Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-26
GENERAL NEWS.

| Gustave Dore, the artist, is only SO.
Connecticut does not tolerate gypsies.
Spiritualists' convention at Cambridge, H.,
| September 20.
The potato blight is again threatening the
people of Ireland with want and starvation
Tennyson has invited Walt Whitman, the
'poet of democracy" to make him long
visit.
John S. Armstrong has been appointed
agent for the Abiquin Indians of New Mexico,
vice C. S. Zeverly, resigned.
On one of the late terribly hot days little
boy of three years and half who was per-
spring very freely, ran in to his mother, say
ing: go, mamma, Is leaking all over"
About fifty actions for damages have been
commenced against the Staten Island Ferry
Company of New York, by relatives of vic
tins of the Westfield explosion.
Petroleum V. Nasty" is writing lecture
about the experiences of an Apache Indian
sent out by his tribe as missionary to the
American people.
Two years experimenting has demonstrat-
ed that the poppy business in California is a
success. The opium contains an unusual per-
centage of morphia, and is considered far SUI
perior to the ordinary opium of commerce.
Joseph Gilbert, colored gentleman in the
wood-hauling business at Atlanta, Ga. has
tasted the sweets of married life four times,
and has experienced the happiness of being
father thirty seven times.
Eighty car loads of fresh teas, about |, 6OO,-
600 pounds, have been shipped overland from
San Francisco within a week, and full cargo
by special steamer is due there next week and
will go overland.
Telegraphic communication is now fully
established with Japan. Messages were sent
from London to Japan and answers returned
on the 10th. 1t will not be long till Pucks
girdle round the earth in forty minutes will
be more than realized.
Visitors at Niagara Falls may be sure of
having their moneys worth if they keep their
cash in their pockets. The New York Herald
says it is a shameful thing that one of the
grandest natural phenomena in the world
should be infested by horde o: greedy land
sharks.
A large piece of coal fell on Virginia min
er the other day, and crushing him to the
ground, forced the stem of the pipe through
the roof of his mouth, and out of the top of
his head. This is the story told by Virginia
paper, and it is not surprising that it adds
that he is still alive, and is not considered
MORALLY injured.
Widowers in South Australia breathe easier.
Five times has the Colonial Legislature pass
ed law allowing them, if they would, to
marry sisters-or at least a sister apiece-of
| their deceased wives, and five times in sue
cession has her Majestys government inter-
posed the relentless opposition of the royal
| veto. AT last, on the sixth trial, they have
| carried the day. A law has finally been OBJ
| tanned in their favor to which her MAJESTY has
| given her assent.
| AT the Miles Standish celebration, DR.. Lor-
| ing let out an interesting Renaissance of the
| Purtan's eourtship not related by Longfellow
81 claim lineal descent from Miles Standish, /"
said the Doctor; ''my grandmother's name
was Alathea Alden, whose husband, John
| Alden, was sent by Standish to court her by
| proxy, but who accepted modest hint from
the maid, and won her for himself instead of
| his leader"
A lightning rod, to be of use, must have a
| point of metal not easily oxydized, uninter-
rupted metallic contact, ample and moist
| ground connection, and sufficient size to carry
off any probable discharge of electricity
The proper insulators are wooden clamps
| good rod does its office silently. The thin
strips of metal put up in many places are
| simply dangerous. A substantial iron rod
nearly an inch in diameter may be depended
upon, under the above conditions.