Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-10-11
GENEGIL NEIt.S.

GENEhAL NEWS.
A woman has carried off the $500 prize for
the best managed flrm in Oxfordshire, Eng
land.
Connecticut cider-mlls are ovcrrun with
apples at Il cents per bushel
The new American Minister to Turkey,
Mr.. McNe egh, is making a short sojourn al
Vienna on his way to his post at CONSTANT
nople.
The Vermont census returns indicate 4
gain over 1860 of from 10, 900 to 5000 in the
whole State
Ohio holds one hundred and three county
and local fairs this year. beirg a larger num-
Der than any other State can boast
Up to the first of September nearly 1000
persons had visited Mt. Washington this year.
Altered bank notes are now being extern
sively circulated, and many of them are we'll
calculated to deceive.
A new paper has been started in n. York, +,
called The Liquor Dealers and Liquor
Drinkers Gazette We shall next have
"The Pick-pocket's Advocate ond "Cy-
prian's Vindicator.
The female assistants in the male grammar
schools of New York, have petitioned for the
same pay as male teachers performing the
same duties.
The Camanche Indians have strange an
tipathy to the colored troops employed on the
frontier, and it is stated that woolly scalp is
seldom Gifted"
The Episcopalians have in Nevada conse-
Grated churches, free from debt, 10 eommu-
nicanta, and 600 Sabbath school children.
The Evening News says they toll bell in
Winchester every half hour as a signal for
the inhabitants to take their quinine.
The Western Yearly Meeting of Friends in
Indiana met in Plainfeld, on September l7th,
and continued in session till the 21st. Reports
from the quarterly meetings indicated unus-
ual interest and prosperity.
One of the results of the drought of the
late season is the destruction of thousands of
the finny tribe that inhabited the brooks, that
were dried up.
The shutting down of the mills at Lawrence
from the noon of the 18th until the Goth, was
the first time in their history that they have
been compelled to suspend operations on ac-
count of the lowness of the Merrimack
At a meeting of the New York Gold Ex-
change, on Wednesday last, the sum of 81, 900
was voted for the relief of the sufferers by
the late storm in Virginia.
The fishing schooner Clara T. Friend of
Gloucester, is reported by telegraph to have
been sezed for violation of the fishery laws,
and taken in Charlottetown, p Z. l. This
makes the third seizure of Gloucester vessels
by the Provincial authorities this season.
The Taunton city council have authorized
the city marshal to arrest all parties guilty OF
using profane language in the public streets
of that city.
The Washington Star says that Gen. Beau
regard, who is reported by cable to be in
France, ''was in Lynchburg, Virginia, no
longer ago than last week. He is not in the
lead and saltpetre line at present, but on the
other hand is about to marry lady of Rich
mond
The greatest alarm exists in Spain at the
continued spread of the yellow fever. In
Barcelona the panic is so great that the city is
well nigh depopulated. The fever thus far
has been confined to Barcelona and the sea
port towns, and the strict precautionary meas
ures adopted by the authorities may prevent
its gaining foot-hold in the interior.
The Providence Press says the telegraph
libeled the Infantry Wednesday, A despatch
was sent from Boston saying The Infantry
/ left here at four o'clock, all right" 1t said
that the despatch, when received here, read ::
"Ihe Infantry left here at toHr o'clock, all
| tight"
The New Bedford Standard Says that lady
| in Fair Haven, in making bed few morn
ings since after turning it over, felt something
moving inside the ticking. She called help.
| and found large adder, about two feet in
| length, and an inch in diameter, coilcd away
in it, The snake probably crawled into the
house i'll the day time, and had been in the bed
the previous night with the occupant.
The editor of the Willimantic Journal has
received the following epistle for advocating
town assistance to the Air Line railroad
"WINDHAM, CoNS., September Is, 1870.
EDiroR;-l want my paper stopped can't
stand 1t TO have you telling me how to spend
my money nor won't When you tell foxes
to vote YES you overstepped your orthorty.
As publick journalist hold your no rite TO
adyercate what you do. Napolin you say is
crate man and say he ain t, and your pinion
amt no better an mine. Railroads is hum
bug. Taxis burden and yure fule stop
my naner I'll neynr nay q nnther sccnt Nnnrs-