Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-28
GENERAL NEWS.

voters registered IN Alabama.
GENERAL NEWS.
The sdearest' spot on earth-the store
where they don't advertise.
All the little German school girls are knit
ting soldiers stockings.
The bill to abolish the death penalty has
passed the Vermont House.
Georgia's State debt, so far as can be learn
ed, is nearly seventy millions.
A number of German vessels are blockaded
in Yarmouth harbor by French iron clads.
There is Jewish clothing house in London
that has thirteen stores, and employs II, 900
people.
John Mason, of Fitchbury, won't take ten
the collie. He finds it impossible to 'come to"
after it.
German is TO be taught in the New York
public schools to those who may desire it.
The famous revenue cutter Harriet Lane is
now carrying coal between Elizabethport and
Aspinwal.
Mr.. Perry of Michigan, quotes wives at IS
plus an old shot gun. He sold one of his re-
Gently at that figure.
A lady reporter goes to church and writes
up 'Style in the Sanctuary" for one of the
Chicago papers.
The Primitive Baptists of southwest Geor-
gia announce that they will excommunicate
any member who takes advantage of the bank
rupt or homestead law.
Mrs. Moddler never could for the life of
her understand what High Churchman was
until she heard of French Minister being
up in balloon.
The Telegraph says that if the children dis
appear in other towns as they have disappeared
in the Brunswick School District, it is no
cause for wonder that the increase of popu-
Iation in the State has been so small.
cruel mother in Indiana recently captured
and married her daughters intended, whereat
the yourg lady by way of revenge, set off
half doz n punches of fire-crackers under
the bridal couch.
A resident of Bennington was nearly chok-
ed to death, SO that surgical aid was necessa-
ry, by what proved to be charley beard"
which had passed into his throat while drink
ing pure Mocha coffee.
The Liberal Christian publishes an appeal
for 500, 900 to build National Unitarian
Church at Washington city, ignoring the local
disagreements and providing for the wants of
the general body of Unitarians.
An aged couple, each between &C and 20
years of age, living in Central New York.
have gone into the courts with divorce suit.
all because of a quarrel about poodle dog.
Yet they are said to be respectable and intel
ligent people.
An ancient tunnel to an iron mine has been
discovered near the village of Brsokside,
Morris county, N. J. Considerable excite
ment has been created by the discovery. The
tunnel taps a valuable vein OF iron ore, to
which the only access was before by deep
shafts, sunk at heavy expense from the top
of the hill.
An Indianapolis paper thus sums up the
divorce market: Brisk competition among
lawyers has brought down the price of d.
vorces very low in this market We quote
Common separation, SIS; small alimony $50
to $780, There are but few of the latter in the
market. General business Is good and in
creasing.
The Bellefontine (Pa.) Waterman says;
'The Clearfield Fair consisted of a calf, a
goose. and a pumpkin. We are told that it
raned SO hard the first night that the goose
swan off, the calf broke loose and ate up the
pumpkin, and thief proving around stole
the calf, and that ended the fair"