Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-07-29

drenched in human blood ere the presant war
is over. The rush of the great armies of both
nations is to that famous river. The Prussian
fortresses may be said to line its banks, while
the territory which France covets in order to
.srectify her frontier" and complete her 4nat-
ural boundary" lies along its eastern bank
A Chicago paper is responsible for the story
that few days since some boys in that city
dropped an anvil weighing two hundred pounds
out of fourth story window on the head of an
African who was passing, and he had them ar
rested. He said he was willing to let the boys
have fun, but when they jammed a ''gemman's"
hat down over his eyes and spoiled it in that
way the law must take its course.
The Rev. John S. C. Abbott is faithful to
his old service. In four solid columns of the
New Haven journal he laboriously fails to
prove that Napoleon is a patient, long suffer
ing much abused innocent, whom Prussia has
been provoking by injustice of every kind, till
at last the French nation has forced its ruler
into the war. Bad as the exhibition is, it be-
comes pitiable when we observe that Abbott
really seems to believe it.
Americans are said to be The greatest wear
ers Of gloves of any nation in the world.
Our railroad statistics show more strikingly
than any other evide nee the wonderful growth
of the country. The railroads of the United
States in 1851 did not exceed 5000, 900 tons,
and the total earnings from freight and passen-
In fbo
tonnage of all our railways exceeded 100 ,0OO,-
600 tons and their earnings from this source
equalied $500, 900, 900. 1t is notice ,ble that
the increase in tonnage during this period has
been twenty-fold, while the increase in the
earnings has been but fifteen-fold, thus evil
dencing the important fact that notwithstand-
ing the general rise in all values since 1851,
there has been considerable decrease in the
cost of railroad transportation.
The aggregate appropriation of this year
for the Agricultural Department is 8l35, ,2s0
|, This department was created in May, 1862
and the appropriations for the first year of its
existence, were but $4,000.
Laselle's Butcher Boy died while racing at
the Fashion Course Saturday. Loss $4,000.
The heat at Philadelphia Monday was in
tense, the thermometer being 96' in the shade
Fifteen cases of sun-stroke were reported,
seven of which proved fatal Several mad
dogs were shot. As Mrs. Margaret Seefer
was walking on Fifteenth street, some person
cried out ''mad dog" She turned and saw
the dog Immediately behind her and fell dead
from fright.
San Francisco swells have adopted high
heeled boots.
A German mass meeting in behalf Of the
Prussian cause was held in Faneuil Hall, Bos-
ton, Wednesday evening Speeches in Ger
man were made by Professor E. c. Krauss
and S. r. Kohler, and in English by the Rev.
DIR. Hedge and the Hon. Thomas Russell.
Resolutions were adopted and much enthusi-
asm was manifested.
Where therefore lies the German land
Name now at last that mighty land,
Where'er resounds the German tongue
Where German hymns to God are sung;
There gallant brother take thy stand,
That Is the Germans Fatherland.
That is his land, the land of lands,
Where vows bind less than clasped hands,
Where valor lights the flashing eye,
Where love and truth in deep hearts lie
And zeal enkinded freedom band,-
There is the German Fatherland
That is the German Fatherlandl
Great God look down and bless that land,
And give her noble children souls
To cherish while existence rolls,
And love with hearts, and ad with hand,