Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-09
GENERAL NE VS..

The first threshing machine set up in Hi
nois is still in good running order.
The whole yearly income from the neat
stock of the United States is estimated at no
less than 5000, 000,0 900, including beef, dairy
and labor of working oxen.
A Troy editor lately returned a tailor's bill
with the following memorandum on the mar
gin; "Your manuscript is respectfully de-
clined."
1t is announced in London that General
Sickles, who is great favorite at the present
Court of Spain, is shortly to be married to a
young and beautiful Spanish lady.
The Macon Georgia. Telegraph and Mes
senger severely denounces the proposition
for the democrats to nominate General Sher-
man for President, and says that the demo-
Gratis have had enough of policy" and NEW
departures
An unexpected and most important dlscov-
cry of coal beds on the Isthmus of Panama,
made three or four years ago, has recently
been brought practically TO public attention
by trial of the coal at Aspinwall. The re-
suit leaves no doubt whatever that the miner
al is of excellent quality.
Two clergymen, late editors of the Minis
terial Union-a Christian paper which APP
peared for four consecutive weeks in Chicago
--valedicteried as follows: Chicago is
good place for religious paper, providing
that three pages serve Satan and the other
one is mixed
Altar of roses is sold in the Orient at a cost
far exceecing the price of the same weight in
gold. The best is citron colored, made in
Cashmere, and SO strong that if handker-
chief is touched with the tip of a needle dipp-
ed in it will scent for weeks.
There isn't a base ball club in Xenia, Ohio,
and the authorities keep out patrolmen on all
the roads, with instructions to shoot any
man approaching with bat or ball. 1t is ex-
pected the population, under this adminstra-
ton, will double every three months by inn
migration from infected localities.
In the time of the first Napoleon, when q
draft was made for soldiers, one man had a
substitute put in his place. After time
another draft was made and the same man
was called again, but he said Il am free. ]
sent substitute into the army and he was
killed, so l am as dead man" The case
was carried to the courts of France, and it
was there decided that the man was free.
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following picture of the condition of Califor
MIA He says: Every many people are leav
ing us, turning to their old homes east OF the
Rocky Mountains. This dry year has broken
up many farmers. Provisions are very high.
In fact the only thing that does not tumble
down is something to eat. Strawberries are
twenty-five cents for two pounds, but then
-four is $3.50 barrel, potatoes two cents
pound for old, and sweet potatoes five. The
common necessaries of life are high, labor
scarce, and money hard to get hold Of
TheWells (Minnesota) Atlas, gives an ac
count of the cheese factory at that place,
which, it says, is the largest of the kind in
the United States-it is of 5000 cow power,
and is now using the products of 225 cows.
The main building is of brick, So by 50, three
stories high, with wing 20 by So, and is
completed in all its arrangements. a
horsepower steam engine drives the machine
~, and the water is supplied in every part of
the building from an artesian well. The
manufacturing room contains 80 presses, and
three watts, holding 500 gallons each, and an
arctic cooler. There is also butter room,
with every necessary appliance. An expert
enced Vermont dairyman superntends the
business. The factory is located in the centre
of Col. Thompson's 1900 acre farm, on which
the stock of cows is to be Immediately increas-
ed to 600. Nine cents per gallon is paid for
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