Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-30
GENERAL NEWS.
COsMOPOLITE.


Between Omaha and San Francisco there
are nineteen tunnels.
Estimates of the cotton crop are made
The highest estimate is 1000, 900 bales; the
least 800, 600.
Life in cottage by the shore it is said will
be the fashionable way of living at the noted
seaside resorts next summer.
little Connecticut girl has just jumped the
rope two hundred times without stopping, and
then jumped into her little grave.
1t is said that new daily paper devoted to
Spiritualism will shortly make its appearance
in England. 1t is to be called THE Morning
Wrapper
pair Of runaway horses overturned seven
hives of bees in Illinois last week and the en-
ragged bees stung them to death.
An English druggist proposes that in addi-
ton to the word poison" labels should have
printed on their margins the appropriate anti
dotes.
A western paper thinks that Carlyle is ad
mirably qualified for editing newspaper in
Montana, he has such faculty for inventing
outlandish words.
A colored church in New Jersey disagreed
on Sunday in regard Mountaineering the conn
police had to quell.
Although the army burned and destroyed a
large proportion of the growing timber in Vir-
gina, that State has now about %, OOO, 900
acres of wooded lands.
A youthful witness, on being asked in the
Meriden, Conn, police court, the other day,
where he would go if he told lie, replied,
ITO the reform school," He was sworn.
A Kentucky lady was attacked by huge
gray eagle. She was able to vanquish him,
after severe struggle, in which she was bad
ly torn by his talons.
The New York board of assistant aldermen
consists of twelve natives of Ireland, three
natives of ireland, three Americans of Irish
parentage, two Germans, four natives of New
York-seven liquor dealers and five poll
ticians.
Josh Billings says that "The lion and the
lamb may possibly sumtime lay down in this
world together for flu minnits, but when the
lion kums to git up the lamb will be missing. :"
A cottage on the grounds of the Union Ho-
tel, Saratoga, has been dubbed ''The Empress
Eugenie's cottage"
The first coroner's jury composed entirely
of colored men, ever empanelled in Indiana,
held an inquest at Indianapolis on the 18th.
A son of colored member of the Boston
bar, who is graduate of the Imperial Col
lege of France, has passed successful ex-
animation and entered the Middle Temple,
London.
A concert on a magnificent scale has just
been given under the patronage of the Car,
at st. Petersburg, at which the executants
numbered 1880, including choir of lOe
voices from the Imperial chapel.
Marshal Jono Carlos Saldanha Olivera
Daun, otherwise known as General Duke de
Saldanha," who recently executed splendid
coup de main in Portugal, making himself
frime Minister OF that government, is ninety
Years of age
81 never knew man" says an old author,
''who could not bear another's misfortune just
like Christian"-which reminds us of the
old lady who thought every calamity that hap
pened to her friend judgement.
The prisoners confined in the Jail at War
saw, ILL.,, made an attempt to escape from
confinement few days ago, and came within
an ace Of accomplishing it. The sheriff hap
! pened to be wide awake, and frustrated their
designs; but he only had two minutes, by the
i watch, to do it in.
/ The Republican agitation throughout Italy
gains strength daily. Fears are entertained