Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-02
GENERAL NE VS..

The Turkish government has gone INTO the
OBJ printing business, and runs sixteen steam
presses. .-..
One Of the editors of the Detroit Free
Press, the leading Democratic Journal OF
Michigan, is a colored man.
The Boston ard Maine Railroad Company
has decided to build double track from North
Andover to Haverhill.
Gen. Sylvanus Thayer has promised to give
the town of Braintrec, Mass, $4,000 for a
public library, if the citizens will appropri-
ate an equal amount.
Michael Howard, the first colored cadet at
West Point, arrived there on Tuesday. lie
is from Mississippi and is of purely African
descent. He was received rather coldly by
the cadets but persevered, and gave promise
of being able to fight it out on his own line
In Providence, the other day, man refus-
ed to pay his three weeks brides fine for
drunkenness. He said she was "a pretty fair
sort of woman" but he was afraid OF estab-
fishing bad precedent; so she went to jail.
Russia, which hitherto has been in the hab-
it of buying her artillery abroad, particular
ly at the German works of krupp, at Essen
is now in possession of a factory for war ma
terial at Perm, in no way inferior to those OF
other nations.
The Chinese companies of San Francisco
have decided to discourage the emigration OF
their countrymen to California, and have
drawn up circular to that effect, to be post
ed in all the principal towns and cities OF the
Celestial empire.
The white miners at Bannock, Montana,
have organized for the purpose of driving the
Cinnamon from the mines. They fear that
cheap labor will take the place of the five and
six dollars a day labor of former years.
number of capitalists in New York pro-
pose to build bridge from Ellis Island, In
the harbor of that city, to Staten Island
This bridge, the construction of winch Is
deemed practicable by competent engineers,
would shorten the time between New \ ork
and Philadelphia some half hour
Snake stories are now in season. Inc
Bates County Democrat says young man
near Butler Mo-, came across rattlesnake,
which he cut in three pieces with grubbing-
hoe. and afterward was badly bitten by one OF
the pieces.
1t is said that the defeated Democratic cam
ddate for Governor of Iowa at the last cleo
ton has recently lost $50, 900 in pork specula-
lions. and is half inclined to believe that mis-
fortunes never come single.
The French claim the honor of having con-
structed the first locomotive. 1t was made
by one Crugnot in 1850, the same eventful
year which was the birth of Napoleon L.,
Wellington, Humboldt, and several other eel
ebrated characters. This first engine is still
reserved in the Conservative des Arts ct Me-
| teirs at Paris.
| Among the Sunday school children OF
| certain church was poor little fellow. He
could not tell the number of the house in
which he lived, and was charged when he next
came to school to bring it. The next time
he appeared he was asked if he had brought
the number. 'No sir, " said he, ''it was nail
ed on the door SO tight that could not get it
off,"
Houston papers describe factory where
beeves are killed, the meat roasted, and then
packed for Shipment Here is what is said
about the oven where the roastiugis done
The oven will hold eight or ten steers at
time, and will roast twenty day. The build
ings are calculated for one hundred beeves a
day, and space has been left for more ovens
like the one constructed. 1t is intended to
increase the business as fast as a market can
be created for the meat. On tho premises
purchased there are sites just as convenient
as this one, for nine more establishments OF
the same size, and the business will be in
creased as fast as market can be found tor
the roast beet, up to one thousand cattle day,
or any number that can be sold, up to thai
amount.