his barn and cut his
horses ears off.
The tiler of ferry boat sunk twenty seven
years ago near St. John, N. b., has Just been
fished up in good state of preservation.
A Vermontcr, on a bet, has agreed to har-
ness himself in a sulky, and draw man
weighing l60 pounds mile in fifteen minutes.
A bill allowing three dollars to railway pas
sengers, for every days unreasonable delay
of their baggage, has been passed by the Iowa
Legislature.
An infant child, named Libby, was killed at
Charlestown, Mass, last week, by an over
dose of opium, administered under the direc-
ton of an ignorant apothecary clerk.
visitor to the Patent Office has come to the
conclusion that the old axiom ought to be re-
versed so as to read Invention is the mother
Of necessity"
A Jersey newspaper advcrtises ga first
rate milk-a and water COW, warran ted, with the
assistance of good pump, to yield eighteen
quarts day, and on Sunday nineteen
Four volcanic cratcrs have been discovered
in the island of Cheduba, through one of
which mud, strongly tainted with petroleum,
bubbles up.
4 number of prominent Irishmen are about
called the IIbernia bank. The capital stock
will be half million dollars 100000 of
which has been already subscribed.
There is a gang of petty thieves in Paris
called rations-rats. They are almost chill
dren, and creep into houses at every un-
guarded opening to rob them.
Columbus, Ohio, is excited over a stranger
who has been there year, paying his hotel bills
regularly, and whose only business is to walk
sixteen miles every day.
General Jourdan will return to New York
from Cuba in few days, the time for which
he enlisted in the Cuban service having ex-
PRED. ss
Among the survivors of the Oncdia's crew,
who have arrived at San Francisco, is one of
the gunners who fired the alarm guns as that
ship was sinking. He is a Scotchman, and
has been ordered to Washington to give his
testimony.
A couple of Washington gals threw guam
tity of cayenne pepper in the face of corner
lounger who SAID ''shoo fly" to them as they
passed him the other day.
1t is said that the Emperor of Russia has
repeatedly had attacks of delirum tremens.
During these attacks he is always tortured by
the belief that he murdered his father, Nicho-
las, and poisoned his oldest son.