Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Smoking in the streets is prohibited in Chi
cago.
1t is announced among the fall fashions
that long trains of admirers are considered
desirable.
| The Atlantic cable companies allow tele-
grams relating to the relief of Chicago to
pass over their wires free of tolls.
Macdonald says of one who suffered; "Pa-
thence had messed her over, and made her
warm, soft and sweet"
Mr.. James Pike of Salisbury, Mass, has
gathered fifteen barrels of apples from one
tree on his premises this season.
Mayor Mason of Chicago, has issued a
proclamation appointing Sunday, October 20,
as day of fasting, humiliation and prayer.
Miss Carrie Monfort of Boston, known as
the ''Fat Girl" recently died of disease of
the heart. She was nine years old and
weighed nearly 400 pounds.
Young preachers should take courage from
the statement of one of the foremost clergy
men Of America, that he only received seven
ty-ive cents for the first year of his ministry
The King of Siam offered Mr.. Seward an
elephant during his visit to that country.
He was forced, though reluctantly, to decline
the present.
The Williams Review opposes the admis-
sion of girls into college, but says if they are
determined to come, the students of that col
IN. xl,o tl,
The latest accession to the ranks of royal
and noble authors is the x-Empress Eugene,
who has been for some time engaged on a
life of Mary Queen of Scots, which will
shortly be published.
While some young men are wearing small
feathers in their hats, others are decorating
them with gorgeous insects. Next season the
plume fashion will probably be in full blast.
The ship Arcadia of, Bath, Me-, from Leith,
Scotland, with cargo of coal, iron and mer
chandize for San Francisco, CAL, was burned
recently off the coast of Brazil. The officers
and crew were saved.
The following characteristic funeral item is
from the Kansas City Times of the 10th
''The funeral of Mike Williams, shot by Wild
Bill at Abilene, took place III this city on
Sunday; Wild Bill paid the expenses of the
funeral"
Up to Friday morning last, seventy persons
charged with belonging to the ku-klux or
ganization had been arrested at Spartansburg,
s. C. Several well-known citizens, includ-
ing one member of the legislature and sever
al clergymen, have fled for fear of arrest.
1t is estimated that during the last five CEN
tRries more than f50,000,000 of real estate
has been washed away from the eastern coast
of England by the encroachments of the sea-
A number of villages and towns which used
to be set down on the old maps have entirely
disappeared.
The editor of the New York Commercial
says he read it just forty-seven times in
forty-eight hours that Chicago will arise
like phoenix from the ashes" If any
writer uses the phrase again the editor hopes
1.-THE fire-proof bird will drop few hot Gin
ders on the bead of the man who does it."
In many parts of New England and in New
York, the crop of nuts is said to be unusually
large. In addition to a full supply of wal
nuts and chestnuts, there will be plenty of
butternuts and beechnuts in localities where
the latter abound. This abundance Of forest
fruit is regarded by the weatherwise as sure
sign Of long, cold winter.
A snake, said to have been at least five feet
long and as thick as a mans wrist, was killed
in the ladies' car of the train going from
Nashville to Chattanooga, near that place last
week. The reptile was discovered crawling
along the aisle, and created a terrible sensa-
ton before he was dispatched.
doctor" said wealthy patient to his
physician, 81 want you to be thorough.
Strike at the root of the diseased" "Well, |
will" said the doctor, and he lifted his cane
and brought it down hard enough to break
into pieces bottle and glasses which stood
upon the sideboard. 1t was his last profess
sional visit to that house.