Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-11

was decided not to organize, and the move
! ment is doubtless dead.
! The cold east winds of Boston are very
destructive of human life. Last year, it is
stated, they imposed fatal forms of consump-
ton upon GIG persons, and killed TAG. with
bronchitis.
Kentucky is having veritabe tempest in
teapot" Senator McCreery lately wrote a
long letter charging all sorts of political ras-
cality against Governor Stevenson and the
latter has just come out with a reply which
fills nearly whole page of the Kentucky
papers.
Another Mazzinianplot, so-called, has been
discovered at Turin. Placards were found
Live the Republic" &C., and number of
bombs were discovered in private houses.
1t is asserted that there never was a better
"stand" of wheat in North Georgia and Ala
bama at this season of the year than there is
now. There was fully the usual amount put
in last fall, the ground was, as general
thing better prepared than had been customary
in former years, and there is every reason to
hope for a good crop at the next harvest.
noticeable feature in the revival of free
public schools in many of the Southern
States is the demand for educational reports
and school laws and all printed matter con-
tanning information relating to school systems
The calls on the Office of Education from
school officers alone are greater than it is able
to supply.
1t is stated in the New Orleans Price
Current that the increase in the number of
acres now under cultivation in Louisiana is
from fifteen to twenty per cent. over the area
planted last year. The planters are pushing
forward their field work as speedily as posi-
BILE, considering the great scarcity of laborcrs,
and other disadvantages. Should the season
continue favorable, a large increase in the
sugar product may be anticipated.
Eighty persons who were compromised in
the promiscuous arrests at the Paris riots of
January are still in prison, and the Judges
seem ready to take no action in their case.
This fact creates much Indignation in France.
The landowners in Ireland now never go
abroad without guns in their hands, and the
wealthiest generally have a corps of soldiers
picketed upon their estate. These soldiers
say that their own lives are endangered, and
in many cases refuse to serve.
Detroit was visited the other day ly a
twelve-year old boy who, at the railroad sta
tion took chair unlocked his satchel. made
a dinner of piece of bread and herring,
and then brought out his pipe for a quiet
smoke, and asked in regard to the induce
ments held ont in Detroit for boy about his
size. Not finding the information to his lik
ing, he picked up his satchcl, knocked the
ashes from his pipe on the heel of his old
shoe, and passed out, remarking that he
would go to Chicago.
Minnesota has a large Scandinavian popu-
amounting, it is said, to about GO 200, or one
eighth of the whole. This total is distributed
among the different nationalities follows;
10000 are Norwegians, $4,000 Swedes and
5000 Danes. These people are among the
most industrious and law abiding in the State
They are generally farmers, and seek the
country districts Immediately upon their ar
rival. They are sober and intelligent, and,
it is needless to add, almost always Republi-
can in politics.
Among the new discoveries of the mineral
wealth of Missouri is the probability of us
ing what is commonly called glass tiff in the
production of a material for the manufacture
of putty. 1t is said that the new material
absorbes no oil, and posses greater adhesive
properties. A new mill for the manufacture,
which is distinct from the reduction of barytcse
is now being erected at Nineland, forty seven
miles south of St. Louis.
The Richmond Capitol, the downfall of
which has caused such an appalling loss
of life, was built at the close of the Rev
olution, and, though badly arranged and
announcement, was not without architect
ural beauty. Seen from distance it bore
a striking resemblance to the ancient Par
thcnon at Athens. OF course many his