Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-15
GENERAL NEWS.

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There are thirty-onc daily newspapers
in Paris, without Rochefort's.
Coon skins, it is said, are still legal-ten-
der in vermilion county, Indiana.
Tonight you git dangle," is the no.
tice served on the thugs of Wyoming.
Minnesota finds no trouble in securing
large ice crop, this season, and of first
rate quality.
1t is stated the negro population of Ken
lucky has decreased 100000 in the last
ten years. -.-
The winter wheat in many parts of H.
inois is said to be almost killed by the
alternate freezing and thawing this winter.
The treasure product of Nevada last year
was Sl3,Sl5, 900, of which So, l54 900 were
from the White Pine Mines.
Gov Butler of Nebraska, has called
upon the Legislature to meet on the 22d
inst. First in order will be the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment.
A jeweller in Grand Rapids. Mich, re-
ccived, few days since, a heavy gold
ring from the Catholic priest in that city,
with the injunction: This belongs to you;
take it and ask no questions" Some girl
has got lighter conscience.
The farmer Lee, who drew the Crosby
Opera House at Chicago, in the rattle
of three years ago, is dead, and efforts are
now making to find his son and heir, Rob
ert 5. Lee, who went to the Rocky Mount
ain mining region some time ago.
A New Hampshire wag prints this par
agraph in a local paper: "A man in
certain town few days since ate fifteen
dozen raw oysters on wager. The sill
yer trimmings alone on his coffin cost
twelve dollars and thirty-five cents"
The project of cooperative housekeep-
ing at Cambridge, Mass, languishes.
Arrangements had been made for leasing
building owned by Harvard College,
but the officers of the cooperative asso-
citation were disappointed, chiefly from
the difficulty in procuring building of
suitable size, and the whole project is
likely to fall through, Thirty or forty of
the leading families of the city had SUBJ
scribed to the kitchen.
The phosphate beds few miles back of
Charleston, and extending mile or more
on the Ashepoo river, yield $50 tons Of the
phosphate rock to one-fourth of an acre
Fossilized bones, possibly of antediluvian
origin, form large part of the substance.
and sharks teeth seem to be very plenty
The export of this substance forms val
liable portion of the trade of Charleston.
Beet sugar is proving success in some
parts of the west. Two parties at Fond
du Lac, Wis, planted eighty acres of
beets this year. They have obtained ma
chinery, and are at present manufacturing
about 1000 pounds of good quality of
coffee sugar every twenty-four hours. The
crop is sufficient to occupy the works for
at least four and one-half months, giving
an aggregate of 125, 900 to 10000 pounds
of sugar.
The following incident is related of the
late General 0. NJ Mitchell: While
making some astronomical observations
with a powerful telescope, he one evening
brought into his vision some fine fruit
trees, full seven miles from where his in
strunlent wasplaced. In looking through
his telescope he saw with perfect clearness
some boys approach the trees, make their
and then proceed TO steal the
fruit-the professor watching every move
ment, and seeing each one of the actors
with perfect distinctness. Mitchell used
to tell this anecdote with much feeling,
saying that while he watched the little
thieves, who supposed they were I'M
observed, the words kept ringing in his
ears, Thou, God, seest me-"