Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-16
GENERAL NEWS.

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The floods of the Tiber this fall have done
much damage.
A printer never gets mad, but he is some-
| times ont of sorts.
General Haleck is very sick at his resi-
| dence in Louisville.
The cholera is increasing in violence in
Constantinople, and many deaths are daily
reported.
The number of convicts in the Ohio peni-
Tertiary is nine hundred and sixty-one,
twenty seven of whom are females.
During its occupation of France, the Ger
man army foraged two million five hundred
thousand bottles of champagne.
ExCongressman Stokes will, it is said, not
be tried before March. There is much tes-
timony to be gathered and brought from Ten
nessee.
Londoner has patented machine for
splitting beans and the invention has been
purchased by some coffee vendors.
1t has been judicially decided in England
that married woman living apart from her
husband is entitled to vote at municipal cleo
tons.
The bed and mattress on which President
Lincoln died was sold at auction last week
for eighty dollars.
No sooner has Brazil abolished slavery
than she begins to call for school-books.
Freedom and education go together liberty
tbn boo
able.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, it is said,
will soon resign in order to take his seat in
the United States Senate, to which he was
elected last winter.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher thinks that
the indifference of honest men to their polti-
cal duties is the greatest hindrance to good
government.
Governor Farchild, of Wisconsin,, has
taken upon himself the responsibility of fur
nishing every family whose home was des-
troyed by fires in the northern part of the
State with 1900 feet Of timber for building
purposes.
Governor Campbell, in his message to the
Wyoming territorial legislature on Friday
last, recommended the continuance of woman
suffrage, which was first tried in that terri
tory. He says that the system is successful.
An enthusiastic lady, who made speech
in favor of women's rights at Halle, in Prus-
STA, was sentenced on the following morning
by police judge to two days's Imprisonment
on bread and water, for advocating free-love
| doctrines.
They have begun in Canada to cultivate
rabbits as an article of food, initiating Euro
peaH countries, where hundreds of miles of
coast lands are used as rabbit warrens, and
their produce furnishes cheap and nutr.
| tious food for millions, while the furs have
| considerable value in trade.
A clergyman met a bewildered young man
| out III Chicago avenue, while the flames were
licking up the north side, who asked in be-
wilderment, ''Where am l ?" On being in
formed, he said: "Well, I've been married
three weeks; l don't know where my wife is {:
but if she is burned it is the Lords will let
her CO." And off he started.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field is going to Rome to
attend a convention of the principal telegraph
/ companies Of the world, which is to be held
in that city next month. Mr.. Field is push
ing forward his scheme of telegraph around
the world, the only link yet to be furnished
being that between San Francisco and China,
by way of the Sandwich Islands.
|
| A Vermont girl who sued false lover for
breach Of promise laid the damages at forty
dollars. In court in answer to the inquiry
I why that particular sum had been named,
she answered that counting the time she had
spent "sitting upr with him at the rate of
nine shillings per week, she had figured up
the hours passed in his company, and ad-
| ding the value of wood consumed, she had
| found that the amount due. There was no
| doubt in the mind of the judge that her claim
was an honest one, and verdict was rendered
accordingly
Some sweet poet of nature plaintively
sings:
~ would not die in Autumn
When pleasant hours fleeing,
With buck wheat cakes just coming on,