Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-16
GENERAL NEWS.

Texas farmers are sowing much wheat this
year.
| The manufacture of "spruce gum is a new
source Of profit in coal oil reineries.
| San Francisco has IL ST. Chinese inhabi-
tants, of whome 3,040 are females.
The Egyptians, two thousand years ago,
could make fine linen cloth of quality equal
to any that is now worn.
The Pope has fixed his compensation for
the improvements made by him in Rome at
5 ZOO, 900 of Italian lire.
| milk dealer in Louisville was recently
| fined SIS and costs for having sold milk dilu-
ted to Is per cent, below the legal standard.
1t is reported that the Hon. Charles Francis
Adams is about to build an elegant residence
in Boston, at an estimated cost Of 100000
Cinnamon are to be prevented from trout
fishing in California. The net used by them
is so perfect that when they cease fishing in a
stream there is no fish left
Minnie Batham, of Wheeling, who took the
/
meted to him the penalty of death, has been ac-
Quilted OF the murder
A steerage passenger from Europe was de-
tected with four thousand dollars worth OF
diamonds in his tobacco box, which he in
tended to smuggle.
The New Haven water companies have had
| katto. l,,Ir th;S f,Il in cnpplr III nu thair
toners with eels than with water. So says
the Post.
A number of ladies in Jersey City have
formed themselves into an association ''for
the dissemination of better knowledge of
the human system and laws of life"
An Indiana woman has applied for her
seventh divorce. She says she dosen't be-
lieve she will ever get husband to suit her,
but means to try it again.
A silver mine in Sterling, Mass, which has
nst been "worked' since the commencement
of the revolutionary war; has been leased to
parties who propose to reopen it at once.
A great monument in honor of the army
ana navy, lot tuel piiiIidHt Suoits uuiih the
late war, is to be erected on Boston common.
1t will be thiriy-two feet wide, eighty feet
high, and cost SIS 900.
Two of the Reno railroad robbers have
arrest of the remainder of them. About
! $40, 900 of the money taken at the first rob-
! berry on the Pacific Railroad has been recov-
cred.
The Congregational Church at North Glas-
tonbury, CT, boasts of deacon eighty-five
years of age, who has never lost tooth, never
had The toothache or headache, or any of the
aches ''to which flesh is heir
An elaborate dog-bill in fifteen or sixteen
sections is before the Vermont House of Rep
resentatives. 1t lays tax of two dollars on
every male dog, and tax of double that
amount on female dogs.
California has just been favored with a
specimen of oriental justice. In San Ber-
nardino county, few days since, Chinese
woman committed petty theft, whereupon
she was seized by party Of her conntrymen,
tied to a stake and burned to death.
English papers complain that the half-penny
postal cards, which have recently been intro
duced. are developing good geal of latent
blackguardism, the opportunity of sending
open messages of an insulting character
through the post-ofiice being apparently ire
sistible.
Jerry Dunn, who murdered James Logan
/ No. 2, in New York, last December, which
Logan had previously murdered Mr.. Rogers
of the same city, has been arrested in st
Louis after long and sharp pursuit by de-
| tectives, and taken to New York for trial.