Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-17

of observation or instinct"
q A schooner lately ran into and carried away
a lighthouse in the British Channel, and came
into port with the main body of the wooden
structure, lantern and sall, on her forecastle
A citizen of ST. Louis claims to have discov-
cred an enamel for walls of residences in
mosaic, to produce the finest effects. Rooms
can be ornamentcd with gorgeous pictures
and full length portraits.
A Berkshire clergyman recently deducted
90 cents from the wages of servant girl who
was working at $3.50 per week, because she
had another servant girl lodge with her one
night.
The peach prospects in the lake shore re
gion are good. No buds. says Michigan pa
per, have been injured on rpened wood by
any cold snap this winter, and peach growers
have about made up their minds that there
will be good crop.
Two wags were speaking about the fancy
dresses they intended wearing at a forthcom-
ing ball. oh" said comic, IL shall go
disguised in liquor" .Dent' was the imme-
date reply, every one will recognize you"
Captain Townsend, agent of the Industrial
Association of Marshall county, Miss, return
cd from Wisconsin and Illinois a few days ago
with favorable reports in regard to obtaining
immigrants for Marshall county.
The tobacco crop of Clinton county, Mo-,
for 1869, is estimated at one million five hun
dred thousand pounds, worth slO5,OO0, an
average Of seven cents II pound. OF this
amount, dealers at Brunswick have purchased
nearly one million four hundred thousand
pounds
An English inventor has discovered and pa
tented plan by which sea sickness may be
avoided By the application of the principle
upon which a ships compasscs are suspended
he provides room perfectly free from the
rolling or pitching motion of vessel
In Vermont, recently, little girl fell into
the water, was carried down under the ice for
about five rods, went over u n-foot dam,
and passed through an underground raceway
for n distance of fifteen rods to another dam.
and was then rescued alive, and is doing well,
As President Grant was taking his accus-
toned walk on Thursday afternoon, he was
accosted by an Irishman named Cassidy who
is at times insane, and who threatened to as
sassnate him. The President very quietly
walked up to a policeman. and gave the fellow
into his custody. He was sent to the Asylum.
The decrease in the ratio of beef cattle to
population in this country during the last ten
years is said to be 20 per cent, the increase
in population being 33 per cent. In 1860.
with population of 81, 4l1.35l, we had 3d.
6l0337 cattle in the country; while now,
with population of more than 40, 900 900, we
have only 2l 633 900.
In Beverly on Wednesday, a man who was
digging clans on Washington street beach,
came across box, which he dug up, and
found il to contain the body of an infant, with
a cord tied around its neck. In the box was
a cricket that belonged to one of the churches,
and copy of the Salem Gazette The au-
thorities were notified and n rigid invcstga-
ton will be held.
Several well-dressed men are in Troy, ped
handles and other articles, who use the pre-
tence of peddling in order to aid them in COM
hitting thefts and robberies. 1t is the prac-
tice of these pretended peddlers. when they
visit private dwellings, to open the door, if it
is unlocked, and carry off anything that may
be in the hall.
The Chinese have coal mines which have
been worked for hundreds of years. They
make little coal last long time. They pre-
pare it for use by grinding or pounding it to
powder and mixing with clay. Sometimes
the powder is soaked with water and laid
around the fire. Coal miners strikes would
not avail much in that country.
An enterprising New York merchant placed
large oyster basket full of silver coins in his
show case, over which was placed the inscrip-
ton, "specie payments resumed" Being
afraid the temptation would be too much for
the cupidity of passers-by, he stationed on the
step man in the costume of a Zouave, bear
ing a muskst to guard the silver. 1t is doubt
full which excited the most attention, the SOL
der or the silver.
General II. II. Sibley, formerly Of the
United States Army, and afterwards promi-
nent southern officer in the war, is now brig
adler in the service of the Viceroy of Egypt
He writes to his friends in Georgia. under date
of Alexander, January 81 that he arrived in
that city on the 10Th of that month, and met
Generals Mott and Loring. The three officers
then had an interview with the Viceroy.
DIR. b. A. Gould, of Cambridge, Mass, has
accepted an appointment from the Argentine
Republic to organize an astronomical observa-
tory at Cardova, the second city in magnitude
in that Republic. He is making his arrange
ments to go out in the course of the spring
The initial work at the Observatory will be
the completion of the Catalogue of the South
ern Heavens, which will probably consume
about three years. DIR. Gould will be accom-
panied by four assistants. The preliminary
appropriations for the Observatory were made