Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-26
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
\ Wilmington On. c., physician has lady
patient who complains of Filtration of the
| heart
Boston refused to appoint committee to
extend the inequalities of the city to"7rinee
Arthur.
England has permanent pension of twenty
thousand dollars per year for the heirs of Will
| liam Penn.
The first number Of the Minnesota Tiding,
a Swedish newspaper of Republican politics,
has just appeared in St. Paul
Mrs. Ambrose visited Randall's Island ON
Thursday to effect the release of her boy and
while waiting for his discharge fell dead.
A Kansas City (Mo.,) paper of the 18th
instant prints marriage notice followed by
the words mo carda, no cake, nobody's bust
ness"
| Thirteen pieces of gold were found inside
of fowl killed at Stonington, CT, the other
day. They were supposed to have been orig
inally gold beads.
Louisiana planters are renting their lands for
an average of seventy five pounds of lint cot
ton per acre, the tenants to furnish everything
| Over thousand houses have been built at
Charlotte, n. c., since the war. and yet the
population is increasing rapidly that more
will soon be necessary.
| Next spring will develop, it is believed,
cooperative factories among nearly all kinds
of mechanics. The taiors and shoemakers
are preparing to establish, on the cooperative
principle, several of the largest establishments
imaginable
A member of the Wyoming Legislature,
seeking to sustain point of order, jerked his
coat off, with-"Mr Speaker, if some relia-
Bile man will hold these duds, I'll teach him
that he is out of order" The point was sus-
tanned.
Mark Twain says that one of the earliest
nabobs in Nevada wore $4,000 worth of dia-
monds on his shirt bosom, and complained of
his hard lot because he couldn't spend his
money as fast as he made it, Within years
time his happiness was secure, for he had not
a cent to spend.
| From the following it will be seen that there
is some prospect of duel. The scene is laid
in Patcka, Ind: Mr.. Leroy Church Sir
l think that you did me great inJure By
Shutting the door on me yesterday Sir think
My self far above you and you Want Salts
faction youwill pleas to meet on Same Crowds
With your pistol John B Tannery"
| A young woman who resides in the town of
New Harmony, Indiana boasts that she has
broken twenty-seven engagements of marriage
in five years. She has the rings that once at
tested to these engagements hung up in her
headquarters and to these she points as
does the red man to his string of scalps.
A man named Speight, calling himself the
Lord Jesus Christ" about ten months ago
arrived in Southington, CT, from Baltimore,
having wife and two children in the latter
place, and persuaded two females to go with
him, they believing him to be The being he
represented. He made great deal of dis
turbance in families in that and adjacent towns,
and finally was forced to leave, to escape the
virtuous indignation of the people. A day or
two since he returned, and on Monday even
ing committee waited upon him, and taking
him to the centre of the town, rode him on
rail, and were about to apply coat of tar and
feathers, when he begged so hard that he was
released on promise that he would immedi-
ately leave town. He was then escorted to
his team, into which he packed himself and
female chattels, and left amid the jeers, gibes
and groans of the assembled people. One of
his misguided women has since started off
after him, bag and baggage.