The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-07-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

George II. wilson, for eighteen years Super
inteudent Of the United States Marine Hospital
at Portland, died Of apoplcxy Mt his home In
Williamsburg, N. Y. on Saturday.
The boys will regret to learn that Captain
Mayne Reid Is sufferer by severe and dan.
perous malady, and his life can only be saved
BY difficult surgical operation. lie Is now In
a hospital In New York for this purpose.
Two Georgians have turned up claimants to
ephty-two millions Of dollars In property To-
Gated In New York city. This valuable estate
begins at the corner Of Broadway and Canal
street, and the claimants are going to law for
II. They claim that II was leased for only one
hundred years, and that the lease expires
shortly. They claim to be heirs Of the original
owners.
Two gentlemen Of color who arrived at St.
Adams, VI. on the train recently, found that
the lock Of their trunk had given way, and they
attempted to play sharp game on the railroad
by demanding pay for four new suits OF clothes
that they claimed had been taken out. An ex-
animation Of the trunks developed the fact that
they were 90 full that nothing could be added.
The darkeys suddenly departed.
A lady died the other day from taking an
overdose Of camphor, which Is usually cons Id
cred very safe medicine.
A man named Anton Ethinger disappeared
from his boarding house In Springfield last win
ter, and soon after body was found In the Con-
nectcut river, which was recognized and claim.
ed by Ethinger's friends as his. II was buried
with appropriate ceremonies, and the effects OF
the supposed deceased were distributed among
his relatives Recently Ethinger unexpectedly
turned up and nearly frightened his friends to
death, some Of them rushing out OF doors on
his appearance. He insists that he Is not and
has not been dead, and the proof Ia altogether
in his favor.
An English athletic recently died under the
blow OF q sledge hammer against which he sus-
tanned marble block on bis breast.
Sacramento has on exhibition sixteen
pound lump of pure gold, taken from the mines
near Shasta. Its value Is about $1,000, and 1t
is said to be entirely free from quarts or other
impurities.
Mr.. John o. Pillsbury Is to be the new War.
den Of the New Hampshire State Prison. HIS
brother holds similar position at Albany, New
York.-"No more Undertook houses" Is Man.
chester's motto since the recent disastrous con-
a,gration in that cty.-In one day last week
1886 pounds Of butter were shipped from New
Haven, VT. The cheese factory at North Ferris
burgb daily converts 60OO quarts Of milk into
cheese.-G. @. Benedict, Of Burlington, will be
the orator. and John g. SAKE. the poet at the
annual meeting Of the Editors and Publishers
Association at St. Adams, August lin
North King,town, R. l., on Friday night last,
Mrs. Eliza A. Smith. wife Of farmer In that
town, took from their beds her two children,
aged respectively three years and eleven weeks,
and drowned them In drain water cistern, and
then drowned herself. The father WAS sleeping
in another bed at the time with Ave year old
son, and was not aroused. Temporary insanity
Is supposed to DO the cause Of the terrible trag-
edy.-wsterbury, Conn.,, has free library
with an endowment Of 500, 900.
II Is estimated by some mathematical genius
that Il would require canal Eve miles long,
hfty feet deep and two hundred feet broad to
hold the beer annually consumed In Europe.
Hon. John Wentworth Of Chicago has prcseut-
al the Social Fraternity Of New Hampton
Academy, N. II. with two hundred and odd val
liable books. Mr.. W. was one Of the founders
Of the Society. 49, ..... be-.
A collision occurred between thu down mall
train and up accommodation train on the North
eru road last Wednesday at Pilsbury's switch
pearCanaan station,N II. Chprles Clark Of Con
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