Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-21
GENERAL NEWS.


Dogs paid $1,000 tax in Kentucky, last year
and killed s59, 900 worth of sheep by way Of
balancing the account.
A child has been born in Union City, Mich,
with ono of its knee joints on the back of its
leg, and the other on the side of its other leg.
Private dispatches from Europe represent
that Senator Grimes is failing rapidly, and
that he cannot survive the journey home.
The Wisconsin Legislature has enacted
that pages shall not play leap-frog in the AS
scmbly Chamber, or throw wads of masticated
paper where they are likely to hit the heads
of members. rs--
The friends of the present prohibitory law
met in Boston and passed resolutions looking
to the formation Of a political party based
upon prohibitory principles. E,L5 F&
The Louisville Courier Journal tells thepro-
testing Mormons that when they shall have
once learned the luxury of single wife, they
will be ready to worship Mr.. Cullum as one of
their sweetest saints.
Commodore Stephen Champlin of the Unit
ed States Navy. and the last surviving officer
of the Battle of Lake Erie, where he COM
nanded the Scorpion. from which the first
and the last guns of the battle were fred, lies
dangerously i'll in Buffalo.
The following advertisement has appeared
in several of the Chicago dailies: divorces
legally obtained without appearance in court
or publication in papers. A common article
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According to official statistics the Chinese
have distracted and carried off from the soil
of California sixty-eight millions of gold and
silver in the last fifteen years. They do not
leave much in the country; not even the bones
and sent back to China.
On Tuesday, the 18th inst, the initial step
was taken in the construction of the Northern
Pacific railroad by breaking ground at Dalles,
St. Louis river, Minnesota. Six parties of
engineers are in the field, and 100 men are
already at work.
A lady named Cotton, from the town of
Epinal, in France, claims to be the heir of
Thierry of Venice, who left property estimat-
ed, when Napoleon seized it in Venice, in
1897, as amounting to o,ooO, 900. She has
spent the greater part of her life collecting
evidence. The suit has commenced before
the French Courts. '4s ---.s esr-5-s. ...,.g
The subject of elevating the revenue branch
of the government to the dignity of depart
ment, presided over by Cabinet officer, has
been under discussion on several occasions,
and on Thursday last the Committee Of Ways
and Means, in the House, decided by a vote
of five to four to report in favor of the pro-
posed change.
One of those naughty Southern women who
fed to Brazil when the rebellion WAS crushed,
has written back heartfelt appeal for aid,
saying: "Ifthe American government means
to take us home, hurry and do so, or it will
have the dying curse Of starved Americans.
For Gods sake take the unfortunate, deceived
people out of here while they are able to
walk"
The New York Herald tells of man who
one month used two gas burners, and receiv-
ed a bill of six dollars. He then used fluid
and but one burner, and his bills Immediately
became much larger. Next in despair, he
boldly lighted every burner, and used several
gas stoves, upon which his bill was but five
dollars.
A severe shock of an earthquake took
place at San Francisco ON the 18th, at a
few minutes past noon. The people pour
ed into the streets as soon as the Earring
commenced, and a general panic took
place but nobody was hurt. The shock
lasted seven seconds.
A Belgian, named Thirion, has designed a
new aerial machine. 1t consists of pair of
parallel boards, furnished with sails and con-
nected by jointed rods. Movement is obtained
by the opening and shutting of the sails and
the approximation and shutting of the boards.
The action is kept up by a small steam en-
CINE, which is placed in the back part of the
construction. Hs @N, t&
Experiments with new projectile have
been made at Fortress Monroe. The ordinary
conical shot is bored and charged with pow
der and ball, SO as to become second can
non, and fred by time fuse during its fight.
The smaller shot travels ahead at a greater
speed than the original, and il is suggested to
extend the principle of this invention until our
gunners on the Atlantic coast can practise on
target in China.
The shipments of boots and shoes from
Lynn, Mass, during the week ending Febru-
airy 10th, comprised 5,O6s cases against 1856
for the corresponding week last year. Bust
ness is exceedingly brisk, and there is a
scarcity of those classes of goods most in de-
mand, with consequent upward tendency ia
prices. Buyers are numerous and find diff
Guilty in obtaining goods for immediate de-
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