Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Paris, according to the latest estimates, has
1900, 900 population.
New Orleans relieves the Puritan quiet of
Sunday afternoons by base ball matches.
The grand jury of New Orleans have in
dcted Perry Fuller and seven others for con-
spiracy to defraud the government.
The value of the catchngs of the whale fish
cry imported into New Bedford during the
year 1869 was 81 .061.5
The captain of the Bremen steamer Smidt
reports that while his ship was disabled at sea
two English steamers passed it, and would not
answer his signals of distress.
! An exchange tells of a deaf and dumb man
standing in the street calling rags, rags, and
though he heard wagon coming, couldn't get
out of its way"
The coolest Inhabtant' has been found in
old-has survived seven wives, and wants to
marry again.
Observant Frenchmen, skilled in medical
science, report that since women have loosen
creased Is 10 per cent.
America consumes nearly one-third of the
coffee production of the world, and nearly
seven times as much as the inhabitants of
Great Britain.
Charles ID. Kirk, of the Louisville Sun, who
fell dead on a recent night while on his way
III oh no ,aH tal for Ia.
LEGATION in the morning issue poem entitled
Found Dead in the Streets"
when my grocer poisons me-" says a
French journalist, they simply fine him; but
guillotinc."
A letter from an ex-rebe officer in Nash
vile to Congressman Stokes says it is pub
icly threatened that if an attempt is male to
reconstruct that State, Union men will be
killed right and left.
In one of the packing houses in Illinois, re-
Gently, $50 hogs were slaughtered in one hour
and 2Gs0 in nine hours and ten minutes.
/. Virginan has useless suit of store
clothes in which he was to have been married
the other day. The lady recollected at the
last moment that she liked another fellow bet
ter and eloped.
A letter recently passed through the Derby
Line post office bearing the following super
scription This is for the man who has the
Thourow bread Dcarrum cattle l am not scar
tain of the rite entiouls of his name"
The License bill was defeated in the Massa-
chusetts Senate by vote of 90 to II. This
kills it for the session.
Alta recent term of the Criminal Court of
Chester Co., Pennsylvania, a man ''chargcd
with having obnoxious weeds on his farm, and
allowing them to grow, to the great damage
of his neghbors," was found guilty and sem
fenced to pay fine of $40 and costs of pros
ecution.
An old man in Holt county, Mo-, recently
sold his young wife, with whom life was not
too pleasant, to his partner in business for five
dollars, and everything proved satisfactory
till the grand jury got hold of the matter, when
the partner was indicted for adultery.
The Providence journal says that of l3l in
dictments presented at late term of the Court
of Common Pleas in that city, 81 were for
maintaining liquor nuisances.
A Washington despatch says that the sol
diers who enlisted in 1861, on the first call of
President Lincoln, and who were honorably
discharged before the expiration of the term of
their enlistment, are entitled to 500 each as
bounty. Such was the decision Of the SUI
preme Court pronounced on Tuesday.
| A boy arrived at Galena, H., the other day,
who was stolen by the Indians, on the Chip
pewa river, in Wisconsin, sixteen years ago
He was then three years old, and has been
with the Indians ever since. He was seen by
his sister at st. Paul "a few weeks since, with
a band of Indians, recognised, and induced to
return to his parents, who now live in 10
Dayiess county.