Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-29
GENEhdL NEWS.


The latest marvel in the petrifcation line
is the discovery in Montana of a mine of pet
rifed mud-turtles.
Atlanta, Ga, has now a population of &c.
600. Twenty-Five years ago it was town of
500 inhabitants.
The Stag from iron blast furnaces is now
used in Brussels and Paris for paving, and
surpasses the best natural stones in strength.
Shad and herring are disappearing in Vir-
GINA waters, and legislative action is pro-
posed for the better protection of fish.
The Canadian expedition against Riel will
be commanded by Gen. Lindsay and Col.
Woolsley, a rcal-linsey-wooisey party.
Seven members of the First Wisconsin
cavalry have received s2,S07, to be divided
among them for having taken part in the
capture of JEFF Davis.
The Fenians in the United Kingdom are
very active. Seizures of war material have
been made in Manchester and Newcastle by
the authorities.
1t is reported that contract has been made
at Buffalo to carry wheat to New York by
rail- lghterage free, for twelve cents per
bushe.
Lady Angela, who presides over the con-
vent at South Bend, Ind, was'a Miss Ewing,
sister in-iaw of General Sherman, and once a
reigning belle in Washington.
The Saugan Chippewa Indians, to the num-
Der of one hundred, have offered their SER
vices to the Canadian government, for duty in
the Red river region.
The wife of Newcastle blacksmith aston
ished her friends who came to her funeral the
other day, and disarranged all their plans, by
coming to life. She was only in a trance.
The Italian Minister of War has announced
that thirty thousand men will shortly be dis
missed on furlough and it is said that re-
duction will soon take place in the diplomatic
and consular service.
An American by the name of Stone has
slashed with his sword nearly all his fellow
students at Heidelberg, and the University
authorities have been obliged to ''shut down"
on his duelling.
The suns spots arc now numerous and in
tcrcsting and can be seen with smoked glass.
The planet Saturn is in peculiarly favorable
position for observation, with the rings at
their fullest openings.
Miss Hattie johnson, the lady who was
brought into distressing notoriety through her
Al
New York some months ago, was joined in
wedlock to young man of that city last week.
The largest merchant steamship in the
world, except the Great Eastern, was launched
on the Clyde a few days since. 1t is in Italy,
to run between Liverpool and New York and
is 1900 tons measurement and GOO horse
power.
The New Orleans Times thinks the first OBJ
ject of the Dental Convention, about to sit in
that city, should be to examine into the con-
dition of the mouth of the Mssissippi-no
trifing matter, since the river has seven
mouths all full of snags and stumps.
A case of suffice, self-immolation of 4
widow, occurred lately in Jounpore, India.
The relatives of the deceased, who encour-
sentenced to seven years imprisonment, and
the villagers who looked ON to three years.
Fort Sumter is in danger of being carried
off by tourists. A Charleston paper of the
22d says that ''if all Fort Sumter excursion
lists bring away as much of the fort as a party
of eight northerners did yesterday, as relics
the government, if it waits awhile, will be
saved the expense of dwelling the walls"
A missing woman has just returned to heI
home near Pittsburgh. She reported that she
knew nothing about leaving home, but awoke
one day to find herself at the mouth of desert
ed coal mine mile from her house. She
says she is not insane, and has no wish to
commit suicide.
A piece of wood bearing the inscription,
"The City of Boston Is sinking" foated
ashore near Cornwall England, few days
since. 1t is strongly suspected that the mes
! sage is hoax, although there is no longer
room for hope in the case of the Inflated
| steamer.
The question whether polygamy affects the
proportions of the sexes in the births has been
carefully studied by DR.. Campbell, of Lon
don, who concludes that the proportion OF
males and females born are just the SAME
under polygamy as under monogamy.
Several sacks of coffee beans, from Costa
Rca, have been planted at Los Angeles and
in the counties near San Francisco bay. The
gentleman who imported and distributed them
says the climate is very similar to that of the
coffee districts of Costa Rca. The seeds arc
sprouted in a box, then set out in hills ter
feet apart and carefully cultivated.
A lad of eighteen years, in Butler county
Pa, never saw anything till the other day
when doctor removed cataracts from both
his eyes, which has been there since his birth
He now sees everything, and is greatly amazed
and delighted, but correct knowledge OF
colors, the distance, size and qualities of OBJ
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