Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-07
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NE WS.
A Danvers man sold $4,000 worth of sage
seed last year at $40 pound.
Stockton, Cal, has a century plant about to
bloom, and it is already visited by thousands
daily.
rebellion in Iceland, and consequent
separation from Denmark, are probable.
1t is stated that the French Government will
not relinquish the prerogativc of appointing
Mayors.
The President has ordered that all the aban-
doned Fenian military stores be turned over
to the United States military authorities.
Philadelphia papers report that the striking
Lehigh miners have been receiving an average
of dollar an hour for their labor.
An Ohio man complains that his wife has
run off with "a kind of redish molatteer," and
he wants them arrested.
A San Francisco dentist meeting deln-
qucnt doctor on the street. choked him till he
gave up his false teeth, and took them as pay.
California has now $50 miles Of railroad,
and confidently expects to build at least $50
more this year.
New Hampshire man, living near Dover,
reports that he has view OF forty towns from
the roof of his house.
1t is related Of an amateur farmer in Con-
necticut that being told it was time to ''brnsh
his peas" he procured broom, and toward
night was hard at work ''wiping the dust off. "
Henry Ward Beecher, in "reminiscences of
his school-boy days, says if you wish to wit
ness the spontaniety of human nature let
man sit down on bent pin
Two young women turned out with spades
and hoes and paid their road tax in the town
of Beloit, Wisconsin, the other day.
Two rascals representing themselves as CEN
sus officials, obtained lately from farmer in
Wisconsin a description of his farm, filed up
a blank mortgage and induced him to sign the
instrument
mason in Paris lately committed suicide
after building thick wall in the doorway of
his lodging ROOM which had to be taken down
before his remains were discovered.
company of colored citizens at Indian
apolis have organized for the purpose of build
ing colored hotel, to which no white person
will be admitted.
dispatch has been extensively circulated
that Governor Seward has been struck with
paralysis, but there is no truth in it. His
health is as good as it has been for months
past.
J. P. Day, the music teacher who so mystic
riously disappeared from Franklin, Mass,
short time ago, has reported himself in Liver
pool He reports that be was drugged and
shipped on board vessel without his knowl-
edge.
A cave of wonderful interest and beauty
has recently been discovered about six miles
west of Dubuque. 1t has taken the name of
.Rices Cave" from its discovcrer.
Seth Boyden, a famous strawberry raiser,
said, if he lived twenty years longer, he
would produce strawberry as large as a
pineapple, and as delicious as the best
field strawberry. 81 ..v~ 20 ~'fwel
cruel man in Huntington, CT, recently
taken up their abode in one of his inhospita
BILE chmneys. He burned them out. The
number of dead picked up was 500.
The waiter girls at the hotel at Sioux City,
Iowa, refused to serve Spotted Tail, White
Bear, Green Oak, and Yellow Hair when
those dusky warriors went to the table the
other day. and the bartender was ignobly
pressed into their service.
A man named Elijah Monson of Monson,
Massachusetts,, recently caught the smallpox,
and, ignorant of the fact, spread the disease
in his family. His wife, mother and two
children died from the effects within two
weeks, and he, left alone, the sole occupant
of his once happy home, bee anne respondent
and was driven to suicide.
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the veteran Meth
odist preacher. was in indianapolis last week.
He is eighty-s years of age, and has been an
itnerant preacher for sixty-ive years, and a
presiding elder for fifty years. The reverend
"cant preach any more; all he can do is to
talk"
A Congress of the biologists of the Alps is
to take place at Geneva on the last day of
August next. All the savants of Switzerland,
France, Italy, Germany and Austria, who
have made the study of the Alps speciality,
are included in the invitation, and results very
important to science are expected.