Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-06
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The ice on the Alpine mountains is at places
| GOO feet thick.
Cornell numbers among the freshmen two
Sibcrians.
japanese eggs are Ssh dozen in Europe.
But they are those of the silk-worm, which
are scarce.
An Ilinoisan, missing eight years, has just
been found in skeleton form, through death
bed confession of his murderer.
Several young ladies in Hartford are under
the surgeons care for distortion of the feet
supposed to be caused by wearing hgh-hceled
shoes.
Victoria's letters on business will one day
furnish valuable contribution to the secret
history of England.
BY the pay roll of the army bill in the Sen
ate the General receives Sl2 900 and the
Lieutenant General $4,000
The farmers have discovered indications of
an immense apple crop the coming season,
and we hope their prophecies may prove true.
The British Museum has cost the govern
ment nearly $40, 600, 900, and it now requires
nearly 5000, 900 year to maintain it.
1t is estimated that the Cuban sugar crop
will be fifteen per cent. less this season than
last The grinding is nearly finished.
A bust of Mecanas, the former patron Of
the Latin poets Horace and Virgil, dug up in
1922 at Herculaneum, has been given to Har-
ward College.
Mr.. Benz. G.. Harris, who recently announ-
ced himself as an independent candidate for
Congress in the Fifth district of Maryland, has
thought better of it, and now withdraws from
the canvass.
Hon. John T. Nixon, of New Jersey, has
been confirmed by the Senate as United
States judge for the district of New Jersey,
vice r. S. Field resigned.
The children of Edward Everett have given
bronze and red sandstone, to be placed at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery.
Brigham Young, in his latest reported SER
mon at Salt Lake, gave his opinion adversely
to any idea of leaving Salt Lake City for
new location further south.
The prisoners in Jersey Jail felt such re-
pugnance to associating with a new conner,
that they drowned him in the bath room few
mornings since.
The Republican Judicial Convention held
in Rochester, N. Y, on Thursday, nominated
Mason, Charles Andrews, Charles J. Folger
and Robert S. Hale for Associates.
The fishing interests Of Sheboygan, Wis
consin, are considerable. There are 40 nets
and dozen seines employed, worth S32 900,
and employment is furnished to about $50
persons, the yield of trout and white fish be-
ing about Sl04 900.
Two loving hearts have been made one in
Illinois, after separation of sixty five years,
during which time each has been twice we'd
ded and widowed. When they parted in an
ger the swain was Is and the maiden l6.
Very weak phosphoric acid is a strong poi
son for all kinds of insects, ana yet helps
plants, by adding to the soluble phosphates in
the soil, and can do them no harm. Exten-
sive use of it is predicted in agriculture.
The customers in BARRIERS shop in St.
Louis few days ago were much alarmed be-
cause frightened horse chose to dash through
the window. They fed in dismay, followed
by the barber. The horse then paused and
calmly surveyed the scene.
A citizen of Arkansas recently said 70 a
traveller in that State, ''Thngs are getting to
be too nice here for comfort. Why, even the
church committee of this town, in advertiser
for preacher, said he must not only be a
Christian, but also man of good moral char
acter"
Cleveland, Ohio, has menagerie elephant
of remarkable sensitiveness. lie accidentally
killed a smaller elephant in the show, and
since then tears are continually streaming
from his eyes and low murmur of grooming
is heard. His keeper says he knows as well
as man that he is the cause of his mates death.
SIS my face dirty?" asked young lady
from the backwoods, while seated with her
aunt at the dinner table on steamboat run
ming from Cairo 10 New Orleans. DIRTY !!
No. Why do you ask ?" because that in
sulting waiter insists upon putting towel be-