Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-29
GENERAL NE VS..


They have a grls's base ball club at Lam
caster, Ohio.
Lord Napier is appointed to the command
of the English armies.
Albany, Ga. is the prospective centre OF
seven railroads.
Evening drawing schools are to be estab-
lished in Boston.
A sign in Burlington, Iowa, reads as fol-
lows: New Style of Photographs, by A.
Pancake"
The cotton crop of last year was the sixth
largest which has ever been made in the
United States.
.Salts of demoniac" were recently called
for at country drug store in Western Massa-
chusetts.
Louisville girls eat onion iozenges to dis
courage young men whom they don't care to
cultivate.
Gratz Brown, governor elect of Missouri,
is described as small, homely, red-haired
man, but his wife is said to be handsome
enough for both.
One Mrs. w. C. johnson is lecturing in In
diana on "MaA in the Raw" We presume
the man will be well-done before Mrs. j. gets
through with him.
Major Emery is negotiating for the resi-
dence ofthe late Secretary Stanton, on Frank
lin square, Washington, for which his heirs
ask sixty thousand dollars.
The. Laconia IN. H. Democrat declaims
as follows: ''Meat in Paris is sold at a less
price than it is here. VIII somebody declare
war and lay seige to this placer"
The paper makers of Massachusetts, are
reaping some advantages from the French
war, as orders have recently been given out
for large amount of cartridge paper
Fulton county, Indiana, has a musical pro-
dizzy in the person of boy four years ole,
who plays difficult operate selections on the
piano. and is addicted to marvellous perform
ances on the violin.
Madison, Wis.,, is said to have the heaviest
chief of police in the United States. He is
an ambitious rival of General Scots gigantic
proportions. Very few offenders care to test
his strength.
The porter of one of the Chicago hotels.
an Industrious and very saving man, has
amassed snug little fortune of twenty lhous-
and dollars from his salary and perquisites,
during the last fifteen years.
The Boston Cullivator says gentleman
farming is humbug. OF course it is
There might as well be gentlemen" tailors
or thinkers, or gentlemen" pork packers or
shipping merchants.
The Bloomfield, Indiana, dogs have been
well brought up. They all go to church. The
Democrat says a procession of about twenty
marched up to the pulpit of the Methodist
Episcopal church, last Sunday, during the
service.
Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock, who
was married a few weeks ago, we understand,
received from Mr.. Peabody the sum of So,
900. The money was placed in trust for the
benefit of the young lady; therefore Ida was
not dowerless bride.
OF the 1877 Chinese in San Francisco,
there is not one who cannot read and write.
OF the Irish population of the city, 6,Ss5 can
do neither, nine native Americans are equally
deficient, but there is not Frenchman or
German who cannot do both.
The Jewish Post is the title OF a somewhat
remarkable newspaper just established at
New York 1t is printed in Hebrew char
acter, but is written in a patois made up of
Hebrew and broken German, which neither
German nor a Hebrew scholar is able to read
| 1t has been started to meet the wants of a
large class of Jews, especially those coming
from Russian Poland, who understand no
regular language, and can read no other pa
per published in the country.
\ lady in Dexter closes her report upon
dairy products, as member of a committee at
the agricultural fair as follows;
''The cheese the lady has made is public
benefit. The richest and the poorest person
in the State are benefited by that cheese as
much in proportion, as they are by the fruits
of our broad acres. The day is not far distant
when those rich ladies that have never solca
their hands by labor, whose silks you can hear
rustic and whose diamonds you can see
sparkle, will envy the dairy ladies their posi-
ton.
"Hurrah for the worker, he decketh them all
He tolls for the great in the land;
The rubies and pearls round tie lady's fair neck,
Are twned by the laborers hand"
| During the past few weeks the yellow fever,