Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-27
GENERAL NEWS.

was caught IN a tray last week III l1oiuerhess,
New Hampshire.
Advertisements are read with great avidity
at this season of the year, as novelties are
offered for sale in many departments of bust
ness.
A gentleman named Brown once observed
in company that he had toasted lady for
twelve months, and yet had little hopes OF
ever making her Brorn.
French window glass is advancing with other
importations from that country.
A party of respectable Chicago ladies have
formed society for retaining dissipated
young men.
Thursday of last week was the thirty-ff
anniversary of the mob which led VIM. Lloyd
| Garrison through the streets of Boston with
rope around his neck.
George Francis Train arrived at Marseilles
| and created great excitement by making
| speech in which he denounced the Prussians
| in the most bitter terms.
| Gen. G.. W. Curtis Lee, now professor in
the Virginia military institute. will probably
succeed his father in the presidency of Wash
ington college.
Eight vessels and eighty lives have been
lost thus far this year in the fishing business
from the port of Gloucester.
In Wisconsin there are probably not fewer
than twenty thousand women at work in the
field. They are not only Germans, Irish and
Scandnavans, but Yankees: not only the
| poor, but thousands of the fair and intelligent
| classes.
A man in Buffalo pulled off his coat and
| Jumped in the canal to save woman from
| drowning, when piekpocket stole his pocket
| book from his coat, and the woman abused
him TOR pulling her hair in his efforts to save
her life.
pupil in one of the schools in Beverly
was in the act of sitting down, on Thursday
forenoon, when the shock of earthquake
shook the building which the teacher attribut-
ed to the manner in which the lad took his
seat, for which offence he was required to
stand three-quarters OF an hour.
A doctor was very much annoyed by an old
lady who always stopped him on the street to
| tell him of other ailments. Once she met him
when he was in great hurry. 'Ah! l see
you're quite feeble" said the doctor 'Shut
your eyes and show me your tongue" She
obeyed, and the DOCTOR moving off, left her
standing there in that ridiculous position.
The Mayor of New London, Conn, order
| Cd lnm nd RI laoy
the city, last week. on the ground that they
were an intolerable nuisance, and COM
mittec of citizens have invited them to return
and propose to test the Mayors right to drive
them from the city.
new submarine four-wire cable has just
been laid between Ireland and Scotland, by
way of Donaghadee and Port Patrick, and in
few weeks sevenwire cable is to be laid
to England, by way of IIowth and Holyhead.
With the existing seven-wre cable to Scot
land from Whitehead, county Antrim, and
also the four-wire cable to England from Wex-
ford, there will be total of twenty-five wires
! between Ireland and Great Britain.
A woman has been imposing on the Nashua
BILE chemical preparation for the removal of
warts, pimples, corns and moles. She was
smart enough to sell large quantity at a
! dollar bottle. 1t has since transpired that
the wonderful remedy consisted of 'molasses
and wafer and small quantity of sassatras
for one vial, and soapsuds and arnca for the
second-to be well shaken before applied"
The eight hundred thousand silk worms in
the cocoonery at Salt Lake City consume thirty
bushels Of mulberry leaves per day.
The following is the total result of the pie
biscite in the Roman provinces: Number of
voters on the lists, l67 ,54S number who voted,
1875 pol number who voted Eyes" 1865
number who voted NO" 1907; votes annull-
cd 1903.
The French Postoffce authorities have an
nounccd that they will despatch balloons with
private correspondence as regularly as the
weather will permit.
Four of the crew of <he New Bedford whal
ing ship Robert Edwards are arraigned in the
United States court in New York, on charge
of setting fire to the ship on the high seas in
July last.
"Mr Smith," said lawyer to his landlord,
''if a man to give you five hundred dol
lars to keep for him, and he died, what would
You do? would you pray for him." 'No,
SIR" replied Mr. Smith, "Pd pray for anoth-
err like him.
Letters from Port au Prince, Oct. s, state
that President Baez has either been assassi-
mated by his own people, or he has fled from
the city of st. Domingo. The Presidency
has been offered to w. Delmonte, but his ac-
ceptance has not been made public. 1t is al
so reported that Baez has committed suicide,
and perfect panic prevails at st. Domingo.
The case of the Twenty year Sleeping
Beauty is pronounced humbug by COM
mittee of investigation.