Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-30
The Americans in Paris have contributed

The Americans In Paris have contributed
over one hundred and thirty thousand francs
for the relief of Chicago
Tweed speaks of the Democratic State
ticket as sour ticket" Can that which is
Tweed's belong to honest men9
The capital of the Bank of France is about
$40,000,000. The nation now owes it more
than six times that sum, and is clamoring for
more.
Honest industry is always rewarded. No
young man need complain of being kept poor
if he rolls up his sleeves and goes cheerfully
to work
A young lady in Oil City, Penn, while
wringing out a dress, ran a needle through
the palm of her hand, and died in five min
utes.
The Germans, English and French in the
''auld countries" are puzzling their brains to
find the meaning of the word "Tammany."
At the Chicago relief meeting in Detroit a
ragged and dirty boy gave ten cents, which
was all he had, amid the vehement cheers OF
the audience.
The Boston Transcript says: president
Grants visit to New England has been one OF
the pleasantest ever made by Chief Magis-
trate of the nation"
Vermonter, one hundred years old, has
come to the conclusion that it isn't healthy
down east, and has gone to Detroit for per-
manent residence.
Miss Annie Louise Cary, who has been
winning new laures in Boston with the Nils
son Opera Company, is now regarded IS the
best contralto of the time.
A Justice of the peace, down in Kentucky,
sentenced a reporter, who had severely criti-
cised his decisions, to be logged and impris-
oned one week on bread and water.
The London Morning Post, regarded as the
semi official organ, pronounces the rumor re-
garding the establishment of a regency, in
consequence of the Queens prolonged illness
as entirely devoid of foundation.
Spite of the efforts of friends to produce a
contrary impression, Chief Justice Chase does
not improve in health or strength. His step
is feeble and uncertain, the hand tremulous,
the face pallid, the voice husky.
In sinking well some thirteen miles south
east of Gainesville, Texas, below the surface
twenty-fv feet, the workmen struck a vein
of coal. After testing the coal in black
smiths furnace it was pronounced excellent.
Five students have been dismissed from the
Naval Academy at Annapolis for ''hazing."
One of their victims has been sick for some
ceived, having been held under pump for
an hour and then thrown into the river.
The Michigan apple crop is the largest ever
known in the State, and so large business
are the fruit-growers doing in shipping them
east, that they have most of them started
cooper shops of their own to supply barrels
The 'slnall dog furore is still raging
among the New York ladies, and it is not
| considered "the thing" among certain set to
| appear in the street without liliputian canine
| attendant. The dogs are stunted in growth
by keeping them in hot oven, and feeding
them laudanum.
While overseeing things generally at Chi
cago, General Sheridan lately called at an
uninjured hotel and inquired the price of
board 'Six dollars per day." was the re-
ply. "The price before the fre?" inquired
the General. 'sTwo dollars and half" Gen.
eral Sheridan replied that he would run that
| hotel himself, and at two dollars and half
per day. He placed an orderly in charge,
| and at once put stop to exorbitant charges.