Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-04
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GENERAL NEWS.
The crop of buffalo skins this year is large.
Poughkeepsie is using ice of the present
seasons crop.
Maryland is to have an inebriate asylum
for women.
Utah calls for iron works and foundries to
make her coal and iron available.
Gen. Robt Anderson, of Fort Sumter
fame, is living with his family in Venice.
Four hundred and thirty-seven lakes leave
room for but little land in Oakland county,
Mich.
A learned physicist announces that this
globe will support life for 26,000,000 years
longer.
Wild cats are SO plenty in Alabama that
dogs come home without any hide to speak of.
Cincinnati arms her policemen with steel
nippers for .eizing their victims, instead of
clubs and revolvers.
India shawls cut into semi-tght- fitting
basques are now very fashionable for prom
enade.
Coal has been discovered in Benson. Yer
mont. Whether the vein is thick enough to
be worked is being ascertained.
The church steps in an Illinois town are
filed every night with locked-out drunkards
who 60 there to sleep.
Iowa expects to have three thousand miles
of railroad by the lst of January-enough to
extend fifteen times across the breadth of
England.
A Connecticut ruralist, whose load of hay
was found to develop several healthy boulders,
remembers that he ''druv putty close to a
stun WALL on his way to market.
Gloves are now made in England with
pocket on the inside of the palm, to suit the
habit INDUCED in by the fair sex of carrying
money in that position.
Carrying pistols is going out of fashion in
southern California, and paper there says it
is "glad to see that most of our citizens have
had sense enough to return to the use of the
bowie knife"
In proportion TO the number of inhabitants
in New Haven. the rum shops are said to out
number those in New York, and New York
sums up six thousand.
A partial eclipse of the moon, visible in the
United States east of Minnesota, will occur
on the 9th. of January, beginning at five
o'clock in the afternoon, and lasting three
quarters of an hour.
All the Cinnamon in this country who had
the means have gone home to celebrate, in
February, the commencement of another
thousand years. They declare the last fes-
tival of this kind was celebrated in China ten
centuriesago.
A jury at Terre Haute brought in a verdict
that the deceased died "by the visitation of
God, in the usual way" The "usual way
was delicate hint at kerosene, as deceased
had fire that wouldn't go alone so he poured
on little.
California, looking back over 1870, re-
joices that it has seen during the year the
shipment of the first bale of home raised silk ;
the raising of the first successful crop of cot
ton, ana the ufst success III Inc manu1acture
of beet sugar.
Laura Giddngs Julian, in writing Of the
negro students in Howard University at
Washington, says; Il never heard such reci-
tations in any white school as | have listened
to there. 1t seems though they were hun
CRY, and had been Tor generations, and are
for the first time able to get the intellectual
food they have 40 long craved.'
| A somewhat noted residence at the South
End, Boston, known as the "Deacon es-
tate" which has been looked upon for many
years as a sort of mysterious abode, is soon
to be sold at auction. the proprietor having
died. The public having gained admission
to the old house, it is found to be filled with
rich and rare old furniture and other curious
objects, the whole forming quite museum of
] curiosities. Much of the furniture is said to
have been once the property of royal houses
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