Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-19
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
There is man in New Hampshire who has
voted at the annual elections seventy nine
times.
The mysterious disease which is creating so
| the genuine trichnn.
/ The new route from Australia to Europe
| by way of San Francisco. will shortly be
opened. H. ..-
Tho Southern Lutheran Church has not a
single missionary nor single theological
student
| The value of the new coal fields in Clay
county, Indiana, is estimated at one hundred
millions of dollars.
The Australian population, including Tas-
mania and New Zealand, is estimated at l.
100000. r
The celebration of Decoration Day is al
ready discussed by the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
In New York it is estimated there are at
least one thousand men worth half million
and upward
The village of Madison, Indiana, has i'm
ported a lot of English sparrows, and they
| have domesticated in the trees there.
The Waterford, Ireland, Mail denounces
the passage of the Irish Force bill, and ap-
| pears in mourning for the death of liberty of
the press.
Coffee raised near the city of Mexico has
been received in San Francisco 1t is said to
be the best in the world. .
first departure for sea was made on Wednes-
day, when the bark Lady Agnes sailed from
Quebec for Cork.
Many cases of poisoning have occurred by
contact of guaho with wounds. 1t should be
handled with gloves.
Mr.. Sumner has given notice that when the
bill to abolish the ranking privilege comes up
he shall offer a substitute establishing uni
form rate of one cent postage.
There are, in the State of Virginia, two
acres and half of land which has never been
ploughed for every cultivated acre.
A minister in Toledo, within ten months,
married a couple, baptized their first child
preached the funeral sermon Of the husband,
and married the widow.
The Plebiscitum will be submitted to the
French people after the Senate has voted upon
the Senatus consaitum, probably about the
middle of May, and it will in the meantime be
discussed by both chambers.
Western Texas is said to be fast becoming
timber country. Within the last ten years
the whole face of the country has changed.
and young forests are now growing in what
was formerly a naked prairie,
The Universalst Centenary offering is sat
isfactorly progressing. Akron, O., has
pledged $50, 900 for the projected State school,
which is to be controlled by the denomination.
The Empress Eugene some time ago asked
her Imperial husband 20 add the young Prince
of the Asturas to the school and playmates Of
the Prince Imperial. The Emperor at once
replied most emphatically "No!"
The Spanish Club at Havana have declared
their purpose TO reduce every building on the
island to ashes, in the event that Cuba should
be either coded or sold by the home govern
ment.
Mr. voorhees, of Indianapolis, the principle
champion of the Democracy in Indiana. says
that he wants no vote or support from negro.
He need not give himself any uneasiness.
Our colored citizens have too much sclf-rc-
spect to do anything of the kind.
| Hooper, the Mormon delegate to Congress,
says that the reason our first parents did not
practice polygamy was "that their marriage
was exhaustive" in other words, that Adam
married "all the women in the world"
Mark Twain has engaged to edit an agri-
cultural department in the Galaxy. He says
he has no particular knowledge of agriculture,
but encouragingly adds that the lcss he knows
about subject the more light he can throw
upon Il.
The Grand Hotel al Paris has ceased 10 be
seventy Americans who arrived at Paris on
the 18th of March, only two went 10 that vast
and expensive establishments
At the Lake Superior copper mines, last
year, 30,9o9,545 pounds of mineral we're
smelted. They yielded 20, 4s3,979 pounds Of
fine copper. These mines are not exhausted,
nor do they, as yet, show any signs of giving
out.
The high duty opium has had the effe Ct
of stimulating experiments on our own soil.
The article has been produced successfully il
California, Vermont, Connecticut and other
/ States. and the production of native opium